Chapter Summaries

Tang Lingwu successfully established her Foundation, inspiring the scholars newly recruited to Rainbow Mountain to study the Immortal Way and investigate the Nine-Turn Golden Core Method. A seminar paper by Professor Wang proposed that the Divine Soul mediated interactions between spirit energy, and Zheng Fa sent the researchers’ papers to Madam Xuanhua and the others for review.

• Tang Lingwu overcame her nerves and successfully established her Foundation, demonstrating her achievement to the scholars at the Nursing Home.
• Zheng Fa taught the scholars foundational knowledge of the Immortal Way and organized a seminar to investigate how to refine the Nine-Turn Golden Core Method.
• The scholars proposed hypotheses about the Golden Core experiments, and Tang Lingwu grouped the potential causes into raw materials, environment, and process.
• Professor Wang and Cheng Yun proposed that the Divine Soul transmitted interactions between spirit energies, and Zheng Fa recognized the idea as a hypothesis that could explain why cultivators cast spells.
• Zheng Fa sent the seminar papers to Madam Xuanhua and the others, while Yan Wushuang reacted in disbelief at the amount of work Zheng Fa had produced.

Zheng Fa and the Nine Mountains disciples studied research papers on the Tianhe Sword Way, while Xie Qingxue claimed to have glimpsed the lost Nine-Turn Golden Core Method through the Green Duckweed Sword. Zheng Fa then launched a trial flight of a mortal transport vessel, inspiring Xiao Qing to pursue learning, as the sword’s strange activity left Xie Qingxue unsure what she had actually comprehended.

• Yan Wushuang, Zheng Fa, Madam Xuanhua, and the others discussed research papers, identifying the need for matching Divine Souls in linked sub-talismans and considering how Venerable Tianhe had developed his sword method without a Nascent Soul cultivation method.
• Xie Qingxue told Yan Wushuang that she had nearly comprehended the lost Nine-Turn Golden Core Method and believed the Green Duckweed Sword’s unusual behavior meant it was encouraging her.
• Zheng Fa introduced the Divine Firmament Flying Vessel in Half-Mountain City and explained that it would connect settlements and support the Nine Mountains Realm’s development.
• Xiao Qing and other residents rode the vessel on its maiden trial; after a cracked window was repaired with magic, Yan Wushuang marveled that mortals could operate the craft and carry many passengers faster than a Qi Refinement cultivator.
• Xiao Qing told Zheng Fa she wanted to learn to build flying vessels and fly high enough to find him, while the trial revealed that the vessel’s windows needed improvement.
• Yan Wushuang returned to Xie Qingxue and heard the Green Duckweed Sword humming, but Xie Qingxue admitted she did not know what she had comprehended.

Zheng Fa and the Nine Mountains Sect succeeded in refining a new Golden Core method and used it to strengthen the Creation Jade Disc, while Yan Wushuang warned him not to reveal the method’s true name. At Bright Mountain, Azure Cloud Great Sage revealed that over a million people had vanished from the Sea Region, and Zheng Fa concluded that it was already too late to stop a fifth Blood-Baleful Flag from being forged.

• Zheng Fa, Senior Sister Zhang, Madam Xuanhua, and the disciples succeeded in their thirty-third Tianhe Sword Way experiment and discussed renaming the technique the Nine Mountains Golden Core Method.
• Zheng Fa tempered the Creation Jade Disc with the Metal-Element Sub-Talisman, increasing its sharpness, defensive strength, and spiritual energy.
• Yan Wushuang told Zheng Fa not to call the method the Nine-Turn Golden Core Method publicly, then returned to Xie Qingxue, who said the Green Duckweed Sword sensed the method.
• Zheng Fa and Senior Sister Zhang met Azure Cloud Great Sage at Bright Mountain, where he denied that Seven Sages Heaven had taken the Blood-Baleful Flag and reported that over a thousand islands had lost their human populations.
• Azure Cloud Great Sage estimated that more than a million people had been abducted, and Zheng Fa concluded that the time and number of victims were already sufficient to forge another Blood-Baleful Flag.

First Seat Mingde explained the cultivation Iron Laws and revealed that Xie Qingxue and the Green Duckweed Sword could help the Five Sects of Xuanwei resist the Great Freedom Devil Ancestor. The Devil Ancestor revived in the Sea Region, learned about his remaining enemies, and set his sights on the Green Duckweed Sword and Zheng Fa.

