Chapter Summaries

Fang Yu fortified his Purple Mansion with a fourth-tier formation, then returned to the Dao of Qi Ingestion to forge a heaven-grade Dao artifact and gain a second Divine Ability. His attempt produced only an ordinary Spirit Treasure, and he realized something connected to the Goldstone Sect was missing.

• Fang Yu completed the Inextinguishable True Blaze Formation, strengthening his Purple Mansion and turning it into a battlefield suited to his abilities.
• After forty years away, Fang Yu returned to the Dao of Qi Ingestion and learned that Fire Virtue disciples at the Goldstone Sect had fallen below fifty thousand and its Dao Foundation elders had withdrawn from the world.
• Fang Yu set aside his questions about the Goldstone Sect and went to a remote mountain to forge the Sun and Moon Startling Wheels.
• Fang Yu upgraded the wheels into a fourth-tier Spirit Treasure, but the artifact did not become a heaven-grade Dao artifact and Molten Edge Flow did not advance into a Divine Ability.
• Fang Yu realized that something was missing and looked sharply toward the Goldstone Sect.

Fang Yu discovered that his fate-bound Flowing Flame True Fire Sword was inside the Sword Tomb Blessed Land, whose blood sacrifices were being carried out in his name. He entered the opened blessed land, reclaimed the sword, killed Moon-Embracing True Person, and advanced his Molten Edge Flow Dao Foundation into a Divine Ability.

• Fang Yu sensed that the Flowing Flame True Fire Sword was in the Sword Tomb Blessed Land and realized the Goldstone Sect’s sacrifices were tied to his fate.
• Fang Yu met Moon-Embracing True Person at the Goldstone Sect and entered the formation as the Sword Tomb Blessed Land surfaced.
• Fang Yu questioned whether his memories of being a transmigrator were real, then accepted his identity as Fang Yu and opened the blessed land’s gate.
• Moon-Embracing Sword Immortal attacked Fang Yu, who reclaimed the Flowing Flame True Fire Sword and killed him with the Sun and Moon Startling Wheels.
• Fang Yu used the sword to transform the Moon Startling Wheel, and his Molten Edge Flow Dao Foundation advanced into his second Divine Ability as he entered the blessed land.

Fang Yu awakened the Ghost Metal fate in Sword Tomb Blessed Land and received a scripture revealing how to establish the Yin Bureau and become the Great Emperor of Fengdu. Though the path promised him an easy ascent to a golden position, he remained uneasy about following it.

• Fang Yu absorbed Moon-Embracing Sword Immortal's power into the Sun and Moon Startling Wheels and questioned whether Mount Longhu had guided him toward this outcome.
• Fang Yu decided to claim the blessed land's opportunity despite suspecting his fate might be predetermined, trusting the Yuanchen Pearl to let him escape if necessary.
• The charred parasol trees ignited, and their smoke formed a goat-headed, human-bodied figure that awakened the Ghost Metal fate in Fang Yu.
• Fang Yu received the Taiyi Salvation from Suffering Scripture, which described establishing the Yin Bureau and ascending as the Great Emperor of Fengdu.
• Fang Yu realized Zhang Daochang and Wondrous Goodness Heavenly Maiden were successors to the other golden positions, but felt something was wrong about the promised path.

Fang Yu purified the Ghost Metal nature rather than accept the metal position, but the Heavenly Dao or Mount Longhu attacked the blessed land and used the metal nature to open a passage into Great Scarlet Heaven. The Azure Lotus Secret Realm’s formation intercepted the passage, drawing in an island and a shadowy figure before Fang Yu fled the advancing Great Void Storms.

• Fang Yu questioned who had killed the previous Ghost Metal Golden Core True Lord and decided not to trust the Heavenly Dao or the will left by his previous life.
• Fang Yu drew the Ghost Metal nature into the Yuanchen Pearl, purified it, and refused to ascend to the metal position.
• A vast hand crushed the blessed land, so Fang Yu escaped through the Yuanchen Pearl to Cloud Mist Cave in Great Scarlet Heaven.
• The Ghost Metal nature escaped Fang Yu’s sea of consciousness and opened a Great Void passage from Black and Yellow Heaven into the Azure Lotus Secret Realm.
• The nine golden chains pulled a distant island and its shadowy figure toward the passage, unleashing Great Void Storms that forced Fang Yu to flee.

