Chapter Summaries

After Wu Lianyi’s defeat, Fang Qianyuan and Tian Heng negotiated with Duanmutian and secured the spoils of the Warrior Path for their sects. As the hunt for Ye Tianming intensified, the Shadow King and his allies chose to wait, relying on their missing portion of the Star Map to keep their enemies from completing it.

• Duanmutian thanked Fang Qianyuan and Tian Heng for protecting the Northern Desert, then asked them to leave its affairs to the local sects.
• Tian Heng agreed to leave but claimed Wu Lianyi’s belongings at Chilling Wind Gorge and Chilling Wind Market, and Duanmutian yielded.
• Fang Qianyuan stayed in the Northern Desert while the Azure Cloud Sect and Spirit Taming Sect acquired much of the Warrior Path’s foundation.
• The Righteous and Demonic Paths raised the priority of hunting Ye Tianming and the surviving Warriors after learning Wu Lianyi had appointed Ye Tianming a Guest Elder.
• In a dark cavern, the Shadow King and his allies decided to wait until they had enough strength to confront their enemies, keeping their portion of the Star Map hidden.

Twenty years after Wu Lianyi’s death, Wang Zhu and the Warrior Administration’s senior officials discussed the changing world and new threats. After arranging to investigate reports of the missing Flying Immortal Records, Wang Zhu learned from Fang Lian that Fang Yue had run away from home again.

• Wang Zhu and the senior officials discussed the Black Tiger Hall, Ye Tianming, and rumors that the missing Flying Immortal Records had appeared in the Western Plains.
• Wang Zhu described how the warrior path had advanced rapidly over twenty years, producing many new experts and prodigies.
• Wang Zhu visited Fang Lian and obtained her sealed letter to Sun Zhuo requesting personnel from the Heavenly Dao Alliance.
• Fang Lian told Wang Zhu that Fang Yue had run away from home again and asked the Warrior Administration to watch for her movements.

Fang Yue left the Heavencrystal Snowfield to explore the mortal world and became a Wind-Catching Envoy of the Heavenly Dao Alliance. After eating noodles in Lingdi Prefecture, she was cornered by rogue cultivators outside the city and summoned her sword to face them.

• Wang Zhu agreed to search for Fang Yue after discussing her desire to leave the Heavencrystal Snowfield and roam the world.
• Fang Yue ate noodles in Lingdi Prefecture, then decided against visiting her grandfather and headed out of the city.
• Rogue cultivators followed Fang Yue to a secluded spot and confronted her, intending to rob her.
• Fang Yue identified herself as a Wind-Catching Envoy of the Heavenly Dao Alliance, but the bandits mocked her claim.
• Fang Yue called for her sword as the rogue cultivators closed in.

Fang Yue subdued five roadside rogue cultivators and escorted them to the authorities, while Huang Zhengxin’s family prepared to delay a mysterious girl for the sake of a powerful patron. The chapter ended with Wen Pengfei arriving at the Huang residence.

• Fang Yue defeated five roadside rogue cultivators with her newly developed Sword-Controlling Art and ordered them to tie themselves up.
• Fang Yue led the captured cultivators toward the local authorities rather than abandoning or killing them.
• Huang Zhengxin told Huang Yu and his younger brother that the Huang clan’s costly effort to delay a girl could win them a powerful patron’s favor.
• Huang Zhengxin’s guard announced that Young Master Wen had arrived at the residence.
• Huang Yu recognized the visitor as Wen Pengfei.

Wen Pengfei arrived in Lingdi Prefecture to find his cousin Fang Yue and bring her back to Yi City. He found her at the Heavenly Dao Alliance Hall, but she refused to return and mocked the idea that her father would worry about her.

• Huang Zhengxin welcomed Wen Pengfei, who asked where Fang Yue was and apologized for the trouble she had caused.
• Huang Yu led Wen Pengfei toward the Heavenly Dao Alliance Hall and explained that Fang Yue had been hunting wicked cultivators and highway robbers.
• Wen Pengfei revealed that Huang Zhengxin had arranged for rogue cultivators to pose as bandits, and promised to speak well of him to his aunt and uncle.
• Wen Pengfei greeted Fang Yue outside the hall and urged her to return to Yi City to visit their grandparents.
• Fang Yue refused, saying the Warrior Administration might arrest her again, and laughed when Wen Pengfei claimed her father would worry.

Fang Yue argued with Wen Pengfei about her father and her wish to leave home and pursue chivalry on her own. After learning that her position as a Wind-Catching Envoy came through her father's influence, she rejected the token and walked away in tears.

