Chapter Summaries

After advancing to Earth Rank, Fang Qianyuan learned to fly with Little White and raced toward the Dragon Turtle, where yaksha invaders were attacking. He overwhelmed their Human Rank forces, but their Earth Rank leader charged at him as Wanji warned him to be careful.

• Fang Qianyuan used his transformed spirit essence to help Little White Skywalk, and she raced across the air for more than four thousand li.
• Fang Qianyuan spotted fighting above the Dragon Turtle and hurried toward it, suspecting an attack by enemies from the Outer Domains.
• He found yakshas plundering the valley and ordered Little White to freeze and strike down their soldiers.
• Fang Qianyuan unleashed Earth Rank power that devastated the yaksha forces, making their Human Rank cultivators seem insignificant.
• The Yaksha Heavenly General charged at Fang Qianyuan, and Wanji shouted a warning.

Fang Qianyuan used his transformed Wind Blade Frost Sword to overpower the Yaksha Heavenly General, who fled after being badly wounded. Wanji congratulated Fang Qianyuan on reaching Earth Rank and invited him to celebrate, but he first offered to help deal with the remaining yakshas.

• Fang Qianyuan unleashed his transformed Wind Blade Frost Sword, combining Little White’s black wind and frost against the Yaksha Heavenly General.
• The black dragons tore through the Yaksha Heavenly General’s blood-colored armor and wounded his manifested body.
• Wanji arrived as the Yaksha Heavenly General fled, threatening that Ye'e Shilazheluō would return.
• Wanji congratulated Fang Qianyuan on advancing to Earth Rank and invited him to share a drink.
• Fang Qianyuan accepted Wanji’s invitation but said he would first help dispose of the remaining yakshas.

After advancing to Earth Rank, Fang Qianyuan thanked Empress Daughter Wanji and left the Snow Realm for home. He returned to the snowmen’s tribe, then continued south, while an unexpected challenge awaited at the Azure Cloud Sect’s Headquarters.

• Fang Qianyuan shared a moonlit banquet with Wanji, gave her his paintings, and bade her farewell before riding Little White away.
• Wanji admired Fang Qianyuan’s advancement and returned with Yun’er to address the yaksha race’s growing aggression.
• Fang Qianyuan reached the snowmen’s tribe in a day, astonishing the Chief and Xue Hong before promptly departing.
• While traveling, Fang Qianyuan used the Windbody Technique and painted scenes from his journey to revisit his state of mind during advancement.
• Liu Zongming of the Eastern Sea’s Flying Immortal Sect arrived at the Azure Cloud Sect’s Headquarters seeking an artistic contest and challenging Fang Qianyuan.

Liu Zongming of the Flying Immortal Sect arrived at Azure Cloud Sect Headquarters to challenge Fang Qianyuan, but Fang was away. After Liu defeated every young talent the sect sent against him, he insisted on staying until Fang returned.

• Liu Zongming brought his companions to Azure Cloud Sect Headquarters, seeking a duel with Fang Qianyuan, and learned that Fang had left to travel.
• Yu Shixian ordered the sect to find suitable challengers rather than let Liu's visit go unanswered.
• Liu Zongming easily defeated a succession of Azure Cloud Sect's tenth transformation talents, leaving Jin Lu and the other stewards impressed and concerned.
• Yu Shixian accused the Flying Immortal Sect of stirring up trouble and ordered the stewards to tell Liu to leave.
• Liu Zongming rejected their threats and declared that he would wait at Headquarters until Fang Qianyuan returned.

The Azure Cloud Sect planned to use Wei Ze to wear down Liu Zongming, but learned that Fang Qianyuan was returning to accept the challenge instead. Liu Zongming welcomed the news and resolved to defeat the sect’s famed genius.

• The Azure Cloud Sect summoned Wei Ze and instructed him to fight Liu Zongming without restraint, hoping to injure him even if he could not win.
• A deacon privately informed Jin Lu of urgent news, and Jin Lu told the stewards that Fang Qianyuan was returning to accept the challenge.
• The stewards inferred that Fang Qianyuan might have advanced during his journey, though Jin Lu refused to reveal the secret.
• Liu Zongming learned that Fang Qianyuan would publicly accept his challenge in three days and eagerly vowed to crush his reputation.

Fang Qianyuan and Liu Zongming prepared to compete in a heavily publicized contest at the Azure Cloud Sect Headquarters. The chapter ended with Fang Qianyuan appearing in midair above the dueling platform and descending toward Liu Zongming.

• Liu Zongming explained that he had planned to challenge Azure Cloud Sect disciples cautiously and withdraw before provoking the sect too far.
• The Azure Cloud Sect publicized the contest, drawing cultivators and powerful figures from across the region to watch Fang Qianyuan face Liu Zongming.
• Spectators compared the two geniuses as they waited, while Liu Zongming remained calm beside the platform and Fang Qianyuan had yet to appear.
• The master of ceremonies announced the start of the contest, and Liu Zongming stepped onto the dueling platform.
• Fang Qianyuan appeared standing in midair above the platform and began descending after Liu Zongming looked up.

