Chapter Summaries

Fang Qing entered the Mountain-Sea Secret Realm and tracked another fragment of the Lunar Treasured Mirror to the Palace of Pure Lunar Radiance. The chapter left him facing five Mahayana cultivators of the Inkbind Tribe, who attacked him as he invoked the power of Winnowing Basket Water.

• Fang Qing swallowed a bottle of Void-Origin Pills, broke through to late Void Refinement, then converted his excess magic power into Origin Qi and returned to early Void Refinement.
• The Mountain-Sea Token transported Fang Qing into the Mountain-Sea Secret Realm, where he killed an animated plant and collected its crystals.
• Fang Qing sensed Golden Luan Mountain Lord battling Puppets and discovered that the Dao-Born Pearl let him open doors to enter and leave the secret realm at will.
• Fang Qing tracked a moving fragment of the Lunar Treasured Mirror to the Palace of Pure Lunar Radiance.
• Five Mahayana cultivators of the Inkbind Tribe confronted Fang Qing and attacked him with a domain ability and ink-black treasures.
• Fang Qing called on Winnowing Basket Water and invoked the authority of a Golden Core True Lord with the words, “Purify the Turbid!”

Fang Qing defeated an Inkbind Tribe Mahayana cultivator in the Palace of Pure Lunar Radiance and recovered most of the Lunar Treasured Mirror. He broke through the palace’s deepest restrictions, found genuine immortal pills and a pill furnace, and sensed the final mirror fragment nearby.

• The Time-Shed Ancestor appeared before Old Man Celestial Fowl, spoke of his fallen junior, and offered to help him enter the Mysterious Feminine Hall, but Old Man Celestial Fowl declined.
• Fang Qing used Winnowing Basket Water to dispel the Inkbind Tribe cultivator’s ink illusions and overwhelm him with the Palace of Pure Lunar Radiance’s power.
• Fang Qing took the Moonlight Compass, shattered it, and merged its Lunar Treasured Mirror fragment with his own, restoring most of the mirror.
• Fang Qing used Winnowing Basket Water to dissolve the deepest palace restrictions and entered a pill-refining hall.
• Fang Qing found a jade gourd containing nine genuine immortal pills and took the purple-copper pill furnace.
• Fang Qing sensed the Lunar Treasured Mirror’s final fragment behind the Pill Hall.

Fang Qing was ambushed by four Mahayana cultivators inside the Palace of Pure Lunar Radiance, but escaped their immortal formation with Great Void power. The surviving attackers debated pursuing him and taking the Lunar Yin fragment, while the Time-Shed Ancestor warned that doing so could summon an Immortal Lord.

• Fang Qing detected an ambush near the moon-osmanthus tree and drew out Ao Yin and a Mahayana devil, who attacked him with immortal artifacts.
• Ao Yin and the devil activated the Sun-Moon Twofold Annihilation Divine Radiance formation, and King Xiaoyuan and Lady Qi joined the assault.
• Fang Qing summoned his thousand-zhang manifestation and fought back with Winnowing Basket Water, but the Time-Shed Ancestor froze time and struck him with Immortal-Eroding Flame.
• Fang Qing's manifestation vanished from the formation, and the Time-Shed Ancestor realized that Fang Qing was a Great Void Immortal who had escaped by teleportation.
• Lady Qi and Ao Yin proposed breaking the formation to obtain the Lunar Yin fragment and track Fang Qing, but the Time-Shed Ancestor warned that this could reveal Hidden Star Palace and bring down an Immortal Lord.

Fang Qing used immortal pills to temper his body and break through toward Profound Insight while his Golden Luan Mountain Lord persona explored the Mountain-Sea Secret Realm for a Lunar Yin immortal artifact. At Three Saints Pass, Fang Qing’s breakthrough drew the attention of the elders, and he faced the powerful Ten-Thousand-Blade Void-Dusk Tribulation.

