Chapter Summaries

Zhan Hongxiu escaped the Eastern Sea with the help of Gui Ling, while powerful cultivators clashed over the Nascent Infant Pill and the unusual tortoise shell. Fang Qing returned to the White Bone Way camp and learned that treasures taken from White Principle Heaven had lost most of their power.

• Xuan Gui and Xuan De faced the blood-robed elder as the Nascent Infant Pill formed, but a third-order alchemist under demonic influence attacked the nearby alchemists.
• Heavenfiend Old Monster and Xuanzhong Gate's supreme elder negotiated over a Nascent Infant Pill before the damaged tortoise shell and its pursuer appeared in the Great Void.
• Zhan Hongxiu awoke on a Desolate Island and learned that Gui Ling had survived but would fall into a deep sleep after spending his vital energy.
• Fang Qing returned to the White Bone Way camp and cautioned himself about dangers in the Great Void.
• Sangji told Fang Qing that White Principle Heaven's Divine Path treasures lost most of their power outside the Grotto-Heaven and that Great True Person Senchen had encountered valuable Ghost Metal.

Fang Qing and Sangji discussed the dangers surrounding the attack on the Harmonious Bliss Sect and learned that Senchen had been injured by the Yin Celestial Emperor’s Ghost Metal. Senchen returned a wounded Demon-Subduing Black Tara to the White Bone Way, where Sangji sent her true spirit into reincarnation.

• Fang Qing questioned whether the White Bone Way would be sacrificed as a pawn, and Sangji explained that great figures above Gold were unlikely to intervene unless the Harmonious Bliss Sect faced extermination.
• Fang Qing reflected on how the orthodox Golden Core True Lords’ poor condition might explain the Dao’s decline and considered whether weakness could have advantages.
• Lian Chen Great True Person returned to Cloud-Touching Cliff injured by Ghost Metal, took a Wood-Prolonging Life Pill, and used Southern Bright Separation Flame to recover.
• Lian Chen ordered Tan Feng to return the wounded Demon-Subduing Black Tara to the White Bone Way after one of Sangji’s two Dumu died and the other was injured.
• Sangji sent Void Sparrow and Moonlight White to see Tan Feng out, then used White Bone Visualization on Demon-Subduing Black Tara and sent her true spirit into reincarnation.

Fang Qing learned that Primordial Essence was the sole supreme-grade Ninth-Rank True Essence and questioned why Gua Chen had fought over it, while Sangji led the Buddhist forces east to break Acacia. At the Shudong Natural Barrier, the Fei Clan’s descendants realized Fei Wangcai had been ensnared by Acacia’s divine technique and considered surrendering or fleeing.

• Sangji received intelligence that Demon-Subduing Black Tara’s true spirit had reached Great Snow Mountain, and Fang Qing learned details about Primordial Essence and Gua Chen’s battle over it.
• Sangji told Fang Qing that the Buddhist forces would head east and break Acacia after White Radiance Heaven had fallen.
• Fang Wujiu and Le Mingxue advanced along the plank road under fire, while the White Bone Way’s commanders used the casualties to maintain the Grotto-Heaven’s opening.
• The Fei Clan Patriarch pleaded with Fei Wangcai to abandon the doomed defense, but Fei Wangcai revealed he was guarding the pass to win the favor of a fairy.
• The Fei Clan’s leaders concluded that Fei Wangcai had been bewitched by a divine technique and discussed surrendering to the White Bone Way or scattering to escape.

The Esoteric Monks defeated Fei Wangcai and crossed through Ancient Shu into the Acacia Territory. In the Great Void, the Secret Treasury Domain’s forces confronted True Person Xin Yi, who sealed the void above the Harmonious Bliss Sect’s lands with a vast formation, setting up a campaign to break its foundations.

