Chapter Summaries

Fang Qing learned that Xia Yuanqi’s invasion of Southern Wu was meant to provide a blood sacrifice that would shake Profound Void Heaven and let the Supreme Unity Arcane Sect’s factions destroy it. White Ze asked Fang Qing to provide Purple Mansion reinforcements, and Fang Qing began negotiating the reward, learning that White Ze’s master held the Fruit Seat of [Winnowing Basket Water].

• White Ze told Fang Qing that Xia Yuanqi was invading Southern Wu to pursue the Secondary Position of [Wings Fire] and create war flames that could shake Profound Void Heaven.
• White Ze explained that the Supreme Unity Arcane Sect planned to send Purple Mansion cultivators into the Grotto-Heaven, kill him, and divide its spoils after it collapsed.
• White Ze asked Fang Qing to support him with several Perfected Purple Mansion Great True Persons, since only Purple Mansions could enter the Grotto-Heaven.
• Fang Qing agreed to consider lending aid but demanded a reward, and White Ze offered him free entry to the Unfailing Jade Pivot Palace.
• Fang Qing asked about White Ze’s master, and White Ze said his master cultivated the Great Void lineage’s Water-Wood Dao methods and held the Fruit Seat of [Winnowing Basket Water].

Fang Qing learned the Moon in the Well Divine Ability from White Ze and negotiated for a Gold-Seeking Method in exchange for helping Profound Void Heaven. At the Lord Mountain Association, he heard of Southern Wu’s impending defeat and learned that True Person Sanmu had advanced to Great True Person, possibly as part of a plan to attack Profound Void Heaven.

• White Ze explained that Unfailing Jade Pivot Palace embodied the Moon in the Well Divine Ability, and Fang Qing learned its cultivation method.
• Fang Qing asked for a [Winnowing Basket Water] Gold-Seeking Method, and White Ze agreed to provide an existing one after the great calamity if Fang Qing sent a Purple Mansion to Profound Void Heaven when the Southern Wu imperial clan was exterminated.
• Fang Qing convened the Lord Mountain Association and heard Xia Yuanqi of Nine-Heavens Fire Manor seek the Secondary Position of [Wings Fire].
• Fang Qing declared that Southern Wu’s Li Family was fated to fall, and the imperial descendant pleading for help collapsed in despair.
• True Person Sanmu told Fang Qing that he had become a Great True Person, and Fang Qing suspected that True Lords had advanced him to use him against Profound Void Heaven.

Li Bi learned that the Wu Kingdom’s ancestor could not defy Heaven’s will and that the royal family was being sent to bleed at Whitewater Mountain. Meanwhile, Fang Qing continued his cultivation plans as Fang Wuchen encountered a village whose people had been saved by Lady Suqing, prompting him to seek her out.

• The Wu Emperor took Li Bi and his siblings to meet the Li Family ancestor, who refused to protect the family and ordered them to resist Xia Yuanqi at Whitewater Mountain.
• The ancestor suggested sending cultivators to Wuyue Sword Pavilion, and Li Bi concluded that Sword Bearer Li Que had likely died because of the Pavilion before collapsing in grief.
• Fang Qing considered the mysteries surrounding the demonic path and refined his plans to complete the Divine Abilities of [Winnowing Basket Water].
• Fang Qing sensed that Fang Wuchen had acted rashly but chose to let him face the consequences himself.
• Fang Wuchen was swept from Great Void into northern Ancient Shu and met Song Changyu, who told him that Lady Suqing had slain Demon General Kunwu and taught villagers to cultivate.
• Fang Wuchen suspected Lady Suqing was a Daoist friend's reincarnation and decided to visit her.

Fang Wuchen visited True Person Suqing, discovered her extraordinary connection to [Horn Wood], and agreed to help her explore a hidden cave for Heaven-One Generates Water. After they defeated the water wraith guarding the treasure, Suqing claimed Heaven-One Generates Water, leaving their promised division of the gains unsettled.