Fang Yu reasoned that the Black-Yellow Realm’s Golden Core True Lords were unlikely to invade the Great Scarlet Heaven in person and speculated about the ancient history and purpose behind the passage between the realms. His thoughts were interrupted when the Ascension Immortal Sect sounded its war bell and ordered all True Disciples to assemble at the Five Elements Hall.

• Fang Yu stopped packing to flee and decided the Ascension Immortal Sect could handle any Purple Mansion scouts who came through the sealed passage.
• Fang Yu considered whether Kunlun had originated in the Black and Yellow Heaven and concluded that his Wings Fire Divine Abilities had reached a dead end.
• Fang Yu questioned whether the Black-Yellow Realm’s Golden Core True Lords controlled its Heavenly Dao and had opened the passage to capture him rather than gather spiritual materials.
• The Startling Feather Bell rang, and the Ascension Immortal Sect activated its fifth-tier Spirit Transformation grand array.
• Fang Yu received an order requiring all True Disciples to reach the Five Elements Hall within one incense stick’s time or face execution.

Fang Yu joined the Ascension Immortal Sect’s battle against Taiyi Auspicious Rain Manifestation Primordial Lord, whose golden body appeared to be blocking a Great Void passage. After she closed the passage and shattered, her body became a flood that submerged the sect grounds, while she gave Fang Yu a secret mission for a hundred years later.

• Jiang Xiasheng announced that an Extraterrestrial Heavenly Demon had descended in a secret realm and led the True Disciples into the grand formation.
• Fang Yu entered the Azure Lotus Secret Realm and saw Taiyi Auspicious Rain Manifestation Primordial Lord’s golden body filling the realm with wind and rain as the disciples attacked.
• Fang Yu noticed she was filling and blocking the Great Void passage rather than opening it, and a voice from beyond the passage called her Pure Yang and asked whether she would abandon the Heavenly Venerable.
• Taiyi Auspicious Rain Manifestation Primordial Lord closed the passage, then told Fang Yu to find her reincarnation at East Sand Village on Jade Bottle Island in Cloud Dream Lake a hundred years later and bring her to Mount Kunlun without returning to the Black-Yellow Realm.
• Her golden body shattered into a flood that submerged the Azure Lotus Secret Realm and the Ascension Immortal Sect’s grounds, leaving Fang Yu beneath a growing rain.

Three years after the Ascension Immortal Sect evacuated its flooded mountain gate, Fang Yu stayed behind to cultivate and investigate the Taiyi Auspicious Rain Manifestation Primordial Lord’s plans. He began absorbing fragments of the shattered Azure Lotus Secret Realm into his Purple Mansion, expanding it and transforming its barren landscape.

• Fang Yu watched Jiang Xiasheng and the Five Elements Peak disciples sail away while he remained to guard the abandoned mountain gate.
• Fang Yu settled in the empty Five Elements Hall, reasoning that his Purple Mansion’s Spiritual Qi would sustain his cultivation and that he would wait for the Primordial Lord’s reincarnation.
• Fang Yu set up a concealment formation and cultivated for three years as the Ascension Immortal Sect’s remaining disciples departed and the mountain gate became a vast lake.
• Fang Yu entered the Great Void and drew fragments of the shattered Azure Lotus Secret Realm into his Purple Mansion.
• Fang Yu absorbed more fragments, expanding his Purple Mansion as rain fell and clear springs began to replace its lava.

Fang Yu watched mortals begin settling the islands around the great lake and helped refugees reach safe shores. As villages and the Giant Whale Gang grew, he returned to Five Elements Peak to cultivate, leaving the islands’ settlement to the mortals.

• Fang Yu received ten years of cultivation resources from Zhang Zhonghu and heard from Liu Ruyan that the sect was considering war with the Heavenly God Sect to seize more Spirit Veins.
• Fang Yu spotted a group of villagers fleeing war on a bamboo raft and used an undercurrent to guide them to a nearby island.
• The villagers settled on the island, built huts, and began farming, while more households arrived and formed villages across the lake.
• Fang Yu sent arriving mortals to nearby islands until fishermen established ferry routes and the Giant Whale Gang formed to transport settlers by ship.
• Fang Yu saw the mortals begin exploring and settling more islands, then returned to Five Elements Peak to continue cultivating.

After advancing to the Late Golden Core stage, Fang Yu gathered martial arts experts with Spirit Roots from the outer islands and brought them into his Purple Mansion to test whether living beings could cultivate there. He began studying cultivation methods to create an introductory technique compatible with the Purple Mansion’s Spiritual Qi and Heavenly Dao rules.

