Chapter Summaries

The cultivators debated how to treat the Spell-Breaking Blade’s wounded survivor and whether to wait for reinforcements or explore the ancient city. Fang Qianyuan joined the group as they entered the ruins’ hidden world, where a mist-shrouded city floated above an island in the sky.

• Liu Mingyue explained that pure origin energy could counter the Spell-Breaking Blade’s effects, and the cultivators took turns treating the wounded man.
• Kang Long accused Fan Yuntang of withholding information about the ruins, while Fan Yuntang warned that further exploration might provoke the city’s puppet guards.
• Kang Long proposed that everyone enter and rely on their own abilities, and Li Yulou and the rogue cultivators agreed.
• The group obtained the ruins’ location from Fan Yuntang and set out ahead of the reinforcements, leaving two injured rogue cultivators and Yu Li behind.
• Fang Qianyuan followed the group through a hidden barrier into a small world and saw a mist-shrouded city floating above a sky island.

Fang Qianyuan and the group explored a collapsing Ancient City and encountered its Ironclad Divine Soldiers. Their weapons cut through Gang force, and the group struggled to harm the puppets as Fan Yuntang warned them to rely on physical strength.

• The group entered the Ancient City, where Fang Qianyuan recognized its building materials and style as resembling the ruins around the Great Qianyuan Stele.
• Fan Yuntang warned everyone that Ironclad Divine Soldiers guarded a nearby square and that fog could leave them lost if they retreated.
• Several Ironclad Divine Soldiers attacked, and a Rogue Cultivator transformed with the Borrowing Art of the Way of Transformation and knocked them back with a punch.
• The soldiers recovered and used Spell-Breaking Blades to cleave through the Rogue Cultivator's Gang force.
• The group attacked with Divine Abilities and Spells, but the Dharma-Ending Zone weakened their powers and the soldiers' armor remained unmarked.
• Fan Yuntang told the group to use Martial Dao techniques and physical strength against the puppets.

Fang Qianyuan left the others behind and took Ren Hao and two other rogue cultivators deeper into the ancient city, while Kang Long and the rest chose to follow. Near the city center, they encountered stronger restrictions and a silver-armored puppet leading sixteen Ironclad Divine Soldiers.

• Fang Qianyuan declined Liu Mingyue’s request to join him and flew deeper into the city with Ren Hao and the other rogue cultivators on Little White.
• Kang Long, Li Yulou, and Fan Yuntang decided to pursue Fang Qianyuan rather than withdraw from the ruins.
• Ren Hao and the others asked Fang Qianyuan whether leaving the others behind was safe, and he dismissed their concern.
• Fang Qianyuan’s group reached a plaza near the city center, where stronger restrictions forced Little White to land.
• A silver-armored puppet and sixteen Ironclad Divine Soldiers waited in the fog ahead of Fang Qianyuan’s group.

Fang Qianyuan used Little White’s frost and his own hair to trap the Silver-Armored Divine General and the Iron-Armored Soldiers, adapting his techniques to the Dharma-Ending Zone and their Spell-Breaking Blades. He reinforced his hair with Demon Possession, then seized the soldiers’ halberds and drove them through their chests.

• Ren Hao, Su Xiuxiu, and the others summoned their Spirit Creatures as the armored guards charged, and Fang Qianyuan stepped forward to face them.
• Fang Qianyuan had Little White spread frost across the ground and used his hair to ensnare the Divine Weapon Puppets, freezing their feet in place.
• Fang Qianyuan used the Imperishable Demon to reconnect his severed hair across time as the Spell-Breaking Blades cut through it.
• Fang Qianyuan activated the Thousand Threads Art and Demon Possession, hardening his hair and controlling it like flexible limbs.
• Fang Qianyuan bound several Iron-Armored Soldiers with his hair, took their halberds, and drove the weapons through their chests.

