Chapter Summaries

Fang Qing revealed his Water Virtue Great True Person power, defeated the Nine-Heavens Fire Manor cultivators, and escaped before their reinforcements arrived. He tracked the wounded Chu Zhaohuang and, after offering him the choice to convert to Buddhism, killed him when he refused.

• Li Yan used Chu Zhaohuang as bait while the Nine-Heavens Fire Manor fighters attacked Fang Qing and his allies, but True Person Sanmu escaped in a puppet body.
• Fang Qing revealed his Water Virtue Great True Person power, overwhelmed Li Yan, and seized the Capital-Sky Blazing Flame Banner.
• Fang Qing killed two Nine-Heavens Fire Manor cultivators and struck Chu Zhaohuang, who escaped while True Person Chigu and Suyuan fled the battlefield.
• Fang Qing used Chu Zhaohuang's blood pearl to track him to a reef and offered him the choice to repay the White Bone Way's Causality or convert to Buddhism.
• Chu Zhaohuang refused to convert, and Fang Qing killed him with the Scarlet Firmament Sword.

Fang Qing returned the Withered-Bone Jade Flame and Scarlet Firmament Sword to the White Bone Way, then withdrew to Jade Spring Island to cultivate and study his treasures. After nearly advancing to the middle stage of Purple Mansion, he reflected on the conflicts between his cultivation methods and the unexplained calamities that had left ancient Golden Core True Lords in poor condition.

• Fang Qing, as Steel Strength Dudzi, returned the Withered-Bone Jade Flame, Scarlet Firmament Sword, and Chu Zhaohuang’s possessions to Sangji, settling the White Bone Way’s grievance.
• Sangji rewarded Fang Qing by opening the secret vault, and Fang Qing took the spirit items that interested him before returning to Jade Spring Island.
• Fang Qing examined the Capital-Sky Blazing Flame Banner and recognized its power to challenge Nascent Soul cultivators and seal space.
• Fang Qing merged Forestbank Concealment and Wind-Approaching Foundation into the Heaven-One Generates Life Divine Ability, but their clash nearly derailed his attempt to reach the middle stage of Purple Mansion.
• Fang Qing concluded that his three Winnowing Basket Water cultivation methods conflicted and considered how their incompatibility could limit his advancement.
• Fang Qing reviewed ancient history and wondered whether an outside invasion, a war among Golden Core True Lords, or an awakening Year Guardian had caused their decline.

Fang Daoling joined Xu Hei on a raid against the failing Zeng Clan, hoping to claim spiritual land and settle old debts. After the Zeng ancestor died and the clan surrendered its assets, Fang Daoling discovered an Outer Sea treasure map, which alarmed Xu Hei.

• Fang Daoling discussed investing the Fang Family’s resources in a spirit spring and considered taking land from the troubled Zeng Clan.
• Fang Daoling traveled with Xu Hei, who explained that the Zeng ancestor’s failed breakthrough and possible witchcraft curse had left the clan vulnerable.
• Xu Hei offered Fang Daoling a chance to claim the Zeng Clan’s spiritual land at Mount Li, which had a natural spirit spring.
• The Zeng Clan ancestor died as meteor-fire swept over the mountain, and Dao Foundation cultivators descended to collect debts and seize the clan’s assets.
• A white-haired Zeng Clan cultivator surrendered the clan’s deeds, techniques, keys, and treasure map, and Fang Daoling saw that the map pointed to the Outer Sea, making Xu Hei change color.

Xu Hei uncovered a strange inheritance and treasure map among the Zeng Clan’s seized belongings, prompting Fang Qing to trace a hidden plan surrounding the East Sea Blessed Land. Fang Qing resolved to secure the Water Virtue cultivators being drawn into the scheme and seek a way to claim a share of the Blessed Land.

