Chapter Summaries

Fang Qianyuan used black wind true meaning to unleash Wind Blade Frost Sword across the valley, reaching Zuo Da and Zuo Er through their grotto-heaven refuge. He destroyed their spirit creatures and forced the injured pair to appear.

• Fang Qianyuan visualized the Black Wind Calamity and expanded Wind Blade Frost Sword across nearly the entire valley.
• The storm shook Zuo Da and Zuo Er's grotto-heaven and froze the Void Beast, driving it out of the mountain wall.
• Zuo Da and Zuo Er sent a shadow beneath Little White to immobilize her while the Void Beast charged Fang Qianyuan.
• Fang Qianyuan unleashed an indiscriminate burst of black wind, freezing and shredding the Void Beast and the Shadow Beast.
• Zuo Da and Zuo Er coughed up blood and lost the Concealment Immortal Veil, appearing several dozen zhang away.

Fang Qianyuan defeated Zuo Da and Zuo Er, who killed themselves after he seized their Concealment Immortal Veil. A surviving Shadow Insect delivered the news to a Spirit Taming Sect undercover operative, who concluded Fang Qianyuan’s strength was tied to a pill and resolved to report it.

• Fang Qianyuan’s Black Wind True Meaning overwhelmed Zuo Da and Zuo Er, and sect guards moved to arrest them.
• Zuo Da and Zuo Er took poison and died, while Fang Qianyuan kept the Concealment Immortal Veil they had used to hide.
• Tang He identified the veil as a Space Dao treasure and said the Artifact Hall would try to repair the damage Fang Qianyuan had caused.
• A hidden Shadow Insect survived the battle and later reached a Spirit Taming Sect operative at a medicine shop.
• The operative learned of the brothers’ deaths and Fang Qianyuan’s strength, suspected his rapid growth was connected to a pill, and decided to inform the sect.

After reaching the Fifth Transformation, Fang Qianyuan learned that the Spirit Taming Sect was mobilizing against the Azure Cloud Sect over the Refining Furnace. Yu Shixian sent him to the northern frontier to assess the threat, and Fang arrived in Xilan City to a grand welcome from its ruling clans.

• Fang Qianyuan restored his cultivation and broke through to the Fifth Transformation after consuming Five Qi Returning to Origin Pills with his Spirit Creatures.
• The Spirit Taming Sect gathered troops near the Southern Wilds frontier and continued demanding that the Azure Cloud Sect surrender the Refining Furnace.
• Yu Shixian warned Fang Qianyuan that war might be unavoidable and assigned him to probe the Spirit Taming Sect's strength and intentions in the northern frontier.
• Fang Qianyuan accepted the assignment and traveled by Teleportation Array to Xilan City.
• The city's leading aristocratic clans welcomed Fang Qianyuan and escorted him toward the City Lord's Mansion.

Fang Qianyuan inspected Xilan City’s spirit creature troops and realized the Northern Frontier needed powerful experts more than additional soldiers. He planned to infiltrate the Central Province, but a letter from Ye Tianming summoned him to meet west of the city.

• Local magnates told Fang Qianyuan that the Spirit Taming Sect’s buildup was drawing fighters and rogue cultivators to the Northern Frontier as war preparations intensified.
• Fang Qianyuan inspected the Mu Family’s treant warriors, then saw ape-men, mountain ogres, and gray wolf troops maintained by Xilan City’s clans.
• Fang Qianyuan concluded that Xilan City’s forces lacked top-tier experts and understood that the sect had sent him to help fill that gap.
• Fang Qianyuan rejected the magnates’ hospitality and decided to slip into the Central Province to strike at the enemy first.
• A rogue cultivator delivered Fang Qianyuan a letter from Ye Tianming, asking him to meet five li west of the city at the hour of the boar.

Ye Tianming met Fang Qianyuan to warn him that the Spirit Taming Sect’s mobilization was being secretly manipulated to widen the conflict. He identified the Warrior Halls of several sects as possible conspirators, leaving Fang Qianyuan to consider how a local war could spiral out of control.

• Lin Xiong arrived at the pavilion ahead of Fang Qianyuan and sent word that his young master was coming.
• Fang Qianyuan arrived on Little White and recognized that Ye Tianming had reached the third transformation of the Earth Rank.
• Ye Tianming warned Fang Qianyuan that someone was pulling strings behind the Spirit Taming Sect’s mobilization to expand the conflict.
• Ye Tianming explained that secret dealings among the great sects, the Demon Alliance, and the Earth Baleful Gate could be driving the unrest.
• Ye Tianming named the Warrior Halls of the Spirit Taming Sect, the three great sects, and the Azure Cloud Sect as powers that could benefit from war.