Fang Qianyuan revealed that he had advanced to earth rank before his duel with Liu Zongming, exposing the Azure Cloud Sect’s calculated challenge. He struck Liu Zongming down with a single Wind Path divine ability, and the Flying Immortal Sect’s party left with the gravely wounded Liu Zongming.

• Fang Qianyuan descended through the air, prompting Liu Zongming to realize that he had advanced to earth rank.
• Fang Qianyuan confirmed his advancement, and the crowd recognized that the Azure Cloud Sect had used his youth and standing to arrange the duel.
• Liu Zongming tried to concede, but Fang Qianyuan flicked a finger and unleashed a black dragon-serpent of wind that shattered Liu Zongming’s defenses and wrecked much of the platform.
• Fang Qianyuan withdrew from the platform as the venue fell silent.
• The Flying Immortal Sect’s disciples, stewards, and Earth Rank Experts carried away the gravely wounded Liu Zongming and vowed to repay the Azure Cloud Sect.

After Fang Qianyuan advanced to earth rank, news spread across the Southern Wilds that he had become the youngest Earth Rank Expert in a thousand years, cementing his standing as the Righteous Path’s top young expert. While rivals and Wen Qingfei resolved to catch up, Fang Qianyuan handled his new sect status and received a grand residence.

• Yu Shixian announced a banquet celebrating Fang Qianyuan’s advancement after Liu Zongming’s defeat.
• News of Fang Qianyuan’s record-setting advancement spread throughout the Southern Wilds, and his reputation as the greatest aptitude in a thousand years grew.
• The Seven Fairies and other young cultivators recognized that Fang Qianyuan had surpassed their generation, prompting his rivals to focus on advancing to earth rank.
• Wen Qingfei felt happy for Fang Qianyuan but worried that their growing gap would separate them, so she resolved to cultivate diligently.
• Jin Lu and the sect’s administrators updated Fang Qianyuan’s standing and privileges, then presented him with a newly furnished residence to register in his name.

Fang Qianyuan settled into his new official residence and visited Jiang Yunfeng, who began teaching him the realities of being an Earth Rank Expert. Jiang Yunfeng outlined how to fight human rank enemies, survive clashes with other Earth Rank Experts, and stay alive before heaven tier experts.

• Jin Lu led Fang Qianyuan to his prepared residence, where Yuan Shan and the servants welcomed him.
• Fang Qianyuan toured the spacious residence, then went to the Jiang Residence to pay his respects to Jiang Yunfeng.
• Jiang Yunfeng praised Fang Qianyuan's advancement and told him his first lesson would be how to deal with human rank enemies.
• Jiang Yunfeng explained that Earth Rank Experts must learn to kill human rank foes efficiently while also avoiding needless slaughter and guarding against their formations, Magic Treasures, and Secret Arts.
• Jiang Yunfeng taught Fang Qianyuan that Earth Rank Experts must protect their own lives against peer opponents to safeguard their sect's human rank disciples.
• Jiang Yunfeng introduced the third lesson: how Earth Rank Experts could stay alive before heaven tier experts.

Jiang Yunfeng taught Fang Qianyuan the foundations of Earth Rank cultivation and watched him demonstrate his new abilities beside Brightheart Lake. Impressed by Fang Qianyuan’s mastery and black wind true meaning, Jiang Yunfeng said he already stood ahead of most established Earth Rank experts.

• Jiang Yunfeng explained that Fang Qianyuan needed to master Earth Rank Divine Abilities, temper his body and primordial spirit, and learn to control heaven and earth essence.
• Fang Qianyuan realized that the advantages he had gained from the Mysterious Treasure Pill would no longer set him apart from other Earth Rank Experts, while black wind true meaning and his transformed constitution offered new potential.
• Jiang Yunfeng trained Fang Qianyuan as news of his advancement spread, and Fang Qianyuan quickly consolidated his First Transformation cultivation and learned common Earth Rank abilities and gifts.
• Beside Brightheart Lake, Fang Qianyuan demonstrated his and Little White’s abilities, including Windbody Technique, Size Manipulation, Frost Breath, and Wind Claw.
• Fang Qianyuan showed how he combined black wind true meaning with Wind Blade Frost Sword and the Seven-Kill Style, and Jiang Yunfeng praised his exceptional foundations and strength.

Jiang Yunfeng taught Fang Qianyuan about the limits of innate gifts, demonstrated the Flying Head Technique, and explained why foundational cultivation remained important. Back at the Jiang Residence, he began teaching Fang how Earth Rank advancement changed a Spirit Tamer’s spirit sea and how spirit creatures were formed.