• Fang Qing learned that Fei Wangcai had been manipulated into resisting the Esoteric Monks and reflected on how higher powers used Purple Mansion cultivators as pawns.
• Fang Wujiu reached Fei Clan Fortress after the deadly crossing, where Tian Youliang mourned Tian Youdao’s death and the Fei clansmen surrendered.
• Fei Wangcai attacked the advancing cultivators, but several Dao Foundation cultivators killed him, ending the battle for Fei Clan Fortress.
• Le Mingxue and the surviving monk-soldiers crossed into the Central Plains, reaching the Acacia Territory after three years of war.
• Fang Qing observed the gathered Esoteric sects and Dharma King Vilu in the Great Void as True Person Xin Yi arrived to defend the Harmonious Bliss Sect.
• True Person Xin Yi activated a vast formation that sealed the Great Void above the Harmonious Bliss Sect’s territory, and Fang Qing realized its scattered foundations would have to be destroyed.

Fang Qing and the White Bone Way attacked the Eastwater White Clan as part of the Esoteric Treasury’s war against the Harmonious Bliss Sect. They reached the clan’s fortified array, where Fang Qing’s influence over its head exposed how dangerous the assault would be.

• Vilu Dharma King assigned the Esoteric Treasury forces to attack the Harmonious Bliss Sect’s seven subordinate Purple Mansion forces, and Sangji chose the Eastwater White Clan for the White Bone Way.
• Bai Mu True Person learned that the Harmonious Bliss Sect had ordered the White Clan to defend itself without reinforcements, and he feared the clan was being sacrificed to wear down the invaders.
• White Bone Dharma King brought Fang Qing, Moonlight White, and Void Sparrow to Eastwater, while Fang Qing discussed the limits on appointing new Dumu with Sangji.
• Sangji demanded that Bai Mulin open the White Clan’s Purple Mansion array, but a banyan root struck Bai Mulin when he tried to obey.
• Fang Qing used his strengthened silver-tongued persuasion on Bai Mulin, who thanked him and declared his willingness to convert before piercing his own eardrums to block the influence.

Bai Mu ambushed the Esoteric Treasury forces, but Sangji and Fang Qing countered his abilities and forced him back into his Purple Mansion formation. Injured and nearing Dao Transformation, Bai Mu ordered Bai Mulin to request aid from the Harmonious Bliss Sect, while Bai Mulin considered whether the White Clan might need to seek help elsewhere.

• Bai Mu used Forestbank Concealment to ambush Moonlight White Tara, but the Taras and Fang Qing attacked him after his surprise strike was blocked.
• Bai Mu's Longlasting Sweet Rain immobilized the attackers until Sangji unleashed the White-Bone God-Demon with [Maiden Earth].
• Fang Qing deduced that Forestbank Concealment depended on nearby cover, forcing Bai Mu to appear and attack him directly.
• Fang Qing struck Bai Mu's vine disguise, but Bai Mu turned his body into water and retreated into his Purple Mansion formation after Sangji wounded him.
• Bai Mu ordered Bai Mulin to request reinforcements from the Harmonious Bliss Sect and warned that the White Clan needed to plan for its future.
• Bai Mulin considered seeking help from Fang Qing and Moonlight White Tara, but hesitated because they wanted the White Clan's secret cultivation art.

During the White Bone Way’s siege of the Eastwater White Clan, Fang Qing received a complete Purple Mansion cultivation art from a captured young clansman and recognized it as a calculated overture. The encounter sharpened his resolve to pursue Purple Mansion, with Longlasting Sweet Rain and Forestbank Concealment now possible paths.

• Dharma King Sangji ordered the Dumu to wear down the White Clan’s formation while Fang Qing studied a Third-Order pill recipe in camp.
• Fang Wujiu, Fang Shangxuan, Le Mingxue, and Tian Youliang drove local cultivators into the formation as sacrificial attackers, and the White Clan’s formation killed many of them.
• A young White Clan cultivator and several others left the formation to rescue prisoners, but Le Mingxue attacked them and the White Bone Way captured them.
• Fang Qing recognized Fang Wujiu, rewarded the Azure Departure Fang Family with a chance to exchange merit for a Dao Foundation Pill, and invited the young White Clan cultivator to join the White Bone Way.
• The young cultivator gave Fang Qing a transcription of the Vast Ripple Life-Transformation Scripture, which Fang Qing suspected the White Clan had offered to secure favor and a possible escape route.
• Fang Qing concluded that he needed to plan for Purple Mansion and considered Longlasting Sweet Rain and Forestbank Concealment as possible paths.