• Azure Cloud Great Sage admitted that the Seven Great Sages had cultivated a secret art from the Great Freedom Devil Ancestor, and First Seat Mingde warned that this could bind them to the Devil Ancestor’s lineage.
• First Seat Mingde explained that cultivators could not betray their lineage, outlined the cultivation realms, and said only a Dao Fruit could contend with a Dao Fruit.
• First Seat Mingde revealed that the Pure Tranquility Bamboo could restrain the Great Freedom Devil Ancestor and that Xie Qingxue might wield Dao Fruit-level power through the Green Duckweed Sword; Xie Qingxue requested spiritual medicines and an enlightenment treasure.
• Azure Cloud Great Sage left for the Sea Region, witnessed the Devil Ancestor’s disturbing revival, and fled toward Bright Mountain to seek First Seat Mingde’s help.
• The Great Freedom Devil Ancestor questioned Netherworld Immortal and Chen Ting, learned about the Five Sects of Xuanwei, the Green Duckweed Sword, and Zheng Fa, then headed toward Bright Mountain intending to seize the sword.

The Great Freedom Devil Ancestor forced Azure Cloud Great Sage to attack Bright Mountain, where the bird’s self-destruction devastated the sect and fed the Devil Ancestor’s power. Zheng Fa and Senior Sister Zhang sheltered the survivors in the Nine Mountains Realm, and the chapter ended with the Green Duckweed Sword suddenly driving the Devil Ancestor away after Zheng Fa followed Yan Wushuang’s mysterious instruction.

• The Great Freedom Devil Ancestor seized Azure Cloud Great Sage’s Spirit Treasure and compelled him to fly toward Bright Mountain as the Demonic Sect’s vanguard.
• Azure Cloud Great Sage attacked Bright Mountain, then exploded when First Seat Mingde recognized that he was acting under a Demonic Sect secret art, killing many disciples and severing the mountain’s Spirit Vein.
• The Great Freedom Devil Ancestor absorbed Azure Cloud Great Sage’s blood and Divine Soul, then used the Black Moon to suppress most spiritual powers and confront the survivors, leaving only the Green Duckweed Sword able to resist.
• Zheng Fa rescued Yan Wushuang with the Sun-Moon Bell, while Senior Sister Zhang used the Pure Tranquility Bamboo to destroy the Devil Ancestor’s Black Moon inside the Nine Mountains Realm and protect the retreating cultivators.
• Yan Wushuang sent Zheng Fa a message telling him to circulate the Nine Mountains Golden Core Method, and the Green Duckweed Sword then summoned a starry phenomenon that made the Great Freedom Devil Ancestor flee.
• Xie Qingxue was left puzzled by the Green Duckweed Sword’s sudden power, which seemed to have been wielded by the Founder.

Zheng Fa learned more about the Green Duckweed Sword’s connection to the fallen Tianhe branch, refused First Seat Mingde’s offer to join the Supreme Dao, and heard Mu Qingyan’s memories of a future where the Tianhe Sect had perished. Meanwhile, the Great Freedom Devil Ancestor slaughtered the inhabitants of Great Freedom Heaven and forged the Myriad Demon Banner, declaring his pursuit of the Demon Emperor Dao Fruit.

• Zheng Fa learned from Yan Wushuang that the Tianhe Sect had once had five branches, and that the branch founded by Venerable Tianhe’s third disciple had perished.
• First Seat Mingde offered Zheng Fa a First Seat position in the Supreme Dao, but Zheng Fa declined, and Venerable Tongming later delivered Jade Slips listing Bright Mountain’s and Venerable Chengkong’s treasures.
• Mu Qingyan confessed that she was reborn and asked Zheng Fa to take her as a disciple; Zheng Fa told her she would need to pass an exam before he would consider it.
• Mu Qingyan said that her memories came from a future in which the Tianhe Sect had been destroyed and the Great Freedom Devil Ancestor had become known as the Great Freedom Demon Emperor.
• The Great Freedom Devil Ancestor entered Great Freedom Heaven with Netherworld Immortal, used the Avici Sword to slaughter its inhabitants, and combined five Blood-Baleful Flags into the Myriad Demon Banner to pursue the Demon Emperor Dao Fruit.

The Five Sects of Xuanwei decided not to stop Great Freedom Devil Ancestor from pursuing the Demon Emperor Dao Fruit, leaving Zheng Fa exposed to the Devil Ancestor’s growing power and the rival sects’ interest in his Pure Tranquility Bamboo. As the Supreme Dao and Jade Pool tried to recruit him, Xie Qingxue confronted Yan Wushuang over his conduct involving the Green Duckweed Sword and arrived to confront Zheng Fa.

