Chapter Summaries

Fang Qing used Sangji’s discovery of the Jun Heaven Pot to learn that Profound Void Subtle True Lord had been trapped and driven half-mad after seeking the corrupted [Wall Water] Golden Seat. He realized Lunar Yin had blocked the Water Virtue path to Year Guardian and resolved to strengthen himself, investigate Moon-Palace Embryo-Forming Origin Lord, and consider other Golden Seats.

• Fang Qing traced the hidden Grotto-Heaven’s clues to his Fang Family bloodline and realized entry required hearing a True Lord’s cries, contamination, and the right bloodline.
• Buddhist Son Sangji used his divine ability to retrace the past and saw Fang Wuchen enter the Grotto-Heaven.
• A vortex opened in the stone stele, and the Jun Heaven Pot emerged for Sangji to take back to the Esoteric Treasury.
• Fang Qing sensed the trapped [Winnowing Basket Water] True Lord through the pot and identified her as likely Profound Void Subtle True Lord, whose attempt to attain [Wall Water] had gone wrong.
• Fang Qing concluded Lunar Yin had blocked the [Wall Water] Golden Seat and that Moon-Palace Embryo-Forming Origin Lord could interfere with anyone seeking [Winnowing Basket Water].
• Fang Qing ordered Sangji to contact Shoucangxuan and Vilu, planned to alert Great Snow Mountain, and chose to cultivate in Primordial Beginning Heaven while pursuing greater strength.

During the beast tide, Zhong Lingxiu obtained a Three-Flower Clear-Spirit Pill for his injured master, Heaven Frost Fiend, while the Myriad Stars Alliance suspected his identity. The chapter ended with Heaven Frost Fiend asking where the remnants of the Heavenfrost Sect should seek refuge.

• Zhong Lingxiu hunted a Third-Order demon beast, evaded its pursuers, and traded its materials at a hidden marketplace for a Three-Flower Clear-Spirit Pill.
• Alchemist Wu suspected Zhong Lingxiu was a Heavenfrost Sect remnant and considered reporting him to the Myriad Stars Alliance, but demon beasts attacked the marketplace before he could act.
• Zhong Lingxiu returned to a concealed cave and presented the pill to Heaven Frost Fiend, whose body had been destroyed and whose cultivation was wavering between Core Formation and Nascent Soul.
• Heaven Frost Fiend asked Zhong Lingxiu whether the Heavenfrost Sect should seek refuge with the Seven Star Isles, the Myriad Stars Alliance, the Shang Clan, or the Cloud Prefecture Commerce Association.

Fang Qing continued cultivating on the mobile Bloodfiend Island and prepared for its arrival near Heavenfrost Sect, giving Zhong Lingxiu hope of joining him. Before the island could reach the sect, two transformed demons attacked Heavenfrost Sect, and Zhong Lingxiu was struck by a soul-piercing shriek.

• Cui Zhe reflected on the Azure Sea Sect's new life on Bloodfiend Island, where Fourth-Order spiritual qi and guidance from Nascent Soul cultivators aided their cultivation.
• Fang Qing focused on pill formulas and developing a new Water Virtue technique, then learned Bloodfiend Island would pass near Zhong Lingxiu and told him to prepare.
• Several months later, two transformed demons approached Heavenfrost Sect, intending to trap and devour its Nascent Soul cultivator with the Shell Race's Moonheart Ritual.
• Brother Qin summoned Wind Spirits whose faces resembled Zhong Lingxiu's senior brothers, then unleashed a shriek that injured Zhong Lingxiu's sea of consciousness.

Zhong Lingxiu fled a demon attack, but Heavenfiend Old Monster rescued him and defeated the shapeshifting demons. Heavenfiend prepared to take Zhong Lingxiu to Bloodfiend Island, leaving Heaven Frost Fiend behind as the battle’s unlikely survivor.

• Zhong Lingxiu escaped underground as the shapeshifting demons attacked, while Heaven Frost Fiend fled and his disciples were hunted down.
• The Dark Moon Clam sealed the Great Void and trapped Heaven Frost Fiend’s Nascent Soul as Brother Qin pursued him.
• Fang Qing saw Zhong Lingxiu in danger and sent Heavenfiend Adept to rescue him.
• Heavenfiend Old Monster killed the wind spirit threatening Zhong Lingxiu and told him to come to Bloodfiend Island.
• Heavenfiend Old Monster fought Brother Qin and the Dark Moon Clam, tore off Brother Qin’s wings, and captured the demons’ treasures.
• Heavenfiend Old Monster prepared to take Zhong Lingxiu to meet his master, while Heaven Frost Fiend realized his disciple’s connection had saved him.

