Chapter Summaries

After waiting for the first rush to pass, Fang Yu entered the mining area and secretly amassed a hundred thousand Spirit Stones while avoiding the dangerous depths. He planned to keep mining for the money to buy a Foundation Establishment Pill, and after breaking into another tunnel full of Night Sha, he calculated that continuing would bring great fortune.

• Fang Yu learned that Elder Tianxing had killed the Night Sha and waited a month before entering the mining area.
• Fang Yu met Old Liu, heard that Great Cultivator Yang had died in the mine, and declined Old Liu's offer to mine together.
• Fang Yu dug alone for three months and secretly hid a hundred thousand Spirit Stones in a cave in Anping Prefecture.
• Fang Yu planned to keep mining until he had enough Spirit Stones to pursue Foundation Establishment.
• Fang Yu broke through into another tunnel, killed the Night Sha inside with a flame dragon, and calculated that continuing to dig would bring great fortune.

Zhang Sheng defeated the bandits at Ox Head Mountain, forced them to join Great Peace Village, and spread the Great Peace Secret Incantation. Half a year later, Fang Yu continued mining Spirit Stones while sensing that sparks of influence were growing in multiple places.

• Zhang Sheng announced that he had come to rescue Liu Cuihua and challenge the bandits, then killed their leader with a vine.
• Zhang Sheng repelled High Person Golden Light’s attack and summoned lightning that destroyed the stronghold gate and struck the bandit leaders.
• Zhang Sheng persuaded the surviving bandits to join Great Peace Village and recite the Great Peace Secret Incantation, which restored his strength and linked their fortunes.
• Fang Yu counted nearly five hundred thousand mined Spirit Stones and decided to keep mining until he had at least a million for a Foundation Establishment Pill.
• Fang Yu sensed that sparks had been lit in several places, planned to harvest the Fire of Ten Thousand Households once it grew stronger, and returned to mining.

After mining more than a million Spirit Stones, Fang Yu escaped the mine after killing a wounded late Foundation Establishment Night Sha with the Phoenix Cry Talisman. He fled Autumn Moon Mountain Market when his divinations warned of danger, while Elder Tianxing discovered Fang Yu’s hidden mid-grade spirit ore and ordered the market sealed.

• Fang Yu sensed that continuing to mine would bring a great calamity, so he used an Earth Escape Talisman to leave his buried passage.
• A late Foundation Establishment Night Sha ambushed Fang Yu, and he killed it with the Phoenix Cry Talisman before escaping the mine with its corpse.
• Fang Yu’s divinations warned him of danger around Autumn Moon Mountain Market, so he hurried toward Medicine King Mountain.
• Elder Tianxing found the mid-grade spirit ore Fang Yu had left in his tunnel and crushed the Spirit-Seeking Mouse that led him to it.
• Elder Tianxing ordered the law enforcers to seal Autumn Moon Mountain Market and kill anyone who tried to leave.

Fang Yu harvested Night Sha’s Inner Core, divined that leaving the Chu Kingdom would bring good fortune, and traveled toward Mosquito Immortal City. Meanwhile, Ancestor Qingluo turned the Rogue Cultivators trapped in Autumn Moon Mountain Market into mining slaves, and Fang Yu entered Mosquito Immortal City under the name Lü Bu.

• Fang Yu took Night Sha’s second-tier Inner Core and salvaged materials from the corpse, then divined that the Chu Kingdom’s cultivation world faced peril and that leaving it would bring good fortune.
• Fang Yu chose to travel to Mosquito Immortal City, hoping to find a stable cultivation environment and buy a Foundation Establishment Pill.
• Ancestor Qingluo arrived at Autumn Moon Mountain Market and ordered Cloud Spirit Sect disciples to seize the trapped Rogue Cultivators and place restrictions on them as mining slaves.
• Several months later, Fang Yu reached Mosquito Immortal City, paid the entry fee, and entered under the name Lü Bu.

Fang Yu settled in Mosquito Immortal City, learned pill refining, and spent five years advancing to the Qi Refining Ninth Layer while preparing to make Foundation Establishment Pills. After hearing that mid-grade Spirit Stones had been discovered at Autumn Moon Mountain Market, he divined that he would have found one if he had kept mining there a little longer.