• Fang Wuchen visited True Person Suqing and injured himself when his eye technique revealed her astonishing fate as an ancient [Horn Wood] metal essence reincarnate.
• Suqing confronted Fang Wuchen for probing her and persuaded him to help explore a hidden cave guarded by a water wraith in exchange for a share of its gains.
• Suqing revealed that the hidden cave belonged to [Wall Water] and contained the Purple Mansion treasure Heaven-One Generates Water.
• Fang Wuchen and Suqing entered the hidden cave, where a water wraith attacked them with nine water dragons.
• Fang Wuchen summoned four earth virtue sprites and used his Origin-Refining Cauldron to fight and capture the water wraith.
• Suqing reached the platform and took Heaven-One Generates Water into her sleeve.

Fang Wuchen and True Person Suqing discovered a sealed Golden Core secret in the Great Void, then were ambushed by Great True Person Demon Moon. As other powerful figures disrupted the fight, Fang Wuchen fled west into the Esoteric Treasury, where a hidden demonic evil attacked him and the chapter left his fate uncertain amid a strange crimson forest.

• True Person Suqing and Fang Wuchen found a black stone stele whose cry seemed to carry the remnant power of a Golden Core, and they fled the secret place.
• Great True Person Demon Moon ambushed them with Heaven-Eroding Rain and Silver Moon Palace, using her Divine Ability to threaten Suqing and make flesh writhe inside Fang Wuchen.
• Demon King Yingzhu and True Person Houxuan shattered Silver Moon Palace, giving Fang Wuchen and Suqing a chance to flee in different directions.
• Fang Wuchen escaped west into the Esoteric Treasury, suppressing the abnormal growth in his abdomen as he crossed the Great Void.
• The water wraith emerged from Fang Wuchen's cauldron and birthed a concealed Purple Mansion demonic evil, which attacked him and devoured his muntjac monster.
• Fang Wuchen tumbled into a barley field, badly wounded and without his four great monsters, before crimson maples erupted around him and wolf beasts vanished into the void.

Shoucangxuan rescued Fang Wuchen and brought him to Horse-Head Vajra Temple to recover, where Fang Wuchen learned more about Esoteric Treasury Position Seals. Through Jiumoluo Jie, Fang Qing discovered that Great Treasury Temple’s enshrined Akasagarbha Bodhisattva held Kui Wood’s Guest Position, while his deductions pointed to a coming struggle over the Year Guardian position.

• Shoucangxuan rescued Fang Wuchen, revealed their families’ ties, and took the injured cultivator to Horse-Head Vajra Temple.
• Invincible Duzi welcomed Fang Wuchen, who learned about Position Seals while Temple Master Dorje discovered his blood kinship with Shoucangxuan.
• Fang Qing deduced that powerful factions were preparing to obstruct anyone who tried to seal the Year Guardian position.
• Through Jiumoluo Jie, Fang Qing learned that Great Treasury Temple enshrined Akasagarbha Bodhisattva, who held Kui Wood’s Guest Position.

Fang Qing arranged support for the White Ze Attendant Deity by encouraging Sangji to join an expedition into Profound Void Heaven, while also offering Fang Wuchen an alliance against the Golden Core behind the Corpse Yin Sect. The chapter left the coming battles over Profound Void Heaven and Earth Virtue poised to draw more factions together.

• Fang Qing considered how the Guest Position restricted cultivators and concluded that it was a trap or stopgap compared with other Golden Seat positions.
• Great True Person Houxuan invited Sangji to enter Profound Void Heaven at Whitewater Mountain when the Grotto-Heaven opened, and Sangji accepted after consulting the ancestral court.
• Fang Daoyun volunteered to accompany Sangji, while Fang Qing offered to go as well; Sangji instead planned to report to Formless Sentient Beings and leave Fang Qing behind to guard the temple.
• Fang Wuchen struggled to refine the Lunar Yin power embedded in his flesh and blood, then received a visit from Fang Qing in the Esoteric Treasury Domain.
• Fang Qing told Fang Wuchen that the Lord of the Charnel Forest could cooperate with his master against the Golden Core behind the Corpse Yin Sect, and she gave him a Great Sun Spirit Pill.

