Chapter Summaries

After Fang Qianyuan killed Golden Toad True Person, his sect sent Yuan Tong to investigate and promised to handle the political fallout while Fang settled the dead expert’s affairs. Fang took in a group of abducted girls and learned that Moonlight Fairy had come to visit.

• Yuan Tong told Fang Qianyuan that the sect had contained the Demon Alliance’s response, though Fang was now wanted by the Unorthodox Path, and explained Golden Toad True Person’s life-preserving ability.
• Fang Qianyuan recounted the battle, and Yuan Tong advised him to avoid traveling until he could return to the sect.
• Fang dealt with Golden Toad True Person’s followers, sold the Treasure Ship to Sea City, and arranged support for its ordinary crew and freed captives.
• At the city lord’s request, Fang took in thirty-two young slave girls abducted by Golden Toad True Person.
• Fang learned Moonlight Fairy had arrived and ordered his servants to invite her in.

Fang Qianyuan reassured Moonlight Fairy after killing Golden Toad True Person and saw his allies regain their standing. Upon returning to Azure Cloud Sect Headquarters, he met Qian Duoduo, the gifted cat demon assigned to oversee his assets.

• Moonlight Fairy thanked Fang Qianyuan for defeating Golden Toad True Person and asked why he had taken such risks.
• Fang Qianyuan explained that he had acted to protect himself and those who depended on him, and Moonlight Fairy left several Immortal Maidens to stay and help him.
• Fang Qianyuan returned the Immortal Maidens to the sect, while letters from the Jiang Clan and Sun Zhuo reported that his victory had restored their influence.
• On the first day of the twelfth month, Fang Qianyuan returned to Azure Cloud Sect Headquarters and found Miao Yi and several cat demons waiting for him.
• Qian Duoduo introduced herself as Miao Shihong’s granddaughter and the young miss assigned to manage Fang Qianyuan’s holdings.

Fang Qianyuan entrusted Qian Duoduo with managing his wealth and expanding his income, while the Cat Clan settled plans to establish a branch headquarters in the Market District. After Jin Lu reported on several matters, Fang Qianyuan asked whether the sect had any earth-rank Water Dao Spirit Creatures.

• Fang Qianyuan returned home to find more than a thousand cats, and Miao Yi explained that they planned to establish a Southern Wilds Branch Headquarters in the Market District.
• Fang Qianyuan placed a group of young girls in Ning'er’s care and offered Qian Duoduo control of his resources on the condition that she grow his earnings and keep his money accessible.
• Qian Duoduo reviewed Fang Qianyuan’s income, debts, cash, and treasures, then promised to invest his wealth and expand his business channels.
• Fang Qianyuan stored his assets in the residence’s treasury, gave Qian Duoduo the secret-door key, and let her begin managing them.
• Jin Lu briefed Fang Qianyuan on clan affairs, mining administration, and the Cat Clan’s official arrangements, after which Fang Qianyuan asked about earth-rank Water Dao Spirit Creatures.

Fang Qianyuan obtained the Wormfish, a rare Water Dao Spirit Creature from his master's inheritance, and began learning Water Dao methods. After mastering Raging Sea Waves, he considered how to connect and combine it with his other Dao Paths.

• Fang Qianyuan asked Jin Lu to help him obtain Spirit Creatures and hire a Water Dao instructor, and Jin Lu arranged the request with the sect.
• The sect informed Fang Qianyuan that Jiang Yunfeng's inheritance included a Wormfish, and the Jiang Clan agreed to let him retrieve it from the Treasure Vault.
• Fang Qianyuan subdued the Wormfish and spent nearly half a month using a Manifestation Dao spell to give it physical form.
• Elder Shen Shu taught Fang Qianyuan Water Dao formulas in exchange for Eastern Sea Treasured Materials.
• Fang Qianyuan demonstrated Raging Sea Waves and considered how to integrate it with Wind Blade Frost Sword and his other Divine Abilities.

Fang Qianyuan reflected on how Spirit Tamers learned Dao powers through their spirit creatures and received Gong Yuan’s advice on combining related paths. By year’s end, he mastered the wind evasion art Ride the Wind Through the Void and began using the water art Torrent Escape, though its speed remained limited.

• Fang Qianyuan reviewed his spirit creatures’ powers and resolved to master their Dao paths independently, then find common ground among different Daos.
• Gong Yuan visited Fang Qianyuan with Cang Mountain Academy’s young talents and advised him to build on Dao paths with shared qualities.
• Fang Qianyuan mastered Ride the Wind Through the Void, enabling him to travel at supersonic speeds over long distances.
• Fang Qianyuan practiced Torrent Escape and achieved impressive underwater movement, though his speed was limited by his incomplete mastery of Water Transformation.

