Chapter Summaries

Zheng Fa learned that True Immortal Lu sought to merge three bodies and attain Grand Unity, then began cultivating the Yang Spirit Method through the Sun-Moon Bell to grow stronger. As Taishang prepared to cooperate with Nine Mountains Sect, Immortal Li arrived with their reply and found Zheng Fa displaying a powerful Incense-Fire Spirit Condensation Method.

• Zheng Fa negotiated with Immortal Li, insisting that his hostility toward Vast Sun Mountain and his ties to Nine Mountains Sect shaped his choices, while Immortal Li set out Taishang's conditions for cooperation.
• Immortal Li explained that Lu Mo had been the Demon Emperor and the Primordial Heavenly Demon, and that he planned to merge his Demon Emperor, Devil Ancestor, and Yang Spirit bodies to attain Grand Unity.
• Immortal Li warned Zheng Fa that Taishang expected him to oppose Lu Mo and cautioned that anyone discovered helping Tianhe Sect would face consequences; he also described the Four Sects' plan to counter the Chaotic Immortal-Slayer Sword Formation.
• Zheng Fa discussed the Yang Spirit Method with Senior Sister Zhang and the others, then used an avatar and the Sun-Moon Bell to attempt the Heavenly Venerable's cultivation path.
• Senior Sister Zhang helped Zheng Fa refine his method through repeated deductions, and Zheng Fa continued experimenting over several days.
• Immortal Li returned with Patriarch Xuanding's reply and saw Zheng Fa ascend in a display of Incense Power; when his followers remarked that the method resembled Supreme Dao techniques, Immortal Li wondered if he had taught Zheng Fa after all.

Zheng Fa discovered that the Divine Way gave his Yang Spirit Body immense power and access to vast spiritual energy, but incense-born desires threatened to disrupt its cultivation. Immortal Li taught him the Grotto-Heaven Method, then the Supreme Dao and Nine Mountains Sect negotiated an alliance and trade agreement, which ended with Senior Sister Zhang asking how much equipment the Supreme Dao would buy.

• Zheng Fa used the Sun-Moon Bell and the Nine Mountains Realm’s incense power to strengthen his Yang Spirit Body, which could absorb spiritual energy across a vast area.
• Immortal Li warned that the desires within incense power could corrupt Divine Way cultivators and explained how grotto-heaven treasures could temporarily restrain those effects.
• Immortal Li taught Zheng Fa about the Grotto-Heaven Method, and Zheng Fa welcomed the chance to use it to advance his Yang Spirit Body.
• Zheng Fa and the Supreme Dao delegation agreed in principle to cooperate against Vast Sun Mountain and discussed exchanging Nine Mountains Sect’s Dharma Tools and talismans for pills and Grotto-Heaven Methods.
• Senior Sister Zhang asked Immortal Li whether the trade agreement had an upper limit on the quantity of equipment the Supreme Dao wanted.

Zheng Fa secured a lucrative manufacturing order from the Supreme Dao and planned to use the profits and a purge of disloyal Hundred Immortals Alliance sects to reshape the alliance. He left the meeting determined to redistribute land, curb Lineage power, and build schools that would recruit ordinary people into the Nine Mountains Realm.

• Zheng Fa and Senior Sister Zhang celebrated the Supreme Dao order, estimated its profit margin at about fifty percent, and discussed innovation, education, and expanding Incense Power.
• Zheng Fa rejected large-scale migration into the Nine Mountains Realm for the time being and summoned the Profound Mystery Sect Leader and Elder Bixia to recruit workers for the growing production effort.
• Zheng Fa announced that he would eliminate rebellious sects and cultivators from Vast Sun Mountain, using their disciples for labor while Uncle-Master Pang and the Profound Mystery Sect Leader helped locate and subdue them.
• Zheng Fa ordered Senior Sister Zhang to prepare to take control of the targeted sects' territories, explaining that the cleanup would give the Nine Mountains Sect control of over eighty percent of the Hundred Immortals Alliance's land.
• Zheng Fa proposed equal farmland distribution, restrictions on self-sale contracts, and acreage-based taxes to curb land wealth and Lineage power.
• Zheng Fa explained that he would establish primary schools across the alliance and select students for entry into the Nine Mountains Realm, choosing ordinary people rather than traditional cultivator groups as the Nine Mountains Sect's future foundation.

Zheng Fa’s Spirit Transformation connected him to the Modern World’s sun, and he released runes that awakened Spirit Veins across the world. The chapter ended with Professor Tian discovering that newly blooming orchids had become Spirit Plants.