Fang Wuchen recovered from his chronic ailment, and Fang Qing prepared to strengthen his cultivation before the opening of Profound Void Heaven. At Whitewater Mountain, Northern Zhou and Southern Wu gathered for a decisive battle, while Li Bi watched their forces assemble.

• Fang Wuchen swallowed the Great Sun Origin Pill, recovered from his ailment, and left after thanking Steel Strength Dudzi.
• Fang Qing planned to complete his divine powers, ordered Invincible to arrange his seclusion, and intended to cultivate in the Secret Treasury Domain.
• True Person Rainbow Gazer reported that Southern Wu had gathered a hundred thousand troops and many cultivators near Whitewater Mountain, where Xia Yuanqi vowed to destroy Wu in one battle.
• Li Bi watched sword cultivators arrive to defend Southern Wu and feared they would be sacrificed in a war that Wu was destined to lose.
• Yun Wuxin arrived at Whitewater Mountain on his flying sword and declared that the battle would make his name resound throughout the world.

Fang Qing learned that White Ze planned to defend Profound Void Heaven by trapping and killing incoming Purple Mansion cultivators, then sent Sangji to observe the assembled forces at Whitewater Mountain. As the expedition began, Sangji joined the True Persons betting on the fate of battlefield contestants and wagered that Yun Wuxin would enter the White Bone Way.

• Fang Qing discovered that most cultivators had fled Profound Void Heaven and heard White Ze explain its master's plan to use a mass-casualty trigger as leverage against the True Lords.
• White Ze said it would strengthen the Grotto-Heaven's defenses and lure Purple Mansion True Persons inside, hoping to kill them before the True Lords outside could learn what happened.
• Three months later, Sangji and Great Dharma King Jiumoluo Jie arrived above Whitewater Mountain, where Fang Qing saw Great True Person Houxuan, True Person Sanmu, Chi Gu, and a powerful Flood-Dragon Palace demon king among the gathered forces.
• The Purple Mansion True Persons watched and wagered on the battles below, while some used their influence to steer promising cultivators toward their own interests.
• Sangji wagered that Yun Wuxin would enter the White Bone Way, and True Person Sanmu warned that Sangji's [Maiden Earth] cultivation would make it difficult to influence destiny.

At Whitewater Mountain, Spiritfire Child overwhelmed Southern Wu cultivators and killed Greenpine Swordsman and Situ Lie, prompting Yun Wuxin to seek revenge. Zhang Ya Jiu and Sanmu intervened as Spiritfire Child cornered Yun Wuxin, Tao Yuanhong, and a Ji Clan girl.

• Spiritfire Child defeated Situ Lie and killed Greenpine Swordsman with Three-Flame Heart-Severing Fire.
• Yun Wuxin attacked Spiritfire Child, but a small sword cut through invisible threads and restored his clarity.
• Zhang Ya Jiu interrupted the Purple Mansion cultivators’ gamble, while Tao Yuanhong and a Ji Clan girl joined Yun Wuxin against Spiritfire Child.
• Spiritfire Child fought the three cultivators without falling behind, drove Tao Yuanhong into retreat, and struck her sword away.
• Sanmu spread the Golden Wind Fine Rain Painting across the battlefield and declared that he was showing Southern Wu partiality.

Li Bi’s forces killed Spiritfire Child at Whitewater Mountain, but Xia Yuanqi’s capture of Qiantang City revealed that Southern Wu’s defeat was the larger tide already set in motion. As the Northern Zhou army surged forward, Yun Wuxin watched a golden flower descend and became entranced.