Fang Qianyuan and the others defeated the Divine Weapon Puppets by turning their Spell-Breaking Blades against them and discovered the weapons’ unusual effects on Spirit Essence. As the group continued through the Dharma-Ending Zone, Fan Yuntang’s party fought off their pursuers and discussed the Artifact Sect’s inferior mass-produced puppets and weapons.

• Fang Qianyuan seized the Spell-Breaking Blades and used them to pierce the Iron-Armored Soldiers’ cores, then destroyed the Silver-Armored Divine General’s core as well.
• Fang Qianyuan concluded that the puppets were inferior products and hid their bodies in nearby houses while gathering their weapons.
• Fang Qianyuan discovered that the weapons eroded Little White’s Spirit Essence on contact, then wrapped the blade in cloth to protect her.
• Fan Yuntang and the others cut, tripped, and entangled their pursuers before taking their weapons and using them against the puppets.
• Kang Long explained that the Artifact Sect had profited by selling puppets and weapons that forced buyers to keep purchasing from the sect, while Fan Yuntang wrapped his worn halberd in cloth.

Fan Yuntang’s group caught up to the site of Fang Qianyuan’s battle but lost track of him in the fog. Meanwhile, Fang Qianyuan and his companions discovered an ancient pill-refining complex in East Ning City and realized it might contain legendary refining furnaces.

• Fan Yuntang and his companions reached the wreckage of Fang Qianyuan’s battle, found him gone, and lost his trail among the branching streets.
• Fang Qianyuan, Ren Hao, and the others explored an ancient complex, first mistaking it for an artifact workshop before finding a Pill Refining Chamber.
• Fang Qianyuan read a memorial stone and learned that the complex had been established in East Ning City to produce pills using furnaces purchased from the Immortal Alliance.
• Zhang Yunfei explained that refining furnaces were mother artifacts capable of producing magic treasures or other goods, and the group suspected the complex held a vast treasure.

Fang Qianyuan and his companions searched an abandoned city and found a coded golden sheet hidden in a ruined ledger. Their spirit creatures then led them to a concealed chamber containing what appeared to be a Refining Furnace.

• Fang Qianyuan, Ren Hao, Zhang Yunfei, and the others searched the empty city but found no surviving treasures or records.
• Fang Qianyuan summoned his Golden Coin Mouse, and Su Xiuxiu summoned her Green Flying Cash insect to help search a lavish courtyard.
• The spirit creatures found a golden sheet hidden inside a rotted ledger, and Zhang Yunfei identified its markings as a refiner's cipher.
• Ren Hao gave the sheet to Fang Qianyuan, who promised to submit it to the Azure Cloud Sect for merit.
• The Golden Coin Mouse and Green Flying Cash insect led everyone to a hidden chamber, where they discovered a large bronze cauldron that appeared to be a Refining Furnace.

Fang Qianyuan secured a legendary refining furnace for the Azure Cloud Sect, then faced other great sect elites who challenged his claim. He refused to share it and relied on his advantage of already having the treasure in his grasp.

• Fang Qianyuan identified the refining furnace as a valuable magic treasure and declared that the Azure Cloud Sect would take it.
• Fang Qianyuan ordered Little White to break into the room, and Little White swallowed the refining furnace to secure it.
• Ren Hao and the other rogue cultivators accepted that they could not contest the furnace directly and hoped the Azure Cloud Sect would reward their help.
• Fan Yuntang and the others arrived, sensed the treasure aura, and realized Fang Qianyuan had found a refining furnace.
• Kang Long asked Fang Qianyuan to show the treasure and argued it belonged to Spellbreak City's powers, but Fang Qianyuan refused and said strength would decide who got it.

Fang Qianyuan faced Fan Yuntang, Kang Long, and the other cultivators as they prepared to seize the treasure, then used Wormfish, Little White, and his own strength to break their formation. He left one attacker badly wounded but alive, while the confrontation remained unresolved.