• Xu Hei and the other Dao Foundation cultivators divided the Zeng Clan’s treasury, while Fang Daoling discovered the Three-Cavern Spring Formula and recognized its possible connection to his family’s cultivation art.
• Xu Hei saw a hidden Purple Mansion hook spreading from the formula toward Fang Daoling and alerted Fang Qing through the Dao-Born Pearl.
• Fang Qing traced the formula’s Causality to Cloud-Touching Cliff and deduced that Great True Person Yaochen was gathering Water Virtue cultivators to open the East Sea Blessed Land.
• Fang Qing and Sangji concluded that Cloud-Touching Cliff was manipulating the Eastern Sea Scheme and planned to custody the Water Virtue cultivators in Xituo Commandery.
• Fang Qing considered using his connections with the Outer Sea and Vast Sea Sect to obtain a ticket to the East Sea Blessed Land and share in its spoils.

Fang Daoling was detained by Deathless Temple, alarming the Fang Family, while Fang Qing and White Bone Dharma King Sangji dealt with a request from Great True Person Yaochen to release detained Water Virtue Dao Foundation cultivators. Sangji refused the offer and threat, then decided to seek the East Sea Blessed Land with Demon-Subduing Black Tara.

• Moonlight White Tara arrived at the Fang Family estate, compelled the family to kneel, and took Fang Daoling to Deathless Temple for detention.
• Fang Shanglin urged the Fang Family to investigate Old Master Xu’s situation and prepare to rescue Fang Daoling or flee.
• Fang Qing recognized that Fang Daoling’s detention had helped deter enemies from attacking the endangered Zeng Clan.
• Tan Feng arrived at Deathless Temple on Great True Person Yaochen’s orders and offered Sangji three Nirvana Earth Origin Pills for the detained cultivators’ release.
• Sangji rejected Tan Feng’s offer and threat, then chose Demon-Subduing Black Tara to accompany him to the Outer Sea in search of the East Sea Blessed Land.

Fang Qing avoided traveling to the East Sea Blessed Land himself, sent Sangji to investigate, and broke through to mid-stage Purple Mansion on Jade Spring Island. Meanwhile, Great True Person Yaochen’s influence drew Water Virtue cultivators east, while Fang Qing discovered that his divine abilities could be paired in unexpected ways through the Dao-Born Pearl.

• Fang Qing judged the East Sea Blessed Land too dangerous to visit personally and decided Sangji would watch it and seek reinforcements from the Temple of All Living Beings Without Form.
• Fang Qing arranged for Sangji and the mothers of deliverance to build a secret realm, then began his breakthrough on Jade Spring Island as strange springs and forests appeared around him.
• Great True Person Yaochen sent black insects through the void, prompting Shen Guanfu and other Water Virtue cultivators to set out for the outer seas.
• Fang Daoling felt compelled to go east from his cell, but Deathless Temple’s scripture drove the insects from another prisoner and restored a measure of clarity among the captives.
• Fang Qing stabilized Forestbank Concealment alongside Wind-Approaching Foundation and achieved mid-stage Purple Mansion.
• Fang Qing used the Dao-Born Pearl to test new divine-ability pairings, finding that Wind-Approaching Foundation paired dangerously with Sharp Edge Chapter but that Phoenix Seeks the Phoenix harmonized with Winnowing Basket Water.

Fang Qing concluded that [Winnowing Basket Water] might nourish [Wings Fire] and turned his attention to the East Sea Blessed Land. Meanwhile, Sangji joined Jiumoluo Jie and other powerful cultivators for the expedition, as Guangmu revealed he had driven the Jade Sea Flood-Dragon King away.

• Fang Qing reasoned that wind could let [Winnowing Basket Water] nourish [Wings Fire], then prepared to celebrate his breakthrough and focus on the East Sea Blessed Land.
• Jiumoluo Jie performed the Sky Burial rite and told Sangji that he would soon be reincarnated, leaving Sangji to preside over the temple’s rites.
• Jiumoluo Jie explained that Earth Virtue’s ghosts and Great Terrifying Aspects came from [Zhuyou], and Sangji considered how sorcery might help him attain Metal.
• Jiumoluo Jie told Sangji that the temple had secured a place in the East Sea Blessed Land expedition and that he would accompany him.
• Shen Guanfu killed a Dao Foundation cultivator and seized a treasure-map fragment using the Jun Heaven Pot.
• Guangmu gathered the assembled True Persons and temple leaders to set out for the East Sea Blessed Land, then said his sword exchange had likely kept the Jade Sea Flood-Dragon King away.