Fang Qing and Sangji ambushed the Harmonious Bliss Sect’s reinforcements and forced Silver Bottle and other Dao Foundation cultivators into the Eastwater White Clan’s battle. After the White Clan’s formation fell, Bai Mu True Person revealed a Purple Mansion Magic Treasure and attacked Fang Qing with it, leaving their clash unresolved.

• Fang Qing and Sangji ambushed the Harmonious Bliss Sect’s reinforcements, while Red Medicine True Person escaped using Walk Along the Ground and Silver Bottle submitted to Fang Qing.
• Fang Qing ordered Silver Bottle and the captured Dao Foundation cultivators to attack the Eastwater White Clan’s formation, where they died and weakened it.
• Bai Mulin learned that the reinforcements had been defeated and went to meet Bai Mu True Person in Lone Wood Grove.
• Fang Qing, Sangji, Moonlight White, and Void Sparrow attacked until Fang Qing shattered the White Clan’s Purple Mansion formation with the Bronze Halberd.
• Bai Mu True Person appeared with the Water-Separating Ring, a Purple Mansion Magic Treasure, and used its Water Separation mystery to isolate Fang Qing in a rain-filled domain.
• Fang Qing struck the rain curtain with the Bronze Halberd as the White Bone God-Demon roared and the chapter ended with the battle unresolved.

Fang Qing watched Bai Mu seemingly die and the Eastwater White Clan fall, but later discovered Bai Mu had hidden himself inside a clan youth using Forestbank Concealment. He uncovered how Bai Mu had faked his death and considered whether the same escape technique could one day help the Fang Family.

• Fang Qing killed a merfolk attacker as the azure-green rain ended, revealing the badly injured Moonlight White, Void Sparrow, and Sangji.
• Bai Mu underwent apparent Dao Transformation, turning the Eastwater White Clan's springs into a Bitter-Drowning Spring, and Bai Mulin killed himself after declaring the clan finished.
• The surviving White Clan cultivators surrendered, but Fang Qing learned Bai Mulin had destroyed their Purple Mansion inheritance and found that the Heavenly Wind Spirit Spring had been contaminated.
• Fang Qing inspected Bai Mu's Water-Separating Ring and used divination and the Dao-Born Pearl to realize that Bai Mu had secretly survived by hiding inside a White Clan youth.
• Fang Qing deduced that Forestbank Concealment let Bai Mu evade death by hiding his true spirit among his blood relatives, and he considered using the Fang Family in a similar escape if he reached Purple Mansion.

After Eastwater fell, Fang Qing considered how to keep Bai Mu True Person from escaping and studied records of grotto-heavens and blessed lands for hidden treasures in the region. He found possible leads to a blessed land but lacked the lineage knowledge needed to open it, and regretted that the Secret Treasury Domain was at war with the Harmonious Bliss Sect.

• Fang Qing realized he had seen through Bai Mu True Person’s staged death and told Sangji to keep watch over the boy harboring Bai Mu’s Divine Ability.
• Sangji offered to threaten Bai Mu into hiding and working for White Bone Way, while Fang Qing decided to first seek the Streamside Deer-Seeking Formula from him.
• Sangji gave Fang Qing Buddhist scrolls about grotto-heavens and blessed lands and asked him to search for sites connected to the fallen Eastwater White Clan.
• Fang Qing studied records of Yiling Paradise and Converging Water Paradise and concluded that a blessed land might lie hidden in Eastwater, though he lacked the means to open it.
• Fang Qing realized the Harmonious Bliss Sect might know how to open some blessed lands, but regretted that the Secret Treasury Domain’s war against it made cooperation impossible.