Fang Qing gathered Heavenfiend Old Monster, Zhong Lingxiu, and Heaven Frost Fiend under his command, then redirected his forces toward the Seven Star Isles to pursue Divine Ray Palace and its True Spirit bloodlines. Meanwhile, the Shang Clan prepared for a possible retreat as a Demon Race divine general attacked Kaiyang Island, where the Myriad Stars Alliance Master was in seclusion.

• Fang Qing ordered Zhong Lingxiu to serve Yu Xiang'er, made Heaven Frost Fiend obey her, and questioned him about Divine Ray Palace and its Four Great Divine Generals.
• Heaven Frost Fiend described the Divine Ray Palace Master as a likely fifth-rank True Spirit and named the bloodlines of several Demon Generals, prompting Fang Qing to head for the Seven Star Isles.
• Shang Yuanxin told Shang Kongzhen about his encounter with a transformed great demon, and Shang Kongzhen explained that the Shang Clan was preparing an escape route to the Yunzhou Continent.
• Shang Yuanxin and Shang Kongzhen discussed the Eastern Sea's limited defenses, the absent Fang Shui, and the uncertain hope that the Myriad Stars Alliance Master could help.
• A warning showed that a Demon Race divine general had attacked Kaiyang Island, and Shang Kongzhen suspected a traitor had revealed the alliance master's location.

Zhan Hongxiu revealed that she had already reached Nascent Soul Middle Stage and emerged to fight the Flood Dragon God-General at Kaiyang Island. She killed it by using the Big Dipper Life-Slaying Formation to exhaust its remaining lifespan, then went into seclusion while the other Demon Generals remained a threat.

• The Flood Dragon God-General attacked Kaiyang Island while the island’s defenses weakened and a fabricated breakthrough vortex drew its attention.
• Zhan Hongxiu revealed her true cultivation and identity as the Myriad Stars Alliance Lord, then fought the Flood Dragon God-General outside the island.
• After testing the demon’s abilities, Zhan Hongxiu used Big Dipper Divine Light to exhaust its remaining lifespan and kill it.
• The surviving demon beasts fled, and Crippled Immortal and the other Nascent Soul Cultivators congratulated Zhan Hongxiu.
• Zhan Hongxiu warned that Mountain Bearer, Wind Scourge, and Bright Moon still remained, then vanished to enter seclusion.

Zhan Hongxiu faced the Divine Ray Palace Lord in the Great Void and fled aboard a treasure boat while he pursued her. As a major beast tide threatened the Seven Star Isles, human and demon forces gathered for battle, and Fang Qing arrived with the resurrected Heavenfiend Old Monster.

• The Divine Ray Palace Lord attacked Zhan Hongxiu and demanded the ascension-passage coordinates, but she denied knowing them and prepared to resist.
• The Palace Lord damaged Zhan Hongxiu’s Tortoise Shield, so she escaped into the Great Void aboard her silver boat while he followed.
• High Person Tian Yin, the Thunderclap Temple Holy Monk, the First Palace Lord of Water-Moon Palace, and the Shang Clan Patriarch gathered to face the beast tide and three demon generals.
• Mountain-Bearing General revealed that the Divine Ray Palace had learned Zhan Hongxiu was in seclusion, prompting the Shang Clan Patriarch to suspect his human allies.
• Bloodfiend Island swept into the battlefield and slaughtered low-rank demonic beasts with its formation.
• Fang Qing arrived with the resurrected Heavenfiend Old Monster and challenged the three demon generals.

Fang Qing arrived during the beast tide and killed the Divine Ray Palace’s Mountain-Bearing and Wind Scourge Demon Generals with overwhelming force. He spared Bright Moon Demon General, learned the Palace Master was a wounded Early Spirit Transformation demon seeking the All-Heaven Star Palace’s ascension passage, and turned to greet the gathered human cultivators.

• Fang Qing struck Mountain-Bearing Demon General with one sword, and Heavenfiend Old Monster captured the demon’s fleeing pill and soul.
• Wind Scourge Demon General and Bright Moon Demon General tried to flee, but Fang Qing trapped Wind Scourge in his Great Sun Dharma Realm and killed him with another sword strike.
• Fang Qing seized Wind Scourge’s pill and body, then asked the injured Bright Moon about her bloodline and the Divine Ray Palace Master.
• Bright Moon revealed that the Palace Master had advanced into Spirit Transformation but remained lower-grade after being injured by tribulation lightning, and that he sought the ascension passage coordinates in the All-Heaven Star Palace.
• Fang Qing spared Bright Moon and sent Heavenfiend Old Monster to establish a clam farm for her on Bloodfiend Island.
• Fang Qing faced the gathered Great Cultivators, and High Person Tian Yin introduced himself as president of the Cloud Prefecture Commerce Association.