• Yue Maiden broke her sword attacking Spiritfire Child, and Li Bi’s cultivators encircled the battlefield while Sanmu True Person prevented the Purple Mansion True Persons from intervening.
• Li Bi led the imperial household’s elite cultivators to kill Spiritfire Child, and Guanhong True Person reclaimed the crimson-ring treasure as Sanmu reflected on the danger surrounding Profound Void Heaven.
• Xia Yuanqi led Northern Zhou forces through Flood-Dragon Palace’s sea passage and captured Qiantang City, then ordered its three-day sack and the brutal punishment of Wu’s imperial household.
• Li Bi learned that Xia Yuanqi had taken Qiantang and collapsed, realizing that Northern Zhou’s conquest of Wu could not be stopped.
• As Wu’s lords fled or defected and its army broke, Yun Wuxin saw the Wu Emperor’s dragon banner cut down and became entranced by a descending golden flower.

Fang Qing watched the blood sacrifice at Whitewater Mountain shake Profound Void Heaven while he continued cultivating in Qi Refinement Way. After the Heaven opened, Li Hu and several other Purple Mansion True Persons entered, and True Person Sanmu followed with the Monster Demon Way cultivators to avoid being left behind.

• Fang Qing completed a low-grade Profound Scripture of Rebirth, obtained the Heavenly Wheel Earth Mystery, and prepared to use a Winnowing Basket Water pill to cultivate Moon in the Well.
• Li Hu arrived at Whitewater Mountain, offered his service to Guanhong True Person, and agreed to act as a vanguard for the lords.
• Li Hu killed the Wu Emperor and the Three Dukes, captured two imperial Attendant True Persons, and brought them back as a blood sacrifice.
• Guanhong True Person burned the two captives, and their blood and Divine Abilities helped shake Profound Void Heaven and reveal its gate.
• The Purple Mansion Dragon King, Li Hu, Zhang Ya Jiu, True Person Chi, and other cultivators entered Profound Void Heaven.
• True Person Sanmu joined True Person Houxuan and Sangji, then entered with the Monster Demon Way cultivators to avoid following the other groups into danger.

Fang Qing obtained two strands of True Nothingness and began cultivating the Moon in the Well Divine Ability, while Sangji and the other Purple Mansion cultivators were scattered into the four formations of Profound Void Heaven. Sangji chose to face the enemies at Jade Pivot Palace.

• Heavenfiend Adept delivered Well Profound Nothingness and Illusory Moon Mirage-Nothingness to Fang Qing, who used them to form the Moon in the Well Immortal Foundation and began advancing it toward the Purple Mansion.
• True Person Sanmu and the other invaders entered Profound Void Heaven, where the Flood Dragon King explained the four-palace formation before a spirit creature separated them.
• Sangji and Jiumoluo Jie encountered Black Ze, who summoned Purple Mansion spirit creatures and assigned defenders to the four palace formations.
• Black Ze sent Jiumoluo Jie to intercept the Flood Dragon and told Sangji to choose a route.
• Sangji chose to go to Jade Pivot Palace, where Li Hu, Chigu, and several Rogue Cultivator Purple Mansions were gathered.

Li Hu dismantled parts of Jade Pivot Palace while Jiumoluo Jie, the Flood Dragon King, and Houxuan Great True Person faced threats inside other palaces. Meanwhile, Fang Qing advanced to a Great True Person of four methods and realized that his cultivation of the ancient Qi Refinement Way could let him seek gold without relying on a Golden Core True Lord.

