Recaps

Zheng Fa built the Nine Mountains Sect’s research and industry, uncovered the Spirit-Fusing Flower’s connection to the Five-Element Orchid, and passed his Nascent Soul tribulation. As Vast Sun Mountain’s influence and the Immortal-Trapping Sword entered the conflict, Xie Qingxue learned the sword’s history and considered Zheng Fa’s path.

• Zheng Fa recruited the Azure Wood Sect into the Technology Alliance, appointed Zhao Jingfan its future Sect Leader, and began secret experiments with Elder Xiong on pills involving the Five-Element Orchid.
• Zheng Fa funded modern research projects that produced Zhou Miaomiao’s Spiritual-Energy Measuring Device and the Nezha No. 1 mining machine, while Madam Xuanhua developed the Divine Firmament Warship and Mining Ship.
• Zheng Fa’s team used recorded experiments to improve alchemy, and Sect Master Song offered Azure Wood Sect’s secret art to the Alchemist Guild and became its president.
• Zheng Fa began his Nascent Soul tribulation, fought the revived Heavenly Venerable, passed the Yin Fire Tribulation, and awakened after defeating his Heart Demon.
• Zheng Fa investigated the Profound Mystery Sect and Vast Sun Mountain, while the Nine Mountains Sect expanded mining, artifact refining, and trade to address resource shortages.
• Zheng Fa infiltrated the Profound Mystery Sect as Li Hao, refined a Flying Cloud Sword for the Spirit Transformation cultivators, and saw the Immortal-Trapping Sword emerge from Divine Fire Mountain’s crater.
• Xie Qingxue learned that the Four Founders had conspired with the Four Sects during the Tianhe Upheaval and that the Immortal-Trapping Sword had been forged by Patriarch Tianhe.
• Zheng Fa explained his goal of distributing wealth according to contribution, and Xie Qingxue considered joining his difficult path.

Zheng Fa infiltrated Vast Sun Mountain to obtain its cultivation inheritance and worked with his allies to understand and contain the Immortal-Trapping Sword. He then expanded the Nine Mountains Sect’s research, communication, commerce, and education systems, leaving the disciples beginning a new academy program as a paper revealed a decline in Red Feather Heavenly Astral Qi.

• Zheng Fa volunteered to claim Vast Sun Mountain’s bounties, organized convoy defenses and an Intelligence Division, and recruited Junior Sister Ye as an ally.
• Shi Nandang revealed Vast Sun Mountain’s plan to refine the Immortal-Trapping Sword and shatter Spirit Veins, while Zheng Fa secretly arranged to study and sabotage its formation.
• Zheng Fa recruited researchers to study cultivation, learned from their insights through lectures, and helped the Fusang Wood grow toward minor mastery.
• Senior Sister Zhang attained the Dao after studying Zheng Fa’s improved Nine-Chapter Calculation Formation, then helped hide his back door in the Heaven-Earth Divine Baleful Array.
• Zheng Fa obtained the complete Scarlet Firmament Jade Register by posing as a Lu Clan inheritor, and he and his allies used new methods to help Nine Mountains Patriarch attain Spirit Transformation.
• Zheng Fa subdued the Immortal-Trapping Sword with the Scarlet Firmament Jade Register, then returned to the Nine Mountains Realm to plan changes to the array and develop the calculation formation.
• Zheng Fa and his allies introduced research programs, communication tools, online commerce, and entertainment, while the Nine Mountains Sect prepared to distribute resources by contribution.
• Zheng Fa announced specialized academies, a five-year foundation program, and a Mentor System, and more than six thousand papers arrived, including one on declining Red Feather Heavenly Astral Qi.

Zheng Fa developed the Yellow Court Scripture while preparing the Nine Mountains Sect for a confrontation with Vast Sun Mountain. After Vast Sun Mountain was devastated and Zheng Fa killed Loose Immortal Luo, Cloud True Immortal withdrew, and Patriarch Xuanding sent Immortal Li to visit the sect.

• Zheng Fa recruited Gu Chang and Mu Qingyan as disciples, supported Gu Chang’s Spirit Root research, and approved a trial Immortal Cultivation Visa for foreign scholars.
• Senior Sister Zhang and Old Yuan reached Spirit Transformation, and their insights helped Zheng Fa and other cultivators create the Yellow Court Scripture by combining three cultivation methods.
• Zheng Fa prepared the Nine Mountains Sect for war by building alliances, developing the Sea Region as a refuge, and making a convincing decoy Immortal-Trapping Sword.
• Loose Immortal Luo took control of the sword-refinement operation as Vast Sun Mountain completed its killing-intent array, while Sect Master Yan used the Immortal-Slayer Formation Diagram to attain the Dao and vanished with Tianhe Sect.
• Senior Sister Zhang and Nine Mountains Patriarch destroyed much of Vast Sun Mountain’s Spirit Veins by triggering an underground eruption, and Zheng Fa captured Shi Nandang and the Profound Mystery Sect Leader.
• Zheng Fa learned from the Immortal-Trapping Sword Spirit about the Immortal-Slayer Sword Formation and the Unique Dao Fruit, then disguised the sword and pursued Loose Immortal Luo.
• Zheng Fa tracked Loose Immortal Luo through reports on the Comprehensive Mirror network and killed him with the Immortal-Trapping Sword before Cloud True Immortal arrived.
• Cloud True Immortal hesitated and withdrew when Zheng Fa recovered his strength, and Immortal Li arrived with word that Patriarch Xuanding had ordered a visit to the Nine Mountains Sect.

Zheng Fa completed Spirit Transformation, strengthened the Nine Mountains Sect through industry, education, and Divine Way reforms, and built alliances with Jade Pool and Dragon Lord Shuyu. As the sect expanded its trade across the Sea Region, it clashed with Thunderclap Temple and began investigating Venerable Tianhe’s relics.

• Zheng Fa completed Spirit Transformation, overcame the patriarchs’ phantoms and the Three Calamities, and gained the One Qi Transforms into Three Pure Ones divine ability.
• Zheng Fa negotiated cooperation with the Supreme Dao against Lu Mo, expanded incense-powered cultivation, and launched reforms that targeted rebellious sects, concentrated land control, and established schools.
• Zheng Fa brought Spirit Veins, automated factories, and agricultural research into a growing production system while Shi Nandang helped manage the transition and expose hidden Vast Sun Mountain fugitives.
• Nishang Yuanjun agreed to cooperate with Zheng Fa on Spirit Plant cultivation and trade, while Professor Tian and Tang Lingwu developed Spirit Root Growth Hormone and Zheng Fa established the Mortal-Shedding Spirit-Washing Pool.
• Zheng Fa transformed the Sun-Moon Bell into his Heavenly Emperor Body, reorganized the Heavenly Palace, and set rules for a Divine Way governed by service, merit, and regular evaluation.
• After the Void-Piercing Spirit Eye advanced, Zheng Fa and his allies expanded the East-West trade route, but Thunderclap Temple attacked its stations and Dragon Lord Shuyu intervened to rescue Senior Sister Zhang.
• Zheng Fa secured Dragon Lord Shuyu’s cooperation in exchange for Sea Region intelligence and joint spirit-beast and Spirit Plant cultivation, then led operations that killed or captured hundreds of Thunderclap Temple disciples.
• Zheng Fa invited Dragon Lord Shuyu to observe further breeding trials and asked about Venerable Tianhe’s relics, learning that Jade Pool had once sought his jade pendant on the seafloor.