Chapter Summaries

Zheng Fa and his allies traced the Clear Spirit Pill’s former ingredient, the Spirit-Fusing Flower, to the erased Five-Element Orchid through records gathered by Zhao Jingfan and Xie Qingxue. Their discovery revealed Xiao Yuying’s skill in textual research, and Zheng Fa turned to Zhao Jingfan after learning the Azure Wood Sect was short on resources.

• Zhao Jingfan searched the Azure Wood Sect’s records and sent Zheng Fa a large collection of Clear Spirit Pill materials, but Zheng Fa and Xiao Yuying found no immediate clue to the Five-Element Orchid.
• Yan Wushuang and Xie Qingxue reacted with envy to Zhao Jingfan’s confidence and comfortable standing in the Azure Wood Sect as he went to question Sect Master Song.
• Sect Master Song told Zhao Jingfan that the Clear Spirit Pill’s original formula had used the Spirit-Fusing Flower before that ingredient was replaced.
• Xiao Yuying identified records suggesting the Spirit-Fusing Flower appeared at the start of the current Epoch, leading Zheng Fa to suspect it was another name for the Five-Element Orchid.
• Xie Qingxue shared an incomplete passage from a Celestial River Sect predecessor that linked the Spirit-Fusing Flower to a valuable pill, strengthening Zheng Fa’s theory that the orchid’s history had been concealed.
• Xiao Yuying recognized the value of her own research skills, and Zheng Fa asked Zhao Jingfan about the Azure Wood Sect’s financial troubles.

Zheng Fa proposed a voluntary Technology Alliance to attract skilled cultivators from the Hundred Immortals Alliance through profit-sharing and opportunities to enter the Nine Mountains Realm, a plan Xiao Yuying recognized as a way to weaken rival sects. As the Azure Wood Sect weighed his offer amid severe losses, Zhao Jingfan urged Sect Master Song to accept and prove the sect’s loyalty.

• Zheng Fa explained his plan to recruit cultivators with valuable skills through voluntary technological partnerships, profit dividends, and possible entry into the Nine Mountains Realm.
• Xiao Yuying warned that the plan could draw talented cultivators away from their sects and leave the Hundred Immortals Alliance unable to resist the Nine Mountains Sect.
• Sect Master Song and the Azure Wood Sect elders debated Zheng Fa’s offer, while worrying about the Profound Mystery Sect’s defiance and the Five Sects’ possible involvement.
• The Azure Wood Sect elders reported that their Medicine Garden had been devastated, medicinal ingredients were scarce, and they could no longer fill orders.
• Sect Master Song asked Zhao Jingfan whether the Azure Wood Sect should accept the offer, and Zhao Jingfan urged him to agree and demonstrate the sect’s loyalty to Zheng Fa.

Sect Master Song decided the Azure Wood Sect should join Zheng Fa’s Technology Alliance after weighing Zheng Fa’s treatment of his followers against Vast Sun Mountain’s harsh demands. On a tour of the Nine Mountains Realm, the Azure Wood Sect saw its thriving market and a Medicine Garden filled with herbs it desperately needed, leaving its leaders stunned by how precisely the visit tempted them.

• Sect Master Song argued that Zheng Fa was cautious and protective of his own, and that the Azure Wood Sect could recover by joining his alliance.
• Sect Master Song showed the Great Elder a message describing Vast Sun Mountain’s taxes and forced labor, convincing the Great Elder to stop opposing the alliance, though he remained unwilling to surrender the sect’s secret arts.
• Sect Master Song and the Azure Wood Sect delegation arrived at Heavenly Palace Island for a tour alongside the Plain Maiden Pavilion, signed confidentiality agreements, and followed Senior Sister Zhang.
• Senior Sister Zhang showed them Economic Development Island Market, where Sect Master Song learned their rented shop could be transferred for more than ten times its rent and saw the bustling market and Divine Firmament Warships.
• The Great Elder recognized a True Spirit Sect pill shop and lamented that the Azure Wood Sect lacked the medicinal ingredients needed to compete.
• Senior Sister Zhang took the Azure Wood Sect delegation to the Medicine Garden, where Sect Master Song and the Great Elder found abundant, vigorous crops of herbs once grown by their sect, and Sect Master Song suspected Zhao Jingfan had revealed their needs.