• Fan Yuntang accused Fang Qianyuan of holding the Great Sects of the World and the aristocratic clans in contempt, and Fang Qianyuan said he held only them in contempt.
• Fan Yuntang, Kang Long, and the others spread out with Spell-Breaking battle halberds, preparing to attack and gain the initiative.
• Little White released frost as Fang Qianyuan summoned Wormfish and unleashed Raging Sea Waves, turning the surrounding area into a barrier of water and ice.
• Fang Qianyuan rushed through the ice and tore through a Giant Demon Ape with Wind Claw as he reached its master.
• Fang Qianyuan wounded the Spirit Tamer with his claws, and the man retreated after sensing that Fang Qianyuan had spared his life.

Fang Qianyuan refused to yield the treasure and sent Little White to fight Fan Yuntang’s Azure-Patterned Dragon Steed. As the battle turned against Little White, Kang Long and Li Yulou joined in, and Kang Long hurled a spirit-piercing halberd at her.

• Several Demon Alliance and Earth Baleful Gate Spirit Tamers, clan scions, and Liu Mingyue reconsidered fighting Fang Qianyuan and asked him to stop.
• Fan Yuntang explained that he, Kang Long, and Li Yulou had to defend their standing as geniuses and refused to back down.
• Fang Qianyuan rejected their arguments and ordered Little White to challenge Fan Yuntang first.
• Fan Yuntang summoned his Earth Rank high-grade Azure-Patterned Dragon Steed, and it clashed fiercely with Little White.
• Kang Long and Li Yulou joined the fight when Little White began to gain the upper hand, and Kang Long hurled a Spell-Breaking Blade toward her.

Fang Qianyuan and Little White turned back Kang Long’s and Li Yulou’s attacks, then unleashed a devastating wind-and-frost technique that left their opponents incapacitated. The Azure-Patterned Dragon Steed was gravely wounded and recalled by Fan Yuntang.

• Fang Qianyuan caught Kang Long’s thrown halberd after Little White froze the Azure-Patterned Dragon Steed, then hurled it back and pierced the steed with the Spell-Breaking Blade.
• Li Yulou combined his flying swords into a giant sword phantom and attacked Fang Qianyuan, who evaded the blow with Wind Transformation.
• Kang Long urged Li Yulou to target Little White, but Fang Qianyuan answered with Wind Blade Frost Sword, unleashing black dragons of wind and frost that shattered the giant sword and ravaged the pill courtyard.
• The black dragons battered the Azure-Patterned Dragon Steed until it fell gravely wounded, and Fan Yuntang spat blood before recalling it with the Forward Character Seal.
• Kang Long and Li Yulou were swept up in the black wind and frozen, too cowed by its force to recover their strength.

Fang Qianyuan drove off Fan Yuntang and his companions, then explored the ancient city and uncovered records and weapons before discovering its exit. When reinforcements arrived, Fan Yuntang reported the dispute, but an ancient book revealed that Fang Qianyuan’s furnace might be the legendary Mei Clan Primordial Hundred-Treasure Transmutation Furnace.

• Fang Qianyuan defeated Fan Yuntang, Kang Long, and Li Yulou, prompting them to retreat and the other cultivators to praise his strength.
• Fang Qianyuan and the others searched the city, dividing up weapons from its puppets and setting aside ancient records and artifacts.
• Fang Qianyuan discovered that the collapsing grotto-heaven was a distorted sphere with an exit in the city’s central plaza.
• Huang Yunhao and other reinforcements arrived after being delayed by a Demonfolk attack, and Fan Yuntang told Huang Yunhao about Fang Qianyuan’s claim to the treasure.
• A cultivator found an ancient book identifying the origins of the pill courtyard, and the Refining Furnace was recognized as possibly being the Mei Clan Primordial Hundred-Treasure Transmutation Furnace.

