Recaps

Zheng Fa formed an Upper-Grade Golden Core, expanded the Nine Mountains Sect’s research and influence, and hosted the Hundred Immortals Assembly and auction. After learning the Great Freedom Demon Cult had gathered Spirit Transformations in Chen Commandery, he prepared to respond and discovered Blood River Ancestor was still alive.

• Zheng Fa developed new External Core methods, recruited Madam Xuanhua, refined a Divine Firmament External Alchemy, and began exploring a Secret Realm tied to Venerable Tianhe.
• Senior Sister Zhang and Xiao Yuying led an expedition into Lake of Endless Silence, where they recovered treasures and a warning from Venerable Tianhe before Nascent Soul cultivators confronted them and reinforcements arrived.
• Zheng Fa deciphered Tianhe’s message and Nine-Turn Golden Core Method, then entered seclusion and formed an Upper-Grade Golden Core after a year of cultivation.
• Zheng Fa revealed his Rainbow-Transformation Technique, began planning a life-bound Dharma Treasure and Particle Collider, and agreed to host the Hundred Immortals Assembly and auction.
• Madam Xuanhua joined the Nine Mountains Sect, while Venerable Chengkong used the Pure Tranquility Bamboo to defeat Blood River Ancestor’s forces at Bright Mountain.
• Zheng Fa declined the offer to lead the Hundred Immortals Alliance, oversaw fourteen disciples forming Golden Cores, and drew cultivators to the auction with the sect’s External Cores and marketplace.
• Venerable Chengkong urged Zheng Fa to join the Supreme Dao and explained how Heaven-and-Earth Spirit Roots could strengthen the Nine Mountains Realm, but Zheng Fa refused and pursued new artifact and reactor research.
• After studying spiritual materials and developing theories about Spiritual-Energy Bonds, Zheng Fa received Venerable Chengkong’s warning about Spirit Transformations gathering in Chen Commandery and discovered that Blood River Ancestor had survived.

Zheng Fa led the Nine Mountains Sect through the Great Freedom Demon Cult’s assault while advancing his research into spiritual materials and Heaven-and-Earth Spirit Roots. The Pure Tranquility Bamboo transformed the Nine Mountains Realm, and Zheng Fa’s cultivation advanced as the Immortal-Mortal Divide vanished.

• Zheng Fa learned the Great Freedom Devil Ancestor was being summoned in Chen Commandery, prepared the Nine Mountains Sect to defend the realm, and sent a force led by Senior Sister Zhang to join the campaign.
• Zheng Fa developed the Five-Element Periodic Law, built an early Creation Jade Disc, and created a forum and communication tools for the sect.
• Senior Sister Zhang’s force cleared blood pools in Chenyang County, and Lin Bufan used the Heavenly Circuit Divine Thunder Immortal Formation to kill Lin Yangtian and avenge his family.
• Yin-Yang Rakshasa and the Eight-Serpent Giant ambushed the Nine Mountains force, but Zheng Fa, Senior Sister Zhang, and Uncle-Master Pang’s formation held them off until reinforcements arrived.
• The Netherworld Immortal activated the Five-Direction Blood-Baleful Formation, but Zheng Fa stole a Blood-Baleful Flag and escaped into the Nine Mountains Realm.
• Zheng Fa studied the Pure Tranquility Bamboo, cultivated its cells, and used Supreme True Spirit Pills to reach the Golden Core Middle Stage.
• The revived Pure Tranquility Bamboo spread through the Nine Mountains Realm and drew nourishment from beyond it, the Immortal-Mortal Divide disappeared, and the Heavenly Palace Nine Isles appeared in the sky.
• Zheng Fa promoted education in Half-Mountain City and rejected worship of the Thunder God, while he and Senior Sister Zhang recognized lost Tianhe Sword Way techniques in Yan Wushuang’s booklet.

Zheng Fa’s Nine Mountains Sect faced the Great Freedom Devil Ancestor while research into the Tianhe Sword Way led to the Nine Mountains Golden Core Method and awakened the Fusang Wood. The arc left Zheng Fa preparing the realm for the coming confrontation as the Nursing Home’s cultivation breakthroughs began reaching the Modern World.

• Zheng Fa and Senior Sister Zhang helped defeat the Demon Race attack, while the Great Freedom Devil Ancestor’s revival remained a threat despite the Netherworld Immortal’s apparent death.
• Zheng Fa expanded the Nursing Home and led scholars in researching the Nine-Turn Golden Core Method, while his experiments and Yan Wushuang’s sword demonstrations advanced the Nine Mountains Golden Core Method.
• The Great Freedom Devil Ancestor attacked Bright Mountain, but Senior Sister Zhang’s Pure Tranquility Bamboo and Xie Qingxue’s Green Duckweed Sword forced him to retreat.
• Xie Qingxue confronted Zheng Fa over the Nine Mountains Golden Core Method, then worked with him to test the Green Duckweed Sword and advance the method to its fourth turn.
• The Spirit Mulberry’s flower awakened the Fusang Wood within Zheng Fa, producing visions across the Nine Mountains Realm and attracting the Great Freedom Devil Ancestor’s attention.
• Zheng Fa rejected offers of refuge and showed Xie Qingxue how the Nine Mountains Realm involved ordinary people in the Immortal Way, while she read his book and reconsidered his path.
• The Great Freedom Demon Emperor planned an ascension ceremony to gain recognition and draw Zheng Fa out, while Tang Lingwu proposed that Dao Fruits worked like genetic rules and mutations.
• The Fusang Wood brought spiritual energy to the Modern World, where a documentary revealed the Nursing Home’s cultivation advances and Zheng Fa caused a foreign reconnaissance satellite to fall into its courtyard.

After Zheng Fa helped defeat the Great Freedom Demon Emperor, he claimed the Sea Region for the Hundred Immortals Alliance and began preparing the sect for rapid growth. As he pushed industry, education, and cultivation research forward, he and his allies investigated the Five-Element Orchid and its connection to an old Clear Spirit Pill.

• Zheng Fa and Xie Qingxue helped destroy the Great Freedom Demon Emperor, while Chen Ting and Qin Mu secretly enabled the Nine Nether Devil Ancestor to claim the victory.
• Zheng Fa attended the Five-Sect Alliance Assembly, presented himself as the Great Freedom Demon Emperor’s successor, and secured the Sea Region for the Hundred Immortals Alliance.
• Zheng Fa signed a pact with the Five Sects, making the Hundred Immortals Alliance one of the Six Sects, then announced an ambitious fifty-year development plan.
• Zheng Fa organized a census and proposed the Heavenly Crafts Pavilion to develop industries, while Xiao Yuying warned him that his reforms threatened the old order but agreed to continue studying and exploring with him.
• Gu Chang rejected a marriage that would restrict his family’s control of Merit and resources after Zheng Fa encouraged him to study and pursue a way to change his Spirit Root.
• Xiao Yuying gave Zheng Fa a Five-Element Orchid and helped him review archaeological records, while Zheng Fa asked Xie Qingxue to investigate the rare plant’s history.
• Xie Qingxue and Yan Wushuang searched restricted Tianhe Sect records, and Zheng Fa learned that the Five-Element Orchid had once been used in the Clear Spirit Pill before its formula was improved.