Chapter Summaries

After recovering his second Nascent Soul, Fang Qing entered the Supreme Palace Enclosure seeking a Heavenly Infant Fruit and found Zhan Hongxiu fleeing You Yuanzi at the Heavenly Origin Hall. He agreed to help her in exchange for a Forget-Worry Pill, then openly challenged You Yuanzi.

• Fang Qing recovered his second Nascent Soul, entered the Supreme Palace Enclosure, and set out for the Spirit Herb Garden to obtain a Heavenly Infant Fruit.
• Fang Qing sensed that Zhan Hongxiu was in trouble and headed toward the Heavenly Origin Hall, where nine mature Heavenly Infant Fruits were guarded by restrictions.
• Zhan Hongxiu fled You Yuanzi toward the Spirit Herb Garden, hoping the gathered cultivators would give her a chance to escape.
• Fang Qing arrived at the Heavenly Origin Hall as Zhan Hongxiu and You Yuanzi entered, joining the cultivators gathered around the unopened restrictions.
• Zhan Hongxiu offered Fang Qing a Forget-Worry Pill if he helped drive You Yuanzi away, and Fang Qing accepted.
• Fang Qing mocked You Yuanzi and challenged him, startling the other cultivators.

Fang Qing killed You Yuanzi and joined the scramble for the Heavenly Infant Fruits after the restriction broke. He secured two fruits, but Xuanjizi took the last two and turned his lower-grade Fourth-Order Puppet against him.

• Fang Qing used Near Fourth-Order Spiritual Sense and Body Refinement to defeat You Yuanzi, then took his refined corpses, storage bag, and the Forget-Worry Pill.
• Cangmingzi seized two Heavenly Infant Fruits and gave one to Wan Baozi, while Immortal Luo and Zen Master Dazhi each took one.
• As the remaining cultivators fought over the fruit tree, Fang Qing took two Heavenly Infant Fruits, breaking the unspoken agreement to take only one each.
• Xuanjizi revealed a lower-grade Fourth-Order Puppet and claimed the final two Heavenly Infant Fruits while Granny Jiuyin vanished in a bolt of silver-white lightning.
• Xuanjizi ordered his puppet to attack Fang Qing, hoping to take the two fruits he had secured.

Fang Qing revealed his Nascent Soul power, killed Xuanjizi, and set out for the Purple Forbidden Enclosure. At the Long Rampart, Zhan Hongxiu and the arriving Immortal Luo and Zen Master Dazhi opened the final restriction and entered the enclosure.

• Fang Qing used the Heaven-Hearing Bell to overwhelm Xuanjizi’s Fourth-Order Puppet as the other Core Formation cultivators fled.
• Xuanjizi tried to escape with a Fourth-Order void talisman, but Fang Qing’s Capital-Sky Blazing Fire killed him and left his Puppet behind.
• Fang Qing collected Xuanjizi’s storage bag and Puppet, then headed for the Purple Forbidden Enclosure.
• Immortal Luo and Zen Master Dazhi endured the All-Heaven Star Palace’s falling stars until they reached the Long Rampart, where their treasures were badly damaged.
• Zhan Hongxiu used the Tortoise-Crane Longevity Formula to break a restriction at the Long Rampart, weakening the final restriction for Immortal Luo and Zen Master Dazhi.
• Immortal Luo and Zen Master Dazhi broke through the final restriction, sensed a Fifth-Order spirit vein, and rushed into the Purple Forbidden Enclosure.

Fang Qing entered the Purple Forbidden Enclosure and reached the Heaven-Reaching Hall, where he discovered the Myriad Waters Cauldron among the remaining treasures and questioned the history of the All-Heaven Star Palace. Zhan Hongxiu found Heavenly Infant Fruits, while Zen Master Dazhi and Immortal Luo joined forces to open the Myriad Dharmas Pavilion.