Yaochen’s plan brought the East Sea Blessed Land into view, where Shen Guanfu entered and found its blood-soaked Dao Treasury. Le Shui claimed the inheritance, Sangji recruited Shen Guanfu into the Esoteric Treasury, and Fang Qing noticed something wrong with the Jun Heaven Pot.

• Guangmu separated Yaochen’s demons from Jiumoluo Jie’s devil cultivators and warned Yaochen about the consequences of pursuing the Blessed Land.
• Shen Guanfu assembled the treasure map, was drawn into the East Sea Blessed Land, and discovered an island whose inhabitants had been reduced to skeletons.
• Yaochen revealed that the blood sacrifices following Fang Qing’s killings had opened the Blessed Land, while Sangji expressed interest in recruiting Shen Guanfu.
• Shen Guanfu found the Gazing at the Vast Sea temple and its Dao Treasury, but Le Shui took a Golden Scroll before he could claim one.
• Sangji accepted Shen Guanfu as a disciple of the White Bone Way, while Fang Qing watched through Sangji and became suspicious of the Jun Heaven Pot.

The Jun Heaven Pot led the Purple Mansion cultivators into a hidden realm inside the East Sea Blessed Land, where [Horn Wood] Golden Nature appeared and triggered a battle. As the factions fought to seize it, Fang Qing realized the realm’s presence within the Blessed Land was strangely easy for everyone to overlook.

• True Person Le Shui followed the Jun Heaven Pot with the others into a hidden realm concealed in the sea.
• True Person Guangmu recognized the towering [Horn Wood] brilliance as Golden Nature, and the Great Dharma King, Great True Person Yaochen, Le Shui, and others rushed to claim it.
• The Nine-Heavens Fire Manor banner envoys sensed the [Horn Wood] Golden Nature from outside the Blessed Land and turned their attention to seizing it.
• Great True Person Le Shui blocked Great True Person Yaochen, who drew a black tablet covered in Shamanic Script as the other cultivators struggled over the Golden Nature.
• Fang Qing considered whether the Golden Nature was part of a larger trap, then realized the cultivators had overlooked how strange it was for a hidden realm to exist inside a Blessed Land.

Great True Person Guangmu claimed the [Horn Wood] Golden Nature and turned against Great True Person Yaochen, while Great True Person Le Shui blocked Jiumoluo Jie’s escape. Yaochen and Jiumoluo Jie unleashed desperate rituals amid the ensuing chaos, but Sangji escaped the East Sea Blessed Land with Jiumoluo Jie and the remains of Demon-Subduing Black Tara.

• Great True Person Guangmu split Jiumoluo Jie’s body with his sword, then claimed the [Horn Wood] Golden Nature using Vast Forest Wood.
• Great True Person Guangmu trapped Great True Person Yaochen and declared his intent to kill him, while Great True Person Le Shui blocked Jiumoluo Jie’s attempt to leave.
• Great True Person Yaochen began a shamanic sacrifice, and Jiumoluo Jie sacrificed the Duzis and Dumus to summon Great Terrifying Aspects.
• Sangji used Demon-Subduing Black Tara as a protective prayer banner and crossed the darkness, while Great True Person Le Shui escaped with True Person Leshan.
• Sangji emerged from the Blessed Land with Jiumoluo Jie and Demon-Subduing Black Tara’s remaining bones, and Jiumoluo Jie called the place a trap and urged them to flee.

After the East Sea Blessed Land, Guangmu secured the Vast Sea Sect as his vassal, while Sangji returned to the Deathless Temple and sent Fang Qing a fragment bearing Wall Water. Fang Qing divined the fragment’s history, discovered that Yuezhuo had killed the Grand Swan Great Sage in the struggle called Chariot Water Deposes Bi, and ended the chapter injured after trying to see further.

