Chapter Summaries

Fang Qing assessed the aftermath of Sun-Moon Decline, then waited beyond heaven as the Breath-Nourishing Dao changed. More than ten years later, Fang Daoling attained the Purple Mansion Dao and learned that his family's True Lord had departed beyond heaven after taking away Golden Seats, leaving the world to whisper that he was a Devil Lord.

• Fang Qing found that the True Lords and envoys had vanished, the Esoteric Treasury's source had fallen silent, and spiritual cultivation across the world had weakened.
• Fang Qing considered the danger of pursuing the sleeping True Lords and reflected that a [Year Guardian] might still hunt him beyond heaven.
• After more than ten years in seclusion, Fang Daoling succeeded in cultivating the Purple Mansion Dao and took the Dao title Profound Water.
• Huang Yuanzi and other Purple Mansion cultivators congratulated Fang Daoling and gave him valuable gifts, while Huang Yuanzi promised to open Grand Yellow Heaven's gate for him in three months.
• Liu Junyan told Fang Daoling that the Golden Core True Lords had fallen asleep after a great battle, and that the Fang Family's True Lord had departed beyond heaven after carrying away Golden Seats of water and fire.
• Liu Junyan explained that people rumored Fang Daoling's family's True Lord was a Devil Lord, leaving Fang Daoling stunned.

Fang Qing sent a wisp of his [Winnowing Basket Water] Golden Nature beyond the heavens to reincarnate in a new world, where he awakened in the body of a robbed student in Prosperous Sea. He began adapting to the unfamiliar world and investigating its supernatural powers, learning from a storyteller about martial masters and foreign weapons.

• Fang Qing spotted a new world beyond the heavens and sent a wisp of his [Winnowing Basket Water] Golden Nature into it to reincarnate.
• Fang Qing awakened in the body of a fifteen- or sixteen-year-old student named Fang Qing, whose money had been stolen after he visited a retreat seeking a female instructor.
• Fang Qing discovered that the world lacked the Breath-Nourishing Dao system and decided against risking the use of his Golden Nature to establish new Golden Seats there.
• Fang Qing walked through Prosperous Sea, saw the Black Tiger Gang controlling dock labor, and resolved to build strength and explore the world's supernatural system.
• Fang Qing listened as a storyteller recounted how Master Huo Tianqing avenged Wang Tianba and fought the Azure Dragon Gang before an iron warship devastated the area.

Fang Qing explored Great Zhou’s martial arts and medicine while searching for an extraordinary path suited to this world. After months of study and training, he devised the beginnings of a new cultivation method called Qi Art, but still needed to find a source for its first mouthful of True Qi.

• Fang Qing returned to Saint Covenant University and decided to investigate local martial arts because people in Great Zhou lacked cultivation aptitude and spirit roots.
• Fang Qing visited Might-Vindicating Martial Arts Hall, learned about its strength, force, and spirit stages, and left after finding the system too limited for his aims.
• Fang Qing compared martial arts halls and studied medicine, reasoning that the world’s meridians might offer a route to a new extraordinary path.
• Several months later, Wei Yuan noticed Fang Qing’s dramatic improvement in studying, martial arts, and ancient medicine, and resolved to work harder for his exams.
• Fang Qing concluded that he could cultivate True Qi through the twelve primary meridians and eight extraordinary meridians, naming his proposed new path Qi Art, but wondered where its first True Qi would come from.

Fang Qing used the [Winnowing Basket Water] Golden Nature to open his first meridian and cultivate True Qi in the new world, then set out at night to pursue the people connected to his body’s past. He confronted two robbers in an alley, and one of them attacked him with a dagger.

• Fang Qing realized the [Winnowing Basket Water] Vacant Position could expand by absorbing Water Virtue imageries in a world without Fruit Seats.
• Fang Qing cultivated the Foot Lesser Yin Kidney Meridian and generated Winnowing Basket Water True Qi, cleansing his body and gaining exceptional speed and striking power.
• Fang Qing planned to develop True Qi cultivation and eventually establish a lineage in the new world.
• Fang Qing left the dormitory at night and used his True Qi to travel unseen toward the dock district and search for the Black Tiger Gang.
• Fang Qing heard two robbers celebrate stealing a money pouch and appeared before them in an alley, where one man thrust a dagger at him.