• Fang Qing used the Dao-Born Pearl to replace his True Core with one formed from the Tortoise-Crane Longevity Formula, then entered the Purple Forbidden Enclosure.
• Turtle Elder told Zhan Hongxiu about the enclosure’s treasures and the legendary Spirit Transformation great medicine, and she found a Heavenly Infant Fruit Tree.
• Fang Qing divined that Zen Master Dazhi and Immortal Luo had entered the enclosure, sensed danger, and followed the Devouring Sea Token’s light.
• Zen Master Dazhi and Immortal Luo agreed to share the Myriad Dharmas Pavilion’s Spirit Transformation secrets and combined their treasures to open its restriction.
• Fang Qing entered the Heaven-Reaching Hall and found that the Mystic Heaven Banner, Thunder Sound Bell, Water Moon Hook, and Spirit-Slaying Sword platforms were empty.
• Fang Qing found the Myriad Waters Cauldron and wondered whether the Devouring Sea lineage had once been part of the All-Heaven Star Palace.

Fang Qing opened the Heaven-Reaching Hall with the Devouring Sea Token and began taking the Myriad Waters Cauldron, while Zhan Hongxiu entered the Patriarch Hall in search of Great Void passage coordinates. She awakened a powerful evil demon that pursued her and attacked Zen Master Dazhi, leaving the demon’s true nature and the cultivators’ fate unresolved.

• Fang Qing used the Devouring Sea Token to break the Heaven-Reaching Hall’s restriction and draw the Myriad Waters Cauldron toward him.
• After Turtle Elder urged her to seek Great Void passage coordinates, Zhan Hongxiu opened the Patriarch Hall with the Tortoise-Crane Longevity Formula.
• Zhan Hongxiu reached for the patriarch’s robes, awakening a golden-eyed evil demon that killed her; Turtle Elder’s body-substitution technique restored her outside the hall.
• The demon pursued Zhan Hongxiu toward the mountain’s foot, and Turtle Elder spent his soul’s origin to distract it with a Spiritual Sense attack.
• Immortal Luo recognized Zhan Hongxiu and tried to capture her with Zen Master Dazhi, but the evil demon attacked Zen Master Dazhi from behind.
• Immortal Luo identified the attacker as a Nascent Soul evil demon resembling Patriarch Xuantian and fled inside a protective talisman.

Fang Qing rescued Zhan Hongxiu from the Garbed Spirit Demon and escaped with her through Long Rampart’s sealed restriction. Later, he questioned the Wang Clan's ancestor about the secret realm’s battles and treasures before warning him to avoid a lean old man.

• The Garbed Spirit Demon wounded Zhan Hongxiu and overwhelmed her defenses, while Turtle Elder exhausted itself and fell silent.
• Fang Qing arrived, used the Capital-Sky Blazing Flame Banner, Heaven-Hearing Bell, a Puppet, and the Myriad Waters Cauldron to fight the demon, which retaliated by summoning meteors from the All-Heaven Constellation Array.
• Fang Qing seized Zhan Hongxiu and a severed piece of the demon’s garment, then fled with her through Long Rampart as she closed the restriction behind them.
• In the Supreme Palace Enclosure, the Wang Clan's ancestor told Fang Qing about the struggle over Nascent Soul opportunities, Huang Yuanzi’s killing of Lingxiaozi, and Cai Xiazi’s seizure of a Heavenly King Heart-Protecting Pill.
• Fang Qing warned the Wang Clan's ancestor to avoid a lean old man and vanished, leaving him wondering what kind of threat could frighten a Nascent Soul cultivator.

After escaping the Void Ruins Secret Realm, Fang Qing sought a Fourth-Order Spirit Spring so he could refine Nascent Infant Pills and form his Nascent Soul. He reached Shang Clan Island with Shang Yuanxin, only to learn that its sole Fourth-Order high-grade spring had been reserved for the Shang Clan’s pill-refining effort.

