Chapter Summaries

Water Moon Ancestor emerged from Water-Moon Palace’s Patriarch Hall and stopped the looting army with overwhelming control of the spiritual energy. After defeating Heavenfiend Old Monster’s Refined Corpse and driving off two Nascent Soul cultivators, she pursued one of them as the Second Palace Master ordered a counterattack.

• The Second Palace Master and the elders completed a ritual that restored the jade pendant and awakened Water Moon Ancestor from her portrait.
• Cultivators and demonic forces ransacked Water-Moon Palace until Water Moon Ancestor appeared and dissolved many of the attackers, including Dongmen Jin.
• Heavenfiend Old Monster, the Talisman Sword Island Master, and the Shang Clan Patriarch joined forces against Water Moon Ancestor, but their attacks failed.
• Water Moon Ancestor recognized Heavenfiend Old Monster as a Refined Corpse possessed by Heavenly Baleful and sealed it, while the Shang Clan Patriarch and Talisman Sword Island Master escaped.
• Water Moon Ancestor pursued one fleeing Nascent Soul cultivator as the Second Palace Master called for a counterattack and Zhong Lingxiu fled with the others.

Fang Qing declined Zhan Hongxiu’s plan to raid the wounded Talisman Sword Island and observed a profound transformation in the Qi Ingestion Dao. After True Lord Kui Zang Xianqing erased True Lord Guangmu from memory and advanced to Late Golden Core, Fang Qing realized that being the only one who still remembered Guangmu could be both dangerous and important.

• Fang Qing learned through the Dao-Born Pearl that a Spirit Transformation incarnation had routed the demonic forces at Water-Moon Palace, and he decided not to pursue opportunities at the temples or palaces.
• Zhan Hongxiu visited Fang Qing and proposed joining the scramble for Talisman Sword Island, but Fang Qing refused because he was already satisfied with his gains and did not want to act.
• Fang Daoling and Hu Yunshu sent their son Fang Xuankan to join Vast Sea Sect, while a mysterious azure star empowered cultivators of the [Kui Wood] lineage.
• Sky Horn Sect and its island vanished beneath a mist, and cultivators across the world forgot True Lord Guangmu; True Person Sanmu also forgot the sect and its vanished master.
• Fang Qing concluded that True Lord Kui Zang Xianqing had displaced Guangmu and advanced to Late Golden Core, and he resolved to avoid speaking Guangmu’s title and to try to forget it himself.

Fang Qing watched Cloud-Touching Cliff order the White Bone Way to wage war, then Sangji began recruiting spiritual children for the Deathless Temple. At the Fang Family council, Fang Daoyun volunteered to become a Dumu to protect her clan, while Fang Daoling opposed her decision.

• Fang Qing expanded the Deathless Temple secret ground and wondered how his descendant Fang Wuchen was faring as Grand Yellow Heaven approached.
• Great True Person Houxuan delivered an edict ordering Sangji's White Bone Way to conquer Wushan Commandery and fight the Corpse Yin Sect, warning that Cloud-Touching Cliff would send two Purple Mansion True Persons to oversee the campaign.
• After Houxuan left, Sangji ordered households across Xituo Commandery to send reincarnated spiritual children to the Deathless Temple as candidates for Dudzi and Dumu.
• At a Fang Family council, Fang Daoling warned that the selection was part of a coming war and urged the clan to focus on survival.
• Fang Daoyun volunteered to become a Dumu to protect the Fang Family, but Fang Daoling angrily refused to agree.

Fang Daoling accompanied Fang Daoyun to Deathless Temple for the selection of a Duzi or Dumu, while Fang Qing planned to favor her to keep the Fang Family from losing Fang Daoling. The lotus seed revealed Fang Daoyun’s Brahma affinity, and she was named the fifth Dumu, Medicine King Qing.

