Chapter Summaries

Han Tianzuo secretly fed captives to his Gold-Armored Demon Centipede and planned to ambush the Baili Household convoy with help from a nearby great demon. The convoy took a detour into a valley, where Gushe Qingyao and Fang Qianyuan sensed the demon ahead.

• Han Tianzuo berated his bandits for bringing too few captives and ordered them to gather a hundred virgin boys and girls by sunset the next day.
• Han Tianzuo fed the captured commoners to his Gold-Armored Demon Centipede, saving the other offerings for Lord Red Radiance.
• A messenger told Han Tianzuo that the people he had been tracking had appeared near Oxhead Ridge, and Han Tianzuo plotted to use a nearby great demon to restrain Gushe Qingyao and attack the convoy.
• Commander Huang told Baili Hongyan that a landslide blocked the road, so the convoy took a detour into a nearby valley.
• Gushe Qingyao and Fang Qianyuan sensed a great demon in the valley.

Fang Qianyuan watched a Great Demon’s illusion trap the caravan while Han Tianzuo launched a surprise attack with the Gold-Armored Demon Centipede. Gushe Qingyao was caught between the demon’s poisonous flames and the attack on her companions, leaving the caravan in danger.

• Gushe Qingyao sensed danger and warned the caravan to retreat, but strange mist spread and trapped the group in an illusion.
• Fang Qianyuan used the Thunder Civet to break through the illusion and spotted a multicolored centipede killing people who had strayed from the caravan.
• Gushe Qingyao fired at a false trace of the Great Demon, destroying a strange vine, and the Great Demon retaliated with poisonous flames.
• Han Tianzuo appeared and sent the Gold-Armored Demon Centipede crashing into the caravan, where it killed and ate several people.
• Baili Hongyan emerged from the illusion as the centipede threatened her, while Gushe Qingyao struggled to defend her allies from both attackers.

Han Tianzuo’s ambush trapped the retreating party between two centipede demons while Gushe Qingyao was occupied by a powerful Great Demon. As Baili Hongyan and Jiu Qilin fell into danger, Fang Qianyuan ignored Qingyao’s plea and moved toward Jiu Qilin.

• Han Tianzuo sent the Gold-Armored Demon Centipede to attack the party, then brought the Crimson Flame Thousand-Legged Dragon to block their escape.
• The Crimson Flame Thousand-Legged Dragon devoured most of the group, including Commander Huang and a cultivator with a two-headed wolf.
• Baili Hongyan ran toward Gushe Qingyao for help, but the Great Demon’s vines struck her and bound her Crimson-Patterned Tiger before a death warrior rescued her.
• The Great Demon wounded Gushe Qingyao, who realized it was at least a ninth-transformation demon and could no longer protect Baili Hongyan.
• Gushe Qingyao asked Lin Yuan to save Baili Hongyan, but Fang Qianyuan refused and headed toward the endangered Jiu Qilin.

Fang Qianyuan appeared in time to save Jiu Qilin and used his black hair and Dark Demon Ice Nether Soul to subdue Han Tianzuo’s spirit creatures. The chapter ended with the Crimson Flame Thousand-Legged Dragon frozen by a falling Black Moon.

• The Gold-Armored Demon Centipede struck Jiu Qilin and sent him crashing into a tree, leaving him unable to move.
• Fang Qianyuan appeared before Jiu Qilin and blocked the Gold-Armored Demon Centipede with a curtain of black hair.
• Fang Qianyuan summoned the Dark Demon Ice Nether Soul, which entangled and froze the Gold-Armored Demon Centipede.
• Han Tianzuo lost control of the Gold-Armored Demon Centipede and called upon the Crimson Flame Thousand-Legged Dragon as he tried to retreat.
• A Black Moon fell from the sky and exploded, freezing the Crimson Flame Thousand-Legged Dragon and everything within a thousand feet.

Fang Qianyuan revealed his identity after using Black Moon to grievously wound the Crimson Flame Thousand-Legged Dragon and freeze the battlefield. As Gushe Qingyao and the others recognized him, Little White finished off the weakened monster and began devouring it.

• Fang Qianyuan used Greedy Wolf Style, Black Moon, to nearly kill the Crimson Flame Thousand-Legged Dragon, while the aftershock froze Han Tianzuo and frightened the Great Demon into fleeing.
• Gushe Qingyao checked on Baili Hongyan, then confronted Fang Qianyuan for hiding his strength and not saving the others sooner.
• Gushe Qingyao recognized Fang Qianyuan by his Black Moon technique, and Fang Qianyuan confirmed that he was from the Azure Cloud Sect.
• Little White attacked the weakened Crimson Flame Thousand-Legged Dragon with Frost Breath and Wind Claw, killed it, and began devouring it.