• Fang Qing escaped the collapsing secret realm, resolved to hunt the Garbed Spirit Demon, and decided to refine Nascent Infant Pills before forming his Nascent Soul.
• Fang Qing checked on his disciples through the Dao-Born Pearl and found Sangji still in seclusion after nine years without refining a Divine Ability.
• Fang Qing disguised himself as Fang Shui, met Shang Yuanxin at the Octagonal Trade Tower, and agreed to travel with him to Shang Clan Island for a Fourth-Order Spirit Spring.
• Fang Qing took Shang Yuanxin through the Great Void to Merchant Alliance Immortal City, where they met Shang Kongzhen.
• Shang Kongzhen told Fang Qing that the Shang Clan’s only Fourth-Order high-grade Spirit Spring had been requisitioned to refine Nascent Infant Pills for Wan Baozi and the clan’s young masters.
• Shang Kongzhen reported that more than half of the East Sea Ten Sons had died in the secret realm, including Immortal Luo of Water-Moon Palace.

Fang Qing rented a fourth-order middle-grade spirit spring and secretly refined three Nascent Infant Pills, while Shang Yuanxin awaited the results of another batch for the Shang Clan’s competition. The chapter left Fang Qing with one superior-quality pill and two prime-quality pills, and Shang Yuanxin facing a difficult choice after learning his batch yielded only two prime-quality pills and one flawed pill.

• Shang Kongzhen vouched for Fang Qing, who rented the Shang Falling Blossom spirit spring and learned about the Eastern Sea Cultivation Realm and Yunzhou Continent.
• Shang Kongzhen questioned Shang Yuanxin about his dealings with Fang Qing and warned him that competing for a Nascent Infant Pill could end in failure.
• Fang Qing set up Qin Ruxue’s concealment formation and reviewed the Nascent Infant Pill recipe before beginning his refinement.
• Uncle Fu brought Shang Yuanxin account books and supplies, while Shang Yuanxin considered using a Grudge Infant Fruit if he failed to win a pill.
• A celestial phenomenon announced that three Nascent Infant Pills had been refined at the Three-Origin Moon-Reflecting Spring: two prime-quality pills and one flawed pill.
• Fang Qing completed his batch and received one superior-quality pill and two prime-quality pills from three water-made leopards.

After refining the Nascent Infant Pills, Fang Qing prepared to form his nascent soul on Jade Spring Island, where he expected a fourth-order demonic beast to attack. He began shattering his true core, and the chapter ended as the core broke and blood appeared at his mouth.

• Fang Qing used divination to decide against forming his nascent soul at the Shang Clan and chose Jade Spring Island instead.
• Fang Qing planned to use the approaching demonic beast to obtain fourth-order materials and prepared his disciples, a formation, and his second nascent soul to defend the island.
• Fang Qing emerged from seclusion, accepted a third-order Demon Pill from Uncle Fu, and told him Shang Yuanxin still had hope of reaching nascent soul.
• Fang Qing returned to Jade Spring Island, ordered Qin Ruxue, Xiang Dahu, and Yu Xiang'er to attack the expected beast with the formation, and equipped his second nascent soul with a puppet and powerful treasures.
• Fang Qing prepared his pills and treasures, then used the Devouring Sea Method to reverse the rotation of his true core until it shattered.

Fang Qing began forming his Nascent Soul while his Second Nascent Soul defended Jade Spring Island from a Fourth-Order demon beast. The demon was struck down, but the defenders were wounded, and Fang Qing’s Heart Demon Tribulation remained unresolved.

• Fang Qing used the Nascent Infant Pill to kindle an infant spirit, transform it into a Nascent Soul, and begin facing the Heart Demon Tribulation.
• Fang Qing’s Second Nascent Soul warned Yu Xiang'er, Qin Ruxue, and Xiang Dahu as a Fourth-Order earthy-yellow lizard demon approached Jade Spring Island.
• The demon beast resisted the island’s quasi-Fourth-Order lightning formation and advanced toward Fang Qing’s cave abode.
• Fang Qing’s Second Nascent Soul ambushed the demon while Qin Ruxue, Xiang Dahu, and Yu Xiang'er activated the formation to trap it.
• The Second Nascent Soul struck the demon with the Myriad Waters Cauldron, making it crash into the lightning formation, while Qin Ruxue and the others were injured.