Huang Yunhao learned that Fang Qianyuan’s refining furnace might be the Mei Clan Innate Hundred-Treasure Transforming Furnace, a rare treasure capable of producing powerful Primordial Treasure Pills. He concluded that the furnace could transform the Pill Way market and resolved to stop the Azure Cloud Sect from obtaining it, while Fang Qianyuan and Lang Dong learned its identity and feared the attention it would bring.

• An excavator found ancient records indicating that the Pill Institute’s administrator had privately taken the supreme-grade furnace, and Huang Yunhao realized Fang Qianyuan might possess it.
• Huang Yunhao explained Grandmaster Mei Liangyu’s legacy and the furnace’s ability to refine Primordial Treasure Pills that could aid Spirit Tamers in condensing true bodies.
• Huang Yunhao estimated that the furnace could add roughly half the world’s current supply of these pills and disrupt the Pill Way market.
• Huang Yunhao decided that the Azure Cloud Sect must not obtain the furnace.
• Fang Qianyuan and Lang Dong learned that the furnace was the Mei Clan Innate Hundred-Treasure Transforming Furnace, and Lang Dong warned that its exposure put them in danger.

The major sects challenged Fang Qianyuan over the Mei Clan Primordial Hundred-Treasure Transmutation Furnace, while he refused to surrender it and reassured Lang Dong that he could protect it. The other factions overcame their hesitation and approached Fang Qianyuan together for another discussion.

• Huang Yunhao and the other sect elders demanded that Lang Dong and Fang Qianyuan share the refining furnace, but Fang Qianyuan firmly refused.
• Fan Yuntang and Huang Yunhao debated whether the furnace was genuine and usable enough to justify fighting the Azure Cloud Sect for it.
• Lang Dong noticed the camp's growing hostility and considered leaving with Fang Qianyuan before the other factions acted.
• Fang Qianyuan told Lang Dong they could not leave and declared that he would protect the furnace despite the danger.
• Huang Yunhao, Zhu Tao, Liu Shiyin, and the other reinforcing elders approached Fang Qianyuan together for another discussion.

Fang Qianyuan and Lang Dong faced a claim for the Refining Furnace from elders of the Spirit Taming Sect, Sacred Dragon Sect, and Flying Immortal Sect. Lang Dong challenged their priority over the ruins, and the talks ended with both sides still disputing whether the furnace should be shared.

• Fang Qianyuan assessed Huang Yunhao, Zhu Tao, and Liu Shiyin and recognized them as the greatest obstacle to claiming the Refining Furnace.
• Huang Yunhao argued that the treasure should be distributed according to established rules and that the Spirit Taming Sect had priority as the first to explore the ruins.
• Lang Dong countered that the Spirit Taming Sect had already exercised its exploration right when its members entered and later withdrew, so subsequent explorers should compete on equal terms.
• Huang Yunhao argued that the treasure had been found during a Spellbreak City mission and should therefore benefit everyone.
• Lang Dong offered to share the puppet remains but refused to surrender the Refining Furnace as common property.

Lang Dong and Huang Yunhao’s factions argued over who would claim the Refining Furnace, but Lang Dong refused to identify or surrender it. When the dispute turned toward force, Fang Qianyuan answered their threats by recounting his victories and warning that he could defeat them as well.

• Lang Dong offered other recovered treasures for the alliance’s share while refusing to hand over the Refining Furnace, then promised to present a furnace after their return without specifying which one.
• Huang Yunhao, Zhu Tao, and Liu Shiyin threatened to use force against Lang Dong and the Azure Cloud Sect.
• Lang Dong privately warned Fang Qianyuan that the other factions might seize the treasure or arrange an ‘accident’ and blame it on demons or the ruins.
• Fang Qianyuan calmly described his rise and his victories over Xu Pingshan, the Dog King, Qian Wei, Xue Pingchuan, and Golden Toad True Person.
• Fang Qianyuan warned the gathered elders that he would add them to the list of people he had defeated if they continued to pressure him.