Fang Qianyuan clashed with Gushe Qingyao over his reluctance to risk others’ lives to save Baili Hongyan, then parted ways with her after learning more about the growing threat from Spirit Herders. They met again at the Yinshan Kingdom’s northern border, where Gushe Qingyao brought intelligence that helped Fang Qianyuan investigate the forces behind the unrest.

• Gushe Qingyao accused Fang Qianyuan of being heartless, and he pointed out that she had focused on saving Baili Hongyan while ignoring the other victims.
• Gushe Qingyao took the surviving travelers to Shangyang City aboard her Seven-Colored Rainbow Bird, while Fang Qianyuan departed and arranged to meet her again.
• Gushe Qingyao warned Fang Qianyuan that Spirit Herders were becoming more active and that a great war seemed to be approaching, then agreed to share leads with him.
• Fang Qianyuan recommended that Jiu Qilin seek out Wu Longjie in Shangyang City and offered to have Wu look after him.
• Two days later, Gushe Qingyao met Fang Qianyuan at the Yinshan Kingdom’s northern border after delivering Baili Hongyan and shared information that helped him uncover further clues.

Fang Qianyuan and Gushe Qingyao uncovered the scale of Han Tianzuo’s blood-sacrifice camps and rescued captives, but Fang concluded that individual acts of rescue could not address the deeper cause of the suffering. After seeing a ruined village and the war’s worsening effects across the Southern Wilds, he saw the divide between strength and weakness as the root of oppression.

• Fang Qianyuan and Gushe Qingyao traveled to Han Tianzuo’s camps, killed the bandits guarding them, and found captives and the remains of over a hundred victims.
• The pair freed captives at another camp, then continued breaking up strongholds and asked nearby Heavenly Dao Alliance Branch Headquarters to send aid.
• After finding more than a hundred captives and the bones of over a thousand victims, Fang reflected that rescuing individuals did not solve the root of their suffering.
• Fang and Gushe Qingyao reached a devastated mountain village and saw how war had driven survivors into larger towns while worsening conditions across the Southern Wilds.

Fang Qianyuan discussed the doubts burdening his cultivation with Gushe Qingyao while they investigated camps in the Yinshan Kingdom. Meanwhile, Central Province forces organized a covert hunt against him and learned that Centipede True Lord also sought him, though Gushe Qingyao's presence complicated their plans.

• Fang Qianyuan told Gushe Qingyao that thoughts about warriors, power, privilege, and the strong had been troubling him.
• Gushe Qingyao suggested that Fang Qianyuan's reluctance to act might stem from fearing the worldly entanglements that had led to Wei Huan's death.
• Meng Xuanfei met with Spirit Tamers from Central Province families and sects who planned to assassinate Fang Qianyuan.
• Meng Xuanfei revealed that Centipede True Lord blamed Fang Qianyuan for killing one of his Spirit Herders and had confirmed it through divination.
• The Central Province group learned that Gushe Qingyao was accompanying Fang Qianyuan and decided they would need to lure her away.

Meng Xuanfei and the Central Province clans prepared to deal with Fang Qianyuan, recruiting Gushe Qingyao’s sense of justice as a distraction and assembling a force equipped with powerful formations and mystic treasures. The Yin Family expert revealed that genuine Heaven-Tier Spirit Creatures would also join the operation.

• Meng Xuanfei advised the clans to exploit Gushe Qingyao’s hatred of evil by feeding her intelligence through the Heavenly Dao Alliance, while warning that Fang Qianyuan remained their main challenge.
• The Yin Family expert brought Meng Xuanfei to a rendezvous where thirty Spirit Taming Sect death warriors had arrived under the clans’ command.
• Meng Xuanfei learned that the death warriors were Parasites whose auxiliary spirits gave them Earth Rank-like auras and allowed them to form powerful battle formations.
• The clans distributed Ancient Cultivator mystic treasures bearing the wills of Earth Rank experts who could influence the battle remotely.
• The Yin Family expert revealed that Heaven Tier experts would send genuine Heaven-Tier Spirit Creatures to participate in the operation.

Gushe Qingyao left Fang Qianyuan to hunt Skin Gentleman, unaware that Central Province elites had engineered the lead to separate them. Meng Xuanfei and his allies began assembling a concealed force to ambush Fang Qianyuan in the Southern Wilds.

• A Swift Eagle delivered Gushe Qingyao a report about Skin Gentleman, prompting her to leave Fang Qianyuan and pursue him.
• Gushe Qingyao asked Fang Qianyuan to continue investigating Centipede True Lord, then departed on her Seven-Colored Rainbow Bird.
• Meng Xuanfei told the Central Province elites that their staged lead had drawn Gushe Qingyao away and left Fang Qianyuan traveling alone.
• The Central Province elites agreed to begin their operation, confident Fang Qianyuan did not suspect their plans.
• The elites spread distracting reports, gathered their scattered forces, and concealed Earth Rank experts across the Southern Wilds to prepare a deadly ambush.

