Chapter Summaries

At the Nine Mountains Auction, Venerable Chengkong recognized the value of the Nine Mountains Sect’s External Cores and began considering how to recruit Zheng Fa, while Venerable Tongming worried about the Hundred Immortals Alliance’s decline. Chengkong later offered Zheng Fa a place in the Supreme Dao and revealed that a Heaven-and-Earth Spirit Root could perfect the Nine Mountains Realm, leaving Zheng Fa to realize he already carried a Fusang Wood.

• Uncle-Master Pang explained that rumors had drawn cultivators to the auction, while Zheng Fa watched Senior Sister Yuan confidently host it.
• Venerable Chengkong and Venerable Tongming judged the External Cores valuable, then saw the Nine Mountains Marketplace’s promise and discussed the Hundred Immortals Alliance’s weakening position.
• Venerable Chengkong questioned Zhao Jingfan about Zheng Fa’s talents and relationships, then decided to recruit Zheng Fa for the Supreme Dao rather than the Hundred Immortals Alliance.
• Zhao Jinglan delivered Zheng Fa a Communication Talisman from Zhao Jingfan, who reported Venerable Chengkong’s questions and urged Zheng Fa to keep their stories consistent.
• Venerable Chengkong visited Zheng Fa and warned that the Nine Mountains Realm was vulnerable, then revealed that merging it with a Heaven-and-Earth Spirit Root could make it whole.
• Zheng Fa learned that Venerable Chengkong’s Pure Tranquility Bamboo was only a branch and realized he was already carrying a Fusang Wood.

Zheng Fa learned about Heaven-and-Earth Spirit Roots and declined Venerable Chengkong’s invitation to join the Supreme Dao, deciding instead to investigate whether he could cultivate a Fusang Wood himself. After discovering Madam Xuanhua’s electromagnetic-shielding bracelet and combining it with a metal cage to block lightning, he left the chapter with a new defensive device hailed as a supreme treasure.

• Venerable Chengkong explained how Heaven-and-Earth Spirit Roots could strengthen Grotto-Heaven Worlds and praised the Fusang Wood, while Zheng Fa declined his invitation to join the Supreme Dao.
• Zheng Fa told Senior Sister Zhang that he did not believe the Fusang Wood in his dantian was a true Heaven-and-Earth Spirit Root and considered growing one himself.
• Venerable Chengkong and Venerable Tongming learned that Zheng Fa was interested in Chen Commandery because his friend Gao Yuan had likely died at the Great Freedom Demon Cult’s hands, and they decided to go there.
• Madam Xuanhua showed Zheng Fa a bracelet that shielded electromagnetic force from spiritual energy interference but could not serve as a defensive treasure by itself.
• Zheng Fa had Golden Core Engineering disciples make a metal-wire cage, then demonstrated that it blocked Xiao Yuying’s lightning and suggested combining it with the bracelet as a defensive treasure.

Zheng Fa tested a Faraday cage, shared a simplified Golden Core design for powering mortal cities, and received experimental results from a magical scanning electron microscope. He then proposed investigating whether his spiritual-energy organelle could help cultivate a Fusang Wood, leaving his companions unsettled by his plan to fuse human and plant cells.

• Madam Xuanhua tested the Faraday cage and recognized its potential for shielding cultivators during Lightning Tribulations.
• Zheng Fa gave the disciples a Jade Slip describing a simplified Golden Core reactor and his plan to use it to modernize Paradise Island and the mortal world.
• Madam Xuanhua embraced the reactor project as a chance to profit from unique artifact designs, while promising not to neglect her experimental instruments.
• Madam Xuanhua and Xiao Yuying presented Zheng Fa with primitive scanning electron microscope results based on Xiao Yuying's Magnetic Rail Body sensing.
• Zheng Fa showed his Golden Core's particle product and proposed using protoplast fusion or planting mulberry trees to cultivate a Fusang Wood.
• Old Man Bai joked that Zheng Fa's plan made trees rivals for Tang Lingwu, while Zheng Fa and Tang Mudao entered the laboratory with the particle cube.

Zheng Fa sent fragments produced by his Golden Core to scientific laboratories, hoping their analyses would reveal the nature of spiritual materials. After studying the results, he proposed that the Five-Element Spells might create Spiritual-Energy Bonds that alter matter, leaving the theory intriguing but unproven.

