Chapter Summaries

Fang Ling sealed Boundless City inside the Sarami Realm and slaughtered its inhabitants, allowing Shangguan Haiyue and Granny Yu to leave after they swore not to reveal what happened. As Fang Ling continued his rampage, the Witch Daoist confronted him and claimed to have poisoned him.

• Fang Ling activated the Sarami Realm, trapping the cultivators still in Boundless City as they desperately tried to break through its golden barrier.
• Granny Yu failed to damage the barrier and, recognizing Fang Ling's strength, asked him to spare her and Shangguan Haiyue; both swore heart-demon oaths and Fang Ling sent them out of the realm.
• Fang Ling resumed killing across the city until Nan Tianhui, known as the Witch Daoist, confronted him and demanded that he stop.
• Fang Ling said he would leave if the Witch Daoist let himself be eaten, prompting the old man to attack with gray light and claim Fang Ling had been afflicted with witch poison.

Fang Ling resisted Witch Daoist’s shamanic poison but was struck by the Death-Seeking Curse, then slaughtered the cultivators who attacked him and gained initial mastery of the Taotie Divine Art. He left the ruined Boundless City still suffering the curse, while Shangguan Haiyue resolved to seek Abbess Purple Bamboo’s help to save him.

• Fang Ling’s Divine Soul resisted Witch Daoist’s shamanic gu poison, and Fang Ling poisoned Witch Daoist with his own toxin.
• Witch Daoist cast the Death-Seeking Curse with his life, imprinting it on Fang Ling’s Divine Soul before Fang Ling cut him apart.
• Nearby cultivators attacked the wounded Fang Ling, who slaughtered them as killing or distraction eased his soul pain.
• Fang Ling devoured the life essence of the dead cultivators, gained initial mastery of the Taotie Divine Art, and watched his blood sword develop blood baleful patterns.
• Fang Ling left Boundless City, and Shangguan Haiyue told her old woman companion she wanted to save him with Abbess Purple Bamboo’s help.

Fang Ling tried to escape the Death-Seeking Curse’s agony by returning to Cold Mountain Temple, but Abbess Purple Bamboo intercepted him and insisted on saving him by abolishing his demonic arts. After Fang Ling trapped her apparent form with the Sarami Realm and fled, she caught up and revealed it had only been a manifestation of her lotus pedestal.

• Fang Ling gave up traveling to Feather City and decided to return to Cold Mountain Temple because the Death-Seeking Curse’s pain had intensified.
• Abbess Purple Bamboo introduced herself as a sixth elder of the Pure Heaven Convent and pursued Fang Ling, intending to abolish his demonic arts and cleanse his baleful aura.
• Fang Ling asked Abbess Purple Bamboo to relieve the Death-Seeking Curse, and she recognized it as an ancient Witch Curse.
• Fang Ling trapped Abbess Purple Bamboo with the Sarami Realm and fled, prompting her to wonder how he had learned the Buddhist divine ability.
• Abbess Purple Bamboo appeared before Fang Ling again and revealed that the figure he had trapped was only a manifestation of her lotus pedestal.

Fang Ling fought Abbess Purple Bamboo, who tried to kill him and force him to reveal how to cultivate the Sarami Realm. He escaped after poisoning her, while Abbess Purple Bamboo struggled with the toxin and the strange effects of his Scent-Stealing Finger.

• Abbess Purple Bamboo attacked Fang Ling with Thousand-Hand Guanyin, pinning him in place and crushing his body.
• Fang Ling regenerated, countered her Diamond Prajna Palm, and struck at her with the Mysterious Gold Heaven-Piercing Spear, but her Golden Light Mantra blocked it.
• Fang Ling poisoned Abbess Purple Bamboo through the spear, then hit her with Swastika True Art and wounded her.
• Fang Ling fled as his spiritual energy ran low, while Abbess Purple Bamboo stayed behind to suppress the poison.
• Abbess Purple Bamboo brought the toxin under control but found that her body and thoughts were behaving strangely, then vowed to deal with Fang Ling.

After escaping Abbess Purple Bamboo, Fang Ling encountered the Blood Demon Ancestor, who attacked him to use his life essence to break through his bottleneck. Fang Ling fought back with his demon prison body and blood-devouring abilities, but the Blood Demon Ancestor called on his wife as the battle continued.

• Fang Ling rested by a mountain stream after his battle with Abbess Purple Bamboo and headed toward the Southern Sun Kingdom.
• Wei Wuya, the Blood Demon Ancestor, revealed himself and said he planned to refine Fang Ling to advance his cultivation.
• The Blood Demon Ancestor attacked Fang Ling with a bloody palm and a horde of blood beasts.
• Fang Ling transformed, smashed the bloody palm, swallowed the blood beasts, and struck the Blood Demon Ancestor with his Life-Bound Blood Sword.
• Fang Ling and the Blood Demon Ancestor fought with their strongest techniques, and Fang Ling was knocked farther back.
• The Blood Demon Ancestor called out to his wife and asked when she would make her move.