• Fang Yu reached the Late Golden Core stage after thirty years of cultivation and decided to celebrate among the mortals living on the outer islands.
• Fang Yu discovered that the mortal population had grown to twelve million and heard a storyteller recount how Bai Qianfan found a Cold Soul Jade Ruyi.
• Fang Yu used his Divine Thought to find martial arts experts with Spirit Roots, and Bai Qianfan answered the call of his immortal destiny and boarded a treasure ship.
• Over several months, Fang Yu gathered the suitable experts from the islands and brought them by treasure ship into his Purple Mansion.
• The martial artists awoke in the Purple Mansion and chose Bai Qianfan to lead them as they explored their new surroundings.
• Fang Yu began studying Dao of Qi Ingestion and Dao of Qi Refining methods so he could write a cultivation technique suited to the Purple Mansion.

Fang Yu created the Spirit-Cleansing Guide and distributed it to martial arts experts in his Purple Mansion, while the Ascension Immortal Sect later collapsed after its sect master died and its branches split apart. After Zhang Zhonghu revealed that Liu Ruyan was becoming dao companions with Jiang Xiasheng, Yan Wushuang arrived, prompting Zhang Zhonghu to flee.

• Fang Yu completed the Spirit-Cleansing Guide, which let cultivators improve their Spirit Roots, and sent Jade Slips containing it to the martial arts experts in his Purple Mansion.
• The martial arts experts learned the method and began cultivating, while Fang Yu watched to ensure they avoided Qi Deviation.
• Zhang Zhonghu brought Fang Yu the Ascension Immortal Sect's final portion of resources and explained that the sect master had died, its Spirit Transformation foundation had been exhausted, and the sect had split into three new sects.
• Zhang Zhonghu told Fang Yu he would remain with the Seven Ingenious Sect and that Liu Ruyan planned to become dao companions with Jiang Xiasheng.
• Fang Yu urged Zhang Zhonghu to kill Jiang Xiasheng, then sensed Yan Wushuang approaching; Zhang Zhonghu recognized him and fled.

Fang Yu killed Yan Wushuang and promised Zhang Zhonghu he would help him rescue Fairy Ruyan and defeat Jiang Xiasheng. They planned an ambush, and Fang Yu prepared a recorded memory to persuade Fairy Ruyan to meet Zhang Zhonghu.

• Yan Wushuang arrived to kill Zhang Zhonghu, but Fang Yu killed him with the Sun and Moon Startling Wheels and took his Storage Bags.
• Fang Yu promised Zhang Zhonghu he would help him kill Jiang Xiasheng and get Fairy Ruyan back.
• Zhang Zhonghu explained that Fairy Ruyan planned to become Jiang Xiasheng’s dao companion to strengthen the Star-Splayed Sect, though she remained free to leave.
• Fang Yu proposed luring Jiang Xiasheng into an ambush with Zhang Zhonghu, Fairy Ruyan, and Yang Zhan, using a fourth-tier grand formation.
• Fang Yu recreated a memory of Fairy Ruyan and Zhang Zhonghu in the Heart-Questioning Cave on an image-recording stone, intending to use it to persuade her to meet Zhang Zhonghu.

Jiang Xiasheng and Yunyangzi learned that Jiang Yao wielded a possible Heaven-Reaching Spirit Treasure and planned to seize it. Fang Yu lured Jiang Xiasheng into a prepared array in the wilderness and attacked him with fire dragons.

• Jiang Xiasheng showed Yunyangzi Yan Wushuang's Soul Lamp, and they concluded that Jiang Yao's wheel was likely a Heaven-Reaching Spirit Treasure.
• Yunyangzi ordered Jiang Xiasheng to draw Jiang Yao out, promising to support him and take the treasure.
• Fang Yu and Zhang Zhonghu reached the Star-Splayed Sect, and Fang Yu arranged to meet Jiang Xiasheng in a nearby wilderness.
• Fang Yu set up a third-tier grand array and waited for several months while Zhang Zhonghu brought Yang Zhan to him.
• Jiang Xiasheng appeared within the array, and Fang Yu concealed the group with clouds and mist before sending fire dragons to attack him.

Fang Yu fought Jiang Xiasheng with his Heaven-Reaching Spirit Treasures after Jiang destroyed the formation and killed Zhang Zhonghu and Yang Zhan with a fifth-tier Lightning-Guiding Talisman. He lured Jiang Xiasheng and Yunyangzi into a sealed secret realm, where golden light made them close their eyes and the Moon Startling Wheel pierced Jiang Xiasheng’s chest.