Fang Qing endured his Nascent Soul lightning tribulation and used Questioning Heaven to gain profound Water Virtue Dao insights. He survived, advanced his Dragon-Elephant Golden Body to fourth rank, and began planning how to use his gains and captured fourth-rank Demon Pill.

• The Second Nascent Soul trapped the earth-yellow lizard demon’s Demon Pill in the Myriad Waters Cauldron as Fang Qing’s lightning tribulation began.
• Fang Qing endured the tribulation while Questioning Heaven revealed paths for advancing Winnowing Basket Water and developing Origin Spring Ripple.
• The final violet bolt gravely wounded Fang Qing, but Emperor’s Flowing Essence and Heaven-One Generates Life healed him and transformed his body into fourth-rank Golden-Threaded Jade Bones.
• Fang Qing learned that his Life-Bound Artifacts were nearing fourth rank and considered refining a True Spirit Puppet and Mystic Flame Demon Corpse from the demon’s remains and other materials.
• Fang Qing resolved to sort through his new Dao attainment, which let him pursue Longlasting Sweet Rain’s advancement or compose Origin Spring Ripple’s Purple Mansion chapter.

After reaching Nascent Soul, Fang Qing discovered that the Dao-Born Pearl let him see more of the Breath-Nourishing Dao and realized Sangji’s slow progress had drawn Jiumoluo Jie’s suspicion. Fang Qing decided to enter the Esoteric Treasury in disguise to pursue the next sequence of the Horse-Head Vajra Protector Divine Art, leaving Sangji’s fate uncertain.

• Fang Qing found that his Nascent Soul breakthrough had expanded his control over the Dao-Born Pearl and revealed Jiumoluo Jie watching Sangji with growing malice.
• Fang Qing concluded that Sangji’s connection to him had burdened Sangji with heavy Causality, making his failure to master Dust-Cleansing Karmic Affinity suspicious.
• Fang Qing weighed abandoning Sangji, doing nothing, or entering the Esoteric Treasury before deciding to seek opportunities there while monitoring Sangji’s situation.
• Fang Qing divined mixed fortune and misfortune, chose to travel as an ordinary ascetic monk, and planned to give Moonlight White and Void Sparrow a warning without letting them flee.
• Fang Qing chose the Horse-Head Vajra Temple as his first destination, hoping to continue the protector divine art’s fourth sequence.

Fang Qing traveled through the Secret Treasury Domain disguised as the wandering monk Yundan and sought lodging at the declining Horse-Head Vajra Temple. He revealed that he had cultivated its protective Divine Art, leaving the temple’s leaders to consider who he was and what he wanted.

• Fang Qing learned that Blue Tile Lake belonged to Lord Taqin and refused a chieftain’s request to drive away an evil spirit unless Taqin personally offered him lavish gifts.
• Fang Qing reached the Horse-Head Vajra Temple, stopped its gates from closing with one arm, and made the servant monk recognize his strength.
• The temple master and senior monks discussed how the Lotus Temple and a Great Snow Mountain envoy had raised their tribute demands, including a demand for thirteen skullcaps from accomplished cultivators.
• The temple master considered capturing the unknown ascetic monk Yundan to offer as tribute, then went with the senior monks to meet him at the gate.
• Fang Qing told the temple leaders that he had learned an incomplete version of the Horse-Head Vajra Protector Divine Art and had come seeking their guidance.

Fang Qing entered Horse-Head Vajra Temple as Monk Yundan and was invited to inspect its hidden inheritance. He opened the sealed fourth level and discovered the Immovable Wisdom King Radiance Sequence, which he could cultivate through his Great Sun Empowerment Secret Art.