• Fang Daoling and Fang Daoyun arrived at Deathless Temple and joined the Dao Foundation cultivators gathered for the selection.
• Fang Qing appeared as Steel Strength Dudzi, tested the candidates for dissent, and sent two who admitted it to the dungeon.
• Fang Qing led the candidates to meet the White Bone Dharma King, intending to favor Fang Daoyun over Fang Daoling.
• Moonlight White Tara carried an azure lotus seed past the candidates, and it sprouted when she reached Fang Daoyun.
• Sangji named Fang Daoyun Medicine King Qing, the fifth Dumu beneath him, and the gathered cultivators bowed to her.

Fang Daoyun became Medicine King Qing Dumu and returned to Azure Departure Mountain, where her new rank exposed the clan’s rivalries and schemes. After she returned to Deathless Temple, Fang Qing gave her the Jun Heaven Pot and directed her to investigate its bloodline, while preparing to receive Bai Ziye.

• Fang Daoyun was ordained as Medicine King Qing Dumu and assigned responsibility for the Fang Family’s cultivators in the coming war.
• Fang Qing granted Medicine King Qing Dumu three days to visit Azure Departure Mountain and settle her worldly ties.
• Medicine King Qing Dumu returned to Azure Departure Mountain, healed the sick, and saw nearby families submit while the Fang Family’s branches schemed against one another.
• Medicine King Qing Dumu returned early to Deathless Temple, where Fang Qing gave her the Jun Heaven Pot and explained that it had originated with the Heavenly Water Luo Family.
• Fang Qing asked Medicine King Qing Dumu to investigate the pot’s bloodline and told her that Bai Ziye of the White Clan would soon visit the Dharma King.

Fang Qing and the White Bone Way avoided the eastern and southern campaign while preparing for the war, and Medicine King Qing Dumu gave Fang Daoling the Jun Heaven Pot and guidance on Water Virtue. In the Eastern Sea, newly ascended Zhan Hongxiu confronted Heaven Talisman Superior, who abandoned Talisman Sword Island’s mine and disciples after an alarm sounded from his storage pouch.

• The White Bone Dharma King ordered Bai Ziye to support the campaign while delaying it as long as possible, and Fang Qing returned to secluded cultivation.
• Medicine King Qing Dumu bestowed the Jun Heaven Pot on Fang Daoling and explained its connection to the Heavenly Water Luo Family, Cliff-Top, and his Water Virtue orthodoxy.
• Heaven Talisman Superior defended Talisman Sword Island’s high-grade spirit-stone mine from Golden Wood Old Monster, then encountered Zhan Hongxiu, who had reached Nascent Soul.
• Zhan Hongxiu attacked Heaven Talisman Superior to settle old Causality, and he found her stronger than expected despite her early-stage cultivation.
• When a sound came from his storage pouch, Heaven Talisman Superior used a Fourth-Order talisman to drive Zhan Hongxiu back, then fled and abandoned the mine and its disciples.

Zhan Hongxiu learned that the Talisman Sword Island Lord had died and helped gather forces to plunder the island, while Fang Qing declined her invitation and continued cultivating. After Talisman Sword Island fell, Fang Qing prepared to break through to Nascent Soul Middle Stage, as Fang Daoling fought for White Bone Way and faced pressure from Medicine King Qing Dumu to improve his household’s battle record.

• Zhan Hongxiu discovered the Talisman Sword Island Lord's death and contacted Nascent Soul cultivators to plan an assault on the island.
• Fang Qing identified a demonic-path great cultivator as the likely killer, declined Zhan Hongxiu's invitation, and continued his seclusion while White Bone Way's war remained cautious.
• After three years, Cultivator Bandits broke Talisman Sword Island's grand formation, killed three of its four Nascent Soul cultivators, and drove Heavenly Sword Old Monster and core disciples to flee.
• Fang Qing swallowed three fourth-tier mid-grade beast cores, reached the Nascent Soul Middle Stage bottleneck, and consumed the Infant-Nurturing Pill to prepare for a breakthrough.
• Fang Daoling killed a [Root Earth] Dao Foundation cultivator in Wushan Commandery and brought an Earth-Origin Pearl to Medicine King Qing Dumu.
• Medicine King Qing Dumu warned Fang Daoling that his household's battle merits lagged behind and gave him two days to improve them before she transferred more cultivators to the battlefield.