• Fang Yu controlled Zhang Zhonghu and joined Yang Zhan in attacking Jiang Xiasheng, but Jiang’s cauldron shield withstood their attacks and he dodged the Moon Startling Wheel.
• Jiang Xiasheng used a spirit talisman to dispel the formation, then unleashed a fifth-tier Lightning-Guiding Talisman that burned Zhang Zhonghu and Yang Zhan to ash.
• Fang Yu used the Sun Startling Wheel to resist the lightning and escaped into the Great Void, where Jiang Xiasheng pursued him.
• Yunyangzi arrived to help Jiang Xiasheng and promised to spare Fang Yu if he surrendered his Heaven-Reaching Spirit Treasures; Fang Yu appeared to comply and led them out of the Great Void.
• Yunyangzi and Jiang Xiasheng discovered they were trapped in a secret realm, and Fang Yu’s golden light made their eyes close as the Moon Startling Wheel pierced Jiang Xiasheng’s chest.

Fang Yu killed Jiang Xiasheng and captured his Nascent Soul, then turned his attention to Yunyangzi, whose fifth-tier defensive spirit talisman blocked the Moon Startling Wheel. He transformed his Purple Mansion into a furnace to burn through the talisman and study its rules, leaving Yunyangzi trapped as the refinement began.

• Fang Yu captured Jiang Xiasheng's Nascent Soul after killing him with the Moon Startling Wheel and White Bone Contemplation Divine Ability.
• Fang Yu attacked the illusion-trapped Yunyangzi, but a fifth-tier defensive spirit talisman stopped the Moon Startling Wheel.
• Fang Yu transformed his Purple Mansion into a blazing furnace with his Molten Edge Flow and Phoenix Sets the Plains Ablaze Divine Abilities.
• Fang Yu moved the mortals in his Purple Mansion into a protected valley so the fire and magma would not kill them.
• Fang Yu focused on burning Yunyangzi's spirit talisman and studying the rules of heaven and earth embodied within it.

At the Star-Splayed Sect, Tianyan learned that Jiang Xiasheng, Zhang Zhonghu, and Yang Zhan had died while Yunyangzi was missing, and he focused on bringing the Five Elements Peak lineage into the sect. Forty-nine years later, Fang Yu finished refining Yunyangzi into a Three Flowers Great Pill, gained valuable inheritances and treasures, and set out to find the reincarnation of Taiyi Auspicious Rain Manifestation Primordial Lord.

• Tianyan reinforced the Star-Splayed Sect's Zhoutian Grand Array against the Great Void Storm.
• Liu Ruyan told Tianyan that Jiang Xiasheng's Soul Lamp had gone out and that Yunyangzi's location could not be sensed; Tianyan ordered her to bring the Five Elements Peak True Disciples into the sect.
• Liu Ruyan revealed that Zhang Zhonghu and Yang Zhan had also died, and Tianyan denied using Zhang Zhonghu as bait to kill Jiang Xiasheng.
• After forty-nine years, Fang Yu completed refining Yunyangzi and obtained a Three Flowers Great Pill, which he chose not to consume.
• Fang Yu collected the Five Elements Peak inheritances and treasures, including a Lightning-Warding Pearl, then left to find the reincarnation of Taiyi Auspicious Rain Manifestation Primordial Lord.

Fang Yu returned to Cloud Dream Lake, where he met Bai Chunyang, the former Golden Core True Lord who had escaped the Black-Yellow Realm and now wanted his help reaching the upper realm. She revealed that Fang Yu was Chi, the ancient cultivator who had created the Ascension Platform, leaving him stunned by his connection to its origins.

• Fang Yu sensed that Cloud Dream Lake had changed after being permeated by the will of the Golden Core True Lord who had dissolved into the Dao.
• Fang Yu found Bai Chunyang in East Sand Village, and she asked him to take her to Mount Kunlun’s cultivation grounds so she could ascend.
• Bai Chunyang explained that Golden Core True Lords were assimilated by the Heavenly Dao and said she had used Fang Yu to escape the Black-Yellow Realm.
• Bai Chunyang warned Fang Yu not to return to the Black-Yellow Realm and explained how ancient cultivators had built Great Scarlet Heaven and its Ascension Platform to enable artificial ascension.
• Bai Chunyang revealed that Fang Yu was Chi, the Mount Kunlun cultivator who had proposed Great Scarlet Heaven, and said only he could unlock the Ascension Platform.

