Chapter Summaries

Zheng Fa launched the Primordial Magnetic Network project and created a Sword Dao Body to strengthen the Immortal-Slayer Formation Diagram. He then formed the Celestial River Legion, entrusted its four divisions with the Immortal-Slayer Swords, and left the legion pledged to defend the Nine Mountains Sect and Xuanwei.

• Zheng Fa assigned Uncle-Master Pang and Xiao Yuying to survey Earth-Vein Magnetism, while Elder Xuanhua and the Nine Mountains Patriarch with Senior Sister Zhang were tasked with preparing the Primordial Magnetic Network.
• Zheng Fa condensed a Sword Dao Body to cultivate the Celestial River Method and improve the Immortal-Slayer Formation Diagram.
• Zheng Fa spent three days in Senior Sister Zhang's courtyard before returning to oversee the Yellow Court Scripture lecture and the Celestial River Legion's formation ceremony.
• Zheng Fa appointed Li Lingfeng and three other disciples as division chiefs and entrusted them with the Four Immortal-Slayer Swords.
• Zheng Fa reminded the legion that its inheritance carried obligations to the disciples supporting it, and the Celestial River Legion vowed to risk their lives for the Nine Mountains Sect when needed.

Zheng Fa lectured Nine Mountains Sect’s elite disciples on the Yellow Court Scripture and announced regular future lectures. Meanwhile, the Azure Abyss Dragon King began seizing the Dragon Lord Shuyu’s Xuanwei Sea, prompting her to seek help from Nine Mountains Sect, where she stopped upon seeing Uncle-Master Pang’s Five-Dragon Heavenly Palace.

• Zheng Fa taught the Yellow Court Scripture to three thousand elite disciples, explained difficult passages with a light screen, and answered their questions over twenty-one days.
• Zheng Fa announced that he would lecture on the scripture every three months and that disciples could apply to give lectures at Nine Mountains University.
• The Dragon Lord Shuyu confronted the Azure Abyss Dragon King, who demanded Xuanwei Sea after she rejected his marriage alliance and claimed unifying the seas would help him attain the Golden Immortal Dao.
• The Dragon Lord Shuyu sensed the Azure Abyss Dragon Palace’s dragons refining four parts of her territory while the Azure Abyss Dragon King kept her from intervening.
• The Dragon Lord Shuyu retrieved a Seal from her dragon palace and traveled to the Nine Mountains Realm for help.
• Uncle-Master Pang welcomed the Dragon Lord Shuyu and presented his Five-Dragon Heavenly Palace, causing her to stare at its five Flood Dragons.

Dragon Lord Shuyu visited Nine Mountains Sect, where she witnessed the Earth-Vein Magnetism Network’s power and learned that Zheng Fa planned to use Nine Mountains Realm to supervise the Alliance. She then offered to submit nominally to Nine Mountains Sect in exchange for ruling the waters, revealing that the Azure Abyss Dragon King wanted to monopolize the sea.

• Uncle-Master Pang brought Dragon Lord Shuyu toward Yong Province, and she demanded that his five flood dragons be replaced with five members of the Ancient Dragon Clan.
• Dragon Lord Shuyu saw Nine Mountains Sect disciples operate the Thick-Earth Magnetism Formation, which detected her and erased a distant mountain with a powerful beam.
• Uncle-Master Pang explained that the formation drew on Earth Veins, and Dragon Lord Shuyu gained new respect for the Nine Mountains Sect’s effort to reshape the land.
• Zheng Fa told Dragon Lord Shuyu that Nine Mountains Realm would patrol the Hundred Immortals Alliance to help prevent disciples from abusing their growing power.
• Dragon Lord Shuyu offered to place herself nominally under Nine Mountains Sect if it recognized her rule over the waters, explaining that the Azure Abyss Dragon King sought to monopolize the Sea Region.

Zheng Fa negotiated with Dragon Lord Shuyu over bringing her waters and dragons into the Nine Mountains Sect, demanding oversight while offering autonomy, resources, and help creating a dragon species. Shuyu was tempted by the proposal but challenged whether Zheng Fa had the power and time to make his ambitions real.