• Senior Sister Zhang affirmed that she supported Zheng Fa and the Nine Mountains Sect’s reforms, even if their choices led to ruin.
• Gu Chang and Mu Qingyan continued struggling with the final hurdle of Spirit Root Modification, while Zheng Fa quietly observed their dedication.
• Old Man Bai told Zheng Fa that he was anxious about his poor Spirit Root and Professor Tian’s work; Zheng Fa revealed that he had reached Spirit Transformation.
• Zheng Fa felt the Modern World’s sun calling to him, rose into the sky, and took the sun into his hand.
• Zheng Fa tapped the sun, sending rune-filled golden streaks across the world and awakening spiritual energy and strange phenomena in mountains and rivers.
• Professor Tian discovered that orchids in the experimental field had gained spiritual energy and announced that they were new Spirit Plants.

Zheng Fa redirected the Fusang Wood’s spiritual energy into 108 Spirit Veins, where Spirit Plants quickly began to grow, and the Nursing Home’s scholars developed machinery for producing Dharma Tools and tending spiritual medicines. Team Leader Yang secured a preliminary Immortal Way Federation agreement that gave the Federation management rights over the Spirit Veins while assigning their output to the Nursing Home.

• Zheng Fa explained that he had concentrated the Fusang Wood’s spiritual energy in the Spirit Veins, and Professor Tian reported that two kinds of Spirit Plants had appeared in the experimental fields.
• Zheng Fa told Group Leader Yang to negotiate for management authority over the Spirit Veins and their produce, and asked Professor Tian to prepare seeds and experimental fields.
• Cheng Yun and his colleagues demonstrated machine tools that used Talisman Diagrams to manufacture Spirit Artifact streetlamps, and Zheng Fa praised their work for easing the shortage of skilled workers.
• Professor Tian and Tang Lingwu showed Zheng Fa automatic Spirit Artifacts that cast the Minor Cloud-Rain Art and Evergreen Art, and Professor Tian revealed that Tang Lingwu had wanted to help without seeking contribution points.
• Team Leader Yang presented a preliminary agreement establishing the Immortal Way Federation, with Spirit Vein management assigned to the Federation and their output reserved for the Nursing Home.

Zheng Fa planned to expand the Nursing Home into a network of research branches while keeping Rainbow Mountain as its central institute. In the Nine Mountains Realm, Shi Nandang considered offering his artifact-refining skills, only to discover that Zheng Fa’s factory production line surpassed anything he could advise on.

• Zheng Fa assigned Professor Tian to oversee medicinal fields at Spirit Veins and planned a domestic graduate recruitment drive to expand the Nursing Home’s agriculture team.
• Zheng Fa explained that Rainbow Mountain would remain the central research, education, and commercial hub, with branch institutes established at Spirit Veins suited to different resources.
• The Profound Mystery Sect Leader urged Shi Nandang to cooperate with Zheng Fa, and Shi Nandang worried that Zheng Fa might use him as a mole inside Vast Sun Mountain.
• After hearing that the Heavenly Crafts Pavilion was upgrading its factories, Shi Nandang offered Zheng Fa his artifact-refining expertise, hoping to prove his value.
• Zheng Fa took Shi Nandang to the Flying Sword Factory, where a production line used a small team of cultivators to make fifteen Soaring Firmament Swords a day.
• Shi Nandang realized that even Vast Sun Mountain’s finest techniques could not help him advise on the factory’s production line.

Zheng Fa recruited Shi Nandang to guide the Nine Mountains Sect’s artifact-refining reforms and sent him to the Hundred Immortals Alliance border to receive fleeing cultivators. During their journey, Xiao Qing’s questions about Shi Nandang’s past made him reconsider the privileges and Lineages he had once accepted.

• Zheng Fa reviewed the Nine Mountains Sect’s trade with the Supreme Dao and offered Shi Nandang a position in the Heavenly Crafts Pavilion.
• Shi Nandang accepted Zheng Fa’s request to travel to the Hundred Immortals Alliance border and receive fleeing cultivators from Vast Sun Mountain.
• Shi Nandang left with Nine Mountains Sect disciples after completing his transformation training and helping with industrial reforms.
• Xiao Qing told Shi Nandang she had struggled with mathematics and had never left the Nine Mountains Realm before, and he encouraged her to seek advancement through Merit and perseverance.
• Shi Nandang recounted how he had relied on the Lu Clan to advance in Vast Sun Mountain, and Xiao Qing challenged why the clan deserved his service.
• Xiao Qing connected the Sect Leader’s opposition to Lineages with the question of who had the right to rule, leaving Shi Nandang confronting his own acceptance of the old order.