Fang Qing broke through to Nascent Soul Late Stage, then witnessed the [Root Earth] Envoy Water Moon Ancestor unleash a plague that killed tens of thousands of cultivators. Recognizing her from Water-Moon Palace, he realized she had been transformed after ascending and remained bound to a True Lord.

• Two Cloud-Touching Cliff Purple Mansion True Persons watched the battle and hesitated to challenge the Dumu, fearing the White Bone Dharma King and the hidden forces around them.
• The Yuan Envoy confronted the Cloud-Touching Cliff cultivators, then appeared over the battlefield and warned that the south would face blood sacrifices if the White Bone Way did not change its course.
• Moonlight White and Medicine King Qing took Fang Daoling into the Great Void with Bai Ziye as they fled the Yuan Envoy.
• The Yuan Envoy released a rain of pestilent insects that devoured cultivators from both sides, killing tens of thousands on the plain.
• Fang Qing advanced to Nascent Soul Late Stage and considered refining the Myriad Waters Cauldron and attempting to kill the Heavenfiend Old Monster.
• Through the White Bone Dharma King's eyes, Fang Qing recognized the Yuan Envoy as Water Moon Ancestor and concluded that she had been captured and remade after ascending.

Fang Qing suspected Yuan Envoy’s blood sacrifices were meant to probe Primordial Beginning Heaven, while Yuan Envoy’s attempt to locate it failed. In the Southern Border, the White Bone Way and Corpse Yin Sect continued a mass slaughter to gather sacrifices, and Sangji faced the Corpse Yin Sect’s Sect Master as Earth-Submerging Blessed Land neared opening.

• Fang Qing concluded that ascending was dangerous and wondered whether Yuan Envoy’s blood sacrifices were meant to sense Primordial Beginning Heaven, then resolved to make Sangji act in the Southern Border.
• Yuan Envoy sacrificed her arm to summon ghosts and gods and probe for Primordial Beginning Heaven, but her jade tablet showed no result; she ordered two Purple Mansion True Persons to open White Radiance Heaven.
• Medicine King Qing Dumu brought Fang Daoling to the Southern Border and compelled him to join the bloodshed, threatening to summon Azure Departure Mountain’s remaining cultivators if he refused.
• Several days later, Fang Daoling fought in the Ten Thousand Great Mountains and severed his infected arm to stay in the battle.
• Sangji met the Corpse Yin Sect’s four-method Sect Master, who declared that the blood sacrifices could open Earth-Submerging Blessed Land and that the survivors would serve as offerings.

The Corpse Yin Sect Master used a talisman to bring down the Earth-Submerging Blessed Land and let a gigantic True Lord head consume the battlefield’s dead before it moved toward White Radiance Heaven. Fang Qing considered the scheme’s possible aim and the Corpse Yin Sect’s divine powers, then ended by recalling another Metal position he might pursue.

• The Corpse Yin Sect Master invoked a talisman, causing the Earth-Submerging Blessed Land to descend and reveal an enormous True Lord head.
• Sangji warned everyone to flee, while the Corpse Yin Sect Master used the Profound Lord's Ritual Corpse-Congealing True-Form Edict to gaze at the head.
• The True Lord head devoured the battlefield’s corpses and headed toward White Radiance Heaven, annihilating everything in its path.
• Fang Qing reasoned that the Corpse Yin Sect and the Earth Virtue True Lords might be preparing to revive a Metal Virtue True Lord and use it against the Kitchen Lord.
• Fang Qing examined the Corpse Yin Sect Master's four divine powers and realized he could compile a Purple Palace Gong method for Rebirth Earth.
• Fang Qing decided to wait for the Lord of the Charnel Forest’s inheritance and considered another Metal position he could pursue.