• Guangmu healed his wound, accepted the Vast Sea Sect’s submission through Le Shui, and faced two banner-bearers who challenged him over the Golden Nature.
• Fang Qing considered Yaochen’s death and Guangmu’s likely attempt to form a Golden Core before Grand Yellow Heaven opened.
• Jiumoluo Jie granted Sangji ten years of cultivation in the Dust-Cleansing Pool, and Sangji appointed Moonlight White to handle temple affairs while sending Empty Peacock Tara with an object for Steel Strength Dudzi.
• Empty Peacock Tara delivered a fragment bearing Wall Water to Fang Qing, who took a dewdrop to Jade Spring Island and used it to trace Causality.
• Fang Qing saw Yuezhuo kill the Grand Swan Great Sage and a withered hand cast the site of their struggle into the East Sea Blessed Land.
• Fang Qing’s attempt to trace the withered hand further left him bleeding and confused, and a second attempt made him spit blood.

Fang Qing uncovered signs that a living Golden Core True Lord had concealed the mastermind behind the East Sea Blessed Land, then perfected Forestbank Concealment with Mystic Clarity of Floating Clouds. He left seclusion to seek the Divine Ability section of Origin Spring Ripple and discovered how his perfected concealment could let him impersonate Fang Daoling, before unexpectedly addressing Moonlight White.

• Fang Qing realized that a True Lord’s concealment made people forget the East Sea Blessed Land’s hidden depths, and he concluded that the scheme’s mastermind was alive.
• Fang Qing used two bottles of Mystic Clarity of Floating Clouds to bring Forestbank Concealment to perfection after three years of cultivation.
• Fang Qing decided to seek the Divine Ability section of Origin Spring Ripple, since Longlasting Sweet Rain would make his breakthrough to late Purple Mansion fail.
• Fang Qing tested Forestbank Concealment on Fang Daoling and found he could use their bloodline connection to take on Fang Daoling’s identity and conceal himself from powerful cultivators.
• Fang Qing approached Moonlight White Tara unseen, called her name, and startled her when she recognized him as Steel Strength.

Fang Qing ordered the release of the imprisoned Water Virtue Dao Foundation cultivators, allowing Fang Daoling to return to Azure Departure Mountain after years in Deathless Temple’s dungeon. As Fang Qing considered the Fang Family’s hidden inheritance and his future cultivation, he also speculated about ancient conflicts among the Fruit Seats.

• Fang Qing ordered the release of the imprisoned cultivators and asked Moonlight White Tara about Cloud-Touching Cliff.
• Fang Daoling and the other Water Virtue cultivators were released from Deathless Temple, and he fled back to Azure Departure Mountain.
• Fang Daoling found his family being pressured to sell their estate and wounded the mouse-whiskered Yu Family man who had urged them to abandon it.
• Fang Qing secretly followed Fang Daoling home, observed the reunion, and considered investigating Cloud-Touching Cliff and cultivating [Winnowing Basket Water].
• Fang Qing pondered the relationships among [Chariot Water], [Net Moon], and [Rooftop Moon], questioning how ancient conflicts had unfolded.

Shen Wanshan returned to the Shen Clan but refused to fight the Song Clan, choosing instead to seek a breakthrough to Purple Palace. After leaving with Fuling, he tried to rob Fang Qing, then realized Fang Qing was a True Person and begged for mercy.

• Shen Guanyuan told the Shen Clan elders that Shen Wanshan had been summoned to defend the family from the Song Clan.
• Shen Wanshan and Fuling overheard Shen Clan members arguing over whether Wanshan should return to support the family or pursue Purple Palace.
• Shen Wanshan refused to fight the Song Clan, introduced Fuling as his future wife, and asked the Shen Clan to support his Purple Palace breakthrough.
• Shen Guanyuan agreed to provide Wanshan with the clan's full support, and Wanshan and Fuling left for Cloud-Touching Cliff.
• Shen Wanshan pursued Fang Qing, intending to kill him and take his treasures, but he and Fuling recognized Fang Qing as a True Person and begged him to spare them.