• First Seat Mingde explained that Great Freedom Devil Ancestor was pursuing the Demon Emperor Dao Fruit, and the Five Sects chose to withdraw rather than fight him.
• First Seat Mingde sent Venerable Chengkong to offer Zheng Fa the Supreme Dao’s unchanged terms, while Xie Qingxue told Yan Wushuang that Tianhe Sect could not contain Zheng Fa.
• Xie Qingxue interrogated Yan Wushuang about his remarks concerning the Green Duckweed Sword and his claim that he was comprehending the Founder’s secret art.
• Venerable Lingxia offered Zheng Fa more Incense Prayer Beads and Jade Pool’s help against Thunderclap Temple if he joined Jade Pool, but Zheng Fa pointed out that she offered more than the Supreme Dao.
• Xie Qingxue arrived from Bright Mountain with the Green Duckweed Sword and glared at Zheng Fa as Venerable Chengkong warned her not to force him.

Xie Qingxue confronted Zheng Fa over the Nine Mountains Golden Core Method, fearing Tianhe Sect would treat it as a threat to its inheritance. After Zheng Fa revealed the secret behind Founder Shouzhong and the Green Duckweed Sword, she agreed to defend him and let him borrow the sword, leaving Venerable Chengkong baffled by their changed relationship.

• Yan Wushuang warned Zheng Fa that Xie Qingxue had learned about the Nine Mountains Golden Core Method, but she had already arrived to confront him.
• Xie Qingxue accused Zheng Fa of coveting Tianhe Sect's secret method and demanded that Nine Mountains Sect stop using its method and hand it over.
• Zheng Fa explained that the method had been researched independently, then revealed that Founder Shouzhong had secretly sought to restore Patriarch Tianhe through the Green Duckweed Sword.
• Xie Qingxue admitted that her branch nourished the Green Duckweed Sword with its cultivator, and that the sword resonated with Zheng Fa's method.
• Xie Qingxue promised to tell Tianhe Sect's elders that the Nine Mountains Golden Core Method was unrelated to the Nine-Turn Golden Core Method, while Zheng Fa asked to borrow her sword and spiritual power.
• Venerable Chengkong watched Zheng Fa and Xie Qingxue emerge together and remarked that a sweet melon seemed to have delivered itself into Zheng Fa's hands.

Xie Qingxue joined Zheng Fa's work on the Nine Mountains Golden Core Method, while the Fusang Wood in the Nine Mountains Realm neared maturity. When Zheng Fa touched the Spirit Mulberry, its flower released a red light that solidified the Fusang Wood in his dantian and triggered visions across the realm.

• Xie Qingxue returned to Yan Wushuang and warned him to stop revealing secrets of the Nine Mountains Realm, then joined Zheng Fa in testing how the Green Duckweed Sword reacted to the Nine Mountains Golden Core Method.
• Xie Qingxue demonstrated Sword Refining into Silk, and she and Zheng Fa advanced the Nine Mountains Golden Core Method to its fourth turn.
• Zheng Fa and the others saw the Spirit Mulberry grow golden leaves and bloom as the Pure Tranquility Bamboo rejected it; Xie Qingxue explained that a Grotto-Heaven World could not contain two Heaven-and-Earth Spirit Roots.
• When the Spirit Mulberry failed to bear fruit, Xie Qingxue suggested moving it to the Xuanwei Realm, but Zheng Fa touched it and activated the Fusang Wood within himself.
• The Spirit Mulberry's flower released red light into Zheng Fa's dantian, where the Fusang Wood solidified beneath the Yin-Yang Fish Jade Pendant, while dragon, phoenix, Kunpeng, and Black Tortoise visions appeared across the Nine Mountains Realm.

Zheng Fa’s Azure Yang Dao Body transformed toward the Fusang Wood, revealing his claim to the true Demon Emperor Dao Fruit just as the Great Freedom Devil Ancestor tried to recruit Swallowing Sea Ancestor. After sensing Zheng Fa’s breakthrough, the Devil Ancestor turned his attention toward him, leaving the Nine Mountains Sect to consider seeking refuge with the Supreme Dao or defending itself.