Fang Qianyuan and Little White flew through Eagle's Sorrow Ravine, a toxic canyon formed by a legendary sword strike, until a group of human rank Spirit Tamers trapped them with a powerful formation. Fang Qianyuan recognized their rapidly deployed virtual formation as its power gathered to attack.

• Fang Qianyuan learned that Eagle's Sorrow Ravine had once been Sword Valley, cleaved open by a peerless spell cultivator slain by the Ten Great Sects.
• Fang Qianyuan and Little White flew above the canyon, avoiding the toxic fumes and dangerous grotto-heaven fragments nearby.
• Fang Qianyuan spotted glowing talismanic scripts forming a barrier and ordered Little White to stop.
• Dragon Hawk spirit creatures and more than a hundred auras converged, while thunder balls distorted the surrounding void and cut off their escape routes.
• Aristocratic-looking Spirit Tamers appeared and formed a virtual formation with materialized swords, which Fang Qianyuan recognized as a major power's formation dao technique.

Fang Qianyuan faced a Central Province formation assembled to avenge the clansmen he had killed, but he remained confident and let his enemies finish preparing it. From a distant mountain, Meng Xuanfei and a white-haired man watched as they realized Fang Qianyuan was deliberately waiting.

• Fang Qianyuan sensed that the four treasured swords' killing intent could not threaten his mind and recognized that the Central Province formation was aimed at him.
• Yin Long declared that the clans had come to avenge their dead and accused Fang Qianyuan of threatening the righteous powers of Central Province.
• Fang Qianyuan rejected their claims of justice, said he feared neither the clans nor their order, and invited them to complete their formation.
• Yin Long and the other Central Province fighters hesitated under Fang Qianyuan's imposing presence as he stood atop Little White and waited.
• Meng Xuanfei asked why nothing was happening, and the white-haired man concluded that Fang Qianyuan was waiting for his opponents to prepare.

Fang Qianyuan tested his power against Yin Long and the others’ completed ambush formation, then charged into battle with Little White. After he discovered the death warriors were being revived by puppet worms, he took a fan from Miao Huan and ordered her to hide.

• Fang Qianyuan sensed a vast will answer his call as Yin Long and the others finished linking themselves and their weapons to the grand formation.
• Fang Qianyuan and Little White rushed into the formation, where his wolf claws tore through several death warriors.
• The shattered warriors began recovering as strange black worms emerged from their bodies, and Fang Qianyuan recognized them as puppet worms.
• Little White leaped to the edge of the formation and landed on a cliff while Fang Qianyuan asked Miao Huan for her fan and told her to hide.

Fang Qianyuan fought Yin Long’s prepared force, shattered their wind-restraining formation, and annihilated most of the warriors with the Divine Wind Treasure Fan and Little White. He left Yin Long and a handful of survivors facing him after their attacks failed to injure him.

• Yin Long and the other leaders activated the Wind-Banning Domain to counter Fang Qianyuan’s wind abilities.
• Fang Qianyuan unleashed a stronger Wind Blade Frost Sword and tore through the domain with repeated attacks.
• Yin Long changed the formation’s mode, empowering the warriors’ beast-shaped spirit garments so they could advance through the storm.
• Warriors reached Fang Qianyuan and attacked with Artifact Way treasures, but he used Reverse Time Transformation to nullify their combined assault.
• Little White and Fang Qianyuan killed or incapacitated more than half the force, leaving Yin Long and a few others shaken and alive.

Meng Xuanfei and Si Yuanjin watched Fang Qianyuan overwhelm the warriors, while Yin Long began summoning a demon god’s manifestation using the Puppet Worms and the warriors as sacrifices. The flesh vessel took shape, and Fang Qianyuan realized a powerful being was about to descend.

• Meng Xuanfei and Si Yuanjin discussed Fang Qianyuan’s strength and decided to observe him rather than risk making a powerful enemy.
• Yin Long invoked the grand formation and released a high-grade earth-rank Puppet Worm King from its yellow talisman seal.
• Spiritual light, blood mist, and the warriors’ gathered essence formed a huge beating heart above Eagle's Sorrow Ravine.
• Yin Long and countless voices recited an incantation to summon a soul baleful spirit, as the heart became enveloped in black aura.
• Fang Qianyuan recognized that the warriors were sacrifices for a demon god’s manifestation and sensed that a being on the level of a heaven tier manifestation was about to descend.