Fang Qianyuan learned that the Warrior Hall might be preparing to draw the world into a wider war, while the motives of the Heaven Tier experts remained unclear. When the Spirit Taming Sect attacked the Southern Wilds through the Yin Family, he resolved to use the conflict to build his strength and eventually steer the world away from war.

• Fang Qianyuan gave Fang Qianyuan's secret letter about the Spirit Taming Sect's preparations to Fang Qianyuan, then left to alert his sect and watch the Warrior Hall.
• Ye Tong met Ye Tianming after Fang Qianyuan departed, and Ye Tianming explained that Fang Qianyuan might not believe him but could not ignore the warning.
• Fang Qianyuan contacted Yu Shixian, who began investigating the Warrior Hall, and Fang Qianyuan wondered whether the Heaven Tier experts were secretly steering events toward conflict.
• Several days later, the head of the Mu Family told Fang Qianyuan that the Spirit Taming Sect had ordered the Yin Family to attack the Southern Wilds.
• Fang Qianyuan decided to use the coming conflict to grow powerful enough to understand the great experts and guide the world back onto the right path.

A band of rogue cultivators ambushed weakened Central Province soldiers after a battle on the Southern Frontier, hoping to plunder their wealth. As they looted the battlefield, a giant Desolate Beast appeared and attacked with poisonous miasma, leaving the leader to recognize it as a Suanni.

• Central Province troops fought a Southern Wilds garrison in a valley and drove the defenders into retreat.
• A rogue cultivator band led by a man riding a Blazing Mountain Tiger attacked the exhausted Central Province survivors and killed them, though several rogue cultivators also died.
• The survivors began looting weapons and treasure pouches from the battlefield.
• A huge lionlike Desolate Beast emerged through green mist and poisoned spirit creatures and wounded fighters, absorbing their flesh and blood essence.
• The rogue cultivator leader recognized the beast as a Suanni and cried out in terror.

The Suanni slaughtered the rogue cultivators as their leader realized a Spirit Herder was behind the attack. The Spirit Herder then turned his attention to Little White and Fang Qianyuan, who appeared on the ridge.

• The rogue cultivators fled from the Suanni, but its green miasma killed most of them and its paw crushed one survivor who resisted with a fiery red glow.
• The leader ordered the last two companions to keep running and concluded that a Spirit Herder intended to use them as sacrifices to refine a Spirit Creature.
• A hooded, blue-gray-cloaked man appeared on a ridge, whistled, and summoned the Suanni to his side.
• The Spirit Herder looked away from the three rogue cultivators as Little White and Fang Qianyuan arrived on another ridge.

Fang Qianyuan encountered a Spirit Herder using Wild Spirits to hunt Rogue Cultivators and confronted him and his Heaven Tier Spirit Creature, Suanni. With Little White and a concealed attacker, Fang Qianyuan killed the Spirit Herder and defeated Suanni, leaving the Rogue Cultivators stunned by his strength.

• Fang Qianyuan recognized that the Spirit Herder was conducting blood sacrifices for a Heaven Tier expert and ordered him to stop.
• Fang Qianyuan sent Little White to attack Suanni, whose wounds healed as his Heaven Tier Spirit Essence flowed back into his body.
• Fang Qianyuan froze Suanni with Darkness and Ice powers while a hidden attacker ambushed and killed the Spirit Herder.
• Little White seized the moment, overwhelmed Suanni, and consumed his Spirit Essence after Fang Qianyuan's power destroyed the Heaven Tier expert's lingering will.
• The three Rogue Cultivators watched Fang Qianyuan and Little White defeat their enemies and feared the young expert's terrifying strength.

Fang Qianyuan killed a Spirit Herder, had Little White devour the Herder’s Suanni, and warned nearby Rogue Cultivators not to attack people from the Southern Wilds. He then revealed that Miao Huan had carried out the killing and advised her to focus on concealing her murderous intent.

• Fang Qianyuan let Little White devour the Suanni and its Heaven Tier will, sensing a resemblance to a Divine Spirit’s will.
• The Rogue Cultivators thanked Fang Qianyuan, and he warned them that he would kill them if they harmed cultivators from the Southern Wilds.
• Fang Qianyuan departed on Little White, leaving the three Rogue Cultivators relieved that he was gone.
• Fang Qianyuan summoned Miao Huan and learned that she had killed the Spirit Herder with a concealed strike.
• Fang Qianyuan praised Miao Huan’s abilities but told her to cultivate her mindset and conceal her murderous intent to become a perfect assassin.