Shi Nandang explained that Xiao Qing’s mission to win over the Hundred Immortals Alliance’s mortals would provide a lasting source of workers and Incense Power for the Nine Mountains Sect. As Xiao Qing introduced new rules, land allotments, and plans for free schools, Old Man Xie struggled to escape a group of cultivators who had poisoned him and now faced the possibility of his grandson joining the sect.

• Shi Nandang advised Xiao Qing to build trust among the Hundred Immortals Alliance’s mortals by establishing schools and selecting talented people.
• Old Freak Li and a group of fugitives hid from the Nine Mountains Sect, then forced Old Man Xie to help them find carts and guides by poisoning him and threatening his family.
• Xiao Qing announced the Nine Mountains Sect’s rules to the townspeople and declared that land would be allotted to households, with low taxes on their harvests.
• Old Man Xie’s family received fifty mu of land, but he secretly considered taking his grandson far away to help the fugitives escape.
• Old Man Xie’s grandson and eldest son told him that the Nine Mountains Sect would build a free school where children could learn and potentially be chosen to cultivate immortality.

Old Man Xie learned to trust the Nine Mountains Sect as its school, teachers, and plans to develop local industries improved life in his village. When Xiao Qing visited him, she uncovered poison left by Old Freak Li, exposing a hidden band of Hundred Immortals Alliance traitors and setting off their capture.

• Old Man Xie listened as his family praised the Nine Mountains Sect for building a school and bringing opportunities to the village.
• Little Four showed Old Man Xie how he had learned to write, and Old Man Xie began to accept that the Nine Mountains Sect's immortals were different from those he had known.
• Old Man Xie's family discussed a fish-and-shrimp workshop, while Xiao Qing's teachers and administrators helped transform the town and surrounding villages.
• Xiao Qing visited Old Man Xie, discovered he had been poisoned and struck, and brought his case to Shi Nandang, who traced it to Old Freak Li and uncovered more than a hundred hidden cultivators, including three Nascent Soul Cultivators.
• Old Freak Li and the old woman plotted to kill the middle-aged Nascent Soul cultivator and take his treasures, but he resisted their ambush and detonated his Nascent Soul.
• Shi Nandang stopped the self-destruction, captured the middle-aged cultivator, and prepared to take the traitors alive, while recognizing that Xiao Qing's work had helped expose them.

Zheng Fa’s manufacturing program undercut Vast Sun Mountain’s Dharma Tools and unsettled its allies, while the Nine Mountains Sect continued rapidly expanding its power and cultivation resources. Captured Nascent Soul cultivator Old Freak Li learned why the sect’s disciples worked such long hours, then watched a fellow prisoner appear ready to self-destruct.

• Madam Xuanhua told Zheng Fa, Senior Sister Zhang, and Uncle-Master Pang that the Nine Mountains Sect had automated production of eighty-four Dharma Tools using Vast Sun Mountain methods, sharply reducing costs and increasing output.
• Immortal Li told Patriarch Xuanding that the Hundred Immortals Alliance’s cheap Dharma Tools were being resold in Vast Sun Mountain’s market, and Patriarch Xuanding refused to restrain their sellers.
• Immortal Li informed Zheng Fa that Nishang Yuanjun of Jade Pool planned to visit the Nine Mountains Sect while traveling to the Tianhe Sect to join the effort against the Nine Nether Devil Ancestor.
• Zheng Fa judged that trade alone would not ruin Vast Sun Mountain and focused instead on the Nine Mountains Sect’s growing industry, population, and Incense Power as he refined the Yellow Court Scripture.
• Old Freak Li learned that the Nine Mountains Sect’s disciples worked overtime to earn Merit and pills that accelerated cultivation, after news announced Huang Yun had become the fiftieth new Nascent Soul under the First Fifty-Year Plan.
• Old Freak Li looked toward a captured middle-aged Nascent Soul cultivator, who began gathering spiritual power as if preparing to self-destruct.

Nishang Yuanjun visited the Nine Mountains Sect to advise Zheng Fa on the Grotto-Heaven Method and help with the urgent Tianhe Sect affair. A month later, she was still engrossed in the Nine Mountains’ spirit-plant research, and Qian True Person reported that Jade Pool had plants capable of restoring Spirit Roots.