White Bone Dharma King Sangji exposed True Person Bai Mu’s faked death and recruited him into the White Bone Way, while Fang Qing gained a Winnowing Basket Water cultivation technique and decided to avoid the coming war. The chapter left Fang Qing planning to remain in Eastwater for now, though ready to flee if danger grew.

• Bai Ziye and the other Bai Clan prisoners ate and were forced to sort and load their clan’s possessions, while True Person Bai Mu hid in Bai Ziye’s shadow.
• White Bone Dharma King Sangji revealed that he had seen through Bai Mu’s concealment and offered him a place in the White Bone Way as a secret protector.
• True Person Bai Mu accepted the precepts and agreed to join the White Bone Way in secret, preserving the possibility of rebuilding the Bai Clan’s strength.
• Fang Qing received the Streamside Deer-Seeking Formula through the Dao-Born Pearl and used it to refine his understanding of the Winnowing Basket Water cultivation path.
• Fang Qing decided to have Sangji appoint him to guard Eastwater rather than join the campaign against the Harmonious Bliss Sect, keeping escape as a fallback.

Fang Qing considered the Esoteric Treasury’s campaign and the Harmonious Bliss Sect’s possible plans as the White Bone Way divided its forces. After the main army marched against the Nangong Clan, Fang Qing stayed in Eastwater to guard the Mandala and pondered how to obtain Purple Mansion spiritual materials and advance his cultivation.

• Fang Qing sensed that the Great Void had weakened enough for late-stage Purple Mansion cultivators to pass through and discussed the Harmonious Bliss Sect’s possible Golden Seat candidates with Sangji.
• Battle reports announced the Mystic River Lin Clan’s fall, the White Bone Way’s plan to join the attack on the Nangong Clan, and the Temple of All Living Beings Without Form’s stalled assault on the Aster Sect.
• Sangji ordered Dumu Moonlight White and Dumu Void Sparrow to accompany him against the Nangong Clan, while Steel Strength Dudzi stayed behind to guard the Mandala.
• Fang Qing selected Fang Wujiu and Le Mingxue to remain in Eastwater, while Tian Youliang departed with the main army and entrusted Fang Wujiu with a storage bag for the Lineage.
• Fang Qing reflected on the White Clan’s scarce Purple Mansion spiritual materials and considered whether Mutual Slaughter could help cultivators advance.

Fang Qing returned to the Eastern Sea Cultivation Realm under the guise of Fang Jin and sought a safe place to advance his Core Formation cultivation while refining his swordsmanship. He joined the Wang sisters on a hunt for a Fish-Eagle Beast, unaware they were also considering him as an ally in an upcoming duel.

• Fang Qing hid in the Eastern Sea Cultivation Realm, practiced sword techniques, and planned to obtain ingredients for the Mystic Star Flying-Waterfall Pill.
• Wang Ziqin and Wang Ziying met Fang Qing after seeing his sword practice and invited him to help hunt a wounded Fish-Eagle Beast.
• Fang Qing divined that the sisters were sincere and that the beast's water-attributed Demon Pill and nearby Roc-Transforming Grass would be useful to him, so he accepted.
• Wang Ziqin privately told Wang Ziying that they needed another Core Formation Early Stage fighter for Jin Feng and Jin Hai's deadly duel against the Three Fiends of the Tong Clan.
• Wang Ziqin said she wanted to judge Fang Qing's character and consider him as a possible ally for the duel.

Fang Qing killed the Fish-Eagle Beast at Thunderfall Cliff and claimed its Demon Pill and Roc-Transforming Grass while the Heart-Eroding Wanderer attacked the Wang sisters. The Wanderer trapped the sisters with his Black Poison Bell and turned his attention to Fang Qing, who faced the descending Black Spirit Threads.