Fang Qianyuan waited as Yin Long and the others opened a gate to the Nine Hells and summoned the Heaven Tier exotic beast Chaos. The beast emerged successfully, and its summoner intended to claim Fang Qianyuan’s soul and power.

• Fang Qianyuan chose to wait for his opponents’ summoned enemy, hoping the fight would temper his strength and will.
• Meng Xuanfei and Si Yuanjin recognized Fang Qianyuan’s confidence and acknowledged the strength behind it.
• A Star Realm gate to the Nine Hells opened above the sacrificial heart, filling Eagle's Sorrow Ravine with demonic qi.
• A colossal winged beast emerged through the gate after the sacrificial heart exhausted its power.
• Yin Long and the others celebrated as they summoned Chaos, a Heaven Tier manifestation that could share power with its true body.
• The expert who refined Chaos had agreed to help because he wanted to seize Fang Qianyuan’s divine soul and power.

Fang Qianyuan and Little White faced a Heaven Tier assault from Yin Luo’s Chaos Behemoth, followed by a concealed sword strike. Fang Qianyuan’s Past Body restored them both, leaving Yin Luo and the others stunned.

• Fang Qianyuan recognized the Chaos Behemoth as Yin Luo’s divine spirit and suspected the Supreme Heaven Sect was targeting him.
• Fang Qianyuan used the Divine Wind Treasure Fan and Wind-Settling Pearl against Chaos, but the behemoth absorbed his wind and unleashed a devastating attack of mixed powers.
• Chaos’s attack severely wounded Fang Qianyuan and Little White, while a treasured sword representing “crush” struck them during the assault.
• Fang Qianyuan activated his Past Body and restored himself and Little White through the laws of the Time Dao.
• Yin Luo, Meng Xuanfei, and Si Yuanjin watched in disbelief as Fang Qianyuan stood unharmed, and Yin Luo praised his talent.

Fang Qianyuan recognized the Chaos Behemoth’s law-based powers and inferred that its master possessed another part of the Flying Immortal Records. As the Chaos Behemoth explained the ancient execution at Sword Valley and condemned Fang’s killings, Fang rejected its justification with contempt.

• Fang Qianyuan analyzed how his Wind-Settling Pearl and Black Wind Divine Ability had fared against the Chaos Behemoth and began forming a way to defeat it.
• The Chaos Behemoth revealed that it knew Fang Qianyuan cultivated the Reverse Time Transformation, leading Fang to infer that it possessed the Four Symbols Transformation.
• Si Yuanjin explained Fang Qianyuan’s past body to Meng Xuanfei and realized that the Chaos Behemoth had revealed this information deliberately.
• The Chaos Behemoth described how an Ancient Cultivator had been executed at Sword Valley after challenging the established order and killing members of noble clans and sects.
• The Chaos Behemoth accused Fang Qianyuan of creating a blood debt by killing noble scions, and Fang answered with a contemptuous laugh.

Fang Qianyuan declared that he would fight for humble-born cultivators and rogue cultivators, refining his resolve and awakening a powerful law domain. As his Proto-Seven Killings, Breaking Army, Greedy Wolf technique transformed Little White, Yin Zheluo prepared to kill him before he became an even greater threat.

• Fang Qianyuan reflected on the sects’ protection of their own elites and declared that he alone would reign supreme for nameless cultivators and humble families.
• Fang Qianyuan’s conviction resonated with Heaven and Earth, shocking the Central Province experts with a presence resembling a Heaven Tier breakthrough.
• Yin Zheluo recognized Fang Qianyuan’s strengthened will and resolved to kill him in a single stroke.
• Fang Qianyuan summoned a growing black moon with his Proto-Seven Killings, Breaking Army, Greedy Wolf technique, forming an unfamiliar law domain.
• Fang Qianyuan used the black moon’s light to transform Little White, whose body grew nearly a thousand feet tall and radiated power comparable to Heaven Tier strength.

Fang Qianyuan broke through his inner barrier and faced Yin Zheluo’s Chaos Behemoth with renewed confidence. He discovered how to bypass the behemoth’s chaotic defenses and struck the divine sense controlling it, causing Yin Zheluo and the creature to vanish.

• Fang Qianyuan weathered Yin Zheluo’s elemental attacks as Little White’s strengthened domain weakened their force.
• Yin Zheluo sent the Chaos Behemoth to attack Little White, and Fang Qianyuan used the Hair Demon’s power to bind it with his long hair.
• Fang Qianyuan realized the behemoth’s chaotic power could be contained by Yin Zheluo’s divine sense.
• Fang Qianyuan used Dark Demon Claw to pierce the Chaos Behemoth’s skull and grievously wound the divine sense within it.
• Yin Zheluo’s voice faded, and both he and the Chaos Behemoth disappeared.