• Nishang Yuanjun explained that Supreme Dao backed Zheng Fa because he could hinder Lu Mo’s attainment of the Dao, then decided to stay at the Nine Mountains Sect for two days.
• Nishang Yuanjun met Zheng Fa and Senior Sister Zhang, agreed to teach Zheng Fa the basics of Divine Way cultivation, and inspected the Nine Mountains Realm.
• Nishang Yuanjun was astonished by the Medicine Garden’s many exceptional Spirit Plants and asked Qian True Person how he had cultivated them.
• A month later, Nishang Yuanjun kept postponing the trip to Tianhe Sect so she could continue studying spirit-plant cultivation with Qian True Person.
• Qian True Person told Zheng Fa that Nishang Yuanjun knew Jade Pool Spirit Plants capable of restoring Spirit Roots.

Zheng Fa proposed a three-way partnership linking the Nine Mountains Sect, Supreme Dao, and Jade Pool through a low-cost sea trade route and joint Spirit Plant cultivation. Months later, Professor Tian reported that a new medicine made from two Spirit Plants had succeeded in preliminary animal trials, offering a path toward restoring Spirit Roots.

• Zheng Fa asked Nishang Yuanjun for Jade Pool medicines that could restore Spirit Roots, then proposed joint cultivation using the Nine Mountains Sect’s breeding methods and Jade Pool’s Spirit Field Secret Art.
• Zheng Fa showed Nishang Yuanjun the Hundred Immortals Alliance’s sea relay stations and proposed a trade route that could carry supplies between the Eastern and Western Continents in half a year.
• Nishang Yuanjun recognized the trade route’s value to Jade Pool and agreed to consider the three-way cooperation linking Jade Pool, the Supreme Dao, and the Hundred Immortals Alliance.
• In the Modern World, Zheng Fa asked Professor Tian to locate and cultivate several Spirit Plants needed for Spirit Root restoration, while he told Team Leader Yang to take her time preparing the graduate admissions examinations.
• Zheng Fa reflected on the mysteries of time and space and directed Team Leader Yang to build the Confederation Research Institute carefully.
• Months later, Professor Tian reported that a compound extracted from two Spirit Plants had succeeded in preliminary animal trials, transforming scar tissue and promoting nerve growth.

Zheng Fa’s research team developed Spirit Root Growth Hormone, while Nishang Yuanjun revealed that Thunderclap Temple had manipulated Jade Pool’s Hundred Flowers Heavenly Maiden into becoming the Blissful Heavenly Maiden. Zheng Fa chose to support Nishang Yuanjun and began a new approach to reforming the Divine Way by giving Gu Chang the hormone and creating the Mortal-Shedding Spirit-Washing Pool.

• Tang Lingwu reported that Spirit Root Growth Hormone greatly increased Spirit Root nerve growth, and Zheng Fa ordered two more rounds of human trials to check for side effects.
• Zheng Fa and Tang Lingwu visited an examination site, and two months later Old Man Bai welcomed the first graduate students at the Confederation Research Institute.
• Nishang Yuanjun told Senior Sister Zhang and Qian True Person that Jade Pool was divided over cooperation and that Thunderclap Temple had changed the Hundred Flowers Heavenly Maiden into the Blissful Heavenly Maiden through her believers.
• Zheng Fa agreed to cooperate with Nishang Yuanjun and decided that Nine Mountains Sect’s reform of the Divine Way would begin with Gu Chang.
• Gu Chang drank Spirit Root Growth Hormone, and Zheng Fa used lightning on him.
• Ten days later, Zheng Fa announced the creation of the Mortal-Shedding Spirit-Washing Pool in the Nine Mountains Realm.

Zheng Fa’s Yang Spirit Body used the Mortal-Shedding Spirit-Washing Pool to inspire the Nine Mountains Realm’s people, then successfully underwent Corpse Liberation and became the Heavenly Emperor Body. As the realm was elevated by Stellar Baptism, Zheng Fa reshaped its islands into a star-palace structure and brought out the Little Investiture List.

• Zheng Fa announced that the Mortal-Shedding Spirit-Washing Pool could turn Lower-Grade Spirit Roots into Upper-Grade Spirit Roots, causing their owners’ devotion and the realm’s Incense Power to surge.
• Zheng Fa tempered the Sun-Moon Bell with Incense Power until it merged into his Yang Spirit Body, which became the Heavenly Emperor Body.
• Zheng Fa’s Heavenly Emperor Body passed the Lightning Tribulation with three peals of the Sun-Moon Bell, then drew in starlight as the Nine Mountains Realm underwent Stellar Baptism.
• Zheng Fa expanded the Heavenly Palace Nine Isles into the Three Enclosures and Four Lodges, assigning their islands to the Nine Mountains Sect’s institutions and activities.
• Nishang Yuanjun realized that Zheng Fa’s new world structure drew star power more effectively than her Jade Pool inheritance, while Zheng Fa summoned the Little Investiture List.