Fang Qing transformed his divine abilities to counter the Divine Ray Palace Master and went to rescue Zhan Hongxiu, who had been pursued to the brink of death. He confronted the True Spirit and began fighting him, leaving their clash unresolved.

• Fang Qing ordered Tian Yin and the other Great Cultivators to finish driving back Divine Ray Palace’s beast tide after the four Demon Generals were defeated.
• Fang Qing sensed that the Divine Ray Palace Master was pursuing Zhan Hongxiu and changed his four [Bond Metal] Divine Abilities into [Maiden Earth] before heading into the Great Void.
• The Divine Ray Palace Master defeated Zhan Hongxiu’s defenses, shattered her treasure boat, and reached for her while she lay unconscious on the sea.
• Fang Qing appeared, buried Zhan Hongxiu beneath a [Maiden Earth] mound, and challenged the Divine Ray Palace Master, declaring his intent to refine him into a Primordial Spirit Pill.
• The Divine Ray Palace Master attacked with Water-Element Divine Light, but Fang Qing countered with [Maiden Earth] before his opponent revealed a Heaven-Connecting Numinous Treasure.

Fang Qing defeated the Divine Ray Palace Master inside his Dharma Realm and harvested its fifth-rank demon core and body. He then subdued Gui Ling, learned more about the Devouring Sea lineage, and ordered it to help Zhan Hongxiu reach Spirit Transformation.

• The Divine Ray Palace Master attacked Fang Qing with its Landscape Fan, but Fang Qing used the Myriad Waters Cauldron to shatter its painted mountains before trapping it in the Immovable Wisdom King Vajra Barrier.
• Fang Qing overwhelmed the Divine Ray Palace Master with sealing arts, ghost deities, and the Mystic Thunder Drum, then killed it and took its inner core and flesh.
• Fang Qing returned to Desolate Island with the unconscious Zhan Hongxiu and extracted Gui Ling from her nearly shattered turtle-shell shield.
• Fang Qing used the Lingxuan Divine Ability to subdue Gui Ling and questioned it about the All-Heaven Star Palace and the Devouring Sea Demon Sect.
• Gui Ling confessed that it had once planned to possess Zhan Hongxiu, then agreed to return to her and help her reach Spirit Transformation.

Zhan Hongxiu recovered from her injuries after a mysterious Spirit Transformation cultivator killed the Divine Ray Palace Lord, while Fang Qing refined Divine Ray meat and advanced his body refinement to the fifth tier. When Zhan Hongxiu met Fang Qing to thank him, he denied reaching Spirit Transformation and proposed cooperating to gather the final True Spirit blood needed for the Five Sacred Origin Pill.

• Zhan Hongxiu woke on an island with shattered meridians and a weakened Nascent Soul, then took healing pills and began recovering.
• Fang Qing refined Sky Phoenix and Baxia essence blood and considered how to obtain the final True Spirit blood he needed.
• Fang Qing drank soup made from the Divine Ray and used the Immovable Wisdom King Radiance Sequence to reach initial fifth-tier low-grade body refinement.
• After more than a hundred days in seclusion, Fang Qing learned that Zhan Hongxiu had requested an audience and agreed to meet her three days later.
• Zhan Hongxiu thanked Fang Qing for saving her, but Fang Qing denied having reached Spirit Transformation and offered to cooperate on the Five Sacred Origin Pill, for which he still needed one kind of True Spirit blood.

Fang Qing began refining the Five Sacred Origin Pill at the Void Ruins Sea Eye while Zhan Hongxiu prepared to destroy Water-Moon Palace and Thunder Sound Hall. As the two old powers plotted against Fang Qing and the Myriad Stars Alliance leader, a Nascent Soul cultivator was mysteriously killed inside Thunderclap Temple.

• Zhan Hongxiu gave Fang Qing the Flood Dragon essence blood and inner core, and agreed to gather supplementary ingredients in exchange for a possible Five Sacred Origin Pill.
• Fang Qing condemned Water-Moon Palace and Thunder Sound Hall and approved Zhan Hongxiu's plan to destroy them and seize their Spirit Herbs.
• Fang Qing brought Bloodfiend Island to Voidspirit Island and used the Void Ruins Sea Eye to begin refining pills with the power of the tide and storm.
• The master of Water-Moon Palace and the Thunderclap holy monk discussed Fang Qing's pill refinement and plotted to kill the Myriad Stars Alliance leader, whom they suspected of threatening their secrets.
• A prayer bead shattered as the Thunderclap holy monk learned that Junior Brother Star Mist had died inside the temple's protective formation, and the Water-Moon Palace master offered to help investigate.