• Jiang Yunfeng demonstrated the Flying Head Technique by severing and reattaching his head, warning Fang Qianyuan not to judge Earth Rank Experts by mortal standards.
• Fang Qianyuan asked why Jiang Yunfeng’s eye injury had not healed, and Jiang Yunfeng explained that only divine soul regeneration could restore it, a stage no one could reach in the Age of Dharma Decline.
• Fang Qianyuan promised to search the heavenly realms for a remedy for Jiang Yunfeng’s injury.
• After returning to the Jiang Residence, Fang Qianyuan arranged to obtain a spirit creature catalog from the Administrative Affairs Institute.
• Jiang Yunfeng explained that Earth Rank advancement expanded a Spirit Tamer’s spirit sea and described how a spirit creature’s body combined its true nature, its heaven and earth souls, and the host’s spirit essence.

After advancing to Earth Rank, Fang Qianyuan learned that his Spirit Sea could support more spirit creatures and bonded with a supreme-grade Demon-Hunting Hound and Sight-Obscuring Grass. He began training the hound and testing the grass’s invisibility ability at the Fang Residence.

• Jiang Yunfeng explained that Earth Rank Spirit Tamers could accommodate more spirit creatures, and Fang Qianyuan considered which healing and support creatures to add.
• The Chief Steward told Fang Qianyuan that the sect had obtained a Demon-Hunting Hound and Sight-Obscuring Grass, though the Diamond Blossom Fairy was still unavailable.
• Fang Qianyuan bonded with the two spirit creatures and left them in his Spirit Sea to be nurtured.
• The next day, Fang Qianyuan began training the Demon-Hunting Hound with the help of sect attendants.
• Fang Qianyuan used the Hand Seal of Presence to summon Sight-Obscuring Grass, which made him gradually vanish.

Fang Qianyuan practiced the Invisibility Technique, learning its limitations and testing it against his Demon-Hunting Hound. Later, Jiang Yunfeng explained how Earth Rank Experts protected and expanded a sect’s territory after discussing a Court Bulletin about Chuanlan Valley.

• Fang Qianyuan successfully cast the Invisibility Technique and tested how movement could reveal him and stir dust.
• Fang Qianyuan considered how enemies could detect invisibility through smell, sound, spirit essence, or instinct, and resolved to practice until he could use it precisely.
• The Demon-Hunting Hound found Fang Qianyuan despite his invisibility, so he combined the technique with the Windbody Technique to suppress his scent.
• Fang Qianyuan visited Jiang Yunfeng and found him reading a Court Bulletin about Chuanlan Valley being occupied by evil demons and followers of the Outer Dao.
• Jiang Yunfeng explained that Earth Rank Experts served as a sect’s shields and ramparts, extending its influence by guarding territory and strongholds.

Fang Qianyuan was appointed to take charge of Chuanlan Valley as an Earth Rank expert, where the Azure Cloud Sect sought to intervene in a failing spirit mine and growing Demon Calamity. As demons poured through the Void Rift, he received orders to set out and quell the crisis.

• Jiang Yunfeng explained that Chuanlan Valley's mine had stopped production after local clans feuded, the unorthodox path intervened, and the guardian was gravely wounded.
• Jiang Yunfeng assigned Fang Qianyuan to take charge of the region and steer events as an Earth Rank expert once the sect found a suitable opportunity to intervene.
• Fang Qianyuan considered how the sect's strength and number of Earth Rank experts shaped its ability to claim territory and influence disputes.
• The Azure Cloud Sect approved Fang Qianyuan's authority over Chuanlan Valley and its small contingent of stationed disciples.
• By November, demons had poured through the Void Rift, and Fang Qianyuan received orders to quell the Demon Calamity and set out.

Fang Qianyuan set out for Chuanlan Valley with Wu Longjie, Lu Feiyang, Lin Xiong, and Lin Bao to address the Demon Calamity and reclaim the spirit mine for the Azure Cloud Sect. He planned to clear the demons quickly while other sect experts dealt with the hidden forces suspected of coveting the mine.

• Fang Qianyuan summoned Wu Longjie and Lu Feiyang and asked them to accompany him to Chuanlan Valley.
• Fang Qianyuan visited Jiang Yunfeng, who warned him that the sect valued interests over morality.
• Fang Qianyuan traveled through a teleportation array and continued toward Chuanlan Valley with his companions atop Little White.
• Fang Qianyuan explained that the Luo and Qian clans had long fought over the mine and that the Unorthodox Path was suspected in the ambush on a Luo Clan elder.
• Wu Longjie and Lu Feiyang concluded that hidden Earth Rank Experts were likely plotting to seize the mine.
• Fang Qianyuan said the Azure Cloud Sect would use the crisis to quell the demons and reclaim the mine, and resolved to act swiftly.