• Fang Yue told Wen Pengfei that she wanted to leave home and become a heroine who upheld justice, after losing faith in her father's conduct during the Northern Frontier War and the Warrior Transformation.
• Wen Pengfei explained that her father cared for her and had used his influence to support her, while describing his efforts to guide the sect and the world through upheaval.
• Fang Yue covered her ears, rejected Wen Pengfei's defense of her father, and declared that she would roam the martial world and someday defeat him and the hidden villains.
• Fang Yue threw down her Wind-Catching Envoy Command Token after learning her appointment had come through her father's request, then left in tears as Wen Pengfei stood helplessly and Huang Yu watched.

Fang Yue fled after learning the truth about her command talisman and Wind-Catching Envoy status, and Wen Pengfei caught up to bring her back. They agreed to settle the dispute with a spar, while the chapter explained Wen Pengfei’s Heavenly Roc Dharma Lineage and how the warrior path was transforming Spirit-Taming cultivation.

• Huang Yu asked Wen Pengfei why Fang Yue would not listen to him, but Wen Pengfei left without explaining.
• Fang Yue raced into the wilderness, upset that her family had deceived her, and vowed never to trust them again.
• Wen Pengfei caught up with Fang Yue on a Spirit Eagle and then approached her riding a multicolored tiger.
• Wen Pengfei urged Fang Yue to return, warning that roaming alone was dangerous, and proposed a wager to determine whether she could stay away.
• Fang Yue accepted Wen Pengfei’s challenge, and he expected to win under their usual sparring rules.
• The chapter explained that Wen Pengfei’s Heavenly Roc Dharma Lineage granted him Qiongqi power and that advances from the warrior path were reshaping Spirit-Taming methods.

Wen Pengfei used his Summoning Art to conjure five gray wolves for a spar with Fang Yue, but she caught him off guard with a powerful blackwood beehive. After being overwhelmed, Wen Pengfei admitted he could not take her back by force and decided to notify others to search for her.

• Wen Pengfei summoned five spirit-essence gray wolves and coordinated their attacks against Fang Yue.
• Fang Yue revealed a blackwood beehive and summoned Desolate God Thunderflame Bees.
• The bee spirits exploded, destroying four wolves and blasting Wen Pengfei into the dirt.
• Wen Pengfei realized Fang Yue had tricked him and recognized the beehive as a powerful treasure.
• Wen Pengfei accepted that Fang Yue could protect herself and decided to ask others to search for her.

Fang Yue escaped into the wilds and disguised herself before approaching a river market city, while Warrior Administration Hall Master Xiao Jingcheng ordered a search for her. As Xiao worried about the changing balance of power in the wilds, he suspected the Earth Baleful Gate’s activity might be connected to her disappearance.

• Fang Yue recalled how local aristocratic clans had betrayed her, then used a Form-Changing Talisman and changed clothes before heading toward a market city.
• Xiao Jingcheng angrily ordered the Warrior Administration officers under him to mobilize and find the missing Eldest Miss.
• Xiao read a confidential report describing the Earth Baleful Gate’s renewed activity and its ties to the ancient Heavenly Realms Sect and Supreme Heaven Sect.
• Xiao reflected on how rising cultivation methods and new forces had weakened the old order and made the wilds harder to control.
• Xiao wondered whether the Earth Baleful Gate had come because of the matter involving the Eldest Miss.

Fang Yue disguised herself and entered a restaurant in Linjiang City, but an informant identified her and alerted others. A disguised rogue cultivator and his tiger attacked her, and after Fang Yue repelled them, the man revealed Earth Rank power and recognized her.

• Fang Yue used Form-Changing Paste to disguise herself and went to Immortal Delicacies Restaurant, where she ordered a lavish meal.
• A disguised waiter reported Fang Yue to a white rabbit-like spirit creature, which ordered its allies to watch her.
• A rogue cultivator entered Fang Yue's private room with a tiger, and the tiger lunged at her.
• Fang Yue subdued the tiger and used Flowing Light to cut down a venomous snake summoned by the rogue cultivator.
• The rogue cultivator revealed a strange mixed voice and the aura of a true Earth Rank practitioner, then said that Fang Yue was the person he had been seeking.

Fang Yue fought a Seven-Star Demon Spider at the Immortal Delicacies Restaurant, using the Flowing Light Flying Sword and Blackwood Beehive against the earth-rank creature. As Xiao Jingcheng and Special Envoy Lin arrived to help, the attackers reinforced the spider and more than a hundred masked Spirit Tamers surrounded Fang Yue.