Nine Mountains Sect demonstrated its improved spirit-herb cultivation and mass-produced External Cores to persuade Azure Wood Sect to join the Technology Alliance. Sect Master Song agreed, while the chapter left him convinced that Nine Mountains Sect’s growing industrial power would make the Profound Mystery Sect’s opposition irrelevant.

• Qian True Person showed Elder Xiong and Sect Master Song Starpoint Grass cultivated to match older herbs, and Senior Sister Zhang offered Azure Wood Sect cheaper medicinal supplies and a place in the Technology Alliance.
• Elder Xiong urged Sect Master Song to join, and Sect Master Song agreed before following Senior Sister Zhang to meet Zheng Fa.
• Madam Xuanhua’s Foundation Establishment disciples used the Immortal Formation Method to mass-produce a Divine Firmament External Alchemy, astonishing Sect Master Song.
• Zheng Fa showed Sect Master Song and the others a completed Divine Firmament Warship, designed to share most of its components with the Divine Firmament Flying Vessel.
• Senior Sister Zhang warned that the Profound Mystery Sect might harbor disloyal intentions, but Zheng Fa said it did not matter; Sect Master Song was relieved that Azure Wood Sect had joined Nine Mountains Sect’s rising enterprise.
• Zhao Jingfan noticed Sect Master Song’s unusually warm smile and wondered whether he should remain in the Nine Mountains Realm.

Zheng Fa secured the Azure Wood Sect’s agreement to join the Technology Alliance and learned that the Profound Mystery Sect had backing from Vast Sun Mountain. After Zhao Jingfan was selected as the Azure Wood Sect’s future leader, Zheng Fa gave Elder Xiong forbidden Five-Element Orchid pill formulas to study, leaving him alarmed by the secret’s danger.

• Zheng Fa explained the Alchemist Guild’s cooperation, training, assessment, journal, and patent plans, and Sect Master Song signed the agreement after Elder Xiong voiced confidence in the Azure Wood Sect’s ability to compete.
• Sect Master Song blamed Tang Chaoxian for his suspicions and revealed that the Profound Mystery Sect might be backed by Vast Sun Mountain, prompting Zheng Fa and Senior Sister Zhang to discuss the threat.
• Sect Master Song and Elder Xiong chose Zhao Jingfan as the Azure Wood Sect’s future Sect Leader and arranged for him to study Alchemy Dao under Elder Xiong so he could protect the sect’s interests.
• Zhao Jingfan decided that, as the future Sect Leader, he should stop giving away the Azure Wood Sect’s resources and became newly loyal to it.
• Zheng Fa handed Elder Xiong formulas involving the Five-Element Orchid, explained that the Five Sects prohibited people from knowing about the plant, and warned him to keep the experiments secret.

Zheng Fa recruited Elder Xiong to develop spiritual pills from Venerable Tianhe’s pill formulas, offering unlimited funding and a chance at Spirit Transformation while establishing a cautious, data-driven testing process. Madam Xuanhua revealed her history with the Profound Mystery Sect and her wish to use its artifact-refining methods to clear her husband’s name, while Zheng Fa’s modern-world support began mobilizing for the First Five-Year Plan.

• Zheng Fa persuaded Elder Xiong to research the pill formulas by promising unlimited investment, Merit that could lead to Spirit Transformation, and support from Madam Xuanhua and Jiao Wuji.
• Zheng Fa explained that Elder Xiong’s pill-making would be recorded and the pills tested for efficacy and safety before Zheng Fa took them himself.
• Elder Xiong welcomed the chance to use the Nine Mountains Sect’s abundant herbs and research Venerable Tianhe’s pills, deciding that joining the sect was a profitable bargain despite the danger from the Five Sects.
• Madam Xuanhua recognized that Zheng Fa wanted to collect alchemy data and build a new Nine Mountains Alchemy Dao through repeated experiments.
• Madam Xuanhua told Zheng Fa that a Profound Mystery Sect true disciple had framed and killed her husband to seize his artifact-refining method, and asked to study the sect’s methods after its destruction so she could present an improved version to its Grand Elder.
• In the modern Nursing Home, Zheng Fa and Tang Lingwu arranged orders with specialists and institutes to support the First Five-Year Plan, leaving Team Leader Yang overwhelmed by the workload.