• Li Hu broke through illusions in Jade Pivot Palace, seized a stream of Flowing-Light Golden Spring, and sent golden-armored divine generals to plunder the palaces and hunt for an enemy.
• Chigu emerged from a pavilion engulfed by purple flames, saw Li Hu, and hurried away without engaging him.
• Jiumoluo Jie sacrificed flesh and used ancient incantations to send a spreading darkness full of ghosts and gods against the Flood Dragon King, who countered with Light Convergence.
• Houxuan Great True Person was attacked by merfolk-like Purple Mansion cultivators and Mountain Ghosts, then spread plague-ridden gray mist through Sweet Rain Palace as he sought to capture them.
• Fang Qing used a Purple Mansion spirit pill to advance Moon in the Well and became a Great True Person of four methods on his first attempt.
• Fang Qing concluded that the ancient Qi Refinement Way could let him pursue the Golden Seat independently of the Gold-Seeking Methods controlled by Golden Core True Lords.

Fang Qing used the Dao-Born Pearl to borrow the Lord of the Charnel Forest’s [Maiden Earth] Golden Nature and intervene in the attack on Jade Pivot Palace. He defeated Li Hu and the other invaders, leaving Profound Void Heaven’s defenders with the upper hand.

• Fang Qing transformed his four [Winnowing Basket Water] Divine Abilities into [Maiden Earth] and began refining the Human-Skin Thangka.
• Fang Qing used the Dao-Born Pearl to transfer the Buddhist treasure’s power and [Maiden Earth] status into Sangji, who was defending Jade Pivot Palace.
• Fang Qing took control of Sangji’s body and arrived at Jade Pivot Palace as the Earth Lord of Void-Nether Profound Baleful Intent.
• Fang Qing seized Li Hu’s Great Xia Dragon Sparrow with Dust-Cleansing Karmic Affinity and overwhelmed Li Hu and True Person Chigu.
• Fang Qing struck Li Hu down with the Buddhist staff, named himself the Earth Lord of Void-Nether Profound Baleful Intent, and left Li Hu in darkness.

Fang Qing defeated Sangji and the flood-dragon king while acting through Jiumoluo Jie, and learned that the Heaven-Dawn Spirit Abyss Dragon Lord sought the Winnowing Basket Water Dao Treasury. A Golden Core sword strike destroyed Jiumoluo Jie, but Fang Qing survived by separating himself from the body and ordered White Ze to resolve the two remaining places.

• Fang Qing used Sangji's memories to impersonate a Perfected Purple Mansion of Metal Virtue, then accepted White Ze's Gold-Seeking Method of Winnowing Basket Water.
• Fang Qing controlled Jiumoluo Jie and subdued the flood-dragon king, learning through a soul search that the Heaven-Dawn Spirit Abyss Dragon Lord sought the Winnowing Basket Water Dao Treasury to advance toward becoming Water Virtue Year Guardian.
• A Golden Core True Lord's sword qi struck through the flood-dragon king's memories, cleaving Jiumoluo Jie and Elegant Forest Palace and severely shaking Profound Void Heaven.
• Sangji transformed into the Earth Lord of Void-Nether Profound Baleful Intent and appeared before White Ze unharmed, explaining that the sword qi had killed Jiumoluo Jie instead of him.
• Fang Qing told White Ze to resolve the two remaining places, and White Ze submitted.

Fang Qing tested True Person Sanmu by giving him a powerful Dipper Wood cultivation art, then prepared Profound Void Heaven for a new attack after its palaces began to fall. The Dragon Lord raised the stakes by sending Yinglong Envoy into the Grotto-Heaven, leaving Fang Qing and White Ze facing the prospect of its collapse.

• Fang Qing impersonated a Perfected Purple Mansion cultivator and placed the Fourfold Azure Willow Art in a scripture repository for True Person Sanmu to find.
• True Person Sanmu discovered the inheritance, then knelt before Fang Qing, declared his loyalty, and accepted Fang Qing’s order to kill Zhang Ya Jiu.
• Great Wind Palace collapsed, and White Ze said Golden Core methods had been neutralized but that an attack on Houxuan remained.
• At Whitewater Mountain, Yinglong Envoy entered Profound Void Heaven after the Dragon Lord chose to raise the stakes.
• White Ze warned Fang Qing that an envoy had entered the Grotto-Heaven, and Fang Qing accepted that he had no good way to stop the attack.