Fang Qianyuan hit a bottleneck in his Water Dao cultivation and decided to strengthen his Wormfish with Water Dao materials. Qian Duoduo introduced him to the Sacred Cat Merchant Association’s Record of Myriad Treasures, where he began searching for suitable treasures.

• Fang Qianyuan practiced Torrent Escape across a lake and realized his incomplete transformation into water was limiting his speed.
• Fang Qianyuan returned to the Fang Residence and found Little White relaxing with the cats while Qian Duoduo eagerly served her.
• Fang Qianyuan asked Qian Duoduo to help him find Water Dao spiritual materials to enhance his Wormfish.
• Qian Duoduo brought out the Record of Myriad Treasures, a catalog Magic Treasure that could display the association’s inventory and handle orders.
• Fang Qianyuan searched the catalog for Water Dao materials and found Water Essence Crystals, including their grades, prices, and availability.

Fang Qianyuan used the Sacred Cat Merchant Association’s credit to buy treasured materials that rapidly strengthened his spirit creatures. He then received the finished magic treasure ring, which could store the Dark Demon Ice Nether Soul and free space in his spirit sea for another high-rank spirit creature.

• Fang Qianyuan learned that the Sacred Cat Merchant Association had extended him an interest-free loan of one million spirit jade and spent nearly all of it on treasured materials and demon inner cores.
• Less than half a month later, Fang Qianyuan received the shipment and fed the materials to his spirit creatures, whose Dao Path powers quickly grew stronger.
• Master Gongshu wrote from the Central Province to say that Fang Qianyuan’s commissioned magic treasure was complete, and Fang Qianyuan arranged to retrieve it.
• By mid-February, Fang Qianyuan received a black jade-like ring containing a fragment of the deity statue and tested it by summoning the Dark Demon Ice Nether Soul.
• Fang Qianyuan found that the ring could hold and release the Dark Demon Ice Nether Soul freely, leaving room in his spirit sea for another high-rank spirit creature.

Fang Qianyuan sought a time-powered Spirit Creature and agreed to offer two of his master's Spirit Creatures to the sect in exchange for a chance to obtain one. The sect sent him to the Star Realm as an envoy, while a mysterious cloaked man prepared to target him there.

• Fang Qianyuan asked Qian Duoduo and Jin Lu about finding a Spirit Creature with the power of time, and learned that such creatures were rare and costly.
• Fang Qianyuan offered his master's Mirage Dragon and Miemeng Bird as a contribution toward acquiring a time-powered Spirit Creature.
• A Merit Hall elder told Fang Qianyuan to travel to the Star Realm as the sect's envoy and deliver the Elders' Council's resolution while meeting experts stationed there.
• Fang Qianyuan departed for Spellbreak City through the sect's Teleportation Array on March sixteenth.
• A mysterious cloaked man learned that Fang Qianyuan had left the sect and planned to seize an opportunity to approach him in the Star Realm.

Fang Qianyuan traveled through the Star Realm to Spellbreak City, where he found the Azure Cloud Sect’s outpost and met Grand Elder Xie Zhenghe. After completing his official delivery, he offered to serve under Xie and gain experience in the dangerous realm.

• Fang Qianyuan and Little White journeyed through the void for ten days and reached a floating island protected by a realm barrier.
• Fang Qianyuan observed that the island’s Spirit Qi was thin and learned that Spellbreak City stood at its center.
• Two Earth Rank Spirit Tamers from the Mystic Sun Sect and Spirit Taming Sect recognized Fang Qianyuan and escorted him into Spellbreak City.
• Fang Qianyuan entered the Azure Cloud Sect’s compound and met its commander, Grand Elder Xie Zhenghe.
• Fang Qianyuan offered to serve under Xie Zhenghe, who welcomed the proposal.

Fang Qianyuan learned why the Azure Cloud Sect elders welcomed him so warmly in Spellbreak City and volunteered for a battle commander's duty. After accepting enlistment, he received orders to destroy a Yaksha clan stronghold north of the city, but chose to go without the hundred warriors he could command.

• Fang Qianyuan met the Azure Cloud Sect's Earth Rank elders and learned that Spellbreak City guarded the Star Realm, a dangerous strategic region rich in resources and beset by conflict.
• Fang Qianyuan asked Xie Zhenghe for a mission, explaining that he wanted to find a time-aligned spirit creature and test his new abilities in battle.
• Xie Zhenghe opened some of Spellbreak City's resources and intelligence to Fang Qianyuan and offered him the chance to enlist as a battle commander.
• Fang Qianyuan accepted enlistment, and Xie Zhenghe ordered him to eliminate a Yaksha clan stronghold north of the city.
• Fang Qianyuan accepted a command token authorizing him to mobilize a hundred warriors, but said he would go alone and might seek a guide familiar with the terrain.