Fang Qing killed two robbers, then wiped out the Black Tiger Gang and a household connected to Pure Chant Retreat amid chaos that ended in a fire at Qinghe Wharf District. After news of the deaths spread, he skipped class to complete the twelve primary meridians and planned to open the Eight Extraordinary Meridians before leaving school.

• Fang Qing subdued two men who tried to rob him, learned that Lai San and his brother worked with the Black Tiger Gang and a steward at Pure Chant Retreat, then killed them both.
• Fang Qing went to the wharf district, killed the Black Tiger Gang's leader and enforcers, and looted money as disorder and a fire swept through the area.
• Wei Yuan told Fang Qing that the Black Tiger Gang's leader and enforcers had died and that a household on the flower street had been wiped out.
• Fang Qing skipped class and used his Golden Nature to open the final acupoint in his twelve primary meridians.
• Fang Qing planned to open the Eight Extraordinary Meridians, reach Embryonic Breathing within eight days, and leave school after the upcoming exams.

Fang Qing appeared at the Black Tiger Gang headquarters, where martial artists and officials were investigating a string of deaths, and crushed the gathered experts with his Winnowing Basket Water True Qi. He left after turning Liu Qi’s bullets back on the riflemen, while the survivors tried to understand the new power he had revealed.

• Master Liao and Old Master Hong joined martial arts leaders and Constable Liu Qi to examine the corpses and learn that several victims had died with their heart meridians severed.
• Feng Quanxing confirmed that Li Heihu had no visible wounds, while Old Master Hong and Liu Qi described other victims killed in the same mysterious way.
• Fang Qing descended through the air, and Old Master Hong and White-Headed Lion attacked him before he killed them and overwhelmed the other experts.
• Fang Qing named his technique Clear and Turbid Hall and told the survivors that his Turbid Palm had planted Winnowing Basket Water True Qi in them.
• Liu Qi’s riflemen fired at Fang Qing, but he stopped and returned their bullets before flying away.
• Liu Qi vowed to report what happened as Min Xuanzi, Master Liao, and the young disciples reacted to Fang Qing’s power.

Wounded constable Liu Qi endured his supernatural affliction and sent a report about Fang Qing to a senior official, while Fang Qing changed his appearance and considered moving inland. At his master’s funeral, Feng Quanxing accepted the turbid-water wound in his body and discovered it could bring him new power.

• Liu Qi suffered through his daily turbid-water wound, wrote a dispatch warning the Surveillance Commissioner about Fang Qing, and collapsed as his wife watched in horror.
• Fang Qing permanently altered his appearance, sensed Liu Qi’s dispatch through the Winnowing Basket Water, and anticipated the authorities’ response.
• Fang Qing decided to move at least a hundred li from the sea and considered retreating inland to build power among more cultivators.
• Feng Quanxing mourned White-Headed Lion and recognized that his own blood had become turbid water because of the wound Fang Qing had implanted in him.
• Feng Quanxing stopped resisting the pain and felt the turbid water bring a new power into his body.

Feng Quanxing used the Winnowing Basket Water true qi to defeat the White Cloud Hall Master, while Guan Xuanzi discovered that the qi could ignite a talisman and resolved to revive the Daoist lineage. As Fang Qing left Saint Covenant University, he considered how martial artists might spread qi Gong and help it flourish.

• Feng Quanxing opened a dantian sea of qi and swore to use what he had learned to kill the person who taught him.
• Liang Yongyi and the White Cloud Hall Master arrived at the mourning hall to offer condolences and challenge Feng Quanxing, who killed the hall master with a transformed strike.
• Guan Xuanzi drew a talisman with Winnowing Basket Water true qi, and the paper burst into flame.
• Guan Xuanzi decided that the old Daoist texts had been corrupted and began writing to the Celestial Master about restoring the Daoist lineage.
• Fang Qing left Saint Covenant University and reflected on Feng Quanxing, Guan Xuanzi, and other potential students of qi Gong.

