Chapter Summaries

Lin Fan traded two Eight Treasure Chickens for Stone Village’s pill formulas and borrowed the Black Cauldron. He began Yue Chan’s ritual tempering, leaving her submerged in the cauldron as the process got underway.

• Lin Fan accepted five pill formulas from Shi Yunfeng and gave him two Eight Treasure Chickens in return.
• Shi Yunfeng eagerly accepted the chickens and lent Lin Fan the Black Cauldron.
• Lin Fan dismissed Yue Chan’s doubts about the formulas and offered to begin her ritual tempering.
• Lin Fan stayed in the stone house to monitor the fire, insisting that the ritual was too important to risk an accident.
• Yue Chan entered the cauldron after Lin Fan turned away, then told him he could turn around.

Lin Fan used the Black Cauldron and a mysterious drop of blood to help Yue Chan break through to ten Heavenly Passages. The breakthrough succeeded, but Yue Chan realized Lin Fan had seen her naked and fled back into the cauldron in shame and anger.

• Lin Fan prepared Yue Chan's baptism in the Black Cauldron, adding Treasure Medicines and a powerful, mysterious drop of blood.
• Yue Chan underwent the baptism as Lin Fan tended the fire, and her breakthrough drew a vast surge of heaven and earth Essence toward Stone Village.
• Shi Yunfeng kept the villagers away from the stone house, while the children and Eight Treasure Chickens benefited from the gathered Essence.
• After more than half a day, Yue Chan emerged with ten Heavenly Passages and celebrated her early breakthrough.
• Yue Chan noticed she was naked and that Lin Fan had been staring, so she ducked into the cauldron and shouted at him to turn around.

Lin Fan used a dangerous method to refine his flesh and Primordial Spirit together inside the Black Cauldron as he pursued a breakthrough. Yue Chan watched anxiously as his body repeatedly cracked and healed, while his aura grew stronger and golden.

• Lin Fan revealed that his Divine Disc was his Unique Cave Heaven, which he had formed using Divine Phoenix True Blood and large amounts of Treasure Medicine.
• Lin Fan climbed naked into the Black Cauldron, and Yue Chan angrily stoked the fire after he told her to help him refine himself.
• Lin Fan treated himself as a medicinal pill and tempered his body and Primordial Spirit together with Dao fire and lightning.
• Lin Fan's flesh and Primordial Spirit repeatedly cracked and healed as he forcibly unlocked their potential, while Yue Chan worried that he might dissolve into the Dao.
• Lin Fan's aura strengthened and his body shone like a Golden Core as yin and yang energies gathered around him.

Lin Fan completed a dangerous breakthrough in the Great Cauldron, reaching mid-stage Spirit Transformation and beginning to develop an offensive ability by reversing the life power of his Supreme Bone. He emerged after more than a month of cultivation, while Yue Chan had also advanced slightly.

• Lin Fan endured repeated destruction and healing in the Great Cauldron until his body and spirit transformed and he reached mid-stage Spirit Transformation.
• Lin Fan studied his Supreme Bone and the Primordial True Explanation, then began rearranging his runes to turn his life-based divine ability into an attack that stripped away life essence.
• Lin Fan formed a rudimentary death ability that could strip away years, though he had not yet mastered it.
• Lin Fan left the cauldron, and Yue Chan shrieked and covered her eyes when he appeared without clothes.
• Yue Chan told Lin Fan that more than a month had passed, and she had advanced slightly while cultivating and observing his path.

Lin Fan and Little One found the injured Zhu Yan in a dried-up lake and helped it recover enough to take it along. Lin Fan then searched the lakebed and finally recovered the Mountain Treasure.

• Lin Fan refined three more golden pills from the medicinal remnants, and he and Yue Chan emerged from seclusion to a feast in Stone Village.
• Little One told Lin Fan about a strange creature in a collapsed mountain range, and they flew there to investigate.
• Lin Fan recognized the golden, three-headed, six-armed creature as Zhu Yan, which had seized the Mountain Treasure, and discovered its Primordial Rune Bone had shattered.
• Lin Fan used runes to help Zhu Yan shed its old skin, then gave it to Little One, who named it Furball.
• Lin Fan searched the dried lakebed and dug up the cube-shaped bone that was the Mountain Treasure.