Zheng Fa established a God-Human Pact for the Nine Mountains Realm, setting rules for divine service, merit, examinations, and fixed terms while explaining that the Divine Way should protect mortals and cultivate talent. Nishang Yuanjun learned that Zheng Fa’s Great Sun True Fire might offer the Jade Pool a chance to escape its Divine Way, and she left with new hope and a stronger alignment with him.

• Zheng Fa used the Great Sun True Fire to erase Zhang Wuyi’s name from the Lesser God-Investiture Register and return her blood essence, startling Nishang Yuanjun with his ability to alter the register.
• Zheng Fa proclaimed a God-Human Pact that required gods to protect and benefit living beings and asked humans to do good, revere Heaven, and pursue learning.
• Zheng Fa established merit, examination, and training requirements for deities, along with fifty-year terms, periodic evaluations, rewards, and dismissal for poor performance.
• Zhang Wuyi explained that she declined a divine rank to avoid violating the selection rules and because the role would hinder her cultivation and thought.
• Zheng Fa told Nishang Yuanjun that the Divine Way should provide order for the weak while the Immortal Way offered freedom to the strong, and that he used divine ranks to develop talent rather than keep disciples bound to godhood.
• Nishang Yuanjun revealed that she sought hope of breaking free from the Jade Pool’s Divine Way, and Zheng Fa admitted he could not promise the Great Sun True Fire would help her.

Nishang Yuanjun arrived at the Four Sects’ encampment around the Tianhe Sect and reported its preparations to Zheng Fa, who learned that the Immortal-Slayer Sword Formation would take forty years to complete. After Xie Qingxue resolved to return to investigate Venerable Tianhe’s inheritance, the Nine Mountains Sect received its first shipment of Hundred-Flower Spirit Dew, and Zheng Fa advanced his Void-Piercing Spirit Eye.

• Nishang Yuanjun met Xuanding and Li Sanxian, learned that scarce materials and delayed allies were complicating the Four Sects’ preparations, and accepted responsibility for the formation’s northern side.
• Nishang Yuanjun told Li Sanxian that the Four Sects should search the Tianhe Sect for what Venerable Tianhe had left behind, then sent Zheng Fa detailed intelligence about the encampment and its forty-year timeline.
• Zheng Fa discussed Venerable Tianhe’s advanced Celestial River Method with Xie Qingxue, who insisted on returning to the Tianhe Sect to investigate and said she was a sword cultivator.
• Uncle-Master Pang and Senior Sister Zhang reported that the first East-West trade shipment had reached the Nine Mountains Realm, carrying Hundred-Flower Spirit Dew from Jade Pool.
• Zheng Fa drank seven bottles of Hundred-Flower Spirit Dew, and his Void-Piercing Spirit Eye changed to silver whites and golden pupils as he sensed it had advanced to a third layer.

Zheng Fa began studying the Xuanwei Realm’s temporal-spatial secrets through storage bags and prepared to search for the Tianhe Ruins in the Sea Region. As Thunderclap Temple attacked Red Sand Island and demanded Senior Sister Zhang’s Pure Tranquility Bamboo, Xiao Yuying offered to summon her master to help.

• Zheng Fa discovered that the Void-Piercing Spirit Eye could see through the barrier between the Nine Mountains Realm and the Xuanwei Realm, and proposed studying time and space through storage bags.
• Zheng Fa arranged for Xiao Yuying and the archaeological team to use the Void-Piercing Spirit Eye to search for the Tianhe Ruins, while he, Senior Sister Zhang, and Xie Qingxue agreed to take turns guarding the trade route.
• Xiao Yuying reported that her team had found no useful clues across the Hundred Immortals Alliance, and Zheng Fa suggested searching the Sea Region next.
• Senior Sister Zhang divined that Thunderclap Temple cultivators were attacking Red Sand Island, evacuated the trade-route stations, and hurried to aid Aunt-Master Huang.
• True Immortal Hui Tong confronted Senior Sister Zhang at Red Sand Island and demanded that she return the Pure Tranquility Bamboo, which he claimed belonged to Thunderclap Temple.
• Zheng Fa learned of the confrontation and prepared to rescue Senior Sister Zhang, but Xiao Yuying offered a precious pearl to summon her master instead.