Profound Void Heaven collapsed after White Ze and Yinglong's envoy killed each other, while Fang Qing assessed the losses and gains and studied White Ze's Winnowing Basket Water Gold-Seeking Method. The chapter ended with the White Bone Dharma King appointing Moonlight White Tara to oversee the White Bone Way and Fang Qing acknowledging that Xu Hei could not bear the power needed to become an envoy.

• White Ze dragged Yinglong's envoy into the Great Void as Profound Void Heaven fell, and the merging Grotto-Heaven drew nearby cultivators to its newly emerged immortal mountains.
• Sanmu True Person escaped the area and entered the Great Void, while Sangji was rescued by the Great Peng Wisdom King and sent to the Secret Treasury Domain.
• Fang Qing judged the battle a partial success, suspected Sanmu True Person was a piece in the Year-Seizing Game, and recorded White Ze's Winnowing Basket Water Gold-Seeking Method.
• Moonlight White Tara and other Dharma Protector Deities learned that Jiumoluo Jie had entered nirvana and that the White Bone Dharma King would succeed him; the White Bone Dharma King appointed Moonlight White Tara to manage the White Bone Way.
• Xu Hei failed to withstand Fang Qing's attempt to grant him four Divine Abilities, and Fang Qing concluded he would need to convert a Purple Mansion True Person to create an envoy or Buddhist Son.

At the Deathless Temple, Fang Wuchen and Bai Ziye met the Dumu while Fang Qing considered his cultivation, the forces behind him, and his next steps. He then discovered that Dark Candle Adept, an old demon from his past, had resurfaced and reunited with Xu Hei.

• Bai Ziye and Fang Wuchen arrived at the Deathless Temple and discussed Later Xia's expansion and the upheaval across the Spirit Atmosphere.
• Moonlight White Tara told the visitors that Sangji was becoming abbot of the Formless Temple and that Steel Strength Dudzi remained in secluded cultivation; Fang Wuchen suspected Steel Strength's connection to the Fang Family.
• Fang Qing reviewed the Qi Ingestion Way's realms, planned to perfect his Divine Abilities and Nascent Soul, and weighed Great Sun Tathagata's possible motives.
• Fang Qing noticed a scene through the Dao-Born Pearl and recognized the demon who had appeared at the Four Directions Merchant Association.
• Xu Hei recognized Dark Candle Adept as the fox demon he had known at Pu Family Mountain City, and Dark Candle Adept explained that he had fled to Fallen Phoenix Mountain and cultivated an Immortal Foundation.
• Xu Hei ordered roast chicken, then ate and drank with Dark Candle Adept while keeping his own greater cultivation secret.

Fang Qing used Xu Hei to hear Dark Candle Adept’s proposal for an alliance against Great True Person Demon Moon, then speculated that the Phoenix’s origins and her children were tied to the Lunar Yin Year Guardian. He resolved to seek records in the Secret Treasury Domain, while Sangji prepared to visit the Great Treasury temples and left his temple in the care of three powerful Dudzis.

• Dark Candle Adept offered Xu Hei a Flying Crow Battle-Axe and asked the White Bone Way to ally with the Gale Tribe and Esoteric Treasury against Great True Person Demon Moon.
• Fang Qing learned Dark Candle Adept’s uncertain account of the Demon Race’s origins and the Phoenix’s connection to a great figure of Primordial Antiquity.
• Fang Qing theorized that the Phoenix might have been linked to the Lunar Yin Year Guardian and that her children’s fates helped counter its influence.
• Fang Qing decided to seek evidence in the Secret Treasury Domain’s ancient Source Temples and considered visiting the Great Treasury Temple.
• Sangji heard reports about the former abbot’s disciples and reincarnation search, then entrusted temple affairs to Golden Hand Strength, Unmoving Heart, and Wisdom Wheel's End before setting out for the Great Treasury temples.