Fang Qianyuan investigated the growing influx of outsiders into the war between the Spirit Taming Sect and the Azure Cloud Sect, gathering intelligence from the Earth Baleful Gate and several other sources. The reports revealed that someone had secretly drawn numerous experts into the conflict, and Fang Qianyuan realized the events might already be impossible to stop.

• Fang Qianyuan arrived at the Pinyi Mountains and followed a suspicious bird to meet an Earth Baleful Gate spy.
• The spy gave Fang Qianyuan a report showing that dozens of Earth Rank Experts from different factions had gathered around the battlefield.
• Fang Qianyuan asked for information about Ye Tianming, but the spy said Ye Tianming's status as the Night King's Earth Rank disciple made him difficult to track.
• Fang Qianyuan received further reports from the Sacred Cat Merchant Association, allied aristocratic clans, Xilan City, and the Azure Cloud Sect.
• The reports convinced Fang Qianyuan that someone had secretly drawn unrelated outsiders into the war, leaving him to consider which path to take.

Fang Qianyuan investigated a pattern of powerful experts being injured or killed and suspected Heaven Tier figures were driving the world toward war. He reached a frontline camp in Central Province and began preparing to attack it for resources, experience, and clues.

• Fang Qianyuan read Yu Shixian’s report and noted that numerous influential experts across the factions had been injured or killed in recent years.
• Fang Qianyuan agreed that the existing powers could still resist whoever was plotting behind the scenes, then destroyed the report and continued north through the Pinyi Mountains.
• Fang Qianyuan secretly crossed a Yin Family defensive line and reached a frontline camp guarded by Spirit Tamers and two Earth Rank Experts.
• Fang Qianyuan decided to attack the camp to seize supplies, gain combat experience, weaken the enemy, and potentially expose the force manipulating the war.
• Fang Qianyuan used the Borrowing Art with Little White and unleashed his Seven-Kill Style, Wind Blade Frost Sword.

Fang Qianyuan attacked a camp with his enhanced Wind Blade Frost Sword, spreading a freezing black storm that threw the camp into chaos. As a five-man guard squad formed up to face him, he dismissed their battle formation as a trap for the overconfident.

• Fang Qianyuan unleashed Wind Blade Frost Sword, covering the surrounding area in black wind, frost, and destructive whirlwinds.
• The camp’s alarm sounded, and its formation array rose, but the storm still seeped through and panicked the people and spirit creatures inside.
• Yin Ziyang and Yuan Chun emerged as the camp’s defenders, and Yin Ziyang set out to investigate while Yuan Chun held the camp.
• A five-man patrol squad spotted Fang Qianyuan and formed up, expecting to stall him until the Yin Family elder arrived.
• Fang Qianyuan recognized the squad’s battle formation and remarked that its members were like strong swimmers destined to drown.

Fang Qianyuan ambushed Yin Ziyang’s patrol with Miao Huan and Wormfish, then prepared to face Yin Ziyang and his elite guards. Yin Ziyang formed battle formations and attacked with highly compressed blade-leaf flying knives, revealing a dangerous combat technique.

• Fang Qianyuan used a concealed spirit command to kill two members of the approaching squad before they could form a battle formation.
• Fang Qianyuan summoned Wormfish, whose torrent swept the three surviving enemies and their companions’ bodies down the slope.
• Yin Ziyang and two squads of elite soldiers arrived after witnessing the patrol’s defeat, and his guards formed two linked Five Elements Battle Formations.
• Fang Qianyuan sent his Golden-Eyed Thunder Eagle to attack Yin Ziyang’s scouting Thunder Eagles.
• Yin Ziyang hurled a compressed blade-leaf flying knife at Fang Qianyuan, who dodged the strike and recognized the blade-leaf grass’s role in Yin Ziyang’s technique.

Fang Qianyuan and Little White battled Yin Ziyang, who used coordinated attacks and binding techniques to restrict them. Little White escaped a concealed assassination attempt and counterattacked with a devastating black-wind storm, leaving Yin Ziyang falling from the sky.

• Yin Ziyang sent blade-leaf knives at Fang Qianyuan, then detonated them to disrupt Fang Qianyuan's wind transformation and injure Little White.
• Yin Ziyang's guards used a formation to bind Little White and the Wormfish, while Yin Ziyang prepared a silver throwing knife aimed at Fang Qianyuan's vital points.
• Yin Ziyang secretly targeted Little White with the knife, but she transformed into black wind and evaded it.
• Little White swept toward Yin Ziyang and his guards in a powerful tornado, striking Yin Ziyang with an invisible Wind Claw and tearing open his giant peng.
• Yin Ziyang fell from the sky as Little White's black-wind attack overwhelmed him.