Zheng Fa planned to invest Nine Mountains Grain Company’s profits in modern research and talent to develop mining technology for the Xuanwei Realm, and he revealed the other world to Old Man Bai, Tang Lingwu, and Tang Mudao. The chapter ended with Zheng Fa and Tang Lingwu visiting a struggling mining research institute as unusually promising clients.

• Zheng Fa explained that he wanted to fund researchers and develop exploration, extraction, and refining technology for the First Fifty-Year Plan, then told Old Man Bai, Tang Lingwu, and Tang Mudao about the Xuanwei Realm.
• Old Man Bai discovered that his work was credited in the Nine Mountains Sect’s Talisman Canon, while Tang Lingwu learned that she was chief editor of the Nine Mountains Agricultural Canon.
• Tang Lingwu went to cultivate so she could help Zheng Fa in the Xuanwei Realm, and Old Man Bai followed to practice the Five-Thunder Dharma Form.
• At a struggling mining research institute, a young researcher considered leaving for an overseas job while the director announced that a major client had come looking for them.
• Zheng Fa and Tang Lingwu arrived at the institute, startling the staff who had assumed the client was a scammer.

Zheng Fa funded research institutes to develop machinery suited to the Nine Mountains Realm and returned to the Nursing Home, where he learned that Tang Lingwu was cultivating so she could stand beside him. While seeking ways to improve modern cultivation, he discovered Zhou Miaomiao’s idea for a spiritual-energy scanner and committed resources to her project.

• Zheng Fa and Tang Lingwu offered an old research institute advance funding to design equipment for Nine Mountains Realm ores and Divine Firmament External Alchemy.
• The institute director organized a three-month push, and Huang Yi and the bald researcher volunteered for the project as Huang Yi married his girlfriend.
• Old Man Bai and Professor Tian told Zheng Fa that Tang Lingwu was cultivating harder because she wanted to help him, and Zheng Fa decided to focus on what he could do to support her.
• Zheng Fa found Zhou Miaomiao’s paper proposing a scanner that used Five-Element Sub-Talismans to measure spiritual energy in the human body.
• Zheng Fa promised Zhou Miaomiao funding, staff, and spiritual medicine for the scanner project, then wondered what device Senior Sister Zhang had used to test his Spirit Root.

Zheng Fa oversaw the first results of a Spiritual-Energy Measuring Device, which could quantify spiritual energy and reveal how cultivators’ abilities differed. The chapter ended with him inspecting an enormous, six-legged mining prototype with three heads and six arms, built to test multiple designs at once.

• Research institutes and universities sent Zheng Fa more than three hundred proposals, and Team Leader Yang explained that they had worked urgently because many saw his project as a lifeline.
• Zheng Fa told Tang Mudao to evaluate the proposals for compatibility with Divine Firmament External Alchemy and build a prototype, then learned that Zhou Miaomiao had completed a Spiritual-Energy Measuring Device.
• Zhou Miaomiao explained that the device measured Spiritual-Energy Level Values, and tests showed that Old Man Bai’s Five-Thunder Dharma Form produced an unusually high reading while Tang Lingwu’s Foundation Establishment reading was far higher still.
• Tang Lingwu pulled Zheng Fa to the device, whose display filled with asterisks because his value exceeded its one-hundred-million limit; Zheng Fa attributed this partly to his Golden Core and Fusang Wood and recognized the scanner’s potential uses.
• Zhou Miaomiao asked Zheng Fa about pills for changing her appearance, and Tang Lingwu joined in; Zheng Fa promised to look into them and teased Tang Lingwu.
• Zheng Fa inspected the experimental mining machine and found a nearly forty-meter-tall, six-legged construct with three heads and six arms, designed to test twelve possible configurations.

Zheng Fa’s modern-world mining robot Nezha No. 1 passed its flight, ore-prospecting, drilling, mining, and stealth tests, while its broadcast astonished researchers and onlookers. Back in the Nine Mountains Realm, Madam Xuanhua became captivated by the mechanical blueprints and sought to pursue a new Artifact Dao, as Xiao Yuying prepared to investigate a Nascent Soul alchemist’s ruins for clues to Zheng Fa’s Golden Core method.