• Zheng Fa’s Fusang Wood nourished his body and Nascent Soul, and his vision showed the tree’s connection to the Golden Crow and the source of demonic vitality.
• The Great Freedom Devil Ancestor tried to recruit Swallowing Sea Ancestor, who refused to recognize him as the Demon Emperor.
• The Great Freedom Devil Ancestor sensed the Fusang Wood’s emergence and learned from Netherworld Immortal that Zheng Fa was not yet thirty.
• The Great Freedom Devil Ancestor swept Swallowing Sea Ancestor into the Myriad Demon Banner and looked toward the Nine Mountains Realm.
• Zheng Fa discussed the threat with Senior Sister Zhang and the others, weighing refuge with the Supreme Dao against defending the Nine Mountains Realm themselves.

Zheng Fa and the Nine Mountains leaders rejected refuge with the Supreme Dao and chose to face the Great Freedom Devil Ancestor themselves. He tried to persuade Xie Qingxue that the Nine Mountains Realm offered a path to change the Immortal Sect without reviving Patriarch Tianhe, and ended by sending her a book titled Immortal Way.

• Uncle-Master Pang, Madam Xuanhua, Senior Sister Zhang, and the others agreed with Zheng Fa that the Nine Mountains Realm should not seek refuge with the Supreme Dao.
• Senior Sister Zhang urged Zheng Fa to fight the Great Freedom Devil Ancestor rather than join an old-fashioned Xuanwei sect.
• Xie Qingxue resisted cooperating with Zheng Fa in their Green Duckweed Sword practice, while Yan Wushuang told her Zheng Fa had rejected the Supreme Dao, Vast Sun Mountain, and Jade Pool.
• Zheng Fa showed Xie Qingxue the Nine Mountains Realm’s cities, schools, and agricultural work, arguing that its people could help change the Immortal Sect without reviving Patriarch Tianhe.
• Zheng Fa sent Xie Qingxue a box containing a new book titled Immortal Way.

Xie Qingxue and Yan Wushuang read Zheng Fa’s new journal, Immortal Way, and recognized how its collective approach could transform cultivation in the Nine Mountains Realm. Zheng Fa’s reforged Creation Jade Disc accelerated his cultivation toward the Nascent Soul, while Wuzhi discovered Great Freedom Devil Ancestor’s enthronement ceremony and was invited inside.

• Yan Wushuang found Xie Qingxue absorbed in Immortal Way, whose articles and principles impressed them both.
• Xie Qingxue concluded that Zheng Fa’s path could involve ordinary people in studying and benefiting from the Immortal Way.
• After forming a Five-Element Ring, Zheng Fa’s Creation Jade Disc began cultivating on its own and rapidly accelerated his Nascent Soul’s growth.
• Xie Qingxue estimated that Zheng Fa could surpass Yan Wushuang’s cultivation in three months if his method did not improve further.
• Wuzhi detected Great Freedom Devil Ancestor’s enthronement ceremony, approached the palace complex, and received an invitation to enter.

Wuzhi agreed to help the Great Freedom Demon Emperor oppose Zheng Fa in exchange for the Pure Tranquility Bamboo, while Zheng Fa learned how the Demon Emperor Dao Fruit depended on a ceremony and an audience. When Zheng Fa’s cultivation caused the Fusang Wood to affect the Modern World, it sparked widespread improvements and new Spirit Plants, and Tang Lingwu claimed she might understand Dao Fruits.

• Wuzhi met the Great Freedom Demon Emperor, who offered him the Pure Tranquility Bamboo in exchange for helping kill Zheng Fa and seize the Nine Mountains Realm.
• The Great Freedom Demon Emperor explained that he planned to draw Zheng Fa out by holding a Demon Emperor Ascension Ceremony and gaining the Demon Race’s recognition.
• Chen Ting secretly sent Zheng Fa a warning about the ceremony, and Xie Qingxue explained that Dao Fruits were rules strengthened through an audience and a formal ritual.
• Zheng Fa’s Azure Yang Dao Body resonated with the sun, creating a startling image of him and the Fusang Wood in the sky above the Modern World.
• The Nursing Home’s scholars reported improved health and martial arts, while Professor Tian and Elder Hou discovered several new Spirit Plants growing in the experimental fields.
• Tang Lingwu told Zheng Fa that she thought she might know what a Dao Fruit was.

Tang Lingwu proposed that Talisman Diagrams were genetic information encoded in Spiritual-Energy Cell Nuclei, offering Zheng Fa a new way to understand Dao Fruits and cultivation. As the Fusang Wood brought spiritual energy to the Modern World, Zheng Fa agreed to help reveal the Nursing Home’s work in a documentary, whose debut caught the attention of a student practicing Internal Force.