Zhan Hongxiu prepared to ambush the Water-Moon Palace, while Fang Qing endured Pill Thunder and glimpsed the Thunder Palace. He began Questioning Heaven to investigate the [Profound Thunder] Dao practice and considered the dangers of changing his cultivation path.

• Crippled Immortal reported that the Water-Moon Palace's First Palace Master had left, and Zhan Hongxiu ordered the Myriad Stars Alliance to prepare an ambush.
• Turtle Elder offered to help Zhan Hongxiu infiltrate and assassinate the enemy forces, and she vowed to settle old grudges.
• Five True Spirit phantoms appeared from the Void Ruins Sea Eye before an edict bound them and drew them back as Pill Thunder descended.
• Fang Qing used his body to withstand the Pill Thunder and saw the Thunder Palace, where the Golden Seat of [Profound Thunder] lay.
• Fang Qing considered the risks of pursuing the Four Waters and began Questioning Heaven about [Profound Thunder].

Fang Qing refined the Primordial Spirit Moon Pill, prepared his treasures and resources, and began his breakthrough to Spirit Transformation. Bloodfiend Island landed in an uninhabited sea as his followers realized what he was attempting and secured the area.

• Fang Qing reviewed Spirit Transformation cultivation arts, studied Thunderclap Temple’s Heart-Thunder Transmission Scripture, and considered what cultivation after Spirit Transformation might entail.
• After a year of refining, Fang Qing created the fifth-rank Primordial Spirit Moon Pill and endured its lightning tribulation with his body.
• Fang Qing stored the Primordial Spirit Pill and moved Bloodfiend Island to hide his location before resting and preparing for his breakthrough.
• Fang Qing arranged Spirit Transformation treasures, pills, incense, and other resources, then swallowed a Five Sacred Origin Pill and commanded his Nascent Soul to break through.
• Bloodfiend Island landed on the seabed, while Zhong Lingxiu, Qin Ruxue, Yu Xiang'er, and the others recognized Fang Qing’s breakthrough attempt; Heavenfiend Adept ordered them to kill anyone approaching the core region.

Fang Qing broke through to Spirit Transformation with the help of the Five Sacred Origin Pill and Primordial Spirit Pill, then overcame the Heart Demon and Five Elements Tribulation. The Ninefold Thunder Tribulation gathered above Bloodfiend Island as he prepared to face it with his body.

• Heavenly Earth spiritual power gathered over Bloodfiend Island, and Fang Qing used the Five Sacred Origin Pill and Primordial Spirit Pill to draw it into his Nascent Soul.
• Fang Qing’s Nascent Soul merged with him, completing his Spirit Transformation breakthrough and granting him the ability to wield Heavenly Earth spiritual power.
• Fang Qing used the Six-Spirit Netherflame, Soul-Nourishing Prayer Beads, and a secret art to overcome the Spirit Transformation Heart Demon.
• Fang Qing defeated the Five Elements Tribulation by changing cultivation methods and using his divine lights, sword formation, Landscape Fan, and Myriad Waters Cauldron.
• The Ninefold Thunder Tribulation formed over Bloodfiend Island, and Fang Qing put away his Numinous Treasures and prepared to endure it with his body.

Fang Qing survived the nine-layer Spirit Transformation lightning tribulation and began exploring the profound insights and new possibilities his breakthrough had opened. He left the chapter recovering in seclusion and reflecting on how cultivators could seek and attain the Dao.

• Qin Ruxue ordered the cultivators to leave Bloodfiend Island as Fang Qing's Spirit Transformation tribulation gathered, while Demon General Bright Moon watched from the island's edge.
• Fang Qing endured three Jade Pillar Thunders, three Jade Residence Thunders, and three Jade Pivot Thunders, including the devastating Jade Snow Thunder, and gained immense lightning Dao attainment.
• After the tribulation ended, Fang Qing dismissed Qin Ruxue and the others, returned to his cave residence, and stabilized his severe injuries.
• Fang Qing examined his transformed Primordial Spirit and found that his Water Virtue and lightning Dao attainment had greatly advanced, while his perception of Golden Seats had become more acute.
• Fang Qing concluded that Qi Refinement Way cultivation arts could strengthen his sensitivity to corresponding Golden Seats and considered using the nearby Profound Thunder Golden Seat as a hidden trump card.

Fang Qing and Zhan Hongxiu tracked the Mystic Thunder Drum’s inheritance to Minor Thunder Sea and confronted the hidden descendants of Thunder Venerable Myriad. Old Man Mu revealed the Jade Thunder Art and the original Myriad Thunder Palace Diagram, giving Fang Qing a new clue to the Thunder Palace.