• Tang Lingwu piloted Nezha No. 1 through its flight, ore-prospecting, drilling, mining, and stealth tests near Rainbow Mountain.
• Huang Yi and the researchers at the Southern Mountains Provincial Mining Research Institute watched the news report and realized their designs had been incorporated into a machine that could become invisible.
• Zheng Fa showed Madam Xuanhua the Divine Firmament Warship modification blueprints, and she asked to resign as master of the Heavenly Crafts Pavilion so she could study the Artifact Dao.
• Senior Sister Zhang persuaded Madam Xuanhua to build a Spiritual-Energy Measuring Device before entering seclusion, and Zheng Fa offered her more materials to study in exchange for Merit.
• Xiao Yuying agreed to lead Mu Qingyan and the other disciples to a Secret Realm left by a Nascent Soul alchemist and search for clues to an incomplete pill formula.

Elder Xiong struggled to perfect a spirit pill that could affect the Nine Mountains Golden Core Method, while Zheng Fa arranged a second experiment using Zhao Jingfan and the Nine Mountains Sect disciples. Elder Xiong agreed to let Zhao Jingfan teach them, determined to prove his own alchemical approach superior.

• Elder Xiong failed another pill refinement, and the Nine Mountains Sect disciples recorded and analyzed the failed pills despite his resentment toward their suggestions.
• Zheng Fa learned that Elder Xiong's pills had begun to trigger a response from the External Core, but their medicinal potency remained insufficient and could kill spirit pigs.
• Zheng Fa urged Elder Xiong to consider the disciples' experimental records, but Elder Xiong insisted on trying his own ideas first.
• Zheng Fa explained to Zhao Jingfan that the sect would run a parallel experiment, using the disciples' observations and Zhao Jingfan's alchemy training to improve the pill independently.
• Zhao Jingfan told Elder Xiong about the second experiment, and Elder Xiong agreed to teach the disciples everything so he could prove his approach superior.

Zheng Fa led the Nine Mountains Sect’s experimental effort to refine a spirit pill, using detailed records and controlled tests to improve its medicinal potency and reduce its poison. After discovering Frostleaf required Water-Method Alchemy, Elder Xiong rushed to explain the secret art, only to find Zheng Fa already holding a Frostleaf solution and questioning whether it was really so precious.

• Sect Master Song and Elder Xiong mobilized Azure Wood Sect’s alchemists to protect the sect’s standing against the Nine Mountains Sect’s new alchemy methods.
• Zheng Fa showed Zhao Jingfan the transparent pill furnace and explained how the disciples were testing temperature, pressure, spiritual energy, and spell formulas.
• Zheng Fa’s team repeated and analyzed Elder Xiong’s recorded attempts, then tested more than one hundred and sixty possible changes over several months.
• A new batch of pills matched the strongest medicinal effect achieved by Elder Xiong, and Zheng Fa connected Frostleaf’s behavior to reducing impurities.
• Xiao Fairy found a Frostleaf pill formula in a Nascent Soul alchemist’s records, prompting Elder Xiong to recognize the need for Water-Method Alchemy.
• Elder Xiong hurried to tell Zheng Fa that Water-Method Alchemy was a rare secret art, but found Zheng Fa already holding a Frostleaf solution.

Zheng Fa used Frostleaf extraction to refine potent top-grade pills, prompting Elder Xiong to confront the limits of traditional alchemy and then join the experiments. Meanwhile, Senior Sister Zhang presented the Alchemist Guild rules, and Sect Master Song surprised the other sect leaders by offering Azure Wood Sect’s secret arts for reform.

• Zheng Fa’s team refined clear blue pills from Frostleaf solution, and Madam Xuanhua confirmed that their potent medicinal properties could support testing the Yin Five Elements portion of the Nine Mountains Golden Core Method.
• Elder Xiong studied Zheng Fa’s experiment records, questioned the place of secret techniques in alchemy, and agreed to help improve the new pills.
• Senior Sister Zhang oversaw preparations for the Technology Alliance’s guilds as alchemy sect leaders gathered at Azure Wood Sect to oppose guild rules on textbooks, patents, and journals.
• Sect Master Song told the sect leaders he would raise their objections, but privately recognized their resistance and motives.
• At the Alchemist Guild meeting, Sect Master Song declared that Azure Wood Sect wanted to contribute all its secret arts to cooperation with Nine Mountains Sect.

Zheng Fa’s sect completed the Divine Origin Great Pill, allowing him to prepare for Nascent Soul Formation using the Nine Mountains Golden Core Method, while Senior Sister Zhang organized safeguards and observation plans. Elsewhere, Sect Master Yan revealed that Vast Sun Mountain was covertly supporting the Profound Mystery Sect to hinder the Nine Mountains Sect and the Hundred Immortals Alliance.