• Fang Yu bought several Foundation Establishment Pill Formulas and second-tier pill-refining inheritances, then rented and secured a courtyard in Mosquito Immortal City's outer city.
• Fang Yu successfully refined White Yang Pills on his first attempt and found his homemade pills more potent and cheaper than shop-bought ones.
• Fang Yu spent five years refining and consuming pills, improving his skills until he reached the Qi Refining Ninth Layer.
• Fang Yu decided to gather materials and second-tier Demon Beast inner cores so he could practice refining Foundation Establishment Pills.
• Fang Yu overheard cultivators say the Cloud Spirit Sect had sealed Autumn Moon Mountain Market after mid-grade Spirit Stones were found and forced Rogue Cultivators to mine there.
• Fang Yu divined that he would have found a mid-grade Spirit Stone if he had continued mining, and regretted leaving the market.

Fang Yu gathered forty-nine Fires of Ten Thousand Households from Great Peace Village followers and refined them into Starfire Law Power with the Yuanchen Pearl. After severing the fire’s karmic ties from himself, he set off for the auction in Mosquito Immortal City.

• Fang Yu collected the heart flames of Great Peace Village followers at their gatherings, using them to form Fires of Ten Thousand Households.
• After several months, Fang Yu combined forty-nine fires into a lotus-shaped flame and ingested it, experiencing visions tied to the followers and their struggles.
• Fang Yu sensed the heavy fortune and karmic ties within the fire and called on the Yuanchen Pearl to purify its Law Power.
• Fang Yu discovered that the Pearl had stored fragments of the followers’ fortune, which could let him track or influence their fates.
• Fang Yu decided not to rely on Great Peace Village’s survival and vanished toward Mosquito Immortal City for its upcoming auction.

Fang Yu attended the Mosquito Immortal Society auction, where he learned that ten Foundation Establishment Pills were being offered and sensed great fortune in Mosquito Immortal City. He left with several useful refining materials but no pill, planning to spend another year or two honing his skills before attempting to refine Foundation Establishment Pills himself.

• Fang Yu examined the auction catalog, noticed the ten Foundation Establishment Pills, and divined that Mosquito Immortal City had great fortune.
• Qian Chongzi opened the auction by selling five Foundation Establishment Pills through sealed bids, but Fang Yu's modest bid failed.
• Fang Yu bought a hundred-year-old Crimson Flame Flower, a Void Spirit Stone, and other refining materials, spending nearly one hundred thousand Spirit Stones.
• Qian Chongzi auctioned the remaining five Foundation Establishment Pills openly, and each sold for more than a million Spirit Stones.
• Fang Yu left through the secret passage and resolved to practice pill refining for another year or two before trying to make Foundation Establishment Pills.

Fang Yu refined second-tier pills, discovered that advancing his fate configuration had improved his Spirit Root, and reached Qi Refining Ninth Layer Great Perfection over six years. He then collected Fire of Ten Thousand Households from Great Peace Village’s followers, but Wei Long noticed him and revealed that the village had gained the Power of Faith.

• Fang Yu forged a Pill Furnace and refined a batch of True Restoration Pills, then found that taking them helped his cultivation speed.
• Fang Yu realized that reaching Qi Ingestion First Layer in Phoenix Sets the Plains Ablaze had improved his Spirit Root.
• Fang Yu cultivated for six years and reached Qi Refining Ninth Layer Great Perfection, preparing to refine Foundation Establishment Pills after harvesting more Fire of Ten Thousand Households.
• Fang Yu collected Fire of Ten Thousand Households from Great Peace Village’s followers, whose numbers had grown to more than a million.
• Wei Long spotted Fang Yu collecting the heartfire, rebuked him as an enemy using an Evil Method, and revealed the village’s Power of Faith.
• Fang Yu finished collecting the heartfire and fled toward another gathering place, deciding to be more careful in the future.

After reaching the Qi Ingestion Third Layer, Fang Yu tested his Heart Burning Technique on Bao Er, whose rage drove him to slaughter the household. He discovered that dead Great Peace Village followers could leave behind true spirits that returned to his sea of consciousness, bringing their memories and skills.

