Recaps

Zheng Fa advanced his Talisman Dao, took the Sect Master as his master, and gained the means to pursue a spiritual qi laboratory with Tang Lingwu and Old Man Bai. The arc left him preparing to survey mountains while Sun Daoyu spotted him on the mountain path.

• Zheng Fa chose the Talisman Dao, advanced to Qi Refinement Second Layer, and declined Pang True Person’s offer to become his disciple despite the promise of learning the Void-Piercing Spirit Eye.
• Zheng Fa and his collaborators identified five-element structures in Talisman Diagrams, and Senior Sister Zhang confirmed his classifications while Pang True Person recognized that he had improved the Foundation Establishment Method.
• Senior Sister Zhang appointed Zheng Fa to manage the marketplace, where he launched free ship rides and delivery services that drew visitors and won support from vendors.
• Tang Lingwu brought Zheng Fa to treat her mother, Aunt Ye, with a Nourishing Spirit Talisman, and Aunt Ye’s improved condition led her to offer help with future projects.
• The Sect Master recruited Zheng Fa after he lured him with storybooks, and Zheng Fa chose him over Pang True Person, who still gave him Millennium Purple Bamboo Tears.
• Zheng Fa cultivated the Void-Piercing Spirit Eye, broke through to Qi Refinement fourth level, and received the revised Spirit Mountain Method and a Spirit Vein Treatise from the Sect Master.
• Zheng Fa, Old Man Bai, and Tang Lingwu used satellite maps to identify possible mountains for an immortal cultivation laboratory, and Aunt Ye offered to arrange a survey and construction.
• Sun Daoyu told Zhou Ganyuan that their master was in a bad mood, then spotted Zheng Fa walking ahead on the mountain path.

Zheng Fa expanded the Nine Mountains Sect’s teaching, trade, and research while preparing for threats tied to the Great Freedom Demon Cult. After taking Lin Bufan into his custody, he discovered that someone was impersonating Zhang Wuyi, raising the possibility of a traitor within the sect.

• Zheng Fa welcomed Zhou Ganyuan into his circle, developed a free stage-play preview, and accepted a teaching post at the Talisman Arts Pavilion.
• Zheng Fa introduced Immortal Strife to unite disciples from rival branches, arranged affordable Yellow Sprout Rice for the market, and helped Li Nuo pursue talisman-seal research.
• Zheng Fa advanced his cultivation and gained Old Man Bai and Tang Lingwu’s Three-Sub-Talisman Law, which he gave to Senior Sister Zhang before she left for Taiyang Commandery.
• Zheng Fa uncovered an assassination plot by the Great Freedom Demon Cult, saved Lin Bufan, and agreed to take him in so the sect could learn about the Devil Ancestor.
• Zheng Fa traveled with Tang Lingwu and Old Man Bai to meet Professor Tian, then took the College Entrance Exam and celebrated afterward.
• Zheng Fa learned more about Lin Bufan’s past and the Great Freedom Demon Cult, then noticed that messages from Zhang Wuyi did not sound like her and suspected an impostor with inside knowledge.

Zheng Fa cultivated his thunder techniques, built a marketplace, and organized disciples to hunt the Great Freedom Demon Cult while seeking Senior Sister Zhang. After helping Professor Tian recover, he returned to the Thunder Pool and found Zhang sealed inside the Mystic Gate Mirror, where she began telling him what she had seen at the Heavenly Stele.

• Zheng Fa learned that the Everlasting Spring Sect had been annihilated and Senior Sister Zhang was missing, but he was forbidden to join the first search party and instead prepared to reach the Thunder Pool himself.
• Zheng Fa cultivated the Five-Thunder Dharma Form, learned that Senior Sister Zhang was still alive, and traveled with Uncle-Master Pang to establish Thunder Pool Market.
• Zheng Fa searched Senior Sister Zhang’s map locations, completed his Azure Yang Dao Body under the Thunder Pool’s lightning, and learned from Chen Ting that Zhang had sealed herself inside the Mystic Gate Mirror.
• Zheng Fa returned to the Nine Mountains Sect, then went to Capital University and promised Old Man Bai he would try to treat the gravely ill Professor Tian.
• Zheng Fa organized disciples for a Thunder Pool rescue mission, had Lin Bufan train them, and arranged a bounty that drew Immortal Sect cultivators into a fight with a Great Freedom Demon Cult patrol.
• Zheng Fa treated Professor Tian with the Grand Unity Talisman, and she recovered, married Old Man Bai, and agreed to help with Zheng Fa’s research.
• Zheng Fa and Senior Sister Yuan entered the Thunder Pool, found Senior Sister Zhang protected by the Mystic Gate Mirror, and heard her begin to describe the Heavenly Stele.

Zheng Fa advanced his talisman theories, helped Zhang Wuyi survive her Nascent Soul tribulation, and gained a Divine Rank in the Heavenly Stele World. As he explored turning that realm into a refuge and investigated thunder methods through experiments, Fairy Lingye emerged as a powerful rival for control of the Stele.

• Zheng Fa helped Zhang Wuyi through her Nascent Soul tribulation, and she explained that his mathematics lessons had helped her see through the heart demon’s illusions.
• Zheng Fa transformed his Five-Element Sub-Talisman ring into a Mobius-like foundation, received the Positive-Negative Five-Element Divine Light, and learned that Zhang Wuyi’s Nascent Soul was changing.
• Zheng Fa and his allies fought off Great Freedom Demon Cult attacks, and Han True Person intervened to save Pang Qian from the ambush.
• Zheng Fa entered the Heavenly Stele World, received a Divine Rank and a Silver Scroll, and found that his fief’s people lived in hardship.
• Zheng Fa decided the Heavenly Stele World could shelter the Nine Mountains Sect, then drove off the Bronze Coffin Elder with his Divine Light before heavenly lightning destroyed the elder.
• Zheng Fa investigated spirit plants with Qian True Person and Professor Tian, while Tang Lingwu helped sell their unusually delicious crops and supported the research.
• Zheng Fa and his companions measured his Heavenly Tribulation Lightning, derived an equation linking its strength to effective Talisman Diagram paths, and learned that Fairy Lingye intended to claim the Stele.
• Zheng Fa considered whether Fairy Lingye’s Magnetic Rail Body could help him observe electromagnetic changes, then learned from the hungry temple keeper that the Thunderclap Sect was stealing believers and its leader sought godhood.