Fang Ling survived the Blood Demon Ancestor’s attacks, killed him and his wife, but the wife’s final Divine Edict drove him into a lustful frenzy. Abbess Purple Bamboo tried to capture him with her treasure bottle, but it fell from her grasp, and Fang Ling dragged her down from the clouds.

• The Blood Demon Ancestor struck Fang Ling with the Death-Dealing Awl while his wife attacked him with her pipa, but Fang Ling pulled the awl from his forehead and resumed fighting.
• Fang Ling killed the Blood Demon Ancestor after breaking his Blood Demon True Form, then consumed his life force and strengthened his body and Blood Sword.
• The Blood Demon Ancestor’s wife returned and attacked Fang Ling with her pipa, but he shattered it and killed her; her dying Divine Edict filled him with uncontrollable lust.
• Abbess Purple Bamboo tried to draw Fang Ling into the Snow-Jade Heavenly Purification Bottle, but her condition worsened until the treasure’s light vanished and the bottle fell.
• Fang Ling lunged at Abbess Purple Bamboo and dragged her down from the clouds.

Fang Ling returned to Cold Mountain Temple with the Death-Seeking Curse afflicting him, and the White-Browed Old Monk suppressed it temporarily. His masters pointed him toward the Miao Frontier as a place where the curse might be broken, while his fat master offered to raise the Seven-Colored Heavenly Butterfly.

• Abbess Purple Bamboo woke, fled from Fang Ling, and left him alive, while he escaped and returned to Cold Mountain Temple.
• The White-Browed Old Monk recognized Fang Ling's Death-Seeking Curse and suppressed it, warning that the effect would not last forever.
• Fang Ling's fat master said the Carefree Curse or Rebirth Curse might break the Death-Seeking Curse and directed him to the Miao Frontier.
• Fang Ling showed his fat master the Seven-Colored Heavenly Butterfly pupa, and his master offered to raise it for him.
• Fang Ling formed a Master-Servant Contract with the Seven-Colored Heavenly Butterfly's pupa.

Fang Ling learned new techniques from Flower Thief and Sword Demon, then discovered that White-Browed Old Monk had once cultivated the Heavenly Net Divine Art and knew its lost secret. He resolved to develop the Heavenly Net Church so its followers could wield Heavenly Net Annihilation.

• Flower Thief taught Fang Ling the Nine Extremes Yin-Yang Art and warned him not to let his heart become involved with women.
• Sword Demon explained that Tongyuan ranked seventh among the Ancient Famous Sword Rankings and contained the sword paths of its past wielders.
• Fang Ling demonstrated his three sword moves, and Sword Demon taught him Human-Sword Unity while warning that it could leave him gravely wounded or dead.
• Fang Ling showed White-Browed Old Monk the Sanskrit-inscribed stone tablet, and the monk revealed that he had once cultivated the Heavenly Net Divine Art.
• White-Browed Old Monk restored the tablet's missing secret, Heavenly Net Annihilation, which let practitioners of the auxiliary scripture combine their power into a single attack.
• Fang Ling resolved to develop the Heavenly Net Church and gather practitioners of its auxiliary art.

Fang Ling tracked the Heavenly Mystic Hall to Azure Sky City and learned that Mister Mo and the church’s people had fled into the Heaven-Equal Ancient Cave. He rescued them from a Blood Beast and realized the cave might have been the Blood Demon Ancestor’s secluded home.

• Fang Ling found Heavenly Mystic Hall members lying in ambush at the Ten Thousand Threads Pavilion and demanded to know where Mister Mo and the others were.
• Fang Ling crushed the young Protector Qiao’s forces, then learned the church members had escaped into the Heaven-Equal Ancient Cave.
• Mister Mo, Feng Feiyan, the Eagle Venerable, and eight hundred elite church members struggled through the cave while fleeing the Heavenly Mystic Hall.
• A powerful Blood Beast confronted the group, and they prepared to fight despite expecting to die.
• Fang Ling appeared and killed the Blood Beast with Dragon-Slaying, then recognized that it shared the Blood Demon Ancestor’s origins and suspected the cave held his treasures.

Fang Ling discovered the Blood Demon Ancestor’s Blood Spirit Flower and demon crystals in the Heaven-Equal Cave Abode, then used the crystals to strengthen his followers. After breaking through to the middle heavenly authority realm, he watched his eight hundred elites become powerful demon soldiers.

• Fang Ling led Mister Mo and the eight hundred elites through the Heaven-Equal Cave Abode and found the Blood Demon Ancestor’s notes and Blood Spirit Flower.
• Fang Ling gave the Blood Spirit Flower to the Netherworld Beast, which swallowed it to heal its injuries and improve its bloodline.
• Mister Mo found a hidden chamber, where Fang Ling revealed demon crystals that could transform corpses or living people into powerful demon soldiers.
• Fang Ling taught his eight hundred elites to refine the demon crystals, then cultivated with spirit stones and advanced to the middle heavenly authority realm.
• The elites’ cultivation and physical strength surged as they refined the crystals, with Mister Mo reaching perfected heavenly authority and Feng Feiyan reaching late heavenly authority.
• The eight hundred elites swore loyalty to Fang Ling, with most reaching perfected heavenly jade and more than a hundred reaching heavenly balance.