• Fang Yu consumed two flames of the Fire of Ten Thousand Households and enough Spirit Stones to reach the Qi Ingestion Third Layer.
• Fang Yu used Heart Burning on Bao Er, igniting his anger over the young master sleeping with his wife.
• Bao Er killed the young master, the servants, and others in the residence before the rage faded and he realized what he had done.
• Fang Yu noticed that a dead stablehand's true spirit had formed and realized the man was a Great Peace Village follower whose fortune he had purified.
• Fang Yu drew the stablehand's true spirit into his sea of consciousness and absorbed his memories and horse-raising experience.
• More true spirits arrived from afar, and Fang Yu began absorbing the memories and abilities of deceased mortals.

Fang Yu discovered that the Yuanchen Pearl let him reclaim the true spirits of his deceased followers, then successfully refined three Foundation Establishment Pills. He rented a cave abode in Mosquito Immortal City to attempt Foundation Establishment.

• Fang Yu realized the Yuanchen Pearl had drawn the true spirits of 1,021 deceased followers into his sea of consciousness and could let him send them through reincarnation or use their skills and spirits.
• Fang Yu absorbed the followers' practical knowledge, improving his calculations through the Spiritual Pivot Resonance Chapter, and decided to pursue Foundation Establishment.
• Fang Yu used his Night Sha demonic core and other ingredients to refine three flawless Foundation Establishment Pills after three months.
• Fang Yu went to the inner city and rented cave abode Jia Three for three years, claiming he had no Foundation Establishment aid and was eighty years old.
• Deacon Xu watched Fang Yu leave and expected him to die attempting Foundation Establishment without a pill or spirit item.

Fang Yu advanced to Foundation Establishment in Cave abode Jia No. 3, using Foundation Establishment Pills and the Yuanchen Pearl’s Primordial Qi to reach the Seventh Layer. He replenished his resources, tested his new Divine Sense, and discovered his lifespan had increased past three hundred years.

• Fang Yu reinforced the cave abode’s restrictions, then prepared himself and swallowed a Foundation Establishment Pill.
• Fang Yu passed the Qi and Blood, Law Power, and Divine Sense stages, mastering Divine Sense and entering Foundation Establishment.
• Fang Yu used more Foundation Establishment Pills and the Yuanchen Pearl’s Primordial Qi to condense seventy-three drops of liquid Law Power, reaching the Foundation Establishment Seventh Layer.
• Fang Yu replenished his Law Power and the Yuanchen Pearl, then learned how Divine Sense differed from his divine thought.
• Fang Yu sensed that his lifespan had increased by another hundred years, bringing it to more than three hundred years.

After three years in seclusion, Fang Yu emerged as a Foundation Establishment cultivator and sought a suitable cultivation method in Mosquito Immortal City. He returned to his courtyard without finding one, where the Liu Household arrived to pay their respects and offer a gift.

• Fang Yu emerged from cave abode Jia-3, and Deacon Xu congratulated him on reaching Foundation Establishment.
• Fang Yu encouraged Deacon Xu to attempt a breakthrough, prompting Deacon Xu to resign and enter seclusion.
• Fang Yu concealed his Foundation Establishment Late Stage cultivation and used his fortune to guide his search for a cultivation method.
• Fang Yu visited the Mosquito Immortal Society, rejected its three Fire Spirit Root methods, and bought other supplies.
• Fang Yu tended his vegetable patch, and the Liu Household arrived to pay their respects to True Person Lü with a generous gift.

Fang Yu accepted an invitation from Mosquito Immortal City to become a grade-C guest elder, gaining access to a Golden Core-level cultivation method and other benefits. He selected Red Lotus Karmic Fire, whose abundant Law Power could help replenish his Yuanchen Pearl.

• Fang Yu received gifts and invitations from factions in Mosquito Immortal City and recorded their names in his notebook.
• Jin Guizi visited Fang Yu on behalf of Qian Chongzi and offered him a grade-C guest elder position with a cave abode, a cultivation method, and an annual stipend.
• Fang Yu agreed to join Mosquito Immortal City as Lü Bu, accepting the lower grade because his origins could not be verified.
• Jin Guizi showed Fang Yu several cultivation methods, and he chose Red Lotus Karmic Fire for its Golden Core potential and abundant Law Power.