Shang Kongzhen delivered news of mounting chaos and failed Spirit Transformation attempts to the wounded Shang Clan ancestor, who feared desperate Nascent Soul Perfection cultivators might target the clan. Fang Qing decided to hunt Heavenfiend Old Monster and went to Water Moon Hall to seek an item for divination, learning how the monster’s possessed body had escaped destruction.

• Shang Kongzhen informed the Shang Clan ancestor that the Grand Palace Master and Dragon Tree Holy Monk had failed to reach Spirit Transformation and that Talisman Sword Island had fallen.
• The Shang Clan ancestor feared the failed cultivators might take revenge and ordered Shang Yuanxin to contact Fang Shui.
• Fang Qing concluded Heavenfiend Old Monster was the greatest threat and considered several ways to locate him.
• Fang Qing traveled to Water Moon Hall and asked the Palace Masters for an object belonging to Heavenfiend Old Monster.
• The Grand Palace Master explained that Heavenfiend Old Monster’s divine soul had returned to his main body when his possessed corpse self-destructed.

Fang Qing gathered divination anchors and left Water-Moon Palace, while its First Palace Mistress plotted with Thunder Sound Hall against him. Elsewhere, Heavenfiend Old Monster attacked Heavenly Mechanism Gate, broke its formation, and fought Heavenly Mechanism Elder, who was left facing a hidden strike.

• The First Palace Mistress offered Fang Qing a place in Water-Moon Palace, but he refused and vanished into the Great Void.
• The First Palace Mistress told the Second Palace Mistress to contact Thunder Sound Hall and arrange against Fang Qing, while Fang Qing sensed their plotting and dismissed it.
• Heavenfiend Old Monster sent Bloodfiend Island crashing into Heavenly Mechanism Gate, whose Azure Ghost Formation-Breaking Spike stalled the sect-protecting formation.
• Heavenly Mechanism Elder and a top-grade fourth-rank puppet engaged Heavenfiend Old Monster, while demonic cultivators invaded and plundered the sect.
• Heavenfiend Old Monster tore apart Heavenly Mechanism Elder's landscape treasure with a lightning flood dragon, but the Elder destroyed the dragon with a thunderfire pearl.
• Heavenly Mechanism Elder sent a White-Hair Needle through the Great Void toward Heavenfiend Old Monster's Jade Pillow acupoint.

Heavenfiend Old Monster destroyed Heavenly Mechanism Elder’s defenses with the Mystic Thunder Drum and captured his Nascent Soul. Fang Qing then ambushed Heavenfiend, separated him from the drum, and trapped him in her realm Divine Ability, where the two prepared to fight.

• Heavenfiend Old Monster crushed Heavenly Mechanism Elder’s White-Hair Needle, stopped his escape with the Mystic Thunder Drum, and destroyed his Puppet and defenses.
• Heavenfiend killed Heavenly Mechanism Elder’s body and sealed his Nascent Soul in a jade bottle, saying he needed three more.
• Fang Qing ambushed Heavenfiend with a Spiritual Sense attack, then used her Qiongqi Puppet’s Dust-Cleansing Karmic Affinity to separate him from the Mystic Thunder Drum.
• Fang Qing drew Heavenfiend into the Immovable Wisdom King Vajra Boundary, where he transformed into his ancient demon body and summoned a Nascent Soul Late Stage Refined Corpse.
• Fang Qing revealed several treasures, including the Myriad Waters Cauldron, and Heavenfiend realized she possessed a Heaven-reaching Numinous Treasure.

Fang Qing defeated Heavenfiend Old Monster, uncovered the demonic secret behind his captured Nascent Souls, and seized control of the Heavenly Mechanism Gate and Bloodfiend Island. News of Fang Qing’s victory spread throughout the East Sea, though his intervention may have altered Zhan Hongxiu’s fate.