• Fang Qing learned from Heavenfiend Old Monster’s second Nascent Soul that a thunder-attributed Spirit Transformation cultivator had once possessed the Mystic Thunder Drum, then enlisted Zhan Hongxiu and the Myriad Stars Alliance to search Minor Thunder Sea.
• Zhan Hongxiu’s agents identified Mu Yuan as the grandson of Old Man Mu, and Fang Qing and Zhan Hongxiu went to the Mu family’s cave abode.
• Old Man Mu warned Mu Yuan not to revive the Mu Clan, explaining that Heavenfiend Old Monster had killed their ancestor and stolen the Mystic Thunder Drum.
• Zhan Hongxiu subdued Old Man Mu, and Fang Qing asked whether he descended from the Spirit Transformation cultivator who had refined the drum.
• Old Man Mu revealed that his ancestor, Thunder Venerable Myriad, had created the Jade Thunder Art and the Myriad Thunder Palace Diagram, then gave both to Fang Qing.
• Fang Qing recognized the diagram as a depiction of the Thunder Palace.

Fang Qing secured Mu Fengxing’s Spirit Transformation cultivation method and clues to the Thunder Palace, then planned to search for ancient lightning arts and explore the cultivation world. Meanwhile, Fang Daoling feared for the Fang Family’s future as a Purple Mansion phenomenon appeared, and Xu Hei emerged after breaking through to Purple Mansion.

• Fang Qing took the Myriad Thunder Palace Diagram, and Zhan Hongxiu offered Mu Fengxing and Mu Yuan guest elder positions in the Myriad Stars Alliance.
• Fang Qing considered how Spirit Transformation cultivators advanced and planned to search for ancient lightning cultivation methods and the Thunder Palace.
• Fang Daoling reassured the Fang Family that Fang Wuchen was traveling, though he privately feared that his great-uncle was in danger.
• A Purple Mansion-level Earth Virtue phenomenon appeared, and Fang Daoling identified Xu Hei as its likely source.
• Xu Hei announced that he had achieved the Myriad Life Earth Divine Ability, taken the Dao title Anyuanzi, and reached Purple Mansion.

Fang Qing exposed a scheme aboard a Cloud Ray, destroyed the Primal Beast Sect’s Nascent Soul Patriarch, and acquired her secret art. He then learned that Xu Hei had unexpectedly completed a divine ability, apparently aided by a sudden change in the heavenly mechanism of earth virtue.

• Fang Qing exposed Yuan Shen and his junior sister Hong Ling for using Beast-Luring Incense to frame their fellow disciple, then erased the attacking Footless Birds with water-element spiritual energy.
• Fang Qing discovered that Hong Ling carried a fragmentary talisman connected to a secret art used by the Primal Beast Patriarch and revealed that the Patriarch had been cultivating it to break through her bottleneck.
• The Primal Beast Patriarch arrived, recognized Fang Qing as a Spirit Transformation Venerable, and fled, but Fang Qing destroyed her body and captured her Nascent Soul.
• The Cloud Ray’s passengers learned that the Primal Beast Patriarch had fallen, while Fang Qing later obtained her Seven Emotions Parting Sorrow Talisman secret art and destroyed her Nascent Soul.
• Fang Qing sensed that Xu Hei had completed a divine ability and learned that an unexpected shift in the heavenly mechanism of earth virtue had accelerated his progress.

Xu Hei celebrated his advancement to the Purple Mansion, drawing prominent human and demon guests while Fang Qing used the gathering to assess a Demon Race plan involving the Heart Moon Golden Seat. Fang Qing reassured Fang Daoling that the Fang Clan remained safe despite Wuchenzi’s absence and Qing Dumu’s departure.

• Dao Foundation cultivators arrived to congratulate Xu Hei, and Fang Daoling presented the Qingli Fang Clan’s lavish gifts.
• Medicine King Qing Dumu arrived on behalf of the Deathless Temple and gifted Xu Hei a hundred-li territory.
• A Demon General from the Nine-Tailed Tribe brought a spiritual treasure, and Dark Candle Adept invited Xu Hei to witness a clan demon seek the Heart Moon Golden Seat.
• Fang Qing recognized the Golden Seat attempt as a way for the Demon Race to investigate who occupied the lunar phases and asked Dark Candle Adept about vanished lineages.
• Fang Daoling pleaded for help protecting the Fang Clan, and Fang Qing told him that the family was still sheltered by the uncertainty surrounding Wuchenzi and Qing Dumu.