Fang Qing boarded a train, where he overheard a theft investigation and secretly manipulated events to make the Wind Character Sect’s Uncle Yuan kill a foreigner. He returned to his seat unnoticed and planned to leave at the next station to seek a place for cultivation.

• Fang Qing caught a child pickpocket at the station and wounded the gang members who attacked him before boarding the train.
• Fang Qing overheard the Wind Character Sect planning to hunt him and learned that a foreigner was searching for a stolen document.
• Fang Qing entered the next carriage and used his True Qi to provoke Uncle Yuan into striking the foreigner dead.
• The ticket inspectors and Wind Character Sect disciples blamed Uncle Yuan, who escaped through a window as the carriage erupted into chaos.
• Fang Qing returned to his seat unnoticed and decided to get off at the next station to seek a place to cultivate.

After settling on Three Azure Mountains, Fang Qing developed an Inner Landscape Realm based on [Winnowing Basket Water], creating a path for martial artists to comprehend its Divine Abilities. He then used Clear-as-Turbid to open Little White’s meridians and guide her into the Inner Landscape Realm.

• Fang Qing traveled to Three Azure Mountains and carved a secluded cave dwelling into a cliff.
• Little White hunted for Fang Qing while he cultivated, and stories of a miraculous clouded leopard spread through the nearby village.
• Fang Qing developed his Inner Landscape into a realm filled with [Winnowing Basket Water] Golden Nature and established it as a place for martial artists to comprehend the Dao.
• Fang Qing revealed that Outer Landscape cultivators could pluck [Winnowing Basket Water] Divine Abilities from the realm, then plucked Clear-as-Turbid himself.
• Fang Qing used Clear-as-Turbid to open Little White’s meridians and Ren and Du channels, bringing her into fetal breathing.
• Little White opened an Inner Landscape and entered Fang Qing’s Inner Landscape Realm.

Fang Qing awakened Little White’s Inner Landscape, while Feng Quanxing continued his challenge across Great Zhou and defeated Elder Gong in Nine Fords. The Daoists began adopting Xuanzi’s cultivation methods, and Liu Qi was appointed to the newly established Anomaly Investigation Bureau.

• Fang Qing helped Little White enter the Inner Landscape Realm, where Little White gained new knowledge but still could not speak after returning to its body.
• Feng Quanxing defeated nine martial school masters in Nine Fords and then mortally wounded Elder Gong with his Thirteen Leopard-Form Leg Routes.
• Feng Quanxing refused to establish a school and left Nine Fords to seek famous masters and a defeat.
• Zhang Cunren recognized Xuanzi as Chief Instructor of the Three Mountains, and Xuanzi explained how Daoists could cultivate true qi and Dharma power.
• The Surveillance Commissioner promoted Liu Qi to inspector and transferred him to the Anomaly Investigation Bureau, while a martial school master was assigned to watch him.

Fang Qing strengthened the spread of his new Dao Path by teaching refugee Ye Zhuo a lightness skill, then returned to Prosperous Sea to watch the final match between Liao Tianxiong and a foreign fighter. The chapter ended as the wounded Liao took the arena, while the foreigners’ representatives reacted angrily to the crowd’s support for him.

• Fang Qing taught Ye Zhuo a lightness skill after Little White brought the herb-gathering boy to him in the Three Azure Mountains.
• Fang Qing read that Liao Tianxiong had won nine matches against foreign fighters and noticed a newspaper notice seeking information about Fang Qing.
• Fang Qing went to Yellow Sea Beach with Little White to watch the tenth match and spotted Wan Leiyue and Wei Yuan in the crowd.
• Liao Tianxiong failed to appear at first, and the crowd learned that he had been ambushed and shot on his way to the arena.
• Liao Tianxiong entered the arena with a bloodied shoulder, greeted the crowd, and prepared to fight the foreigner John as the crowd cheered.

Master Liao defeated John in the ring, but foreign soldiers attacked and captured him under a fabricated charge. Fang Qing revealed his overwhelming power and turned on the foreign forces, leaving the Anomaly Investigation Bureau’s Inspector to witness the raincloud consuming the city.