• Tang Lingwu showed Zheng Fa and the others how newly emerged Talisman Diagrams resembled the structure inside a Spiritual-Energy Cell Nucleus and suggested that spells, Dao methods, and Dao Fruits worked like genes, replication, and mutation.
• Tang Lingwu asked Zheng Fa to take her shopping, and he promised they could go out together more often.
• Group Leader Yang told Zheng Fa that people who had practiced Broadcast Calisthenics were cultivating Internal Force, and Zheng Fa discovered that the Fusang Wood had brought spiritual energy to the Modern World.
• Zheng Fa agreed to meet officials and help make a documentary about the Nursing Home, including its agriculture, the Simplified Golden Core, and Zheng Fa’s own accomplishments.
• Zhao Yi saw the documentary Seeking Immortality appear on his video app after discussing whether to leave school with other students who had trained Internal Force.

Zhao Yi watched a documentary revealing that President Zheng had enabled miraculous crops and controlled nuclear fusion, then saw Zheng Fa bring down a foreign reconnaissance satellite. The episode left Zhao Yi eager to acknowledge Zheng Fa as his master.

• Mother Zhao scolded Zhao Yi for pursuing martial arts, but they watched a documentary about Elder Hou cultivating high-yield Nine Mountains No. 2 rice.
• Elder Hou credited President Zheng with developing the spiritual plants, and Zhao Yi's mother reflected on how food might have helped her late father.
• Zhao Yi watched Professor Wang and other experts explain that a Simplified Golden Core had enabled controlled nuclear fusion, and he excitedly described its promise to his mother.
• The documentary introduced Zheng Fa as the immortal behind the breakthroughs, surprising Zhao Yi and Mother Zhao with his ordinary appearance.
• Zheng Fa pointed toward the sky, and a foreign reconnaissance satellite fell into the Nursing Home courtyard; a news report described it as a mysterious malfunction.

After Zheng Fa's documentary drove Zhao Yi and others toward academic preparation for an Immortal Cultivation Research Academy, Zheng Fa discovered that public attention had changed the Fusang Wood and mutated the Demon Emperor Dao Fruit. Great Freedom Demon Emperor began his enthronement ceremony, but the crown forming for him exploded, leaving his ascension in doubt.

• Zhao Yi watched Zheng Fa announce that the Immortal Cultivation Research Academy would recruit through recommendations and graduate entrance examinations, then joined his friends in focusing on study.
• Zheng Fa noticed new purple markings on the Fusang Wood's flower and sensed that public reactions had changed the Demon Emperor Dao Fruit.
• Senior Sister Yuan and the Little Golden Crow sensed that Zheng Fa had changed, and Zheng Fa and Senior Sister Zhang suspected the Demon Emperor Dao Fruit had mutated.
• Great Freedom Demon Emperor prepared to claim the Demon Emperor Dao Fruit while Wuzhi observed, and the gathered demons acclaimed him during the enthronement ceremony.
• The sun, moon, and stars formed a crown, robe, and Jade Seal for Great Freedom Demon Emperor, but the incomplete crown exploded and the other regalia dimmed.

The Great Freedom Demon Emperor and the Netherworld Immortal separately resolved to move against Zheng Fa, while Zheng Fa continued training with Xie Qingxue and considered Venerable Tongming’s offer to entrust him with the Hundred Immortals Alliance. Zheng Fa accepted the alliance’s remaining sects under strict mutual-defense rules and a customs union, leaving them relieved by the lack of tribute demands.

• The Great Freedom Demon Emperor told Wuzhi that he would rally the ten thousand demons and attack Nine Mountains before Zheng Fa’s Demon Emperor Dao Fruit fully transformed.
• The Netherworld Immortal persuaded Chen Ting that they needed Zheng Fa or the Supreme Dao to kill or gravely wound the Great Freedom Demon Emperor, and Chen Ting used the Nine Nether Talisman Edict.
• Zheng Fa and Xie Qingxue practiced swordsmanship together, while Yan Wushuang asked to learn the Nine Mountains Golden Core Method and Xie Qingxue threatened him against it.
• Venerable Tongming asked Zheng Fa to take in Bright Mountain’s remaining disciples and lead the Hundred Immortals Alliance before returning to the Supreme Dao with First Seat Mingde.
• Zheng Fa agreed to take over the Hundred Immortals Alliance, then presented its Sect Leaders with a Mutual Watch and Aid Treaty and a Customs Union Treaty that required no Attendant tribute.
• The Hundred Immortals Alliance’s Sect Leaders signed the treaties and welcomed the arrangement, while their expressions toward Venerable Tongming turned irritated.