• Fang Qing used his treasures and abilities to kill Heavenfiend Old Monster, whose Nascent Soul self-destructed before Fang Qing could search it.
• Fang Qing found a Nascent Soul-Sealing Bottle containing three Nascent Soul Late Stage Nascent Souls and learned that Heavenfiend Old Monster had sought to use them in a secret Spirit Transformation technique.
• Fang Qing claimed the Mystic Thunder Drum and the Talisman Sword Island Lord’s Refined Corpse, then reflected that Heavenfiend Old Monster might have been Zhan Hongxiu’s fated nemesis.
• Fang Qing arrived at the battle between Bloodfiend Island and the Heavenly Mechanism Gate and declared both territories his own.
• Three Bloodfiend Island cultivators challenged Fang Qing, who killed them and suppressed the remaining opposition.
• News spread that Fang Qing had defeated Heavenfiend Old Monster and taken control of Bloodfiend Island and the Heavenly Mechanism Gate.

Zhan Hongxiu and the Crippled Immortal returned from a secret realm and learned that Fang Shui had transformed the Eastern Sea by defeating major powers and killing the Heavenfiend Old Monster. Fang Qing captured the Heavenfiend Old Monster’s awakened Second Nascent Soul, made it his subordinate, and brought Bloodfiend Island to Jade Spring Island.

• Zhan Hongxiu and the Crippled Immortal left the secret realm after gathering Profound Fiend Origin Crystal, and Zhan Hongxiu secretly kept the Profound Origin Qi they had collected.
• Zhan Hongxiu and the Crippled Immortal heard in a teahouse that the Water-Moon Palace’s Grand Palace Mistress and Dragon Tree Holy Monk had failed their Spirit Transformation attempts, the Heavenly Mechanism Gate had been destroyed, and Fang Shui had killed the Heavenfiend Old Monster.
• The Heavenfiend Old Monster’s Second Nascent Soul awakened in a sealed coffin, entered the Great Void, and was captured by Fang Qing.
• Fang Qing forced the Second Nascent Soul to submit, named it Heavenfiend, and told it about the original body’s two remaining revival contingencies.
• Fang Qing moved Bloodfiend Island beside Jade Spring Island, where Yu Xiang'er congratulated him on obtaining the upper-grade fourth-rank spirit island.

Fang Qing refined the Mystic Thunder Drum with lightning magic and discovered it was connected to the sealed [Profound Thunder] Golden Seat in Primordial Beginning Heaven, which he considered as a possible future path to the Golden Core. He continued cultivating on Bloodfiend Island, where Heavenly Baleful returned after completing his assignment and handed over seized treasures and pills.

• Fang Qing used his Lightning Spirit Nascent Soul and Great Sage Thunder Art to overcome the Mystic Thunder Drum’s resistance and refine it.
• Fang Qing sensed the Thunder Palace in Primordial Beginning Heaven and learned that the [Profound Thunder] Golden Seat governed the Grotto-Heaven’s Heavenly Tribulations.
• Fang Qing considered seeking [Profound Thunder] after Spirit Transformation as a backup to his main goal of attaining [Winnowing Basket Water], then resumed cultivation.
• Heavenly Baleful arrived at Bloodfiend Island and reported that he had destroyed two arrangements and seized protective treasures and restorative pills.
• Fang Qing gave Heavenly Baleful the seized items as a reward.

After a hundred years trapped in a Grotto-Heaven, Fang Wuchen returned to Qingli and learned how war and hardship had devastated his family and killed his wife and children. He restored Fang Daoling’s arm, reunited with the dying Fang Wujiu, and announced that he had attained Purple Mansion and would lead the Fang Family as an immortal clan.