• Zheng Fa and the Nine Mountains Sect elders agreed in principle to cooperate with Dragon Lord Shuyu against Azure Abyss Dragon King.
• Zheng Fa proposed that the Nine Mountains Sect approve water rulers, appoint deputies, and have Shuyu defend and develop the Sea Region, angering her.
• Zheng Fa named Xiao Yuying as Shuyu's deputy, and Shuyu sat back down to hear his remaining conditions.
• Zheng Fa offered to help Shuyu raise more dragons, potentially create a new dragon species, and share profits from the Sea Region's trade and industries.
• Dragon Lord Shuyu asked how Zheng Fa could fulfill his ambitious promises without a Dao Fruit or enough time before other forces intervened.

Zheng Fa showed Dragon Lord Shuyu the Nine Mountains Realm’s prosperity and revealed the Nine Mountains Sect’s powerful clone and defensive formation. The chapter ended with the Divine Firmament Legion using the Thick-Earth Magnetism Formation to force back the Heavenly Emperor Body in a drill, convincing Dragon Lord Shuyu of the sect’s strength.

• Zheng Fa took Dragon Lord Shuyu and the Nine Mountains Sect elders through the Nine Mountains Realm, where Shuyu saw its prosperous cities, transport vessels, and growing population.
• Zheng Fa explained that industrialization, education, and cultivation culture had slowed population growth, while the Nine Mountains Sect had transformed the realm’s living conditions.
• Zheng Fa introduced his Heavenly Emperor Body clone, and Dragon Lord Shuyu recognized it as the Nine Mountains Realm’s Divine Way master with strength near that of a Loose Immortal.
• Zheng Fa presented the Divine Firmament Legion and the Thick-Earth Magnetism Formation as the Nine Mountains Sect’s means of protecting its wealth.
• The Heavenly Emperor Body attacked the Divine Firmament Legion in a drill, and the disciples used the formation and their Dharma Treasures to gather power from afar and knock him back.

Zheng Fa showed Dragon Lord Shuyu that the Divine Firmament Legion and Thick-Earth Magnetism Formation could hold off a Loose Immortal, then proposed building a larger formation beneath the sea to help secure her territory and strengthen the Nine Mountains Sect. Shuyu remained cautious about the plan until Zheng Fa proposed testing it with a wager, staking the Azure Abyss Dragon Palace.

• The Divine Firmament Legion used the Thick-Earth Magnetism Formation to battle the Heavenly Emperor Body, holding it back until the test ended after nearly half an hour.
• The Heavenly Emperor Body revealed that it had used only fifty or sixty percent of its strength and had not used the Sun-Moon Bell, while Zheng Fa explained how the formation drew on the Nine Mountains Realm's Earth-Vein Magnetism.
• Zheng Fa proposed building the formation beneath the sea, where its greater scale could help Dragon Lord Shuyu defend the Xuanwei Sea and support maritime cultivation and trade.
• Zheng Fa offered to let Shuyu control the sea-region formation if she joined the Nine Mountains, but she questioned whether it could be built and how powerful it would be.
• Zheng Fa proposed a wager agreement to test the formation's sea-region power, with the Azure Abyss Dragon Palace as the stake, and Shuyu eagerly agreed.

Zheng Fa and Dragon Lord Shuyu raised an island in the Xuanwei Sea and discussed using the formation to lure the Azure Abyss Dragon Palace into a decisive battle. After the Second Crown Prince discovered the Sea-Calming Seal, the Azure Abyss Dragon King devised a feint against the Nine Mountains Sect’s trade route to draw attention away from the seal.

• Zheng Fa used the Thick-Earth Magnetism Formation, aided by Dragon Lord Shuyu, to raise a barren island from the Xuanwei Sea.
• Zheng Fa explained that the Nine Mountains Sect needed Dragon Lord Shuyu’s help against the Azure Abyss Dragon King and planned to lure the Dragon Palace’s five members into the Xuanwei Sea.
• The Second Crown Prince spotted a Nine Mountains Sect cultivator holding the Sea-Calming Seal and returned to tell the Azure Abyss Dragon King.
• The Second Crown Prince urged his family to seize the seal, but the Azure Abyss Dragon King warned that it might be bait and insisted they investigate Dragon Lord Shuyu first.
• The Azure Abyss Dragon King decided to raid the Nine Mountains Sect’s sea trade route as a diversion before moving against the Sea-Calming Seal.