After Zheng Fa took control of the Hundred Immortals Alliance, he discovered that his changing Dao Fruit strengthened his ability to teach, while Mu Qingyan warned him that Vast Sun Mountain had fought over the Alliance's territory. As the Great Freedom Demon Emperor raised an army to attack Nine Mountains, Xie Qingxue chose to stay and fight; meanwhile, Shi Nandang learned that every Vast-Sun Mulberry in Vast Sun Mountain had burned away and suspected Zheng Fa was involved.

• Uncle-Master Pang celebrated renewed contact with his old Hundred Immortals Alliance acquaintances, while Zheng Fa explained that he valued the Alliance's territory and market more than controlling its sects.
• Zheng Fa tested whether his changing Dao Fruit enhanced his teaching by bringing Senior Sister Yuan to an Advanced Talisman Arts lesson, and she suddenly understood a Wood-Fire Linked Talisman and felt her spirit flame grow stronger.
• Mu Qingyan told Zheng Fa about the major powers that arose after the Hundred Immortals Alliance fell and said Vast Sun Mountain had repeatedly fought the Great Freedom Demon Emperor for its territory.
• First Seat Mingde and the other departing Spirit Transformations left after Zheng Fa refused to join the Supreme Dao, while Xie Qingxue remained with Nine Mountains.
• Senior Sister Zhang's Communication Talisman warned that the Great Freedom Demon Emperor had raised an army to destroy Nine Mountains and seize the Dao Fruit, and Xie Qingxue chose to stay because she had not finished learning the Nine Mountains Golden Core Method.
• A Vast Sun Mountain elder told Shi Nandang that all the sect's Vast-Sun Mulberries had burned to ash, and Shi Nandang recalled that Zheng Fa had received a branch from First Seat Mingde.

As the Great Freedom Demon Emperor flooded the Eastern Continent to force Zheng Fa out, Zhao Jingfan and the Azure Wood Sect fled while Zheng Fa received a secret art from the Nine Nether Devil Ancestor. Zheng Fa chose to confront the Demon Emperor, and the Sun-Moon Bell advanced toward him as the chapter ended.

• Zhao Jingfan returned to the Azure Wood Sect, but the Great Freedom Demon Emperor flooded its grounds and forced its disciples to flee.
• The Vast Sun Mountain Dao Fruit confronted the Demon Emperor, who admitted breaking his agreement and said he wanted to kill Zheng Fa before returning to the Sea Region.
• Zhao Jingfan sent Zheng Fa a warning, while Zheng Fa debated whether to defend the Hundred Immortals Alliance or retreat to the Nine Mountains Realm.
• Zheng Fa received messages claiming the Nine Nether Devil Ancestor had planted a hidden move in the Great Freedom Devil Ancestor and sent them a secret art passed down by Venerable Tianhe.
• Xie Qingxue confirmed that the Green Duckweed Sword reacted to the secret art, and Zheng Fa and his allies decided to try it.
• When the flood threatened a little girl, Zheng Fa sent the Sun-Moon Bell toward the Great Freedom Demon Emperor.

Zheng Fa and his allies fought the Great Freedom Demon Emperor, whose attacks revealed that he wanted the Fusang Wood and was willing to sacrifice his followers to kill Zheng Fa. Zheng Fa defeated him with Xie Qingxue's sword and Chen Ting's help, and the chapter ended with a sign that a Dao Fruit had died, deterring Immortal Luo from seizing the Fusang Wood.

• Immortal Luo and the Five Sects recognized the unprecedented significance of Zheng Fa, a Golden Core cultivator, confronting the Great Freedom Demon Emperor, while Immortal Luo hesitated because he suspected Zheng Fa possessed the Fusang Wood.
• The Great Freedom Demon Emperor trapped Zheng Fa in his desires, then shattered the Sun-Moon Bell's defenses and breached the Nine Mountains Realm with the Myriad Demon Banner.
• The Fusang Wood manifested behind Zheng Fa and subdued the demon totems, while Immortal Luo revealed his eagerness to claim the tree and the Great Freedom Demon Emperor unleashed a desperate attack that consumed his followers.
• Zheng Fa and Xie Qingxue joined forces to pierce the Great Freedom Demon Emperor with the Demon-Sweeping sword, and Chen Ting's intervention helped them destroy the talisman diagrams sustaining him.
• Blood rain and an eerie white sky signaled that a Dao Fruit had died, causing Immortal Luo to abandon his chance to seize the Fusang Wood as Zheng Fa faced him.