Fang Yu settled into Lotus Cave, cultivated the Red Lotus Karmic Fire for two years, and agreed to join Jin Guizi in mediating a dispute over an ore vein. As he arrived in Mosquito Immortal City for the negotiations, the city activated its formidable mosquito formation and Jin Guizi summoned him to discuss reception arrangements.

• Jin Guizi gave Fang Yu the token to Lotus Cave, where he settled in and began cultivating the Red Lotus Karmic Fire.
• After two years, Fang Yu converted all his Law Power into red lotus Law Power and found that increasing its limit would require years of arduous cultivation.
• Fang Yu received Jin Guizi's invitation to help mediate negotiations over the Autumn Moon Mountain ore vein and agreed after divining minor fortune.
• Several months later, Fang Yu saw the Thousand-Needle Nether River Formation activate over Mosquito Immortal City and learned that Jin Guizi wanted to discuss reception arrangements.
• Fang Yu flew to the Harmony of Light Hall to meet Jin Guizi.

Fang Yu attended a gathering of Mosquito Immortal City’s guest elders, built connections by revealing his artifact-refining skills, and arranged to discuss a second-tier array for his cave abode. After three days of trading and conversation, Jin Guizi summoned the cultivators to welcome the delegations from the three kingdoms.

• Fang Yu met Chen Cheng, who introduced him to the other guest elders gathered at Harmony of Light Hall.
• Fang Yu offered to refine a cultivator’s first-tier superior-grade hide into inner armor and learned how the Spirit Cloud Sect had been driven into peace talks over the Autumn Moon Mountain spirit mine.
• Fang Yu asked Array Master Zong to set up a second-tier array in his cave abode, and Array Master Zong agreed to discuss the details after the talks.
• Fang Yu traded a Flowing Flame True Fire Sword at the gathering, drawing more cultivators who wanted him to forge Spirit Artifacts.
• After three days, Jin Guizi arrived and led the cultivators to welcome the delegations from the three kingdoms.

Fang Yu attended Mosquito Immortal City’s reception for the three nations’ delegations and calculated that the city would gain great fortune from the peace talks. After the banquet, Fairy Miaoyin mistook him for an old friend and asked him to refine a Spirit Artifact.

• Fang Yu calculated that Mosquito Immortal City would reap great fortune from the peace talks, possibly by gaining a share of the middle-grade Spirit Stone mine.
• Qian Chongzi welcomed Qin Shaoyang and the Cloud Spirit Sect delegation, which included Liu Sanjie, now known as Fairy Miaoyin.
• Fang Yu and the guest elders later welcomed the Black Sand Sect and Heavenly Strategy Manor delegations before attending a banquet at the Harmony of Light Hall.
• The leaders of the three delegations went with Qian Chongzi to negotiate, while Fang Yu left the tense banquet after eating the spiritual fruits.
• Miaoyin stopped Fang Yu outside the hall, said he resembled an old friend, and asked him, as Fellow Daoist Lü, to refine a Spirit Artifact.

Fang Yu finished commissioned Law Artifacts, heard updates on the peace talks, and arranged for Array Master Zong to build a second-tier array. While collecting the Fire of Ten Thousand Households, he learned that Embroidered Tiger had become emperor and continued his journey without divining the new ruler’s fate.

• Fang Yu refused Fairy Miaoyin’s request to craft a Spirit Artifact at the Cloud Spirit Sect, then learned Qian Chongzi had nearly killed her after she tried to recruit cultivators from Mosquito Immortal City.
• Fang Yu delivered his commissioned Law Artifacts to Chen Cheng and other Foundation Establishment cultivators, who praised his work and paid their fees.
• The cultivators told Fang Yu that peace talks remained unresolved and that the Black Sand Sect and Heavenly Strategy Manor had sent Rogue Cultivators to seize Cloud Spirit Sect lands.
• Chen Cheng told Fang Yu that Array Master Zong could build his second-tier array for a thirty-percent higher fee, requiring Fang Yu to vacate his cave abode for half a year, and Fang Yu agreed.
• Fang Yu traveled through Anping Prefecture to collect the Fire of Ten Thousand Households and heard that Embroidered Tiger had ascended the throne as emperor.
• Fang Yu chose not to divine Embroidered Tiger’s fate and continued visiting the prefecture’s commanderies and counties to gather the fire.