The Azure Abyss Dragon King allied with a powerful Demon Race visitor from the Northern Continent and sent his family to attack Nine Mountains Sect trade routes, hoping to create an opening to seize the Sea-Calming Seal. At Sun-Moon Island, the Second Prince discovered that the sect had anticipated the assault and trapped him beneath a vast array of beams.

• The Northern Continent visitor revealed that he was a True Immortal who had eaten members of the Ancient Dragon Clan, then agreed to work with the Azure Abyss Dragon King against the Nine Mountains Sect.
• The Azure Abyss Dragon King decided to use the visitor’s strength to seize the Xuanwei Sea, and ten days later the Second Prince and his family launched coordinated attacks on the sect’s trade routes.
• The Second Prince attacked Sun-Moon Island, but its cultivators showed no fear and drums sounded across the Xuanwei Sea.
• A pillar of light struck the Second Prince, and he realized the Thick-Earth Magnetism Formation had detected him hiding in the North Sea.
• The Nine Mountains Sect disciples formed a wall of treasure mirrors and focused beams from across the Xuanwei Sea on the Second Prince, while similar attacks struck his relatives.

The Nine Mountains Sect’s formation captured the Second Crown Prince, while the Azure Abyss Dragon King’s ambush against Dragon Lord Shuyu turned into a battle over the Myriad Seas Seal. The Second Crown Prince’s family converged near the formation, where he realized the Xiao Yuying pursuing his brother was not the same person he had seen beneath the sea.

• The Second Crown Prince fled toward the North Sea, but the Nine Mountains Sect’s pillars of light damaged his dragon pearl until the Heavenly Emperor Body struck him down with the Sun-Moon Bell and shocked him with the Thick-Earth Magnetism Formation.
• The Azure Abyss Dragon King tried to seize Xiao Yuying, but Dragon Lord Shuyu intervened and faced him alongside a mysterious man who attacked with a seven-treasure jade bottle and Yin Fire.
• Dragon Lord Shuyu countered the man with the Myriad Seas Seal, trapping him in the sea as the Azure Abyss Dragon King hesitated and then moved to capture Xiao Yuying.
• The Second Crown Prince’s sister-in-law and the Azure Abyss Queen arrived near him while Xie Qingxue and Zhang Wuyi pursued them; then the Dragon Palace’s Eldest Prince appeared with another pursuer close behind.
• Xiao Yuying hurled Dragon Lord Shuyu’s Dragon Pearl at the Eldest Prince, and the Second Crown Prince asked how she could be there when another Xiao Yuying was beneath the sea.

Zheng Fa and Dragon Lord Shuyu captured the Golden-Winged Great Peng’s Treasure Bottle but failed to stop him from escaping with the Azure Abyss Dragon King. The four Azure Abyss dragons surrendered to the Nine Mountains Sect, where they faced Zheng Fa’s Sword Dao Body and the Immortal-Slayer Formation Diagram.

• Zheng Fa used the repaired Primordial Magnetism Earth Veins to capture the Azure Abyss Dragon King with the Universe in the Sleeve Technique.
• The Golden-Winged Great Peng broke free of the Myriad Seas Seal, attacked Zheng Fa, and seized the Azure Abyss Dragon King, but Zheng Fa took his Treasure Bottle.
• The Golden-Winged Great Peng escaped through a rift in the void with the Azure Abyss Dragon King despite Dragon Lord Shuyu’s pursuit.
• The Second Prince and the other three Azure Abyss dragons surrendered to the Nine Mountains Sect and entered the Nine Mountains Realm.
• Zheng Fa’s Sword Dao Body appeared with the Immortal-Slayer Formation Diagram, and the First Prince wondered whether their father could still save them.

The Nine Mountains Sect brought the captured Azure Abyss dragons to Dragon-Coil Island and decided to spare them for use in several research and breeding projects. The Second Prince learned that his survival depended on cooperating, especially with the sect’s plans for his reproductive abilities.