• Zheng Fa arranged for Group Leader Yang to send Golden Core fragments to specialist laboratories, where security guards and strict controls unsettled Professor Lin's research group.
• Professor Lin's team discovered room-temperature superconductivity in a sample, and Group Leader Yang reclaimed the samples and equipment after revealing that an alien invasion was more or less underway.
• Group Leader Yang gave Zheng Fa the laboratories' reports, but two days of study yielded little insight into spiritual materials until he found a paper on the metallization of nonmetals.
• Zheng Fa proposed that the Five-Element Spells formed Spiritual-Energy Bonds, demonstrating how spells could turn a wooden chair into liquid while he considered how the theory might explain the Golden Core's oxygen-based metal.
• Chen Sheng and four martial arts students arrived to observe Zheng Fa's discussion, but they could not follow the scientific explanations and Chen Sheng joked that they lacked university diplomas.

Zheng Fa and Tang Lingwu refined their theory of Five-Element Spells, and Zheng Fa proposed a journal to recognize research and track citations. After learning that the Great Freedom Demon Cult had gathered several Spirit Transformations in Chen Commandery, Zheng Fa investigated the Blood River Ancestor’s supposedly dead sword and revealed that the Ancestor was still alive.

• Tang Lingwu explained that the Five Elements corresponded to different Spiritual-Energy Bonds rather than states of matter, and Senior Sister Zhang suggested that wood spells governed growth.
• Zheng Fa praised the Broadcast Calisthenics and proposed matching students with Dao-Entry Martial Arts based on their talents, then teased Chen Sheng by announcing a martial arts hall graduation certificate.
• Zheng Fa gave Senior Sister Zhang Zhou Ganyuan’s work on Metal-Water Thunder and proposed a journal called Immortal Way to publish research and establish citation standards.
• Zheng Fa received Venerable Chengkong’s warning that several Great Freedom Demon Cult Spirit Transformations had gathered in Chen Commandery and discussed how the Nine Mountains Sect should respond.
• Zheng Fa, Senior Sister Zhang, Uncle-Master Pang, and Old Yuan tested the Blood River Ancestor’s motionless sword, and Uncle-Master Pang rubbed it with his shoe to check whether its owner was dead.
• Zheng Fa used Positive-Negative Five-Colored Divine Light to reveal that the Blood River Ancestor was alive, with his face pressed against Uncle-Master Pang’s shoe.

Zheng Fa discovered that Blood River Ancestor was trapped inside his sentient life-bound flying sword and used that secret to pressure him into considering cooperation. Blood River Ancestor refused to sign Zheng Fa’s agreement, warning that the Great Freedom Devil Ancestor was about to descend into the world, possibly in Chen Commandery.

• Senior Sister Zhang and Zheng Fa joined forces to suppress Blood River Ancestor, but the Sun-Moon Bell could not destroy the blood-protected flying sword.
• Zheng Fa realized the flying sword had its own will and that Blood River Ancestor’s Divine Sense was trapped inside it.
• Zheng Fa used the Positive-Negative Five-Element Divine Light to reveal the flying sword’s rebellious spirituality, which feared being erased and returning Blood River Ancestor to the Devil Ancestor’s control.
• Uncle-Master Pang recorded the flying sword’s words, and Zheng Fa used the recording and Blood River Ancestor’s weakened position to offer him a cooperation agreement.
• Blood River Ancestor refused to sign and warned that the Great Freedom Devil Ancestor was about to descend; Zheng Fa asked if the Devil Ancestor would come to Chen Commandery.

Zheng Fa learned that the Great Freedom Demon Cult was preparing to summon the Great Freedom Devil Ancestor and warned Venerable Chengkong, who disrupted the ritual but could not stop it entirely. As the Nine Mountains Sect considered preserving its lineage, Qian True Person and his disciples chose whether to leave the realm, while Blood River Ancestor remained imprisoned.

• Zheng Fa learned from Blood River Ancestor that the Great Freedom Demon Cult’s Spirit Transformation cultivators were in Chen Commandery to welcome the Great Freedom Devil Ancestor, and Senior Sister Zhang imprisoned Blood River Ancestor.
• Zheng Fa told his master and uncle-masters that he could not abandon the Nine Mountains Realm, and they agreed to secretly send selected disciples away to preserve the sect’s inheritance.
• Zheng Fa sent Venerable Chengkong a warning, and Venerable Chengkong entered Chen Commandery, where he destroyed two of the Five-Directional Blood-Baleful Flags before fleeing from five Spirit Transformation cultivators, including Qin Mu.
• Venerable Chengkong told Venerable Tongming that the Great Freedom Demon Cult was using the flags to summon the Devil Ancestor and that his intervention had only delayed the ritual.
• Qian True Person told his disciples they could leave the Nine Mountains Realm, but they chose to stay, and he decided to remain with them and the experimental fields.
• Senior Sister Zhang watched Qian True Person and his disciples choose to stay and remarked to the imprisoned Blood River Ancestor that loyalty did not have to come from fear.