Fang Qianyuan and his spirit creatures wiped out a group of yakshas and tested his new fusion art, Glacier and Snow Sea. After returning to Spellbreak City, he reported to Xie Zhenghe and learned that he would need to complete more missions before joining Earth Rank battles.

• Fang Qianyuan and his spirit creatures overwhelmed the yakshas on a floating island, and he unleashed the fusion art Glacier and Snow Sea to freeze and kill them.
• Warriors serving as Fang Qianyuan's guides reported that they had slain the fleeing yakshas, and he led them back toward Spellbreak City.
• Fang Qianyuan experienced the Star Realm's rapid void traversal as Little White carried the group across vast distances.
• Fang Qianyuan returned to Spellbreak City and reported the mission's success to Xie Zhenghe.
• Xie Zhenghe assigned Fang Qianyuan more similar missions, explaining that he had to prove himself before qualifying for Earth Rank battles.

Fang Qianyuan learned that his missions in the Star Realm were tests of his ability to travel through dangerous, unfamiliar regions as well as to fight. After completing increasingly difficult assignments, he returned to ask Lang Dong about void-wielding spirit creatures and was advised to consult Grand Elder Xie about an escape treasure.

• Fang Qianyuan realized Grand Elder Xie was testing whether he could travel to distant mission sites and return safely, then accepted a mission to slay demons among meteors and Desolate Star Fragments.
• Fang Qianyuan completed the demon-slaying mission swiftly and was sent to investigate changes at a ruin on a drifting Desolate Star Fragment.
• Fang Qianyuan spent more than half a month locating the fragment with an accompanying warrior's guidance and gained experience navigating the moving stars.
• Fang Qianyuan asked Lang Dong about spirit creatures that wielded the power of void, and Lang Dong explained that they were rare, costly, and difficult to master.
• Lang Dong advised Fang Qianyuan to consider an escape artifact magic treasure and ask Grand Elder Xie about it.

After claiming a Light Shuttle, Fang Qianyuan joined Lang Dong and two fellow cultivators to hunt Demon Generals who had infiltrated the Star Realm. The group found two Earth Rank Demonfolk on a Desolate Star Fragment and prepared to confront them.

• Fang Qianyuan completed several missions, obtained Xie Zhenghe’s authorization, and claimed a Light Shuttle from the treasury.
• After testing the shuttle, Fang Qianyuan returned to Spellbreak City and learned that Demon Generals had entered the Star Realm.
• Fang Qianyuan agreed to join Lang Dong in the hunt, and they gathered Ma Hengyi and Gu Lanzhi as companions.
• The four traveled east into the starry sky and encountered two powerful Demon Generals on a Desolate Star Fragment.

Fang Qianyuan and his companions fought two Demonfolk warriors in the void, with Fang killing one through coordinated attacks from his spirit creatures and the others defeating the second. The group wondered whether the Demonfolk had been expendable pawns, then spotted several figures approaching and braced for their arrival.

• Lang Dong and Ma Hengyi chose to attack the two Demonfolk without waiting for reinforcements.
• One Demonfolk warrior charged Fang Qianyuan, who used Wind Transformation, the Wormfish, Little White, and the Demon-Ice Nether Soul to freeze and kill him.
• Lang Dong and Ma Hengyi helped Gu Lanzhi surround her opponent, and Ma Hengyi's Demon Dragon tore the Demonfolk warrior apart.
• Ma Hengyi wondered whether the two warriors had been expendable pawns, and Lang Dong agreed it was possible.
• Lang Dong and the others saw several streaks of escape light approaching and grew wary.

A cloaked warrior claimed to know the truth behind Jiang Yunfeng’s suspicious death and tried to recruit Fang Qianyuan for an unspecified task. Fang attacked, but the Cloaked Man’s black flames effortlessly nullified his powers, and he ended by asking Fang about the difference between a divine ability and a spell.

• Fang Qianyuan recognized the approaching warriors and identified them as enemies, but the Cloaked Man said they had come to discuss an important matter.
• The Cloaked Man claimed to be from the Azure Cloud Sect and raised doubts about how Jiang Yunfeng had died, stirring Fang Qianyuan’s desire to learn the truth.
• Lang Dong recalled that the Azure Cloud Sect’s Warrior Hall had techniques for grafting beast bodies onto warriors and suspected the strangers might belong to it.
• When the Cloaked Man demanded that Fang do something for them, Fang refused and attacked with a Wind Claw.
• The Cloaked Man’s black flames swallowed Fang’s Wind Claw and passed through his flood and glacier spells without harm, prompting Fang and the others to recognize his immense strength.
• The Cloaked Man returned to his position and asked Fang Qianyuan whether he knew the difference between a divine ability and a spell.