Lin Fan opened the Mountain Treasure and discovered the Supreme Lineage’s Ancient Heavenly Art and other Precious Arts, then uncovered the Grass Character Sword Art on a Silver Metal Page. After surviving its released sword energy, he was left holding the peerless sword art.

• Lin Fan used six Precious Arts to open the Mountain Treasure and found ancient beast hides containing the Six Paths of Reincarnation Heavenly Art and other powerful methods.
• Lin Fan gave Little One a Luan Bird Precious Art to memorize and studied the hides himself, finding a damaged Suanni Precious Technique on the final one.
• Lin Fan realized the outer beast hide concealed a greater treasure, then peeled it away and released fierce silver sword energy.
• Little One feared Lin Fan had been destroyed, but Lin Fan returned safely after using a Teleportation Talisman to escape the blast.
• Lin Fan took the Silver Metal Page and recognized its runes as the Grass Character Sword Art, a peerless technique created by the nine-leaf sword grass of the Ten Fiends.

Lin Fan returned to Stone Village with Little One and Furball after obtaining the Mountain Treasure’s Grass Character Sword Art, then clashed with Yue Chan over her teasing. That night, he sought the Willow Deity’s guidance and was surprised when it spoke to him first.

• Lin Fan warned Little One to keep the Mountain Treasure secret and promised he could learn its Precious Arts in the Upper Realm.
• Lin Fan and Little One returned to Stone Village with Furball, whom Shi Yunfeng identified as a Zhu Yan.
• Yue Chan’s remarks about Lin Fan being young and small angered him, so he fled into the Great Wilderness and fought Beast Kings.
• Stone Village celebrated with a feast featuring a Li Fire Bull Demon that Lin Fan had killed.
• Lin Fan went beneath the Willow Tree to seek guidance, and the Willow Deity awakened and asked what he needed.

Lin Fan asked the Willow Deity whether he should remove his Supreme Bone, and learned that it could keep growing alongside his Dao. The Willow Deity then began teaching him a powerful Precious Art, leaving the villagers and Yue Chan stunned.

• Lin Fan explained his Supreme Bone and asked the Willow Deity whether removing it would let it grow back.
• The Willow Deity examined Lin Fan and revealed that his bone had grown within him after birth and might never regrow if removed.
• The Willow Deity told Lin Fan that his bone could continue developing alongside his Dao, and Lin Fan realized how he should proceed.
• The Willow Deity said it owed Lin Fan a karmic debt and began imparting a technique through his brow.
• Yue Chan and Little One reacted with astonishment to the vision accompanying the Willow Deity's teaching.

Lin Fan received the Willow Deity's cultivation art and shamelessly declared it his mother, winning its reluctant acceptance with an invented tale of childhood hardship. The chapter ended with Yue Chan learning that the Demoness of the Heaven Severing Sect had blockaded Heaven Mending City in the Spirit World.

• Lin Fan thanked the Willow Deity for its art, then bowed and called it Willow Mom despite its refusal to adopt him.
• Lin Fan hugged the Willow Deity's charred stump and spun a sorrowful tale of his childhood, moving Stone Village's aunties and Little One to sympathize with him.
• The Willow Deity finally accepted Lin Fan's filial address and stroked his head with a willow branch.
• Ye Qingxian sneezed in the Uninhabited Zone, suspected someone was cursing her, and failed to divine who it was.
• Yue Chan's primary body returned to the Heaven Mending Sect and learned that the Demoness of the Heaven Severing Sect had blockaded Heaven Mending City.

Lin Fan and Yue Chan left Stone Village for the Fire Kingdom, but a spatial passage carried them past a colossal chained creature buried beneath the Great Wilderness. Lin Fan recognized it as the Supreme Divine Treasure and chose to keep traveling rather than pursue it.

• Lin Fan left the Five-Colored Luan Bird in Stone Village, reassured the villagers it would protect them, and said goodbye to the Willow Deity and Little One.
• Lin Fan and Yue Chan entered a spatial passage toward the Fire Kingdom, where they planned to meet their Dao Protectors before returning to the Heaven Mending Sect.
• A colossal, tortoise-like creature bound in chains emerged partly from underground, destabilizing the passage and devastating the surrounding mountains.
• After the creature sank back underground, Lin Fan warned Yue Chan not to tell anyone what they had witnessed and identified it as the Supreme Divine Treasure.
• Yue Chan considered pursuing the treasure, but Lin Fan refused, and she followed him onward through the passage.