• Fang Yue sensed an earth-rank opponent and attacked with the Flowing Light Flying Sword.
• Warrior Administration members alerted Xiao Jingcheng that a woman resembling Fang Yue was fighting at the Immortal Delicacies Restaurant, and he set out with Special Envoy Lin.
• Xiao Jingcheng and Lin found Fang Yue evading a Seven-Star Demon Spider amid the ruined restaurant while trying to limit damage to the city.
• Fang Yue unleashed Desolate God Thunderflame Bees, badly wounding the spider, but the rogue cultivator sent Shadow Spiders to shield it with tough silk armor.
• More than a hundred masked, late-human-rank attackers charged into the battlefield and surrounded Fang Yue.

Fang Yue was trapped by a ruthless group that slaughtered civilians while trying to capture her, and she watched Xiao Jingcheng and the Warriors risk their lives to save her. Just as the Rogue Cultivator closed in, an unexpected snowfall swept across Linjiang City.

• The Rogue Cultivator used the threat to civilians to pressure Fang Yue into surrendering, but she tried to flee the city instead.
• The Rogue Cultivator summoned three Red-Eyed Boar Demons, which trampled civilians and blocked Fang Yue's escape.
• Black-clad attackers caught Fang Yue with Shadow Hands and a Light Net while her Desolate God Thunderflame Bees struggled to stop the demons.
• Xiao Jingcheng and the Warriors rushed to Fang Yue's aid, but the Rogue Cultivator killed Xiao Jingcheng and poisoned Special Envoy Lin.
• As the Rogue Cultivator prepared to take Fang Yue, snow began falling across Linjiang City despite the summer heat.

Wu Tao abducted Fang Yue while Linjiang’s guarding clans arrived too late to stop him. As the clan experts withdrew and a young cultivator sensed a watcher in the clouds, a gigantic palm descended from the sky.

• Wu Tao learned that two Earth Rank cultivators were approaching but decided to take Fang Yue and leave before they arrived.
• Wu Tao’s men carried Fang Yue away on the Seven-Star Demon Spider as the Chen and Jiang clan experts reached the scene too late.
• The two Earth Rank clan leaders sent the other guards back and flew off, warning that the matter was beyond their reach.
• A young cultivator noticed the snow still blanketing Linjiang and felt that something in the clouds was watching him.
• A thunderous boom sounded, and a gigantic palm tore through the clouds and descended from the sky.

Wu Tao abducted Fang Yue for the Demon Alliance and met the envoys sent to receive them, but their reunion was interrupted by a colossal mass of ice and snow descending from the sky. The resulting avalanche engulfed the mountaintop and surrounding forests, leaving Wu Tao and the others caught in the disaster.

• Wu Tao retreated with the bound Fang Yue after completing the abduction and hurried through the wilderness on a Demon Spider.
• Wu Tao spotted a Spirit Eagle and a reception party of Demon Alliance envoys, including Elder Tu, approaching on spirit creatures.
• Elder Tu noticed snow on Wu Tao and realized the operation had brought disaster, then ordered everyone to retreat.
• An enormous mass fell from the sky and destroyed the mountaintop, as ice and snow swept across the surrounding mountains and forest.

Wu Tao was caught in the aftermath of a colossal strike that raised Snow Peak into a frozen wall, then Bai Aoxue and Little White arrived and subdued him. Fang Yue was safe, while Bai Aoxue’s role as Fang Qianyuan’s Chief Emissary and her ice powers were revealed.

• A colossal palm struck near Linjiang City, raising Snow Peak and leaving Wu Tao and the Seven-Star Demon Spider helpless before its force.
• The impact’s aftermath froze Snow Peak into a towering wall of ice, and Wu Tao realized he had survived.
• Little White pinned the Seven-Star Demon Spider while Bai Aoxue stood on her head, and Fang Yue recognized them as Aunt Xue and Little White.
• Wu Tao abandoned the spider and reached for Fang Yue, but Bai Aoxue froze him with Heaven Crystal Ice Mystic Light.
• Bai Aoxue’s precise control froze the spider silk without harming Fang Yue, and her status as Fang Qianyuan’s Chief Emissary was explained.

Fang Yue escaped the spider-thread cocoon, but Bai Aoxue revealed that the Demon Spider King Zhu Ling had been behind the attack. After Zhu Ling was mysteriously killed, Fang Qianyuan ordered his warriors to bring Fang Yue back.