• Fang Qing and the Wang sisters found the Fish-Eagle Beast's nest at Thunderfall Cliff, where lightning struck a hidden island.
• Fang Qing fought the wounded Fish-Eagle Beast as the Heart-Eroding Wanderer arrived and attacked the Wang sisters with black snakes.
• Wang Ziqin and Wang Ziying joined forces against the Wanderer, but his Black Poison Bell poisoned their core power and weakened them.
• Fang Qing killed the Fish-Eagle Beast, captured its Demon Pill in the Devouring Sea Flask, and picked the Roc-Transforming Grass from its nest.
• The Heart-Eroding Wanderer trapped the sisters with his Black Poison Bell and sent Black Spirit Threads toward Fang Qing.

Fang Qing killed Heart-Eroding Wanderer and accepted the Wang sisters’ invitation to their clan in exchange for treasures and thousand-year-old Spirit Herbs. At the Wang Clan, he exposed a plot against its Core Formation cultivators and left the clan to confront the conspirators while he awaited his payment.

• Fang Qing cut apart Heart-Eroding Wanderer’s Black Spirit Threads, destroyed his flying fork, subdued the Black Poison Bell, and killed him.
• Wang Ziqin and Wang Zixuan offered Fang Qing the demon’s treasures and the spirit objects from the Fish-Eagle Beast’s nest, then asked him to help their clan in its dispute with the Three Fiends of the Tong Clan.
• Fang Qing arrived at the Wang Clan Immortal Island with Wang Ziqin and Wang Ziying and agreed to stay after Grand-Uncle Feng welcomed him.
• Wang Jinyuan questioned Fang Qing about the sisters’ journey, and he used divination to identify her role in a scheme involving Wang Chufang, Wang Dalu, and Wang Qiao.
• Fang Qing confronted Wang Jinyuan with a Recording Talisman, exposing her plot to provoke a deadly conflict and get Wang Clan Core Formation cultivators killed.
• Fang Qing sent a communication talisman as unrest spread through the Wang Clan, expecting its cultivators to deal with the conspirators while he collected his reward.

Fang Qing accepted a Fourth-Order Brilliant Radiance Crystal from the Wang Clan treasury and left Wang Family Island, while the clan’s leaders dealt with the fallout from its internal betrayal and the coming contest with the Three Fiends of the Tong Clan. The Wang Clan ancestor suspected Fang Qing and Bai Jianfeng might have ties to the demonic path, but saw such a connection as potentially useful.

• Wang Ziqin thanked Fang Qing for exposing the Wang Clan members who framed Wang Jinhai and Wang Jinfeng, and offered him his choice of treasury treasures as a reward.
• Fang Qing entered the treasury and chose a Brilliant Radiance Crystal, which Wang Junjie identified as a rare Fourth-Order material suited to Fang Qing’s Dark Nether Mirror.
• Wang Junjie removed the crystal’s seals and gave it to Fang Qing, who thanked the Wang Clan and flew away from Wang Family Island.
• Wang Junjie rebuked Wang Junfeng for the clan’s turmoil, while Wang Junfeng asked to surrender clan authority and reported that the Three Fiends of the Tong Clan refused to abandon their contest.
• Wang Junjie and Wang Junfeng speculated that Bai Jianfeng might come from Bloodfiend Island, and Wang Junjie said he had given Fang Qing the crystal because a demonic-path connection could benefit the Wang Clan.

Fang Qing arrived at Yuanxin Market under the identity of Bai Jianfeng, settled into the Zhong Alliance’s base, and cultivated with the Devouring Sea Art. After exploring the market’s entertainment district with Zhong Lingxiu, he encountered several Core Formation cultivators who seemed to recognize someone.