• The Heavenly Emperor Body brought the four injured dragons to Dragon-Coil Island while the Sword Dao Body reluctantly let them go instead of using them for combat practice.
• Zheng Fa told the dragons that the sect would spare their lives because of the Dragon Lord Shuyu, then assigned them to Dragon Egg Cultivation and research into Dragon-Blood Talisman Seals.
• Zheng Fa explained that the sect would study the dragons to perfect the Heavenly Dipper and Earthly Fiend Transformation so it could imitate Dao Fruit Descendants.
• The Blood River Ancestor revealed that the sect intended to use the Second Prince to breed livestock, and the prince claimed he had become impotent to avoid the task.
• When Zheng Fa warned that an impotent dragon would be useless, the Second Prince offered to pull carts, but Little Golden Crow said he was not worthy of pulling one for the Sect Leader.

Dragon Lord Shuyu formally joined Nine Mountains Sect, swearing an oath with the Myriad Seas Seal and receiving authority over the Xuanwei Sea. After reading the Yellow Court Scripture, she saw that it could complement her Dragon Clan inheritance and perhaps repair the seal, while Zheng Fa encouraged her to cultivate it freely; he ended by asking how one attained a Dao Fruit.

• Dragon Lord Shuyu reflected on her decision to submit to Nine Mountains Sect and worried that the sect’s future dragon transformations could diminish her importance.
• Zheng Fa and Nine Mountains Sect staged a grand ceremony as Shuyu offered the Myriad Seas Seal and the Xuanwei Sea map, swore an oath, and received a golden talisman granting her authority over the Sea Region.
• Azure Abyss Dragon King and Golden-Winged Great Peng watched from beneath the North Sea and recognized that Nine Mountains Sect and Shuyu together were too strong for them to challenge without a Golden Immortal.
• At a banquet, Zheng Fa gave Shuyu the Yellow Court Scripture, and she discovered it might complement her bloodline inheritance and help repair the Myriad Seas Seal.
• Zheng Fa told Shuyu he would welcome her surpassing him through the scripture and explained that her strength could help defend Nine Mountains Sect; Shuyu pledged to honor his trust.
• Zheng Fa asked Shuyu how one attained a Dao Fruit.

Zheng Fa asked Dragon Lord Shuyu to explain the principles behind attaining Dao Fruit, and she described Loose Immortal cultivation as a process of taking and relinquishing. She identified the Fusang Wood as an incomplete Dharma Body but urged Zheng Fa to keep it for its immense potential, leaving him contemplating how to investigate it.

• Zheng Fa told Dragon Lord Shuyu that the Nine Mountains Sect had several paths to protection and asked her to share her knowledge of Dao Fruit.
• Dragon Lord Shuyu examined the Great Freedom Devil Ancestor's and Vast Sun Mountain's methods, then explained that attaining Loose Immortal required taking and relinquishing until only the method remained.
• Senior Sister Zhang warned that the Yellow Court Scripture's inclusiveness and Zheng Fa's Fusang Wood Dharma Body could complicate his pursuit of Dao Fruit.
• Dragon Lord Shuyu inspected Zheng Fa's Fusang Wood and revealed that it lacked a True Spirit, making it incomplete.
• Zheng Fa considered merging the Fusang Wood into himself or abandoning it, but Dragon Lord Shuyu urged him to keep it because its rank and foundation could accelerate his future cultivation.
• In the modern-day nursing home, Old Man Bai connected Zheng Fa's scrutiny of the Fusang Wood to Yangming Investigates Bamboo, while Old Yuan and Tang Lingwu watched him give up without discovering anything.

Zheng Fa investigated the Fusang Wood’s chaotic consciousness by studying its plant instincts and recording its reactions during lectures. The experiments revealed that it reacted powerfully to the words “Nine Luminaries Heaven,” leaving Zheng Fa and Tang Lingwu with a new lead.

• Zheng Fa told Old Man Bai and the others that the Fusang Wood’s responses were erratic and its influence threatened to tear apart his Divine Soul.
• Zheng Fa proposed studying the Fusang Wood as an ordinary plant, and Professor Tian agreed to investigate its biological instincts with the Agriculture Academy.
• Zheng Fa lectured on the Dao while researchers recorded the Fusang Wood’s environmental changes and responses.
• Tang Lingwu reported that the Fusang Wood reacted most strongly to Zheng Fa’s lectures, especially the Scarlet Firmament Jade Register and Yang-type techniques.
• Tang Lingwu identified “Lu,” “Nine,” and “Luminaries” as words that provoked an unusually strong response, and Zheng Fa said “Nine Luminaries Heaven.”
• The Fusang Wood blazed with light, swayed its branches, and shot toward the roof of the Sermon Hall.