The Heaven Severing Sect’s Demoness brought allies to Heaven Mending City and taunted Yue Chan into a fight. Jin Lingxiao confronted her, but a young Buddhist monk overwhelmed him with World in the Palm until Yue Chan arrived and cut through the divine ability.

• The Demoness challenged Yue Chan outside Heaven Mending City and insulted her when she did not appear.
• Jin Lingxiao stepped forward to defend the Heaven Mending Sect and attacked the Demoness with golden feather-swords.
• The Demoness called on Golden Cicada, who blocked Jin Lingxiao’s attack with his body.
• Golden Cicada struck Jin Lingxiao with World in the Palm, trapping him despite his speed.
• Yue Chan arrived and split World in the Palm with a streak of sword light, freeing Jin Lingxiao.

Yue Chan confronted the Demoness and the Western Sect’s Golden Cicada after Jin Lingxiao was defeated, trading barbs with her rival while assessing their strength. Golden Cicada prepared to capture Yue Chan, and Heaven Mending Sect elders waited for help while wondering about their own mysterious First Generation.

• Yue Chan arrived and comforted the injured Jin Lingxiao, who admitted that he had disgraced the sect.
• Yue Chan recognized Golden Cicada as the Western Sect’s undefeated First Generation, and the Demoness challenged her over Lin Fan’s absence.
• Yue Chan accused the Heaven Severing Sect of needing outside help, and the Demoness claimed her sect had another formidable talent who disdained fighting.
• The Demoness asked Golden Cicada to capture Yue Chan, and he unleashed a terrifying aura that made nearby cultivators tremble.
• Heaven Mending Sect elders debated intervening, noted that Yue Chan had sought help from the Immortal Palace Successor, and wondered why their own hidden First Generation remained unseen.

Lin Fan arrived in Heaven Mending City and stopped Golden Cicada from attacking Yue Chan, then met him in a fierce physical contest that ended in a draw. Yue Chan urged Lin Fan not to risk fighting further, but he began to tell her that she still did not understand him.

• Golden Cicada attacked Yue Chan, while the Demoness urged him to capture her before the Immortal Palace Successor arrived.
• Lin Fan appeared and shattered Golden Cicada's attack, shocking the crowd with his age, cultivation, and immense blood vitality.
• Lin Fan and Golden Cicada clashed twice with their fists, devastating the surrounding area and ending their exchange in a draw.
• Yue Chan asked Lin Fan if he was all right and urged him not to fight Golden Cicada head-on, explaining that she had summoned the Immortal Palace Successor.
• Lin Fan told Yue Chan that she still did not understand him.

Lin Fan fought Golden Cicada in a brutal physical battle, matching his indestructible vajra body with overwhelming strength and astonishing recovery. As the fight continued, Golden Cicada realized Lin Fan’s ability to heal gave him the advantage in close combat.

• Lin Fan refused Yue Chan’s suggestion to seek outside help and stepped forward to face Golden Cicada himself.
• Lin Fan and Golden Cicada exchanged dozens of blows, impressing the spectators with their speed and physical strength.
• Golden Cicada revealed his ten-foot indestructible vajra body, while observers noted Lin Fan’s physique was also exceptionally powerful.
• The two Young Supremes continued fighting without using Precious Arts, and Lin Fan’s relentless attacks began to unsettle Golden Cicada.
• After both fighters took a heavy punch to the chest, Lin Fan recovered almost instantly, revealing an advantage that made the spectators doubt Golden Cicada could beat him in close combat.

Lin Fan overwhelmed Golden Cicada in close combat, then broke free of his World in the Palm with the Five-Colored Divine Sword and clashed with his divine fire. The battle continued with Lin Fan pressing the attack and Golden Cicada recognizing his extraordinary potential.

• Lin Fan and Golden Cicada exchanged hundreds of blows, and Lin Fan's strength and recovery gave him the advantage in close combat.
• Golden Cicada admitted he could not match Lin Fan physically and claimed their difference in realms would decide the fight through magic and divine abilities.
• Lin Fan dismissed Golden Cicada's confidence and charged again, while Yue Chan watched and worried about the cost of the battle.
• Golden Cicada trapped Lin Fan inside his World in the Palm, but Lin Fan cut through it with the Five-Colored Divine Sword.
• Golden Cicada summoned a divine lamp to resist Lin Fan's sword intent, and their sword qi and divine fire collided as Lin Fan kept advancing.