Fang Qianyuan overwhelmed Yin Ziyang and lured Yuan Chun into the battle, where Miao Huan killed him. Yin Ziyang briefly wounded Miao Huan with his final attack before dying, leaving Fang Qianyuan's forces in control of the fight.

• Fang Qianyuan and Little White trapped Yin Ziyang in ice and bound him with Indestructible Demon Hair while their attacks scattered his guards.
• Yuan Chun left the camp to rescue Yin Ziyang, but Fang Qianyuan sent the Dark Demon Ice Nether Soul after him and Miao Huan ambushed and killed him.
• Yin Ziyang broke free of Fang Qianyuan's hair with his Blade-Leaf Grass power, but the strands rejoined and bound him again.
• Miao Huan appeared before Yin Ziyang and tore through his chest.
• Yin Ziyang unleashed Blade Storm, wounding Miao Huan and forcing her to retreat into the Lesser Grotto-Heaven before he died.

Fang Qianyuan killed Yin Ziyang and Yuan Chun, routed the defenders, and entered the camp to seize its spoils. The camp’s distress signal alerted nearby forces, which began mobilizing to trap him.

• Fang Qianyuan used an ambush to kill Yuan Chun and then finished off Yin Ziyang.
• Fang Qianyuan killed the camp’s remaining personal guards and attacked its defenders with his spirit creatures and wind-and-snow techniques.
• Fang Qianyuan broke several hastily formed battle arrays, killed more elite fighters, and forced the rest to flee.
• Fang Qianyuan entered the camp while nearby strongholds received its emergency alarm.
• The Yin Family and the Spirit Taming Sect mobilized experts and reconnaissance squads to surround the attacker.

Wei Baojun recruited Rogue Cultivators to search for the enemy near Jiazi Camp while traveling with He Dongling. When they spotted alarm smoke and learned the enemy was moving north after attacking the camp, they realized Fang Qianyuan might be advancing toward them.

• Wei Baojun, speaking through a Swift Eagle, ordered a band of Rogue Cultivators to search for infiltrators near Jiazi Camp and promised rewards for useful reports and combat.
• The Rogue Cultivators accepted the offer and headed for the army's main camp to collect passes and join the search.
• Wei Baojun told He Dongling that Rogue Cultivators could help swell their forces and might provide promising recruits, despite their reputation for pursuing profit.
• Wei Baojun and He Dongling spotted beacon smoke in the forest and realized the enemy had continued north instead of retreating south.
• Wei Baojun and He Dongling suspected that the enemy was Fang Qianyuan, the Azure Cloud Sect's newly promoted earth rank elder.

Fang Qianyuan evaded the tightening pursuit in Central Province and examined documents taken from the enemy camp, discovering the scale of rogue cultivators involved in the war. He pondered the dangerous power struggle before opening a silk scroll written in the same bird script as the record of Reverse Time Transformation.

• Fang Qianyuan and Little White hid from an approaching search party as enemy patrols closed in on their position.
• Fang Qianyuan reviewed Central Province deployment orders and learned that the Spirit Taming Sect had united many clans and sects behind the Yin Family.
• Fang Qianyuan read Yin Ziyang's secret letter and learned that tens of thousands of Human Rank rogue cultivators and dozens of Earth Rank cultivators had joined the war.
• Fang Qianyuan considered how rogue cultivators' growing power could threaten the established order and wondered how the conflict could be contained.
• Fang Qianyuan took out a strange silk scroll and recognized its writing as the bird script used in the record of Reverse Time Transformation.

Fang Qianyuan studied a silk manuscript and concluded that it came from a cultivation art related to Reverse Time Transformation and the Flying Immortal Records. Hoping its origins might lead him to those who shared his cultivation and help him avenge his father, he attacked a Yin Family camp and captured an elder.

• Fang Qianyuan deciphered the manuscript’s mixed ancient and modern bird script and recognized references to the nine great Dao fruits and the Flying Immortal Records.
• Fang Qianyuan suspected that someone had adapted a related ancient cultivation art for Spirit Tamers and that others might practice Reverse Time Transformation, giving him hope of finding his father’s killer.
• Fang Qianyuan sent Miao Huan to scout and learned that a group had passed by without finding him.
• Fang Qianyuan spotted a Yin Family banner the next day and ordered Little White to attack the camp.
• Little White overpowered the camp’s demon wolf as Fang Qianyuan scattered the defenders and had her seize a middle-aged Yin Family elder.