Fang Qianyuan learned how divine abilities differed from spells and recognized the cloaked man's black lotus as a Flame Dao divine ability. The Ninth-Rank Black Lotus tore open the void and pulled Fang Qianyuan into a demonic realm, where his black wind true meaning let him resist the heat for the moment.

• The cloaked man explained that divine abilities were innate, changeable expressions of the Dao, while spells were acquired forms shaped into fixed methods.
• Fang Qianyuan realized that his mastery of several Dao Paths let him grasp related spells and formulas by understanding their shared roots.
• The cloaked man revealed the Ninth-Rank Black Lotus, which consumed heat and displayed his mastery of the Flame Dao.
• The cloaked man made the lotus bloom, opening a vast passage through the void, and Fang Qianyuan was pulled inside as Lang Dong warned him.
• Fang Qianyuan found himself surrounded by demonic qi and unbearable heat, then awakened his black wind true meaning to resist while the void continued to distort.

Fang Qianyuan fused with Little White and escaped the Cloaked Man’s black lotus, awakening a new way to wield his Black Wind power. After returning to Spellbreak City, Lang Dong reported the encounter to Xie Zhenghe, who worried that Fang Qianyuan’s resolve could lead him down the wrong path.

• Lang Dong tried to save Fang Qianyuan, but the Cloaked Man’s Warriors held him and the others back.
• Fang Qianyuan and Little White merged into wind, allowing him to escape the black lotus’s void and display his Black Wind Divine Ability.
• The Cloaked Man retreated, and Fang Qianyuan told Lang Dong he would not readily trust the strangers.
• Lang Dong and the others returned to Spellbreak City, where Lang Dong reported the incident to Xie Zhenghe.
• Xie Zhenghe worried that Fang Qianyuan’s determination could become obsession, but decided not to reveal the truth yet.

Fang Qianyuan questioned Grand Elder Xie about the Warriors who had approached him, and learned that the Warrior Hall was a powerful, secretive faction within the Azure Cloud Sect. Xie ended their conversation by asking whether Fang would trade a public life and the chance to reach Heaven Tier for immediate strength as a Warrior.

• Fang Qianyuan went to meet Grand Elder Xie after receiving his summons and asked about the Warriors who had approached him.
• Xie explained that the Warriors belonged to the Azure Cloud Sect but operated under the Warrior Hall, beyond his direct control.
• Xie revealed that the Warrior Hall had over a hundred General-Rank Warriors and more than ten King-Rank Warriors, and might conceal even more.
• Fang Qianyuan learned that the Warrior Hall treated Spirit Tamers as expendable and used its strength to serve as a powerful military and political faction.
• Xie asked Fang whether he would become a Warrior for great power and rapid advancement despite losing the chance to live openly or reach Heaven Tier.

Fang Qianyuan learned from Xie Zhenghe that warriors threatened the cultivation world and that the sect feared they would recruit him. As warriors gathered in Spellbreak City and the conflict intensified, Fang heard that someone knew about the spirit creature he was seeking.

• Fang Qianyuan questioned Xie Zhenghe about his master's rejection of the Warrior Art and learned that the method had been improved but still posed a threat to the cultivation world.
• Xie Zhenghe urged Fang Qianyuan not to become a warrior, and Fang pledged to consider any choice carefully and take responsibility for it.
• The Demon Realm launched another major assault on Spellbreak City, but cultivators repelled the attack after both sides suffered casualties.
• Fang Qianyuan saw warriors from several powers gathering in Spellbreak City, including fighters with strength resembling half-step Earth Rank experts.
• A servant told Fang Qianyuan that someone had arrived with information about the spirit creature he was seeking.

Fang Qianyuan learned how to find and capture Cosmic Serpents, rare spirits of the Time Dao that could become powerful Ancient Time Serpents by consuming Blood-Soul Jade. He began preparing to gather the jade and set a lure, hoping to raise a serpent that would help him cultivate the past body of the Reverse Time Transformation.

• Gu Lanzhi brought Fang Liangyi to meet Fang Qianyuan and share what he knew about the spirit creature Fang was seeking.
• Fang Liangyi explained that he had learned of Cosmic Serpents in an Ancient Cultivators' ruin after becoming stranded in the void.
• Fang Liangyi told Fang Qianyuan that Blood-Soul Jade could lure Cosmic Serpents, which could grow into Ancient Time Serpents by consuming it.
• Fang Liangyi taught Fang Qianyuan the methods for searching for, luring, and capturing Cosmic Serpents, and Fang Qianyuan promised to repay him.
• Fang Qianyuan used his experience with the Reverse Time Transformation to devise a plan and began preparing to stockpile Blood-Soul Jade.