• Sect Master Song offered Azure Wood Sect’s alchemical secret art for improvement, accepted patent terms, and was appointed president of the Alchemist Guild.
• Madam Xuanhua and the Nine Mountains Sect verified the Divine Origin Great Pill, and Zheng Fa announced that he would form his Nascent Soul.
• Zheng Fa proposed undergoing Nascent Soul Formation under observation to gather data, and Senior Sister Zhang assigned cultivators to prepare reports, instruments, and contingency plans.
• Zheng Fa told Xiao Yuying that the pill was ready, while Xiao Yuying concealed her War Chariot after sensing a powerful cultivator heading toward the Profound Mystery Sect.
• Sect Master Yan told Xie Qingxue that Vast Sun Mountain was supporting the Profound Mystery Sect and intended to obstruct Zheng Fa and the Hundred Immortals Alliance without openly breaking the pact.

Xie Qingxue learned that Tianhe Sect feared Vast Sun Mountain more than Zheng Fa, but worried that Zheng Fa lacked the strength to face a true Dao Fruit expert. She then discovered he was already preparing for Nascent Soul Formation; as he demonstrated the process to the Nine Mountains Sect, his tribulation produced an unprecedented manifestation of the Heavenly Venerable.

• Sect Master Yan warned Xie Qingxue that the Five Sects might not give Zheng Fa much time, while hinting that Tianhe Sect was more wary of Vast Sun Mountain than of Zheng Fa.
• Xie Qingxue considered how Vast Sun Mountain could destabilize the Hundred Immortals Alliance and burden Zheng Fa, but held back her warning after learning he was about to form his Nascent Soul.
• Yan Wushuang told Xie Qingxue that Zheng Fa had perfected the Nine Mountains Golden Core Method, and Zheng Fa's message confirmed he was preparing for Nascent Soul Formation.
• Zheng Fa used his tribulation as a lesson for the Nine Mountains Sect, explaining the Nine Mountains Golden Core Method and taking the Divine Origin Great Pill before beginning his tribulation.
• As the disciples prepared to measure the tribulation, the storm clouds formed a black stele and produced a figure Zheng Fa recognized as the Heavenly Venerable; the Spiritual-Energy Measuring Devices shattered, and Aunt-Master Huang ordered the disciples off Immortal Strife Island.

Zheng Fa’s Nascent Soul Tribulation became a contest with the revived Heavenly Venerable, the former master of the Nine Mountains Realm. After the people’s prayers helped Zheng Fa prevail and the Sun-Moon Bell transformed into a Dao Fruit-tier treasure, his Yin Fire Tribulation began while his Divine Soul was badly depleted.

• The Sun-Moon Bell awakened, suppressed outside treasures, and revealed that the Heavenly Venerable had revived to challenge Zheng Fa as the Nine Mountains Realm’s new master.
• The Heavenly Venerable attacked with powerful Thunder Methods, but Zheng Fa matched him and turned their battle into a lesson on the Heavenly Tribulation Lightning Equation.
• The Heavenly Venerable drew power from hidden divine statues and gained the Sun-Moon Bell’s advantage, but prayers before statues and portraits of Zheng Fa across the mortal world restored the balance.
• The Heavenly Venerable faded into the black stone stele, whose remnant struck the Sun-Moon Bell and helped it transform into a Dao Fruit-tier Dharma Treasure.
• Zheng Fa’s Golden Core entered the Yin Fire Tribulation, and Senior Sister Zhang realized his Divine Soul had been heavily depleted by the battle.

Zheng Fa used the Heavenly Dipper and Earthly Fiend Transformation to pass the Yin Fire Tribulation with ease, stunning the Nine Mountains Sect cultivators who watched. During the Heart Demon Tribulation, he encountered another version of himself, but after several days he remained unconscious and learned that the Heart Demon would disappear if it could not claim his Nascent Soul.