• Fang Qing returned to his cave residence, learned his pill-refining assignment had ended, and swallowed immortal pills to push his body refinement and cultivation toward new breakthroughs.
• Fang Qing sent the Golden Luan Mountain Lord to the Palace of Pure Lunar Radiance, where he found the other cultivators gone and began breaking the restrictions around a Lunar Treasured Mirror fragment beneath the laurel tree.
• Qin Yüzi, Granny Zeng, Master Jing Kun, and Fairy Luo Yun sensed a Profound Insight breakthrough at Three Saints Pass and recognized Fang Qing as the cultivator behind it.
• Fang Qing’s thousand-zhang dharma manifestation faced the Ten-Thousand-Blade Void-Dusk Tribulation, destroying the incoming Great Void blades with silvery-white orbs as devastating lightning descended.

Fang Qing survived the Dongxuan tribulation and chose to return to the Universe Sect, while a mysterious upheaval trapped cultivators inside the Mountain-Sea Secret Realm. After leaving the realm through the Dao-Born Pearl, he sensed a response from it pointing to an unexpected place.

• Fang Qing endured the Ten-Thousand-Blade Void-Dusk Tribulation and Dongxuan Lightning Tribulation, advanced his body refinement, and broke through to Dongxuan as Fairy Yuxin and other cultivators watched.
• The final fragment of the Lunar Treasured Mirror fell into the Golden Luan Mountain Lord’s hands, and the Hidden Star Palace appeared as a scarlet comet and a chained coffin heralded a calamity in the Mountain-Sea Secret Realm.
• The Devil Race Mahayana cultivator failed to escape by crushing his Mountain-Sea Token, and Lady Qi realized the cultivators were trapped inside the changed realm.
• Fairy Luo Yun congratulated Fang Qing on his breakthrough and offered him Void-Stabilizing Heart-Origin Pills; Fang Qing said he would return to the Universe Sect.
• Fang Qing reflected on the realm’s upheaval and his cultivation plans, then sensed a response from the Dao-Born Pearl pointing to an unexpected place.

Fang Qing returned to the Universe Sect after learning that his Spirit Tide Revival in Great Zhou had led a martial artist to approach Golden Nature, potentially strengthening his plans for the Water Virtue [Year Guardian] Dao Path. Beigong Wei formed a Nascent Soul and awakened Horned Dragon bloodline, while Fang Qing warned Sect Master Xuanmiao that high-level cultivators in the Mountain-Sea Secret Realm might be trapped.

• Fang Qing traveled back to the Universe Sect and considered how the Great Zhou world's Golden Nature seed could strengthen the [Winnowing Basket Water] Vacant Position.
• Silver Oriole Adept witnessed Beigong Wei's Nascent Soul breakthrough, whose three-hundred-li phenomenon drew a powerful Heavenly Tribulation.
• Beigong Wei's Horned Dragon bloodline manifested and swallowed the thunderclouds, after which Sect Master Xuanmiao promoted her to a True Disciple and gave her the Three-Yin Pearl.
• Fang Qing returned to the sect as a Profound Insight elder, requested a better cultivation abode and library access, and warned Xuanmiao that high-level cultivators in the Mountain-Sea Secret Realm might be trapped.
• Beigong Wei asked to fulfill her promise to Fang Qing, and he assigned her to tend and clean his new abode.

Fang Qing advanced his Body Refinement to Seventh-Order, then used his incarnation to enjoy himself in Great Zhou, where a martial duel revealed the hidden strength of Flower-Plucking Hand Fang Ye. He left the Qinhuai River after killing Li Fan with his Celestial grandmaster power.

• Fang Qing integrated the Horned Dragon's inherited Body Refinement art into his own and reached Seventh-Order Body Refinement.
• Fang Qing's incarnation visited a Yangzhou pleasure house and watched Zuo Xiaoman perform as martial artists gathered to see Li Fan duel Daoist Suiyun.
• Li Fan broke through to the Outer Landscape during the duel and killed Daoist Suiyun, then challenged Fang Ye after spotting him.
• Apophis of the Western Extremity Cult appeared, and Fang Ye revealed a Celestial grandmaster's power by spreading a rainstorm across Yangzhou.
• Li Fan tried to flee, but Fang Qing transformed him into water that fell into the Qinhuai River.

