Fang Tongtian

Fang Tongtian is the Fang Clan's Grand Elder during Meng Hao's return to Planet East Victory. He combines immense seniority with the administrative burden of appearing impartial while the direct line and Fang Wei's branch compete for the clan's future.

Biography

Receiving the returning heir

When Meng Hao arrives on Planet East Victory, Fang Tongtian is the elder left in charge while the clan Patriarchs remain in secluded meditation. His cultivation is described as almost beyond comprehension, but his first important actions are political rather than martial. He presides over Meng Hao's formal induction, explains that even a direct-line heir must obey clan rules, and acknowledges that Fang Wei has already received the finest cultivation cave and most of the available medicinal resources. Tongtian offers compensation and promises that Meng Hao's two Nirvana Fruits will be returned. (Chapters 894–897)

The dispute immediately tests whether those assurances have substance. Tongtian stops an argument between branches, returns an Immortality Illumination Vine, and then retrieves Meng Hao's two Nirvana Fruits from the Ancestral Treasure Pagoda before the assembled clan. He swears a Dao oath that any bloodline trying to seize them will be exterminated and warns Fang Heshan not to interfere. In private he reveals that he is Meng Hao's “Third Grandpa,” the brother of Meng Hao's paternal grandfather. That direct-line connection does not free him to act openly as a relative: as Grand Elder, he insists that he must administer the whole clan without visible favoritism. He therefore points Meng Hao toward the Spirit Extract resources and the Dao of Alchemy, avenues through which the young heir can win standing under the clan's own rules. (Chapters 898–900)

Discipline, alchemy, and divided loyalties

Tongtian enforces clan hierarchy when Fang Yunyi's faction violates seniority rules during another confrontation with Meng Hao. He sends several participants to the Fire Smelting Pit and orders Fang Yunyi into seven years of secluded meditation. The judgment demonstrates that his authority includes real punitive power, but it does not eliminate the tension surrounding his earlier compromises. When Meng Hao later produces an extraordinary Skypalace Sunspirit Pill, Tongtian privately asks whether he made the wrong choices, then answers that everything he did was for the Fang Clan. His conflict is between methods of preserving the institution, not simple ignorance of Meng Hao's talent. (Chapters 920, 924)

After assassins strike in the ancestral land, Tongtian helps investigate the shattered life slips and the breach of clan security. Meng Hao's rise and the defeat of the rebellion eventually settle the succession question more decisively than any administrative ruling could. Tongtian remains among the clan's senior generation as Meng Hao is recognized as Crown Prince and leaves to cultivate beyond Planet East Victory. (Chapters 950, 1005–1017)

Crown Prince and final war

At Heavencloud Bazaar, Tongtian and Fang Shoudao witness Meng Hao overpower its entrenched master. Tongtian does not simply seize the recovered territory for the elder generation; he asks the Crown Prince who should administer it. The gesture marks a reversal from the cautious elder who tried to balance rival branches: Meng Hao's authority is now a fact that senior clan governance must implement. Tongtian later appears when the Meng Clan is seen off, continuing to represent the Fang elders as the wider family is reorganized. (Chapters 1161–1165, 1286)

That long stewardship ends in the Mountain and Sea War. The surviving Fang defenders report that the Grand Elder has fallen in battle, immediately before Fang Yanxu makes his own final sacrifice. Tongtian's story therefore closes with the institution he spent so long preserving under existential attack. The supplied text does not provide the details of his last fight, but it confirms that he dies as part of the Fang Clan's resistance. (Chapter 1388)

Appearance and personality

Fang Tongtian appears as an overwhelmingly powerful senior cultivator whose controlled expression usually conceals his private reactions. He can greet Meng Hao with warmth, threaten an entire offending bloodline under Dao oath, and impose punishment without theatrical rage. His defining trait is institutional caution. He genuinely regards Meng Hao as family, yet believes the Grand Elder must appear unbiased even when one faction has already monopolized resources. That restraint sometimes looks like complicity, and his own question after the Skypalace pill shows that he recognizes the moral cost. He is neither an unqualified ally nor a hidden enemy; he is an administrator whose loyalty to the clan repeatedly competes with what he owes its direct heir. (Chapters 895–900, 920, 924)

Abilities and cultivation

Senior cultivation

Tongtian's cultivation is described as virtually beyond comprehension from Meng Hao's perspective on arrival. The text does not assign him a precise named realm or document a signature combat art, so his battle capabilities should not be inferred more narrowly than the evidence allows. His presence among Fang Shoudao and the clan's oldest authorities establishes him as far beyond ordinary elders, while his later death in the war establishes that this senior strength is not absolute. (Chapters 894–895, 1161–1165, 1388)

Grand Elder authority

His most fully demonstrated power is institutional. Tongtian presides over induction, allocates cultivation resources, interprets seniority rules, orders confinement in the Fire Smelting Pit, and imposes years of secluded meditation. These decisions work because the Fang Clan recognizes the office, not because every disagreement is settled by personal force. The same office requires neutrality across branches, limiting how directly he can favor Meng Hao even after privately acknowledging their kinship. (Chapters 897, 900, 920)

Ancestral inheritance and succession

Tongtian can arrange the return of treasures held in the Ancestral Treasure Pagoda and understands the direct line's rights to the Nirvana Fruits. His public Dao oath turns that restoration into a binding clan guarantee: anyone who steals the fruits risks the destruction of the offending bloodline. He also knows which internal systems can let Meng Hao advance without a private grant, directing him toward Spirit Extract and the Dao of Alchemy. This is strategic knowledge of the clan's institutions rather than a transferable cultivation technique. (Chapters 898–900)

Investigation and stewardship

He participates in the inquiry after life slips shatter during the ancestral-land attack and later helps decide the management of Heavencloud Bazaar. These episodes show a Grand Elder responsible for security, property, and continuity across more than one world. His authority eventually yields to Meng Hao's Crown Prince status, illustrating its limit: Tongtian administers the clan but does not supersede its recognized heir or Patriarchs. (Chapters 950, 1161–1165)

Relationships

• Meng Hao: His grandnephew and the returning direct-line heir; Tongtian protects Meng Hao's inheritance while initially withholding open favoritism, then recognizes his authority as Crown Prince.
• Fang Shoudao: Fellow senior authority with whom Tongtian observes the recovery of Heavencloud Bazaar.
• Fang Wei: Favored Chosen whose branch has already taken the clan's best resources when Meng Hao arrives.
• Fang Heshan: Elder whom Tongtian publicly warns away from Meng Hao's Nirvana Fruits.

Items

• Meng Hao's Nirvana Fruits: Tongtian retrieves the two fruits from the Ancestral Treasure Pagoda and guarantees their ownership under a Dao oath; they remain Meng Hao's inheritance, not Tongtian's possessions. (Chapters 898–900)
• Immortality Illumination Vine: A disputed resource Tongtian returns while ending conflict between the clan branches. (Chapter 898)