Fang Qianyuan accepted Huang Yunhao’s wagered bout over the Refining Furnace, then faced the gathered sect fighters alone. He struck first and severely wounded Liu Shiyin’s Thunderclap Sky-Howling Beast.

• Huang Yunhao proposed a wagered melee to settle ownership of the Refining Furnace, and Fang Qianyuan agreed.
• Huang Yunhao called for several fighters to challenge Fang Qianyuan while he and others stood by to provide cover.
• Fang Qianyuan told Lang Dong to stay back and support him as he fought alone.
• Liu Shiyin offered her Thunderclap Sky-Howling Beast to support a Battle Formation for Fan Yuntang and the others.
• Fang Qianyuan charged Liu Shiyin and used the Dark Demon Claw to severely wound her Thunderclap Sky-Howling Beast.

Fang Qianyuan fought off Liu Shiyin and the other experts by using his Spirit Creatures and mastery of the Time Dao. As he drove back his attackers, Huang Yunhao targeted Little White to seize the treasure she had swallowed.

• Liu Shiyin struck Fang Qianyuan with her Soul-Seizing Demon Sound, briefly stunning him, and Fan Yuntang and the others launched a counterattack.
• Huang Yunhao used Golden Light to block Lang Dong, while Zhu Tao healed the Thunderclap Sky-Howling Beast with his Diamond Blossom Fairy.
• Fang Qianyuan's Time Dao power replayed his earlier claw strike, injuring the Thunderclap Sky-Howling Beast again before he kicked it away.
• Fang Qianyuan used the Hair Demon's Indestructible Demon Hair to blast Fan Yuntang, Yu Li, Kang Long, and Li Yulou away.
• Huang Yunhao mounted Golden Light and charged at Little White, aiming to take the treasure she had swallowed.

Fang Qianyuan and his Spirit Creatures faced a swarm of enemies on the Desolate Star Fragment, forcing him to unleash his battlefield-clearing Wind Blade Frost Sword: Seven-Kill Style. As the attack froze the fighters and their beasts, Zhu Tao and the Ninth-Rank Diamond Blossom Fairy answered with a battlefield-wide healing Divine Ability.

• Golden Light struck Little White and injured her, but she withheld her Wind Transformation Divine Ability to protect the treasure inside her body.
• Liu Shiyin, Zhu Tao, and Huang Yunhao summoned more Spirit Creatures, joining the other fighters in a fierce assault on Fang Qianyuan and his allies.
• Fang Qianyuan used Little White and his Indestructible Demon Hair to withstand the attacks, while the hair's reserves steadily dwindled.
• Huang Yunhao warned the others that Fang Qianyuan was gathering momentum, but Fang Qianyuan unleashed Wind Blade Frost Sword: Seven-Kill Style and froze Spirit Creatures and fighters across the battlefield.
• Zhu Tao formed the Hand Seal of Unity, and the Ninth-Rank Diamond Blossom Fairy used Hundred Flowers Bloom to heal the battlefield.

Fang Qianyuan countered Zhu Tao’s mass healing by merging with Little White and attacking the healers directly. After wounding Zhu Tao and freezing Liu Shiyin’s spirit creature with his hidden power of time, he turned toward Huang Yunhao.

• Zhu Tao used a wide-ranging healing technique to restore the wounded spirit creatures and Spirit Tamers, undoing much of Fang Qianyuan’s attack.
• Fang Qianyuan merged with Little White through Spirit Garment Protection and left his treasures with Senior Lang.
• Fang Qianyuan trapped Zhu Tao in a cage of Indestructible Demon Hair and wounded his shoulder with a claw strike.
• Zhu Tao healed the wound with the Diamond Blossom Fairy, but Fang Qianyuan used Dark Demon Claw to reopen it.
• Fang Qianyuan’s power of time froze Liu Shiyin’s Thunderclap Sky-Howling Beast, and he turned his attention to Huang Yunhao.