Liu Qi attempted to break through beyond the Celestial realm by forging Golden Nature from his four Divine Abilities, but he found no Golden Seat and vanished. Fang Qing secretly absorbed the Golden Nature Liu Qi left behind, while the Spirit Atmosphere in Great Zhou began transforming toward Wood Virtue.

• Experts gathered at Ten Thousand Flowers Cliffs to witness Liu Qi attempt a breakthrough beyond the Celestial realm.
• Liu Qi displayed his four Divine Abilities—Longlasting Sweet Rain, Fate-Reversing Book, Clear-as-Turbid, and Moon in Water—and combined them to form an embryonic Golden Nature.
• Liu Qi sensed that no Golden Seat existed ahead, then shot into the sky as a golden rainbow and disappeared without a trace.
• Fang Qing absorbed Liu Qi’s failed breakthrough and Golden Nature through the [Winnowing Basket Water] Golden Seat.
• Fang Qing sensed Great Zhou’s Spirit Atmosphere begin changing as water gave birth to wood, prompting him to identify the change as Wood Virtue.

Fang Qing studied the restored [Lunar Treasured Mirror] and considered how Lunar Yin could complement his water-virtue cultivation. In the Breath-Nourishing Dao, Zeng Qingshui resisted a deadly sword-artifact’s influence just as Fang Daoling revealed that he had reached the late stage of Purple Mansion.

• Fang Qing used the restored [Lunar Treasured Mirror] to deepen his understanding of Lunar Yin and considered testing how it manifested in the original land of origin.
• Zeng Qingshui defeated a Golden Sword Sect sword cultivator and occupied the sect’s stronghold for the Azure Departure Fang Family.
• Zeng Qingshui discovered a painting of an ancient sword in the Golden Sword Sect’s vault, and its influence drove him to raise a water sword to his throat.
• Zeng Qingshui broke free of the painting’s influence and knocked it from the offering table before the sword inside could fully leave its sheath.
• A sword-bearing Purple Mansion True Person speculated that Zeng Qingshui had a powerful protector, then encountered Fang Daoling, whose [Winnowing Basket Water] radiance suppressed him.
• Fang Daoling revealed that he had cultivated three divine powers and advanced to the late stage of Purple Mansion.

Fang Qing examined the vacant Lunar Yin Golden Seats and uncovered how the Great Sun [Year Guardian] had blocked the Lunar Yin [Year Guardian] and other moon-phase paths. At Sky Horn Sect, True Person Suqing began seeking the [Horn Wood] Principal Position, drawing Purple Mansion cultivators toward the Outer Sea.

• Fang Qing projected his Spiritual Sense into Ancient Shu, observed Fang Daoling’s growing power, and contemplated the Lunar Treasured Mirror and three vacant moon Golden Seats.
• Fang Qing sensed the dormant will of the ancient Lunar Yin [Year Guardian], then withdrew the mirror before the will could use it as an opportunity to awaken.
• Fang Qing realized the Great Sun [Year Guardian] had used the Lunar Yin [Year Guardian] to obstruct other moon-phase Golden Seats and considered alternatives to the [Wall Water] impasse.
• True Person Suqing, backed by True Lord Guangmu, began seeking the [Horn Wood] Principal Position at Sky Horn Sect.
• Suqing used Shattering Edge and Vast Forest Wood to summon the island’s trees around the Great Chun Tree.
• Fang Daoling saw the eastern portent and rushed to the Outer Sea, where Purple Mansion cultivators witnessed the enormous phantom of the Great Chun Tree.

Fang Qing watched from concealment as True Person Suqing refined the [Horn Wood] Golden Nature and began her attempt to become a Golden Core True Lord. Just as she rode the Horn Wood Flood Dragon toward the eastern sky, a hostile thousand-zhang Flood Dragon surged in to attack her.