Zheng Fa discovered that Fusang Wood both recognized Lu Mo’s Scarlet Firmament Jade Register and hated Lu Mo, while it longed for something inside Nine Luminaries Heaven. After Senior Sister Zhang divined that the realm would likely benefit Zheng Fa, the sect debated the risks and learned that True Person Yuan’s unusual training had made its spies successful in Vast Sun Mountain.

• Tang Lingwu interpreted Fusang Wood’s reactions to the Scarlet Firmament Jade Register and related techniques as a mixture of approval and rejection, and Zheng Fa concluded that the Spirit Root’s conflicting feelings stemmed from its connection to Lu Mo.
• Fusang Wood reacted with intense longing to the name Nine Luminaries Heaven, and Zheng Fa suspected that something inside the realm was important enough to override its hatred of Lu Mo.
• Senior Sister Zhang divined that Nine Luminaries Heaven would likely benefit Zheng Fa, while Uncle-Master Pang warned that Lu Mo might be trying to trap him or seize Fusang Wood.
• Zheng Fa asked Old Han about the sect’s intelligence work in Vast Sun Mountain and learned that True Person Yuan’s training had helped the spies gather information smoothly.
• In Vast Sun Mountain’s Three-City Market, a Nine Mountains spy sold True Person Yuan’s cultivation-aiding jianbing and secretly passed Lu Yan a paper bag containing Spirit Stones.

Zheng Fa consulted the Nine Nether Emperor about the danger surrounding Vast Sun Mountain and discovered that its marketplaces carried items linked to several Devil Ancestors. The Emperor confirmed the items’ origins, could not leave the Underworld, and gave Zheng Fa a protective talisman before sending him onward.

• In the Heavenly Palace Hall, Old Han explained how the Intelligence Division gathered public market data and discussed signs that Vast Sun Mountain’s leadership had changed and its goods included Demonic Sect products.
• Zheng Fa and the others debated whether he should go to Nine Luminaries Heaven, then decided to ask the Nine Nether Emperor about the possible Devil Ancestors and seek a means of protection.
• At the Underworld, Zheng Fa met Yan Changge and learned that the Nine Nether Emperor was occupied with establishing reincarnation while Thunderclap Temple repeatedly tested the Underworld.
• The Nine Nether Emperor told Zheng Fa that neither the Original Devil Ancestor nor the Demon Emperor had returned to the Underworld after death.
• Zheng Fa showed the Emperor gu insects, pills, and a white-bone Dharma Tool bought in Vast Sun Mountain; the Emperor identified them as connected to Gu God, White Bone Devil Ancestor, and Creation.
• Unable to leave the Underworld, the Nine Nether Emperor gave Zheng Fa a gray jade talisman capable of protecting him from a Golden Immortal and guiding him back.

The Nine Nether Emperor warned Zheng Fa that Gu God, the White Bone Devil Ancestor, and Creation were exceptionally powerful and dangerous, and Zheng Fa resolved to investigate Vast Sun Mountain rather than let their plans threaten the Nine Mountains Sect. After the Lu Clan began demanding increased tribute, Zheng Fa and Senior Sister Zhang chose to force the Devil Ancestors to react, and the Nine Mountains Sect launched a massive advance toward Vast Sun Mountain.

• The Nine Nether Emperor described Gu God's infestation, the White Bone Devil Ancestor's identity-changing transformations, and Creation's strength, warning Zheng Fa that the three Devil Ancestors had helped cause the Tianhe Upheaval.
• The Nine Nether Emperor identified Zheng Fa's incomplete Fusang Wood as a Spirit Root of Grand Unity status, then opened a passage from the Underworld after condemning Thunderclap Temple, allowing several figures to escape.
• Lu Yan ordered the Nine Mountains Chain Pancake Stall and other businesses under Lu Clan protection to double their tribute, and Zheng Fa learned that the Lu Clan was urgently gathering Spirit Stones.
• Zheng Fa told Senior Sister Zhang and the others about the Devil Ancestors, and Senior Sister Zhang proposed using the Thick-Earth Magnetism Formation to strike Vast Sun Mountain and force its enemies to reveal themselves.
• Nearly a thousand Divine Firmament Warships emerged through a blue portal at the border and advanced toward Vast Sun Mountain, revealing that the Nine Mountains Sect had begun its attack.