After collecting seventeen flames of the Fire of Ten Thousand Households, Fang Yu gathered the true spirits of his dead followers to send them to the Dao of Qi Refining. True Person Feng Yi confronted him over his practices, but Moon-Embracing’s sword intent intervened and carried Fang Yu away, leaving Feng Yi to plot against Safe Village and Mount Longhu.

• Fang Yu collected the true spirits of more than a hundred thousand followers who had died across Anping Prefecture, intending to send them to the Dao of Qi Refining.
• True Person Feng Yi emerged from the void, questioned Fang Yu about his sect, and accused him of challenging Mount Longmen by practicing True Spirit Deliverance in its territory.
• Feng Yi compelled Fang Yu to raise the Flowing Flame True Fire Sword to his own neck, but Moon-Embracing’s sword intent appeared as a bright moon and stopped him.
• Feng Yi blocked Moon-Embracing’s sword intent with a great river, and the clash transformed the surrounding land into a vast marsh as Fang Yu vanished.
• Feng Yi failed to divine Fang Yu’s whereabouts and suspected Mount Longhu was pursuing the Phoenix Grotto-Heaven; he decided to sacrifice Safe Village to advance the Dragon-Tiger Great Elixir’s refinement and lure Mount Longhu’s disciples.

Fang Yu escaped Feng Yi’s pursuit and traveled to Great Scarlet Heaven, while Moon-Embracing True Person retaliated by sending Tie Feng toward Jingzhou. At Mount Longhu, Zhang Daochang learned that Fang Yu was tied to his trial for attaining the Purple Mansion and set out with three thousand heavenly soldiers, wary of the dossier’s uncertain claims.

• Fang Yu used a blood escape technique and the Yuanchen Pearl to flee Feng Yi, then traveled to Great Scarlet Heaven when Moon-Embracing True Person began divining his location.
• Moon-Embracing True Person learned that Feng Yi had targeted Fang Yu, then sent Tie Feng to Jingzhou to pursue a chance at Dragon-Tiger Intent and the Purple Mansion.
• Zhang Daochang visited Mount Longhu’s Ancestral Masters Hall, where a Heavenly Master identified Fang Yu as part of Zhang Daochang’s destined tribulation and granted him a talisman to command three thousand heavenly soldiers.
• Zhang Daochang read a dossier linking Fang Yu to Great Peace Village, the Precious Scroll of Essential Techniques for Delivering the World into Peace through Myriad Tribulations, and a suspected Phoenix Nirvana scheme.
• Zhang Daochang decided to study Fang Yu’s teachings and Great Peace Village before acting, recognizing that Fang Yu’s fate was too mysterious to trust divination or the dossier without verification.

Fang Yu absorbed the Fire of Ten Thousand Households and advanced his Qi Ingestion cultivation to the seventh layer, but he could not break through to the Dao Foundation Realm in Great Scarlet Heaven. He concluded that he needed to return to the Black-Yellow Realm, then received news that Mosquito Immortal City had secured mining rights and a ten-percent share of the Spirit Stone mine at Autumn Moon Market.

• Fang Yu returned to his courtyard after escaping True Person Fengyi and reasoned that she had sought him because of the true spirits he collected, not the Fire of Ten Thousand Households.
• Fang Yu decided he could return to the Dao of Qi Ingestion after waiting three to five years and absorbing the Dao Attainment from the flames he had gathered.
• Months later, Fang Yu received a Cloud Net Concealment Array from Chen Cheng and agreed to consider a commission to make a Spirit Artifact.
• Two years later, Fang Yu finished refining all seventeen flames, reached the Qi Ingestion Seventh Layer's great completion, and found he could not advance to the Dao Foundation Realm in Great Scarlet Heaven.
• Fang Yu received an urgent message saying that the three nations had settled their shares of the mid-grade Spirit Stone mine at Autumn Moon Market and that Mosquito Immortal City had gained mining rights and a ten-percent share.