• Zheng Fa's Yin Fire Tribulation engulfed his Golden Core and Nascent Soul, alarming Senior Sister Zhang, Aunt-Master Huang, and the other cultivators.
• Senior Sister Zhang realized Zheng Fa was using the Heavenly Dipper and Earthly Fiend Transformation to turn the tribulation's Yin Fire to his advantage, and he absorbed its energy as the Golden Core's shell burned away.
• Aunt-Master Huang and Blood River Ancestor marveled that Zheng Fa passed the Yin Fire Tribulation in less than an hour and discussed how the Nine Mountains Sect's methods could make Nascent Soul formation far easier.
• Zheng Fa entered the Heart Demon Tribulation and saw countless Divine Souls from beyond the Xuanwei Realm gather into a version of himself.
• Zheng Fa challenged Heart-Demon Zheng Fa to solve a set of problems, defeated him when he resorted to force, and kept him from leaving after he conceded.
• After several days without Zheng Fa waking, Heart-Demon Zheng Fa told him that he did not know how he had come to exist and would disappear if he could not take the Nascent Soul.

Zheng Fa endured an unusually long Heart Demon Tribulation, using the encounter to speculate that Heart Demons might be other versions of himself from parallel worlds. After awakening and forming his Nascent Soul, he drew astonishment across the Nine Mountains Realm, but his expected Innate Divine Ability failed to appear as a brilliant light streaked toward him from the stars.

• As Zheng Fa remained unconscious for half a month, Senior Sister Zhang and the others worried that his Heart Demon might be unusually tenacious, and Zhao Jingfan recalled that he and his family had once mistreated Zheng Fa.
• Inside the tribulation, Zheng Fa concluded that the Heart Demon resembled other possible versions of himself, theorized about parallel worlds and Dao Fruit cultivators, and forced the Heart Demon to help refine his cultivation method.
• After another half month, Zheng Fa awakened, merged his Divine Soul with his Nascent Soul, and caused spiritual energy to surge throughout the Nine Mountains Realm.
• Zheng Fa's Nascent Soul rose beyond the Nine Mountains Realm toward the Xuanwei Realm's barrier, astonishing the observers below.
• At the barrier, Zheng Fa waited for his Nascent Soul's Innate Divine Ability, but the connection began to fade until a brilliant meteor-like light emerged from the starry depths.

Zheng Fa used the Great Sun True Fire to explore cultivation methods and began experimenting with the Great Freedom True Method as a possible route beyond Nascent Soul. When Xiao Yuying was trapped near the Profound Mystery Sect, Xie Qingxue rescued her at Zheng Fa’s request, and Xiao Yuying learned that he considered the risk worth taking for her.

• Senior Sister Zhang asked Zheng Fa to help the Nine Mountains Patriarch rebuild his foundation, and Zheng Fa agreed to study how the Great Sun True Fire could reforge the Mountain-River True-Form Talisman.
• Zheng Fa tested the Great Freedom True Method with Blood River Ancestor and Jiao Wuji, using the Great Sun True Fire to remove its hidden dangers and considering how to develop cultivation beyond Nascent Soul.
• Zheng Fa discussed the Great Freedom True Method with Senior Sister Zhang, then joined her to inspect Madam Xuanhua’s completed Divine Firmament Mining Ship.
• Xie Qingxue arrived at the Profound Mystery Sect and took Xiao Yuying away after Zheng Fa sent her to find his missing friend.
• Xiao Yuying learned that Zheng Fa and Zhang Wuyi had also come, and Xie Qingxue told her Zheng Fa thought rescuing her was worth it.

Zheng Fa infiltrated the Profound Mystery Sect to investigate the mystery surrounding Divine Fire Mountain, where seven Spirit Transformation elders had gathered. After Ninth Elder selected him to travel to Vast Sun Mountain, Zheng Fa refused to leave without his master.

• Xie Qingxue warned Zheng Fa that the Green Duckweed Sword had sensed a Dao Fruit-level threat within the Profound Mystery Sect, so Zheng Fa and his companions went to investigate Divine Fire Mountain.
• Zheng Fa disguised himself as Li Hao with the Heavenly Dipper and Earthly Fiend Transformation and infiltrated the Profound Mystery Sect, where he learned seven Spirit Transformation elders had recently arrived.
• Zheng Fa discovered the sect’s disciples knew little about the mountain’s summit, then attended a meeting with Li Hao’s master, Ninth Elder.
• Ninth Elder revealed that the Profound Mystery Sect’s leaders were sending disciples to Vast Sun Mountain and chose Zheng Fa because she believed he had the greatest chance of forming a Nascent Soul.
• Zheng Fa told Ninth Elder that he would not go to Vast Sun Mountain unless she went too.