Xiao Yuying used the Canghai Pearl to summon her master, Dragon Lord Shuyu, who drove off the Thunderclap Temple pursuers threatening the Nine Mountains Sect’s trade route. Zheng Fa learned that Shuyu was the last of the Ancient Dragon Clan and began looking for a way to enlist her help, leaving Jiao Wuji stunned when he was asked to approach her.

• Xiao Yuying called on Dragon Lord Shuyu through the Canghai Pearl, and Zheng Fa hurried with her and Uncle-Master Pang to rescue Senior Sister Zhang and the others.
• Dragon Lord Shuyu appeared at sea, forced the old monk from Thunderclap Temple to withdraw, then reclaimed the Canghai Pearl and vanished.
• Zheng Fa and Senior Sister Zhang recognized that the trade route remained vulnerable, while Xiao Yuying explained that her master was the last Ancient Dragon and had accepted her while searching for Dragon Clan remnants.
• Nishang Yuanjun told Zheng Fa that Jade Pool had failed to recruit Shuyu because she had no interest in worldly affairs and wanted nothing the sect could offer.
• Zheng Fa learned that Shuyu hoped to find her kin, then asked Jiao Wuji and the Blood River Ancestor to help recruit her; Jiao Wuji questioned whether Zheng Fa meant to use his half-dragon appearance.

Zheng Fa proposed using cultivation technology to revive the Ancient Dragon Clan and demonstrated the method to Dragon Lord Shuyu, who agreed to cooperate with the Nine Mountains Sect. Meanwhile, Nishang Yuanjun persuaded the Supreme Dao to warn Thunderclap Temple, and the chapter ended with Dragon Lord Shuyu smiling at Xiao Yuying.

• Zheng Fa asked Jiao Wuji and Blood River Ancestor to test whether they could revive a dead spirit-beast egg before approaching Dragon Lord Shuyu about the Ancient Dragon Clan.
• Nishang Yuanjun threatened to withdraw Jade Pool’s support unless the Supreme Dao helped protect the trade route, and the Supreme Dao agreed to warn Thunderclap Temple.
• Zheng Fa visited Xiao Yuying, who told him her master had stopped responding to her greetings, and Xiao Yuying contacted Dragon Lord Shuyu to arrange a meeting.
• Zheng Fa and Xiao Yuying followed a green jade into Dragon Lord Shuyu’s undersea palace, where Zheng Fa showed her a recording of a dead Wave-Treading Serpent egg hatching.
• Dragon Lord Shuyu offered Zheng Fa access to her treasures in exchange for help reviving the Ancient Dragon Clan, but Zheng Fa asked instead for Sea Region intelligence and cooperation on cultivating sea-dwelling spirit beasts and Spirit Plants.
• Dragon Lord Shuyu agreed to cooperate and smiled at Xiao Yuying after Zheng Fa said she had already paid for the rest.

Zheng Fa used Dragon Lord Shuyu’s intelligence to capture hundreds of Thunderclap Temple monks in the Sea Region, forcing Zhitong to abandon his attempt to return there and leaving the Nine Mountains Sect in control of the trade route. He then thanked Shuyu for her help and asked about relics of Venerable Tianhe, learning that Jade Pool had once searched the seafloor for his jade pendant.

• Zhitong arrived at the Tianhe Sect camp, denied that Thunderclap Temple had a serious conflict with the Nine Mountains Sect, and was prevented from leaving when Xuanding sealed the camp with a formation.
• Nishang Yuanjun warned Zheng Fa that Thunderclap Temple might make further moves, and Zheng Fa replied that the matter was settled.
• Xie Qingxue intercepted a Thunderclap Temple group hiding on an island, while Zheng Fa and Senior Sister Zhang led the Nine Mountains Sect’s operation against the temple’s ambushes across the Sea Region.
• Zhitong demanded to return to the Western Continent after hearing that the Nine Mountains Sect had killed or captured hundreds of Thunderclap Temple disciples, but Xuanding invoked Dragon Lord Shuyu’s support and Zhitong backed down.
• Zheng Fa thanked Dragon Lord Shuyu for her intelligence and showed her the Wave-Treading Serpents bred in an experiment, then invited her to observe the next trial with Sea-Calming Jiao.
• Zheng Fa asked Dragon Lord Shuyu about Venerable Tianhe’s relics in the Sea Region, and she said Jade Pool had once asked whether his jade pendant lay on the seafloor.