• Fang Qing entered Yuanxin Market disguised as Bai Jianfeng and was welcomed by the old Daoist Xuanqi at the Zhong Alliance’s base.
• Zhong Lingxiu gave Fang Qing the gathered herbs and reported that the Heavenly Frost Sect sought a mutually beneficial relationship with the Zhong Alliance; Fang Qing told him to handle it as he saw fit.
• Fang Qing began cultivating the Devouring Sea Art, absorbed a fish-eagle beast’s inner core, and found that his Core Formation progress was advancing rapidly.
• Fang Qing monitored the conflicts on the Breath-Nourishing Dao side and decided to avoid returning there until the Hehuan Sect’s major conflict ended.
• Fang Qing asked Zhong Lingxiu to show him the market’s entertainment venues, and they entered Hundred Blossoms Tower, where several Core Formation cultivators came out to meet them.

Fang Qing rented the Origin Ice Spring in Yuanxin Market and refined a premium Mystic Star Flying-Waterfall Pill. During the alchemy, he broke through his Dao Foundation bottleneck and perfected his foundation, leaving him with the promise of reaching the Purple Mansion.

• Zhong Lingxiu introduced Bai Jianfeng to Shang Yuanxin, while Fang Qing considered doing business at Yuanxin Market and went with Zhong Lingxiu to enjoy its hospitality.
• Shang Yuanxin learned that the Zhong Alliance had applied to use a Third-Order Spirit Spring and approved its rental of the vacant Origin Ice Spring for two years.
• Fang Qing inspected the Origin Ice Spring and began refining the Mystic Star Flying-Waterfall Pill with his Wind-Approaching Foundation.
• Fang Qing drew on what he had learned from the Eastwater White Clan and transformed his alchemy technique as the spring, wind, and medicinal ingredients answered his incantations.
• Fang Qing completed a premium Mystic Star Flying-Waterfall Pill with six Pill Patterns and perfected his Dao Foundation in the process.

Fang Qing perfected his Dao Foundation, refined the Dark Nether Mirror, and began preparing for a future Purple Mansion breakthrough. After leaving seclusion, he met Shang Yuanxin to trade alchemy for intelligence and leads on treasures and techniques he would need for advancement.

• Fang Qing reviewed the dangers of breaking through to the Purple Mansion and decided to gather Winnowing Basket Water spiritual items and Heart Demon protections.
• Fang Qing spent several months refining the Dark Nether Mirror from Brilliant Radiance Crystal and nurtured it alongside the Devouring Sea Flask.
• A Shang Clan steward invited Fang Qing to meet Shang Yuanxin at the Merchant Tower after he emerged from seclusion.
• Fang Qing told Shang Yuanxin he could refine Third-Order upper-grade pills and offered alchemy in exchange for spiritual items or useful intelligence.
• Fang Qing gave Shang Yuanxin a list of Nascent Soul and Heart Demon preparations he sought, and Shang Yuanxin hinted that he had less-common leads.

Fang Qing learned that Heavenly Spring Island’s damaged fourth-order Spirit Spring could yield treasures capable of helping Winnowing Basket Water reach the Purple Mansion stage, and he asked Shang Yuanxin to investigate while agreeing to refine Jade Spring Pills. Divination suggested that trading through Shang Yuanxin would be auspicious if Fang Qing revealed his Fang Shui identity, leaving him to weigh that plan’s risks to Zhong Alliance and Zhong Lingxiu.

• Shang Yuanxin told Fang Qing that Bloodfiend Island’s attack had damaged Heavenly Spring Island’s fourth-order Spirit Spring and that its decline could release valuable treasures.
• Fang Qing considered offering the Grudge Infant Fruit and taking Shang Yuanxin as a disciple, but decided not to force him into submission while there was another option.
• Fang Qing gave Shang Yuanxin a list of Spirit Spring waters he needed and agreed to refine Jade Spring Pills in exchange for his help investigating Heavenly Spring Island.
• Months later, Fang Qing finished refining Jade Spring Pills and used divination to compare sneaking onto Heavenly Spring Island with arranging a trade through Shang Yuanxin.
• Fang Qing concluded that a trade would be auspicious if he revealed his Fang Shui identity, though doing so could expose his connection to the Zhong Alliance and Zhong Lingxiu.