Fang Yu followed Bai Chunyang into Beyond Heaven, where he learned that ascending meant leaving the Black-Yellow Realm for another world. After discovering that Bai Chunyang had concealed the threat facing Great Scarlet Heaven, he demanded the truth and learned that the Heavenly Venerable had long known he was Scarlet.

• Bai Chunyang explained that Fang Yu might be Scarlet and that ascension carried only a true spirit to another world.
• Fang Yu took Bai Chunyang into Beyond Heaven, where she described the layers of the world and the countless worlds beyond it.
• As Beyond Heaven began eroding their bodies and Law Power, Bai Chunyang urged Fang Yu to retreat, but he left her behind and returned to the present world.
• Fang Yu suspected Bai Chunyang was hiding her motives, and her true spirit appeared after her physical body dissolved in Beyond Heaven.
• Bai Chunyang admitted that the Black-Yellow Realm's Golden Core True Lords had located Great Scarlet Heaven and could destroy it, forcing Fang Yu to activate the Ascension Platform or risk losing his chance to escape the Heavenly Venerable's plans.
• Bai Chunyang confessed that she had lied about the Heavenly Venerable's knowledge, revealing that he had known Fang Yu was Scarlet for a long time.

Fang Yu uncovered the Ascension Platform’s connection to another world and learned that activating it required Bai Chunyang’s true spirit as a sacrifice. He revealed his suspicion that he was the Black and Yellow Heavenly Venerable, and Bai Chunyang turned against him as the heavens split open.

• Fang Yu entered the Cloud Spirit Sect’s Kunlun Secret Realm and sensed a karmic connection to it.
• Fang Yu matched his palm to the handprint on the Mount Kunlun stele, unlocking coordinates to the Demon Martial Realm and learning that only a true spirit could travel there.
• The Western Extremity transformed as a fifth-tier Spirit Vein rose into a dragon-shaped mountain range surrounding the Ascension Platform.
• Fang Yu told Bai Chunyang that activating the platform required sacrificing a Golden Core True Lord’s true spirit, and accused the Heavenly Venerable of plotting against her.
• Fang Yu suggested that he was the Black and Yellow Heavenly Venerable and that the Heavenly Venerable was Chi; Bai Chunyang realized the danger and resisted as the sky tore open and a heavenly river poured down.

Fang Yu helped Bai Chunyang merge with Heaven’s Dao, then used the ascension platform’s power to travel inside the Yuanchen Pearl to the Demon Martial Realm. He arrived in the strange new world as the pearl’s Primordial Qi ran out and his consciousness faded.

• Fang Yu and Bai Chunyang realized the Heavenly Venerable had used Great Scarlet Heaven to control ancient cultivators while preserving a path to ascension.
• Bai Chunyang gave Fang Yu a jade pendant containing a trace of her bloodline power, and Fang Yu sent it into the Yuanchen Pearl.
• Fang Yu activated the ascension platform, causing Bai Chunyang to fade as the Yuanchen Pearl absorbed her true spirit power and the Spirit Vein’s power.
• Fang Yu realized the Yuanchen Pearl was his true body as it vanished from Great Scarlet Heaven, whose sky shattered to reveal twenty-eight figures and the Heavenly Venerable’s order to kill ancient cultivators above the Qi Refining Realm.
• The Yuanchen Pearl carried Fang Yu through the Heaven Beyond Heaven and Great Void into the Demon Martial Realm, where it landed as its Primordial Qi ran out and Fang Yu’s consciousness blurred.

Xu Fang accepted a contract from Cui'er to kill Bai Mudan for a hundred taels, then found a carved stone ball he planned to use as a weapon. He brought the deposit home for his sick mother’s medicine and told her to hide it.

• Xu Ning and his men, including Xu Fang, ransacked an eatery and threatened its proprietor over unpaid silver.
• Cui'er met Xu Fang and told him the second madam had hired her to arrange Bai Mudan’s murder, offering a hundred taels after the job.
• Xu Fang took Cui'er's ten-tael deposit and promised to kill Bai Mudan that night.
• A stone ball struck Xu Fang on the head, and he recognized it as a carved ball from a stone lion and chose it as a weapon.
• Xu Fang brought the deposit home for his mother’s medicine, but she said his younger sister had already sent medicine and urged him to keep the silver safe.