• Liao Tianxiong broke John’s arm and knocked him out of the ring, winning the match.
• Bolt and foreign riflemen accused Liao Tianxiong of assault and opened fire when he resisted, then bound him in chains.
• Fang Qing rescued Fang Leiyue and Wei Yuan from the chaos, healed Fang Leiyue’s ankle, and set Little White to protect them.
• Fang Qing flew above the arena, stopped the foreign guns, and unleashed a spreading raincloud that killed soldiers and people in the embassy district.
• The Anomaly Investigation Bureau’s Inspector learned Fang Qing was attacking the embassy district and saw the raincloud swallowing part of the city.

Fang Qing used Winnowing Basket Water to destroy the foreign fleet and brought the first Water Virtue Spirit Atmosphere into the world. Months later, he learned that Great Zhou had fallen into chaos and allowed Ye Zhuo to seek shelter at Three Azure Mountains.

• Fang Qing faced the foreign ironclad fleet, whose commander ordered a barrage of artillery fire against him.
• Little White shielded Fang Leiyue and Wei Yuan from the blast, while Fang Qing remained unharmed beneath the rain clouds.
• Fang Qing manifested Winnowing Basket Water, transforming thousands of soldiers and the ironclad warships into flowing spring water and metal spheres.
• A Water Virtue Spirit Atmosphere formed around Prosperous Sea, and Liu Qi began to dream of following Fang Qing's path.
• Months later, Little White told Fang Qing that Ye Zhuo had come seeking shelter after rebels looted Bao'an Hall and a martial artist assassinated Great Zhou's ruler.
• Fang Qing tacitly let Ye Zhuo stay at Three Azure Mountains and reflected that the chaotic age could forge true martial prodigies.

Years after Ye Zhuo established a small sect at Three Azure Mountains, Nan Xuanzi opened his inner landscape and entered the Inner Landscape Realm, where Fang Qing learned about the world’s growing turmoil through his memories. Nan Xuanzi later found that the Dao Profound Sect was exploiting cultivators who had suffered qi deviation, while rival factions grew stronger through brutal methods.

• Ye Zhuo gathered followers at Three Azure Mountains, founded a small temple honoring the Three Azure Immortal, and began passing on cultivation.
• Nan Xuanzi opened his inner landscape and entered the Inner Landscape Realm, where he learned about cultivation realms before his consciousness faded away.
• Fang Qing watched Nan Xuanzi unseen, learned from his memories that the Great Zhou had fallen and rival sects and warlords were fighting over Prosperous Sea, and decided to bring his relatives to Three Azure Mountains for refuge.
• Nan Xuanzi emerged from seclusion and told Zhang Cunren that he had opened his inner landscape, while they discussed their conflict with Feng Quanxing’s Dragon-Tiger Guild and the dangers of qi deviation.
• Nan Xuanzi examined a human-faced leopard imprisoned by the Dao Profound Sect and recognized it as a former junior brother whose True Essence had gone berserk.
• Nan Xuanzi and the Celestial Master acknowledged that the sect was using mutated cultivators as demon beasts for their meat, fearing that abandoning the practice would leave them vulnerable to rival factions.

After decades in seclusion, Fang Qing listened to a storyteller explain how the world and its martial rankings had changed, then watched Yuan Xuanxiu face the challenger Cui Lang in Azure Mountain City. Cui Lang’s healing art drew suspicion of ties to the old Anomaly Investigation Bureau, while Fang Qing sensed faint malice directed at him.

• Fang Qing listened as the storyteller described the nine sects, the Heaven, Earth, and Man Rankings, and Yuan Xuanxiu’s rise to the Inner Landscape Realm.
• Fang Qing reflected on how the world had changed during his decades of cultivation and noted that the Spirit Atmosphere remained Water Virtue.
• A crowd gathered to watch Cui Lang challenge Yuan Xuanxiu in Azure Mountain City, and he introduced his Whirlwind Eighteen Slashes.
• Yuan Xuanxiu broke through Cui Lang’s saber attack with her nine-section whip and cut his cheek, but his wound quickly healed.
• Fang Qing recognized Cui Lang’s Returning-Heaven Blood Art as connected to the old Anomaly Investigation Bureau and sensed faint malice settling over him.