• Fang Qing concealed himself beside Fang Daoling and considered how Suqing’s Golden Core attempt might draw out the dormant powers and the Heaven-Dawn Spirit Abyss Dragon Lord.
• Fang Qing weighed disguising himself as True Lord Returning All Rivers to the Sea or a revived Lunar Yin [Year Guardian], using the [Lunar Treasured Mirror] and his [Winnowing Basket Water] Vacant Position.
• On the Great Chun Tree, True Person Suqing refined the [Horn Wood] Golden Nature from her four Divine Abilities as Purple Mansion cultivators watched from the Great Void.
• A Horn Wood Flood Dragon appeared above the tree, and True Person Suqing merged with the Golden Nature and rode the dragon toward the eastern star.
• As True Person Suqing ascended, a thousand-zhang Flood Dragon charged from the east with malice.

True Person Suqing fought the envoy of Heaven-Dawn Spirit Abyss Dragon Lord and Akasagarbha Bodhisattva as she ascended to the [Horn Wood] Golden Seat. With aid from a hidden Lunar Yin Treasury, she became a [Horn Wood] Principal Position True Lord, while the Dragon Lord's envoy fled and the battle's aftermath left Fang Daoling stunned.

• Heaven-Dawn Spirit Abyss Dragon Lord descended into his azure Flood Dragon envoy and attacked Sky Horn Island with [Three Stars Water], while True Lord Guangmu's incarnation battled him through the Horn Wood Flood Dragon.
• True Person Suqing used her ancient [Horn Wood] Golden Nature to wound the azure Flood Dragon, then spent it to shoot Akasagarbha Bodhisattva, who survived by hiding in the void.
• The azure Flood Dragon struck Suqing down, but a second Suqing emerged using [Heart Moon] and [Chariot Water] Divine Abilities and revealed the Lunar Yin Treasury, destroying the concealed wolf beast.
• True Person Suqing joined with the [Horn Wood] Golden Seat and ascended as the [Horn Wood] Principal Position True Lord, taking the title Azure Spirit Brocade-Formed Universal Beneficence.
• True Lord Suqing wounded the azure Flood Dragon with [Horn Wood] Sword Qi, and he escaped into the sea after shedding part of his body; the True Lords then vanished, leaving Fang Daoling to wonder whether Suqing had succeeded.

Azure Spirit Brocade-Completion Universal Aid Origin Lord succeeded in seeking the Golden Core, while Fang Qing secretly helped the Primordial Dragon Envoy survive and planted him as a pawn inside Flood-Dragon Palace. Fang Qing assessed his plans to gather the Water Virtue Golden Seats and pursue Golden Core Perfection.

• Suyuan Sword Immortal and visiting Purple Mansion True Persons congratulated Azure Spirit Brocade-Completion Universal Aid Origin Lord on her Golden Core attainment, and Fang Daoling arrived with a gift for Sky Horn Sect.
• An emerald figure briefly froze Sky Horn Sect, thanked Senior Brother Suyuan, and departed after an old voice warned that she and the figure owed an unknown Lunar Yin True Lord a debt of Causality.
• The wounded Primordial Dragon Envoy lured in and devoured a Purple Mansion Demon King before returning to Flood-Dragon Palace and entering the abyss where Heaven-Dawn Spirit Abyss Dragon Lord lay.
• Fang Qing revealed that he had secretly helped the Primordial Dragon Envoy survive and used his Divine Ability to make him a pawn inside Flood-Dragon Palace.
• Fang Qing considered pursuing [Chariot Water] and helping Heaven-Dawn Spirit Abyss Dragon Lord obtain its Golden Seat as he worked toward Golden Core Perfection.

A Dream Spider cultivator massacred the Mirror-Scaled Fish Clan to collect souls and blood essence, but their royal cultivator killed him with an ancient eighth-tier talisman. A Dream Spider Mahayana cultivator then revealed the first attacker had been a pawn, harvested the royal cultivator, and sent a newly hatched subordinate to attack the Winged Clan.