Fang Qing investigated the rising Sky Horn Sect and learned that Great True Person Guangmu was pursuing the Principal Position of [Horn Wood]. After Sanmu True Person invited him to join the sect, Fang Qing refused and left Profound Void Heaven.

• Fang Qing reflected on Shen Wanshan and his junior sister, then returned to Jade Spring Island and learned from Zhong Lingxiu that the Void Ruins Secret Realm might open within the next few years.
• Fang Qing entered Profound Void Heaven and heard that the Sky Horn Sect had driven back the Flood-Dragon Palace, pushed Northern Zhou and Southern Wu out of coastal territories, and gained the Vast Sea Sect and Chuli Sect as vassals.
• Fang Qing met Sanmu True Person, who confirmed that the Sky Horn Sect had gathered [Dipper Wood], [Well Wood], and [Kui Wood], and that Chuli Sect had received a Purple Mansion mid-stage inheritance.
• Sanmu True Person revealed that Great True Person Guangmu was aiming beyond ordinary positions, and Fang Qing deduced that he sought the Principal Position of [Horn Wood].
• Sanmu True Person invited Fang Qing to join the Sky Horn Sect, but Fang Qing refused and vanished from Profound Void Heaven.

Fang Qing investigated the limits of the Esoteric Treasury’s Empowerment Method, then focused on advancing his Qi Refinement cultivation. After five years, he reached perfected Core Formation on Jade Spring Island, but lacked a Heavenly Infant Fruit to begin condensing his Nascent Soul.

• Xiang Dahu, Qin Ruxue, and Yu Xiang'er presented Fang Qing with third-order Demon Pills gathered from the Outer Sea, and he began using them to advance his Core Formation cultivation.
• Shen Wanshan sought the Purple Mansion section of the Three Grotto True Formula, but Cloud-Touching Cliff’s formation detected the Esoteric Treasury’s fate within him and True Person Houxuan possessed Junior Brother Mo to investigate.
• Fang Qing extinguished the true spirits of Shen Wanshan and Fuling, then realized that Cloud-Touching Cliff’s formation could expose those converted through the Empowerment Method.
• Fang Qing worried that Sangji might draw scrutiny from Great Snow Mountain or an Embodied Buddha, and resolved to strengthen himself and prepare escape plans.
• Fang Qing used the Mountain-Moving Tortoise’s quasi-fourth-order inner core to push his Devouring Sea Method toward perfected Core Formation.
• Five years later, Fang Qing reached perfected Core Formation, with his two Life-Bound Artifacts at peak third-order, but he still lacked a Heavenly Infant Fruit to condense a Nascent Soul.

Fang Qing met Zhan Hongxiu on Voidspirit Island and learned how Core Formation cultivators would enter the Void Ruins Secret Realm. After reviewing the East Sea Ten Sons and their fourth-order methods, he prepared to join the expedition while keeping his second Nascent Soul hidden elsewhere.

• Fang Qing arrived on Voidspirit Island after learning that the Void Ruins Secret Realm was about to open.
• Zhan Hongxiu met Fang Qing under the alias Peach Immortal and explained the island's protections and the Sea Eye's entry process.
• Fang Qing revealed through his thoughts that he had left his second Nascent Soul behind and planned to retrieve it inside the secret realm using the Dao-Born Pearl.
• Zhan Hongxiu gave Fang Qing intelligence on the powerful Core Formation cultivators entering the secret realm, including the East Sea Ten Sons.
• Fang Qing questioned Zhan Hongxiu about Xuanjizi's puppets, and she explained that a puppet with its own spirit would be barred from the secret realm.