Fang Qing confronted Liu Qi, whose Fate-Reversing Book Divine Ability had grown more powerful, and used the encounter to strengthen Winnowing Basket Water’s imagery. In the Breath-Nourishing Dao, Fang Qing understood the stages and risks of Void Manifestation and began considering how to pursue the Water Virtue Year Guardian path, leaving plans to investigate several powerful factions.

• Fang Qing met Liu Qi on Three Azure Mountains and recognized that Liu Qi had cultivated the Fate-Reversing Book Divine Ability.
• Fang Qing let Liu Qi leave, explaining that he would learn more by advancing toward four perfected Divine Abilities and Qiujin.
• Ye Zhuo and Fang Leiyue arrived and wondered why Liu Qi had left despite holding the initiative.
• Fang Qing sensed that Winnowing Basket Water’s Vacant Position had recovered and gained new imagery, though it remained far from transforming into a Golden Seat.
• Fang Qing possessed a body in the Breath-Nourishing Dao, tested his Winnowing Basket Water Divine Elixir, and worked out how Void Manifestation could alter or replace Golden Seat imagery.
• Fang Qing considered seeking a Water Virtue Year Guardian and planned to find chess pieces to test Rooftop Moon, Nine-Heavens Fire Manor, and Flood-Dragon Palace.

Fang Qing secretly helped Zeng Qingshui complete his Wallside Observation Dao Foundation breakthrough, and Zeng later traveled to Ancient Shu to seek help from the Fang Family. The chapter leaves Zeng before Profound Water True Person, whom he has come to petition for support.

• Fang Qing paused time around the Vast Sea Sect and secretly arranged for Zeng Qingshui to complete his Dao Foundation breakthrough.
• Zeng Qingshui wondered whether a True Person had intervened, then decided to contact old associates for help dealing with the Esoteric monks.
• Zeng Qingshui traveled from the Esoteric Treasury Domain into Ancient Shu, where rival sects and True Persons were vying for control.
• Zeng Qingshui reached the Fang Family's Azure Departure Mountain and requested an audience with Profound Water True Person.
• A Fang Family Dao Foundation cultivator escorted Zeng Qingshui into the grand formation, where he greeted Profound Water True Person with a grand salute.

Fang Daoling accepted Zeng Qingshui’s offer to have the Vast Sea Sect serve the Fang Family and gave him a talisman for Moonlight White Tara. Zeng Qingshui left unsure whether Fang Daoling had seen through the hidden Great True Person’s scheme, while the chapter ended with a boot stepping onto the Skeleton Sea in the Eight Cold Forest Buddha Lands.

• Fang Daoling recognized Zeng Qingshui as a junior brother of Fang Xuankan and explained that he had investigated the Vast Sea Sect’s history with divine powers.
• Zeng Qingshui offered the Vast Sea Sect’s Purple Palace cultivation art and pledged the sect’s service to the Fang Family in exchange for a chance to relocate.
• Fang Daoling agreed and gave Zeng Qingshui a talisman addressed to Moonlight White Tara of the White Bone Way.
• After leaving Azure Departure Mountain, Zeng Qingshui wondered whether Fang Daoling had detected the hidden Great True Person’s influence and resolved to secure benefits for his sect.
• In the Eight Cold Forest Buddha Lands, a boot stepped onto the Skeleton Sea.

Fang Qing left the Nine Provinces World and found a powerful new world, where he encountered a Winged Clan ritual summoning a divine being. As the Bone-Pattern Sacred Clan attacked the Winged Clan over its damaged immortal artifact, Elder Yuan Peng faced a Sacred-rank enemy.

• Fang Qing departed the small world and wandered beyond the heavens until he discovered a vast world capable of accommodating his true self.
• Fang Qing entered the new world in Divine Elixir form and heard the Winged Clan’s shamanic prayer, which offered a Lunar Yin image in exchange for divine aid.
• Elder Yuan Peng worried that the Winged Clan’s damaged immortal artifact would fail to attract a divine protector and that the Bone-Pattern Sacred Clan would soon attack.
• The Bone-Pattern Sacred Clan broke through the Winged Clan’s defenses, and Elder Yuan Peng confronted a seven-pattern Sacred-rank enemy who declared that the Winged Clan would be exterminated.