• Fang Qing revealed the Ignorance-Slighting Ashen Flame, and Abbot Dorje recognized his mastery of the Horse-Head Wisdom King Wrath Sequence and welcomed him into the temple.
• Dorje reported Fang Qing’s arrival to Venerable Invincible, who ordered that Yundan be brought to the Horse-Head Vajra Principal Deity Hall to test whether he could inherit the temple’s Position Seal.
• Dorje and Invincible guided Fang Qing through the first three sealed levels, where he saw the Fierce Donkey Demon, Mule-Faced Vajra, and Horse-Headed Wisdom King statues.
• Invincible recognized that Fang Qing bore the Horse-Head Wisdom King Wrath Sequence with ease and revealed that the final sealed level held a secret fourth sequence.
• Fang Qing opened the final doors and saw the Immovable Wisdom King, whose mysteries revealed the Immovable Wisdom King Radiance Sequence to him through his Great Sun Empowerment Secret Art.

Fang Qing discovered that the Kapala Bowl was Horse-Head Vajra Temple’s Position Seal and tamed it with the Dao-Born Pearl. He restored Invincible’s Duzi status and helped him refine the seal, leaving Horse-Head Vajra Temple with a new Duzi.

• Invincible begged Fang Qing to refine the Kapala Bowl’s Position Seal and protect Horse-Head Vajra Temple from Lotus Temple.
• Invincible explained that Lianyan Mingduzi had refined Lotus Temple’s Position Seal and was steadily encroaching on their temple.
• Fang Qing took the Kapala Bowl, and the Dao-Born Pearl subdued it when it tried to merge with him.
• Fang Qing revealed his Dharma King radiance, restored Invincible’s Duzi position, and offered him the Position Seal.
• Invincible refined the Position Seal, and Horse-Head Vajra Temple’s halls and golden roofs shone as Temple Master Dorje witnessed the signs.

Duzhi Invincible reclaimed his rank at Horse-Head Vajra Temple, prompting Lotus Temple to challenge it to a ritualized scriptural debate over offerings. As the debate began, Fang Qing recognized that its topic, the view of emptiness, concerned realizing Gold Nature.

• Duzhi Invincible emerged from the Horse-Head Vajra Principal Deity Hall with his rank certificate restored, while Fang Qing remained concealed beside him.
• Duzhi Lotus-Eyed Radiance learned that Horse-Head Vajra Temple had gained a Duzhi and ordered a scriptural debate to decide how the temples would divide offerings.
• Fang Qing and Duzhi Invincible discussed Lotus-Eyed Radiance's likely response and the dangers of the debate, in which the losing side's monks would die.
• Lotus Temple and Horse-Head Vajra Temple assembled before a crowd, and Duzhi Lotus-Eyed Radiance was startled to see Invincible presiding again.
• The monks began the debate ritual, which Fang Qing identified as preventing Dharma attacks while allowing verbal persuasion to compel suicide.
• Dorje announced that the debate topic was the view of emptiness, and Fang Qing interpreted it as a debate about realizing Gold Nature.

Fang Qing noticed something suspicious about Initiate Lotus-Eyed Radiance and used Facing the Abyss to weave a net of fate around him. Lotus-Eyed Radiance then challenged Initiate Invincible to a scripture debate, and, realizing he had acted recklessly, began to falter before the crowd.

• Qiongda lost the scripture debate to Lobsang, then took his own life and became a white bone prayer bead that Lobsang claimed.
• Initiate Invincible praised Lobsang and admitted him to the Sutra Academy for further study.
• Fang Qing questioned how Lotus-Eyed Radiance had risen to his position and used divination and Facing the Abyss to investigate him.
• Lotus-Eyed Radiance suddenly challenged Initiate Invincible to a scripture debate, and Invincible accepted after hearing the Venerable One's command.
• Fang Qing's Causality net took hold as Lotus-Eyed Radiance's resolve faltered and he struggled to answer Invincible.