Zheng Fa considered how to strengthen the Nine Mountains Sect against the Great Freedom Devil Ancestor, discovering that his Five-Element Divine Radiance could analyze Dharma Treasures and discussing the sect’s plans with Senior Sister Zhang. After his little sister Zheng Shan refused to leave the Nine Mountains Realm, Old Yuan and Uncle-Master Pang revealed a new Immortal Formation Method they had developed to help the sect face stronger enemies.

• Zheng Fa learned that Qian True Person and others wanted to remain in the Nine Mountains Realm because it was safer and more stable than the outside world.
• Zheng Fa used the Positive-Negative Five-Element Divine Light to examine Senior Sister Zhang’s Flying Immortal Brush and accurately identified its materials and construction.
• Zheng Fa and Senior Sister Zhang discussed cultivating the Fusang Wood, studying Spirit Transformation through powerful Dharma Treasures, and designing Zheng Fa’s Life-bound Dharma Treasure.
• Zheng Fa asked Zheng Shan whether she would leave the Nine Mountains Realm with Xiao Yuying, but Zheng Shan refused and said she would rather become the Setting-Sun Sword Immortal’s disciple to help him.
• Old Yuan and Uncle-Master Pang showed Zheng Fa their Immortal Formation Method, which let cultivators coordinate spells and combine their strength against far stronger opponents.

Zheng Fa studied Old Yuan and Uncle-Master Pang’s Immortal Array Method and began considering how it could strengthen the Nine Mountains Realm through coordinated combat. He then examined Xiao Yuying’s Dharma Treasures with Madam Xuanhua, and his discovery that Wood-Element Spirit Material’s structure resembled DNA left him and his modern-world colleagues unsettled.

• Old Yuan and Uncle-Master Pang showed Zheng Fa their Immortal Array Method, and Zheng Fa asked Uncle-Master Pang to organize disciples to train in it.
• Zheng Fa visited Xiao Yuying and Madam Xuanhua, discussed Great Freedom Devil Ancestor’s threatened descent, and asked to inspect Xiao Yuying’s Dharma Treasures for ideas for his Life-bound Dharma Treasure.
• Zheng Fa used Five-Element Divine Radiance to scan Xiao Yuying’s treasures while Madam Xuanhua analyzed their materials and Spiritual-Energy Circuits, and they compared similar treasures to infer how their structures worked.
• Zheng Fa explained that Life-bound Dharma Treasures contained all Five-Element Spirit Materials and paired Spiritual-Energy Circuits, then drew the Flying Immortal Brush’s circuits for Old Man Bai and Professor Tian.
• Tang Lingwu recognized that the Wood-Element Spirit Material’s bond resembled a DNA double strand, and Zheng Fa worried that the similarity between the two worlds was too exact to dismiss as coincidence.

Zheng Fa planned a Life-bound Dharma Treasure that would function as a server, and Tang Lingwu helped him recognize the impact he had already made on the modern world. After Madam Xuanhua tested several prototypes, news arrived that Yan Wushuang had reached Chen Commandery with his Senior Sister.

• At the Nursing Home, Tang Mudao discussed whether the universe had been designed, and Zheng Fa explained that his Dharma Treasure needed to handle information transmission, storage, and calculation.
• Old Man Bai compared Zheng Fa’s planned server artifact to the Creation Jade Disc, and Zheng Fa admitted he hoped it might one day bear the Three Thousand Great Daos.
• Tang Lingwu took Zheng Fa to watch elementary school students perform the Nine Mountains Martial Arts Hall’s Broadcast Calisthenics and encouraged him by pointing to the changes he had brought to the modern world.
• Senior Sister Zhang gave Zheng Fa jade materials and Spiritual-Energy Circuits, but he told her that the Devil Ancestor’s threat would not make him abandon the path of his Dao.
• At University Island, Madam Xuanhua showed Zheng Fa four prototypes and identified Spirit-Nurturing Jade as the most suitable material for the server artifact and its phone terminals.
• Zheng Fa received a Communication Talisman announcing that Yan Wushuang had arrived in Chen Commandery with his Senior Sister.