Xie Qingxue led the Nine Mountains Sect’s Divine Firmament Legion against Vast Sun Mountain, accusing it of harboring Demonic Sect agents and framing the invasion as a campaign to eliminate demons. The legion swiftly defeated the defenders, and the surviving Rogue Cultivators realized that Vast Sun Mountain’s power was in danger.

• Xie Qingxue announced that the Nine Mountains Sect was marching against Vast Sun Mountain under the Hundred Immortals Alliance Leader’s orders, then presented captured Rogue Cultivators as evidence of Vast Sun Mountain’s schemes.
• Xie Qingxue claimed that the Creation Devil Ancestor, the Gu God, and the White Bone Devil Ancestor had infiltrated Vast Sun Mountain, and she ordered the defenders to stand aside or be treated as Demonic Sect allies.
• Xie Qingxue commanded the Divine Firmament Legion to attack, and its coordinated warships devastated Vast Sun Mountain’s disciples while repelling the Yun Clan elder’s cloud-dragon assault.
• Xie Qingxue killed the Yun Clan’s Corpse Liberation cultivator, and the remaining Vast Sun Mountain disciples fled or surrendered.
• Xie Qingxue assured the Rogue Cultivators that those who did not resist could continue their lives, while they watched the defeated Vast Sun Mountain and feared its order was about to collapse.

As the Nine Mountains Sect launched its campaign against Vast Sun Mountain, Zheng Fa mobilized the sect’s forces and resources while the Divine Firmament Fleet advanced. The Golden Phoenix Fairy chose to remain in her ruined homeland, where she learned the Nine Mountains Sect intended to restore her sect’s Spirit Vein.

• Zheng Fa and the elders discussed Xie Qingxue’s attack and the Divine Firmament Fleet’s growing power, then agreed to press forward against Vast Sun Mountain and prepare the sect for war.
• Zheng Fa ordered Xie Qingxue to advance within the Magnetic Array’s range, sent the Divine Firmament Legion to restore Spirit Veins and build arrays in occupied territory, and arranged supplies, production, and rewards for contributors.
• The Golden Phoenix Fairy refused to flee with a young Golden Core cultivator and stayed behind because she could not abandon her Flowing Cloud Sect and its dead.
• The Golden Phoenix Fairy led six cultivators back to the Flowing Cloud Sect’s mountain gate, where she found Nine Mountains Sect cultivators searching the grounds.
• The Nine Mountains Patriarch told the Golden Phoenix Fairy that he would restore the Flowing Cloud Sect’s Spirit Vein and that Zheng Fa would arrive in two days.

Zheng Fa repaired the Flowing Cloud Sect’s Spirit Vein and invited Golden Phoenix Fairy to rebuild her sect under the Nine Mountains Sect. As the Nine Mountains Sect advanced and aided the local people, Gu God set out to confront them, and Golden Phoenix Fairy’s returning lover died in a sudden outbreak of venomous insects.

• Zheng Fa reunited the Flowing Cloud Sect’s broken peaks, restoring its Spirit Vein, and offered Golden Phoenix Fairy the chance to rebuild the sect as an institution subordinate to the Nine Mountains Sect.
• Golden Phoenix Fairy accepted Zheng Fa’s offer and agreed to help establish the Magnetic Array in exchange for resources and a chance to restore her home.
• In Nine Luminaries Heaven, Gu God told White Bone Devil Ancestor that the Nine Mountains Sect had seized half of Vast Sun Mountain’s territory and planned to attack them, then left to confront the sect while White Bone watched Creation.
• Golden Phoenix Fairy helped distribute grain to local mortals and saw the Nine Mountains Sect’s efforts to restore farming and daily life.
• Golden Phoenix Fairy’s young lover returned from Vast Sun Mountain, warned her to flee, and exploded, releasing venomous insects that blackened the nearby rice fields.