Fang Qing attended a private exchange meet at Swallow-Recollection Pavilion, where he traded a spirit flame for Eternal-Origin Gold Sand and acquired a Golden-Origin Puppet Stone for the Wang Clan Patriarch. The gathering drew Zen Master Dazhi, You Yuanzi, and Immortal Luo, who invited the prominent cultivators upstairs to talk.

• Fang Qing revealed that he had reached Core Formation perfection, and True Person Yunhe directed him to a private exchange meet at Swallow-Recollection Pavilion.
• Fang Qing spotted the Wang Clan Patriarch negotiating for a Golden-Origin Puppet Stone and secretly prompted him to ask about Eternal-Origin Gold Sand.
• Zen Master Dazhi offered to buy the Eternal-Origin Gold Sand, but Fang Qing exchanged his Withered-Bone Jade Flame for it instead.
• The stall owner revealed himself as You Yuanzi, a Bloodfiend Island cultivator, after Zen Master Dazhi recognized him.
• Fang Qing exchanged three bottles of pills for the Golden-Origin Puppet Stone and gave it to the Wang Clan Patriarch as compensation.
• Immortal Luo invited Zen Master Dazhi and You Yuanzi upstairs, and the two went with her while You Yuanzi warned Fang Qing to be careful.

Fang Qing prepared for the Void Ruins Secret Realm while Zhan Hongxiu explained why Nascent Soul cultivators were unlikely to enter in disguise. When the Void Ruins Sea Eye opened, the cultivators gathered to enter, and Turtle Elder pointed Zhan Hongxiu toward the Star Palace’s possible treasures and an ascension-passage map.

• Fang Qing and Zhan Hongxiu discussed the danger posed by the East Sea Ten Sons and whether Nascent Soul cultivators could infiltrate the secret realm.
• Fang Qing cultivated the Dragon-Elephant Golden Body with Eternal-Origin Gold Sand and considered investigating the Dharma King’s temples to learn more about the Horse-Head Vajra Protector Divine Art.
• Zhan Hongxiu summoned Fang Qing when the spiritual tide peaked, and they flew to witness the Void Ruins Sea Eye open.
• The Sea Eye’s suction tore apart a Core Formation cultivator, while Turtle Elder recognized the Fifth-Rank All-Heaven Array of the Listed Stars activating within the vortex.
• Zhan Hongxiu used her Star Palace Token to shield herself and Fang Qing as they headed toward the Sea Eye alongside the East Sea Ten Sons and other cultivators.
• Turtle Elder urged Zhan Hongxiu to explore the Heaven-Reaching Hall, Patriarch Hall, and Myriad Dharmas Pavilion, revealing that the Patriarch Hall might hold a map to an ascension passage.

Fang Qing and Zhan Hongxiu entered the All-Heaven Star Palace’s mountain gate, while other cultivators pursued their own goals and clashed across the secret realm. The chapter left Kuigangzi facing Xuanjizi’s low-grade Fourth-Order Puppet after merging with his beast to gain Nascent Soul-level strength.

• Fang Qing and Zhan Hongxiu arrived at the All-Heaven Star Palace’s Heavenly Market Enclosure, where Turtle Elder explained the sect’s Three Enclosures and urged Zhan Hongxiu to seek secret passages inward.
• Fang Qing parted ways with Zhan Hongxiu and discovered that his Devouring Sea Token glowed and pointed toward a location.
• Immortal Luo proposed that she and Zen Master Dazhi break into the Purple Forbidden Enclosure, but they agreed to first seek Heavenly Infant Fruits in the Supreme Palace Enclosure.
• Cai Xiazi poisoned and killed two late-stage Core Formation cultivators in a medicinal garden, then considered using the All-Heaven Star Palace’s pill knowledge to nurture a second Nascent Soul.
• The Wang Clan patriarch, Granny Jiuyin, and Old Monster Qu fled after getting caught between Xuanjizi and Kuigangzi, then headed toward the more dangerous inner regions.
• Kuigangzi merged with his quasi-Fourth-Order beast king to gain Nascent Soul-level combat strength, but Xuanjizi revealed a low-grade Fourth-Order Puppet.