• Fang Wuchen arrived at Azure Departure Mountain, healed Fang Daoling’s severed arm, and revealed that he was Fang Daoling’s elder granduncle and had been away for a hundred years.
• Fang Daoling told Fang Wuchen about the Fang Family’s century of wars and disclosed that Fang Wujiu was near death while Fang Wuchen’s wife and children had died.
• Fang Wuchen found Fang Wujiu at the family cemetery and learned that Ming Xue had died after years of hardship, Fang Shang Lin had died after his foundation was crippled by the Zeng Clan, and Fang Shang Ning had fallen in battle.
• Fang Wuchen summoned a Late Dao Foundation muntjac and ordered it to bring the Zeng Clan to him.
• Fang Wuchen declared that he had refined a Divine Ability, attained Purple Mansion, and would establish the Fang Family as a Purple Mansion Immortal Clan.

Fang Wuchen’s return as a Purple Mansion True Person raised the Fang Family’s status and stirred the powers across Xituo Commandery. As the family prepared to celebrate, Wuchen affirmed Fang Daoling’s leadership and began weighing the family’s inheritance, security, and future.

• Cang Lin made Fang Xuanwen his True Disciple and told him to accompany him to Azure Departure Mountain to celebrate the Fang Family’s promotion to a Purple Mansion Immortal Clan.
• Bai Ziye and Xu Hei learned of Fang Wuchen’s return and ordered gifts prepared for the Fang Family.
• Fang Qing visited Deathless Temple, where Sangji ordered him and Medicine King Qing to congratulate the Fang Family and grant it the land within two hundred li of Azure Departure Mountain.
• As the Fang Family prepared its celebration, Fang Daoling received the Four Directions Merchant Association’s offer of gifts and a visit from Xu Hei.
• Fang Wuchen reassured Fang Daoling that he should continue leading the family, promised to address his cultivation and the missing Winnowing Basket Water Purple Mansion Chapter, and discussed the family’s uncertain future and possible relocation.

Fang Wuchen’s Purple Mansion celebration brought powerful guests and revealed the Fang Family’s new standing, while Fang Qing and Fang Wuchen negotiated over the Zeng Clan. Fang Wuchen offered a Wutu Mystic Pearl as compensation, though the wider debts behind his family’s forced exile remained unresolved.

• Xu Hei arrived at Azure Departure Mountain and congratulated Fang Wuchen, recalling his old dealings with him while concealing that he was Duzi.
• Cang Lin arrived with Fang Xuan Kan, whom he had accepted as a True Disciple, and Fang Wuchen greeted his fellow Purple Mansion cultivator Liu Junyan.
• Bai Ziye arrived and took a seat of honor beside the Purple Mansion guests, revealing the White Clan’s concealed strength and alarming Fang Daoling.
• Fang Qing and Medicine King Qing, the Dumu, arrived and offered the Fang Family the two hundred li around Azure Departure Mountain as a fief on behalf of Deathless Temple.
• After the feast began, Fang Qing challenged Fang Wuchen over his seizure of the Zeng Clan, and Fang Wuchen explained his plans for the clan and offered a Wutu Mystic Pearl as compensation.

Fang Wuchen learned that the White Bone Way would protect his family only under strict conditions, while he and Liu Junyan considered the pressure surrounding their lineage and their master's hidden plans. Fang Qing weighed the wider struggle among the True Lords, then entered Profound Void Heaven and met the White Ze Attendant Deity, who questioned his concealment.

• Fang Qing told Fang Wuchen that the Fang Family could not share Purple Mansion inheritances and could relocate only half its clansmen; Fang Wuchen refused the relocation terms.
• Fang Wuchen told Liu Junyan that the Esoteric Treasury's protection might help their family survive, while they discussed the Winnowing Basket Water cultivation art and whether their master had set events in motion.
• Fang Qing assessed the competing True Lords and decided to use Fang Wuchen to investigate Winnowing Basket Water while watching the Flood-Dragon Palace and Yinglong's envoy.
• Fang Qing contacted a disciple in the east through the Dao-Born Pearl and entered Profound Void Heaven.
• The White Ze Attendant Deity recognized Fang Qing's disguise but wondered how he concealed his trail so that it led only to a Dao Foundation cultivator.