Lin Fan battled Golden Cicada, whose true form and six wings revealed the power of the rare Six-Winged Heavenly Cicada. Golden Cicada unleashed a furious attack, but Lin Fan’s Divine Disc stopped his wings and began eroding them, leaving the battle unresolved.

• Lin Fan’s sword and Divine Disc weakened Golden Cicada’s divine lamp before Golden Cicada transformed into his Six-Winged Heavenly Cicada form.
• Golden Cicada’s shell resisted Lin Fan’s sword, and his six wings attacked, but Lin Fan’s cave heaven weathered their blades.
• Lin Fan taunted Golden Cicada by coveting his wings as material for a Heavenly Cicada Garment, enraging him.
• Golden Cicada unleashed his wing-born divine power and charged at Lin Fan with enough force to slice through mountains.
• Lin Fan sat within his cave heaven as his Divine Disc halted Golden Cicada’s wings and eroded them, prompting Golden Cicada to challenge his defenses.

Lin Fan defeated Golden Cicada despite his lower cultivation, using his power to nullify techniques and drain Golden Cicada’s life. A Western Sect member tried to kill Lin Fan with a Soul-Suppressing Bell, but Heaven Mending Sect elders intervened.

• Golden Cicada unleashed his six-winged divine blade, but Lin Fan shattered it with his fists.
• Golden Cicada summoned ten heavenly passages and their creatures, but Lin Fan’s light curtain neutralized them and he struck at Golden Cicada.
• Golden Cicada transformed into his armored true form, but Lin Fan used Deprivation to drain his essence and then pierced his skull.
• A Western Sect member attacked Lin Fan with a Soul-Suppressing Bell, but a Heaven Mending Sect elder slapped it away and elders confronted the attacker.
• The Western Sect member left, while the Heaven Severing Sect group slipped away and the Demoness vanished.

After defeating the Western Sect's successor, Lin Fan celebrated with the Heaven Mending Sect while teasing Yue Chan and attracting the attention of the Immortal Palace Successor. Three days later, Yue Chan woke him with news that the Ancestress had attacked the Western Sect for his sake.

• The Heaven Mending Sect disciples celebrated Lin Fan's victory, and he joked with Yue Chan while letting Senior Sister Su Rou pamper him.
• The Immortal Palace Successor observed Lin Fan, judged him a potential rival, and departed without confronting him.
• Three days later, Yue Chan found Lin Fan sleeping in her bed and soaking in her hot spring, despite having arranged other lodgings for him.
• Yue Chan told Lin Fan that the Ancestress had taken the fight to the Western Sect for his sake, and Lin Fan sprang awake in shock.

Lin Fan learned that Qing Yao had attacked the Western Sect to avenge the ambush against him. Qing Yao battled the Western Cult Master in the starry sky after he refused to surrender his disciple, and their fight continued as they unleashed powerful divine abilities.

• Lin Fan learned from Yue Chan that Qing Yao had attacked the Western Sect because someone there had ambushed him with the Soul-Suppressing Bell, and he resolved to act too.
• Qing Yao demanded that the Western Cult Master hand over the disciple responsible for the ambush, but he refused and offered compensation instead.
• Qing Yao rejected the offer and followed the Western Cult Master into the starry sky to fight him.
• The battle’s tremors drew the attention of the Heaven Severing Sect’s old demoness, who wondered why Qing Yao cared so much about Lin Fan.
• Qing Yao broke free of the Western Cult Master’s World in the Palm and unleashed a powerful art as he answered with his Thousand-Hand Golden Body Dharma Form.

Qing Yao defeated the Western Sect's Cult Master in a devastating battle, then demanded the man responsible for offending her disciple. The Cult Master handed him over, and Qing Yao killed him before departing.

• The Western Sect's Cult Master used the Thousand-Armed Golden Body Aspect and fought Qing Yao among the stars.
• Qing Yao's Seven-Colored Immortal Gold Sword shattered the Cult Master's Green Bamboo weapon.
• Qing Yao summoned a True Dragon, a Divine Phoenix, and a divine moon, grievously injuring the Cult Master.
• Qing Yao stopped her sword at the Cult Master's brow and said she had come only to kill one person.
• The Cult Master handed over a short-haired, middle-aged cultivator in the Divine Fire Realm.
• Qing Yao reduced the man to dust and left through the void.