Yu Hong, Luo Si, and the other spirit mine guards were cornered by a pack of ghost hounds until Fang Qianyuan and his companions arrived to rescue them. Fang Qianyuan unleashed sixty wolf spirits, scattering the remaining demons.

• Yu Hong and the guards fled the ghost hounds, but one exhausted guard fell and was killed and eaten.
• The ghost hounds caught the survivors, who turned to fight with their remaining strength and were surrounded.
• Lin Xiong, Lin Bao, Wu Longjie, and Lu Feiyang arrived, attacking the hounds and healing the wounded guards.
• Fang Qianyuan appeared on a White Wolf, and Yu Hong and Luo Si recognized him as an Earth Rank Expert.
• At Fang Qianyuan's command, the others moved aside as sixty red wolf spirits charged the pack, killing most of the ghost hounds and driving the rest away.

Fang Qianyuan reached the Spirit Mine camp and ordered its leaders to muster their forces against the demons. When they refused, Wu Longjie invoked the Heavenly Dao Alliance’s authority and had them arrested.

• Yu Hong explained that demons had occupied the Spirit Mine and that its guards were monitoring them from a nearby camp.
• Fang Qianyuan brought Yu Hong, Luo Si, and the others to the camp, where he revealed his Azure Cloud Sect appointment to Chief Steward Qian Shuisheng and Guard Commander Luo Zhengye.
• Fang Qianyuan ordered Qian Shuisheng and Luo Zhengye to muster the guards and march against the demons, but they refused.
• Wu Longjie accused the two leaders of neglecting their duties and ordered Lin Xiong and Lin Bao to seize them.
• Fang Qianyuan used Wind Bind to stop Qian Shuisheng and Luo Zhengye from resisting, and Wu Longjie declared that the Heavenly Dao Alliance was conducting official business.

Wu Longjie and Fang Qianyuan took control of the Spirit Mine camp after arresting Qian Shuisheng and Luo Zhengye, while the camp’s residents suspected their cooperation served the Azure Cloud Sect’s interests. After assessing the Demon Calamity, Fang Qianyuan prepared to seal the world gate and departed for the Spirit Mine’s original site.

• Wu Longjie used his Heavenly Dao Alliance authority to shackle Qian Shuisheng and Luo Zhengye, then agreed to leave them confined at the camp after the others blocked his group.
• Fang Qianyuan became acting Chief Steward and ordered the camp to prepare a counterattack, while rumors spread that he and Wu Longjie had coordinated to take control of the Spirit Mine.
• Fang Qianyuan questioned camp members and consulted Yu Hong and other Azure Cloud Sect disciples to learn about the situation in Chuanlan Valley.
• Fang Qianyuan concluded that sealing the world gate with a portable formation was the first step toward ending the Demon Calamity and securing the Spirit Mine.
• Fang Qianyuan left Wu Longjie and trusted Azure Cloud Sect disciples to guard the camp with sixty gray wolves and the Golden-Plumed Splitfeather Roc, then headed to the Spirit Mine with Luo Si and the others.

Fang Qianyuan and Little White cut through the Demonfolk forces in Chuanlan Valley and reached the World Gate that had brought them into the Human Realm. Fang Qianyuan held the position while ordering Luo Si and the others to set up a formation.

• Little White used frost breath to destroy a group of demons, then Fang Qianyuan recognized how the Demonfolk spread out to reduce the attack’s impact.
• Fang Qianyuan switched Little White to Wind Claw and Windbody Technique, then ordered her to target the Demonfolk leaders.
• Little White killed the leaders, throwing the Demonfolk’s organized advances into chaos before crushing their remaining forces.
• Little White knocked down a powerful tenth-transformation Demonfolk fighter and continued deeper into Chuanlan Valley.
• Luo Si warned Fang Qianyuan that the World Gate was close, and Fang Qianyuan spotted the stabilized Void Rift and ordered the others to set up a formation while he held the position.

Fang Qianyuan sealed the World Gate while preparing for the demons to return, then planned to reclaim the spirit mine with support from the Qian and Luo Clans. The portal vanished successfully, leaving him ready to negotiate for supplies and take back the mine.

• Fang Qianyuan guarded the World Gate while his men excavated its foundations and set up a sealing formation.
• Fang Qianyuan used Little White's Frost Breath to drive back Dwarf Demons that emerged from the gate.
• Luo Si warned Fang Qianyuan that the demons might return once the World Gate was sealed, and Fang Qianyuan said he intended to gather and exterminate them.
• Fang Qianyuan's men completed the formation, and he ordered them to seal the World Gate.
• Fang Qianyuan announced that the group would recall the people at the Temporary Camp and retake the spirit mine, asking Qian Luo to secure supplies from their clans.