• Fang Yue broke out of the frozen spider threads and climbed onto Little White as Bai Aoxue warned her that another enemy remained.
• Bai Aoxue revealed the Demon Spider King Zhu Ling and explained how Zhu Ling had become a monstrous Heaven-Tier Powerhouse through a Demon Alliance experiment.
• Bai Aoxue told Fang Yue that Fang Qianyuan had spent years holding powerful threats in check, and Fang Yue fell silent as she remembered the deaths in Linjiang City.
• Zhu Ling tried to retreat, but an unseen force killed her instantly while Bai Aoxue watched.
• At the Central Preservation Palace, Fang Qianyuan ordered the assembled warriors to bring Fang Yue back.

After decades of cultivation and leadership, Fang Qianyuan had gained unmatched strength and influence but remained distant and forlorn. Fang Yue returned to the Heavencrystal Snowfield and reunited with her mother, while Wen Qingfei urged Fang Qianyuan to investigate the attempted abduction.

• Fang Qianyuan reflected on his perfected Dao paths, his leadership of the Righteous Path, and the family and allies around him.
• Fang Qianyuan left the hall and disappeared after gazing over the clouds and snow from his mountain residence.
• Warrior Administration experts located Fang Yue and brought her back to the Heavencrystal Snowfield.
• Fang Yue reunited tearfully with Wen Qingfei, then nervously greeted Fang Qianyuan.
• Wen Qingfei asked Fang Qianyuan not to blame their daughter and urged an investigation into who plotted Fang Yue's abduction.

Fang Qianyuan forgave Fang Yue for her role in the events in Linjiang City, but urged her to reflect and understand the world. He then discussed his stalled pursuit of a realm beyond Heaven Tier with Bai Aoxue and ordered an investigation into the Shadow King’s people, who held the final Star Map.

• Wen Qingfei tried to protect Fang Yue, but Fang Qianyuan called his daughter to him.
• Fang Qianyuan comforted Fang Yue, praised her for developing her own thoughts, and told her to reflect on her mistakes without accepting punishment for the Demon Alliance’s crimes.
• After Fang Yue left, Bai Aoxue learned that Fang Qianyuan had reached Heaven Tier Peak twenty years earlier but still could not cross into the next realm.
• Fang Qianyuan said his attachment to human emotions might be hindering his progress beyond Heaven Tier.
• Bai Aoxue raised the Shadow King’s role in the attack on Fang Yue, and Fang Qianyuan ordered an investigation because the Shadow King’s people also held the final Star Map.

Fang Qianyuan’s alliance sought to uncover the surviving Ancient Cultivators and stop the Supreme Heaven and Heavenly Realms Two Sects from gaining power in the outlaw world. Wang Ran reported that they had engineered a plot against Fang Qianyuan’s family to test the conflict and pursue his Star Maps, while warning that their influence was growing.

• Fang Qianyuan and the other leaders resolved to oppose the surviving Ancient Cultivators if they returned and to investigate them through the Shadow King and his allies.
• Wang Ran returned to the Central Preservation Palace after investigating the plot against Fang Qianyuan’s family.
• Wang Ran reported that the Shadow King’s group had backed the incident to distract the Righteous Path, test its response, and possibly demand Fang Qianyuan’s Star Maps.
• Wang Ran warned Fang Qianyuan that a powerful figure in the Supreme Heaven and Heavenly Realms Two Sects was about to awaken and that a mysterious force had strengthened their influence.
• Fang Qianyuan considered Wang Ran’s warning that the outlaw world’s rising factions could shift the balance of power against the great sects.

Fang Qianyuan learned that the ancient expert who had awakened among the Supreme Heaven Sect remained unidentified, and he ordered Wang Ran to investigate the Heavenly Realms Sect’s Successors. Elsewhere, an ancient altar awakened in Yejin Mountain, spreading a red light that withered the forest and revealed a black crystal coffin.

• Fang Qianyuan asked Wang Ran which mighty figure had awakened within the Supreme Heaven Sect, and Wang Ran admitted he did not know.
• Wang Ran proposed investigating the Heavenly Realms Sect and finding its Successors, and Fang Qianyuan approved the plan.
• In Yejin Mountain, a black panther approached the ruins where it had made its den and sensed a dangerous change.
• A red light rose from beneath the ruins, withering plants and creatures as it spread through the forest.
• An Octagonal Altar opened in the ruins, revealing a stone platform bearing a pitch-black crystal coffin.