After defeating the Lotus Temple in debate, Fang Qing took Lianyan Mingduzi’s Position Seal and discovered it was the key to the Lotus Blessed Land. He entered the realm alone, where Moluoshi of the Temple of All Living Beings Without Form was waiting for him.

• Invincible defeated Lianyan Mingduzi in debate, and the debate ritual compelled Lianyan Mingduzi to cut his own throat; Invincible claimed his lotus-shaped Position Seal.
• Temple Master Dorje declared the Horse-Head Vajra Temple the victor, and Lord Taqin credited the monks with curing him of the Lotus Temple’s curse.
• Invincible presented the Position Seal to Fang Qing, who discovered it opened the Lotus Blessed Land and decided to explore it for a refuge and treasures.
• After Lianyan Mingduzi’s death, rival factions at the Lotus Temple erupted into bloody infighting while Fang Qing entered the abandoned courtyard and opened the Blessed Land.
• Fang Qing crossed into the Lotus Blessed Land and found Moluoshi, a mid-Purple Mansion Dharma King, waiting for him on a golden lotus.

Moluoshi’s hidden scheme brought Fang Qing into the Lotus Blessed Land, where the Lord of the Charnel Forest’s Human-Skin Thangka unleashed a Golden Core-level attack. Fang Qing activated the Dao-Born Pearl as [Maiden Earth] emptiness began possessing him, leaving the confrontation unresolved.

• Years earlier, Jiumoluo Jie ordered Moluoshi to prepare to sacrifice Sangji and the White Bone Way, then received a Buddhist decree and a Human-Skin Thangka from the Lord of the Charnel Forest.
• Jiumoluo Jie completed a rite to obscure Heavenly Secrets and sent Moluoshi toward the snowy mountains with the Thangka to await a destined person.
• At Lotus Temple, Moluoshi secretly helped Lianyan Mingduzi touch the lotus platform, then hid in the Lotus Blessed Land and erased traces of his involvement.
• When Fang Qing arrived, Moluoshi revealed the Human-Skin Thangka, which consumed him and transformed him into the Lord of the Charnel Forest’s enormous White Bone Dharma Aspect.
• The Dharma Aspect trapped Fang Qing and began to devour him, but Fang Qing activated the Dao-Born Pearl, awakening a strand of [Maiden Earth] emptiness.
• Fang Qing let the [Maiden Earth] Golden Nature possess him and touch the Dao-Born Pearl, which began spinning at tremendous speed.

Fang Qing survived Lord of the Charnel Forest’s attempt to seize his body, and the Dao-Born Pearl captured the [Maiden Earth] Golden Nature and gravely wounded the True Lord. He left Lotus Blessed Land with a plan to pose as Lord of the Charnel Forest’s agent and use his authority to free Sangji.

• Fang Qing woke in Lotus Blessed Land beside the dead white bat and realized the Dao-Born Pearl had repelled Lord of the Charnel Forest’s possession attempt.
• Fang Qing discovered that the Dao-Born Pearl had sealed the Lord of the Charnel Forest Human-Skin Thangka and its [Maiden Earth] Golden Nature, leaving its ownerless power available for him to study.
• Fang Qing concluded that Lord of the Charnel Forest had gambled on taking his body, lost a precious strand of Golden Nature, and likely fallen into a worse state of decay and slumber.
• Fang Qing borrowed the Golden Nature’s aura to disguise himself as Lord of the Charnel Forest and reasoned that he could claim authority over the Temple of All Living Beings Without Form and release Sangji.
• Fang Qing used the Dao-Born Pearl to inspect Sky Horn Sect’s intelligence in Profound Void Heaven and considered using Golden Nature’s overwhelming status there to impersonate a Golden Core True Lord.
• Fang Qing left Lotus Blessed Land after realizing that the Radiant Great Hand Seal Art and the Gong of the Immoveable Wisdom King Radiance Sequence had protected a trace of his thoughts.