Zheng Fa used particle collisions to discover that spiritual materials contained Five-Element Sub-Talismans, leading him to propose a Five-Element Periodic Law that could make spiritual materials reproducible. Meanwhile, Xie Qingxue took Yan Wushuang toward the Great Freedom Demon Cult operation and warned him to earn merit, while refusing to hear him praise Zheng Fa.

• Madam Xuanhua explained that Xie Qingxue was Tianhe Sect’s exceptional chief true disciple, a Spirit Transformation cultivator before the age of five hundred.
• Zheng Fa, Old Yuan, and Xiao Yuying collided Primordial Firmament Qi in their particle collider and observed only a Fire-Element Sub-Talisman; a test with oxygen metal revealed a Metal-Element Sub-Talisman.
• Zheng Fa proposed that spiritual materials consisted of ordinary particles and spiritual qi in the form of Five-Element Sub-Talismans, and introduced a chart he called the Five-Element Periodic Law.
• Madam Xuanhua recognized that Zheng Fa’s discovery could guide the creation of spiritual materials and might enable them to simulate Spirit-Nurturing Jade for Life-bound Dharma Treasures.
• Xie Qingxue transported the bound Yan Wushuang toward the Great Freedom Demon Cult operation, explaining that she had taken him away because his father might punish him.
• Yan Wushuang defended his friendship with Zheng Fa, but Xie Qingxue ordered him to earn merit and warned that she would confront Nine Mountains Sect if he mentioned Zheng Fa again.

Xie Qingxue arrived at Bright Mountain with Yan Wushuang, and Venerable Chengkong learned that the Tianhe Sect also valued Zheng Fa. Meanwhile, Zheng Fa completed an early version of the Creation Jade Disc and launched the Nine Mountains Forum, whose first anonymous post sparked a lively debate about Pang True Person’s teaching.

• Venerable Chengkong told Venerable Tongming that Xie Qingxue wielded Venerable Tianhe’s Immortal Sword and could be key to defeating the Great Freedom Demon Cult.
• Xie Qingxue and Yan Wushuang arrived at Bright Mountain, where Venerable Chengkong praised Zheng Fa’s abilities and learned that Yan Wushuang and the Tianhe Sect knew him well.
• Venerable Chengkong and Venerable Tongming worried that the Tianhe Sect might also seek Zheng Fa, and Chengkong wondered what Zheng Fa liked.
• Zheng Fa used his discoveries about Spirit Element particles to create an early Creation Jade Disc that could simulate Spirit-Nurturing Jade and connect to Comprehensive Mirrors.
• Zheng Fa introduced the Nine Mountains Forum as a limited-access place for disciples to exchange knowledge, ask questions, and earn Merit bounties.
• An anonymous post asked which of the Nine Mountains Sect’s three Taishangs taught disciples best, and the replies mocked Pang True Person’s teaching methods.

Zheng Fa’s Simplified Golden Core lit Paradise Island and demonstrated how cultivation could improve ordinary people’s lives, prompting Madam Xuanhua to reconsider an old question about spiritual energy and mortals. Economic Development Island also flourished under the new lighting, where Chen Ting encountered a woman who questioned why anyone would betray the Nine Mountains Sect.

• Senior Sister Zhang secretly solved most of the Mathematics problems on the Nine Mountains Forum, and Zheng Fa realized she still enjoyed them despite having claimed otherwise.
• Zheng Fa and Madam Xuanhua watched the Simplified Golden Core illuminate Paradise Island and discussed whether spiritual energy and cultivators harmed mortals.
• Zheng Fa explained that the lights brought practical benefits to his family and to the island’s residents, and Mother Zheng praised the brighter lamp alongside other improvements.
• Madam Xuanhua saw farmers relaxing, a youth studying, and disciples researching crops under the streetlamps, then understood that Zheng Fa’s response to Senior Brother Zhuang’s question was the lives improved by cultivation.
• Economic Development Island’s shops grew more brilliant and prosperous, while demand for External Cores increased amid the worsening crisis in the Xuanwei Realm.
• A woman questioned Chen Ting about why he had betrayed the Nine Mountains Sect, and he reflected that the sect had looked very different when he left.

Chen Ting and his senior sister investigated the Nine Mountains Realm and learned how Zheng Fa’s Creation Jade Disc and Comprehensive Mirrors supported the sect’s disciples. Meanwhile, Zheng Fa explored ways to strengthen Nine Mountains through spirit-beast farming and Heaven-and-Earth Spirit Roots, while Venerable Chengkong fretted over what gift Zheng Fa would like.

• Chen Ting’s senior sister concluded that Zheng Fa’s leadership had transformed the Nine Mountains Sect and that his achievements had drawn the Holy Ancestor’s attention.
• Chen Ting and his senior sister overheard Nine Mountains disciples explain that Comprehensive Mirrors connected to Zheng Fa’s Creation Jade Disc and let disciples receive answers from senior cultivators.
• Zheng Fa and Qian True Person discussed raising Spirit Silkworms using spiritual mulberry leaves, and Zheng Fa considered recruiting animal-husbandry experts from the Hundred Immortals Alliance.
• Zheng Fa decided they needed to examine Venerable Chengkong’s Pure Tranquility Bamboo to understand Heaven-and-Earth Spirit Roots.
• Venerable Chengkong asked Venerable Tongming what Zheng Fa liked, having already asked him several times.

The Five Sects of Xuanwei agreed to join forces against the Great Freedom Demon Cult in Chen Commandery, while Xie Qingxue warned Yan Wushuang that the Thunderclap Temple monk knew about the Nine Mountains Sect. Zheng Fa received Venerable Chengkong’s summons just as the Nine Mountains Sect’s new Immortal Formation proved strong enough to warrant a real test.

• Venerable Chengkong and the leaders of the Five Sects of Xuanwei discussed Chen Commandery, learning that the Great Freedom Devil Ancestor controlled all twelve counties and that the Blood-Baleful Formation could be wielded by cultivators above the Golden Core realm.
• Venerable Chengkong ordered the Hundred Immortals Alliance and other nearby sects to contribute forces, and he agreed to send a letter to the Nine Mountains Sect.
• Xie Qingxue explained to Yan Wushuang that the sects were being compelled to join both for manpower and to keep them in line, and she warned him that the Thunderclap Temple monk had concealed his knowledge of the Nine Mountains Sect.
• Zheng Fa received a summons from Venerable Chengkong while watching disciples perform the Heavenly Circuit Divine Thunder Immortal Formation, which Old Yuan said could let twenty-four Foundation Establishment cultivators slay a Golden Core cultivator.
• Zheng Fa told Senior Sister Zhang that they might have to test the Immortal Formation’s power.

Zheng Fa prepared the Nine Mountains Sect’s elite disciples for the coming war against the Great Freedom Demon Cult, while agreeing to let Lin Bufan join the expedition to pursue revenge. At Bright Mountain, Zheng Fa’s arrival revealed his standing when Venerable Tongming personally welcomed him before the assembled cultivators.

• Zheng Fa agreed that the Nine Mountains Sect had to answer the Five Sects of Xuanwei’s summons and sent Uncle-Master Pang, Senior Sister Zhang, and others to Chen Commandery while he stayed in the Nine Mountains Realm.
• Zheng Fa explained why the sect’s most gifted disciples had to protect the realm, then equipped them with supplies and special Comprehensive Mirrors for sharing intelligence.
• Uncle-Master Pang reassured Sun Daoyu and the other disciples that Zheng Fa valued them and had prepared extensively for their safety.
• Lin Bufan asked to join the expedition to seek revenge on Lin Yangtian, and Zheng Fa allowed Senior Sister Zhang to take him under strict orders to protect the Nine Mountains’ secrets.
• Fang Yuan watched sect leaders and cultivators gather at Bright Mountain, where Venerable Tongming personally greeted Zheng Fa and escorted him inside, astonishing Sect Leader Chen and the gathered crowd.

Zheng Fa joined the leaders of Xuanwei’s sects at Bright Mountain, where they planned a campaign to eradicate the Great Freedom Demon Cult in Chen Commandery. As Venerable Chengkong assigned six routes, Zheng Fa agreed to take responsibility for one if the Nine Mountains Sect received additional Nascent Soul cultivators.

• Sect Leader Chen bribed a Bright Mountain reception disciple to learn which counties the Nine Mountains Sect would be assigned, hoping to follow the sect for safety.
• Venerable Tongming brought Zheng Fa and Senior Sister Zhang into the hall, where Venerable Chengkong seated Zheng Fa among the Spirit Transformation cultivators and Venerable Tongming rallied the assembled sects against the Great Freedom Demon Cult.
• Venerable Chengkong revealed that the cult had withdrawn into Chen Commandery and proposed dividing the forces into six routes to clear its counties of cultivators above Golden Core.
• When Zheng Fa hesitated to lead a route without a true Spirit Transformation cultivator, Xie Qingxue offered to take one, but Zheng Fa instead asked how many Nascent Soul cultivators his route would receive.
• Venerable Chengkong agreed to assign Zheng Fa more Nascent Soul cultivators, though the other leaders wondered how they would help against a Spirit Transformation ambush.

The Nine Mountains Sect searched Chenyang County and found a blood pool made from the slaughtered people of the commandery. Lin Bufan helped defeat Lin Yangtian, avenged his family, and showed the outer sect cultivators the strength and openness of the Nine Mountains Sect.

• Fang Yuan heard that Sect Leader Chen had joined the Nine Mountains Sect's route, then saw him return miserable after learning he might have to fight a Spirit Transformation cultivator.
• Zheng Fa and the Nine Mountains elders worried that the outside Nascent Soul cultivators would not cooperate with their Heavenly Circuit Divine Thunder Immortal Formation.
• Senior Sister Zhang led the Nine Mountains contingent into an abandoned Chenyang County, where Lin Bufan's squad discovered a vast pool of boiling blood and the remains of the region's people.
• Lin Bufan and the other disciples confronted fleeing Great Freedom Demon Cult cultivators, including Lin Yangtian, who tried to capture Lin Bufan.
• Lin Bufan used the immortal formation's lightning to break Lin Yangtian's attack and helped his squad kill him, avenging the deaths of his uncle and himself.
• Senior Sister Zhang and Zheng Fa noticed the outer sect Nascent Soul cultivators had become more serious after witnessing the formation and seeing Lin Bufan trusted and empowered by the Nine Mountains Sect.

Zheng Fa and Senior Sister Zhang destroyed the Great Freedom Demon Cult’s blood pools and dealt with its captured disciples while the cult’s Spirit Transformation elders plotted to attack the immortal sects. The chapter ended when two Demonic Sect Dharma Bodies appeared and trapped the Nine Mountains Sect’s party in darkness.

• Zheng Fa questioned a captured Great Freedom Demon Cult woman about the blood-baleful silk and learned the locations of five blood pools in Chenyang County; Senior Sister Zhang killed the woman when her charm act gave way to an attempted escape.
• Zheng Fa and Old Yuan argued for retaining some Great Freedom Demon Cult disciples, but Senior Sister Zhang postponed that decision until the threat in Chen Commandery was handled.
• Qin Mu faced accusations from the Yin-Yang Rakshasa, who then led three Spirit Transformation cultivators to plan simultaneous attacks on two paths, including the Nine Mountains Sect’s group.
• Zheng Fa and Senior Sister Zhang cleared the fifth blood pool, and Senior Sister Zhang killed the remaining captured Great Freedom Demon Cult cultivators after judging their crimes.
• Zheng Fa swept the disciples below Nascent Soul into the Nine Mountains Realm when darkness surrounded the group, while Senior Sister Zhang and the Nascent Souls formed their defenses.
• Two enormous Demonic Sect Dharma Bodies emerged from the darkness, and Senior Sister Zhang realized they were facing Spirit Transformation cultivators.

Zheng Fa and the Nine Mountains Sect fought off two Great Freedom Demon Cult Spirit Transformations using Senior Sister Zhang’s mountain-domain powers and a Nascent Soul immortal formation supported by Zheng Fa’s Thunder Pool. Venerable Chengkong and his companions arrived as the demons remained trapped and worn down.

• Venerable Chengkong chose to rescue the Supreme Dao Spirit Transformation in Pu County first, reasoning that the Nine Mountains Sect could hold out longer.
• Yin-Yang Rakshasa’s seduction power overwhelmed Zheng Fa and the disciples until the Yin-Yang Fish Jade Pendant and Zheng Fa’s Sun-Moon Bell restored their composure.
• Yin-Yang Rakshasa and the Eight-Serpent Giant attacked, but Senior Sister Zhang trapped them with Nine Mountains while Zheng Fa fought them with the Sun-Moon Bell and Thunder Pool.
• Uncle-Master Pang led twenty-four Nascent Soul Cultivators in the Heavenly Circuit Divine Thunder Immortal Formation, and Senior Sister Zhang repeatedly trapped the demons in the Thunder Pool to wear them down.
• Wuzhi, Venerable Chengkong, and Xie Qingxue arrived and found the Nine Mountains Sect still battling the trapped demons.