• A black-robed Dream Spider cultivator slaughtered the Mirror-Scaled Fish Clan and collected their souls and blood essence for a pseudo-immortal artifact.
• The clan’s Mirror Palace trapped the Dream Spider, but his dream ability let him escape its attack and kill two early-stage Profound Insight cultivators with the Divine Illumination Lamp.
• The royal cultivator used an eighth-tier talisman and the Great Dao of Water to kill the Dream Spider, then learned his victims had been gathered to meet a quota for a powerful lord.
• A Dream Spider Mahayana cultivator appeared, reclaimed the treasures, and drained the royal cultivator’s life and essence through the Great Dao of Dreams.
• The Mahayana cultivator revealed that he sought to become an immortal with a pseudo-immortal artifact, then ordered a Dream Spider born from the royal cultivator’s corpse to attack the Winged Clan.

Sect Master Xuanmiao warned Fang Qing that the Dream Spider Clan had returned and might soon attack humanity while Ling Xuzi remained trapped in the Mountain-Sea Secret Realm. After reaching late-stage Profound Insight, Fang Qing contacted Profound Light Superior’s suppressed Dao abomination and offered it a chance to live in exchange for becoming his servant.

• Sect Master Xuanmiao told Fang Qing that the Dream Spider Clan had struck the Mirror-Scaled Fish Clan and Winged Clan and was likely heading toward human territory with a Mahayana cultivator.
• Fang Qing took a drop of Beigong Wei’s essence blood and used it to probe for a connection to the Myriad Beasts Immortal Palace.
• Fang Qing swallowed an immortal pill and broke through to late-stage Profound Insight while cultivating the Ninefold Firmament Scripture.
• Fang Qing sensed Profound Light Superior’s Dao transformation and received the incantation and hand seals needed to control the Universe Sect’s Grand Illusory World Formation.
• Fang Qing used the Lunar Treasured Mirror’s Jade Mirror Radiance to destroy the corpses and skeletons clinging to the Dao abomination, then offered it a chance to live and advance to Mahayana as his servant.
• The Dao abomination accepted Fang Qing’s offer and chose to live.

Fang Qing saved Profound Light Superior from Dao Transformation, enabling him to break through to Mahayana and survive the True Thunder Tribulation. As the Universe Sect celebrated its new Supreme Elder, Xuanmiao told him that Mahayana cultivators from several races were trapped in the Mountain-Sea Secret Realm and foreign races nearby had been targeted in blood rituals.

• Fang Qing used Heart-Soothing Orchid and the Dao-Born Pearl to reverse Profound Light Superior’s Dao Transformation, then helped him reach Mahayana and supplied Heaven-One Generates Water to heal him.
• Profound Light Superior emerged from the Grand Illusory World Formation, and Xuanmiao and the Universe Sect’s disciples knelt to congratulate him on his breakthrough.
• Profound Light Superior faced the True Thunder Tribulation with the Void Ring and other treasures, but the final bolt destroyed his defenses and left him gravely wounded.
• Profound Light Superior survived the last bolt, received immortal qi as the sun and moon shone together, and restored his Dao body.
• Xuanmiao began planning a grand Mahayana ceremony, then explained that foreign races had suffered blood rituals and elite cultivators were trapped in the Mountain-Sea Secret Realm.

Fang Qing discovered that a Dream Spider Clan Mahayana cultivator had infiltrated Vermilion Bird Immortal City by spreading a plague that forced cultivators to sleep. He entered the intruder’s dream to confront them, where the chapter ended with the dream’s power stripping away his magic power.

• Fairy Luo Yun left Three Saints Pass for the Universe Sect as Qin Yüzi asked her to deliver congratulatory gifts and request Patriarch Profound Light’s visit.
• Fang Qing used Beigong Wei’s blood essence and the Dao-Born Pearl to sense the Myriad Beasts Immortal Palace, then reflected on the sealed Mountain-Sea Secret Realm and the missing Golden Luan Mountain Lord.
• Fang Qing warned Profound Light Superior that a Dream Spider Clan Mahayana cultivator had infiltrated the sect’s Mahayana celebration.
• Fang Qing and Profound Light Superior found sleeping cultivators in Vermilion Bird Immortal City and realized a Dream Plague was spreading through their dreams.
• Fang Qing entered the dream and confronted the Dream Spider Clan Mahayana cultivator, who used the Dao of Dreams to make Fang Qing feel as if he had lost his magic power.

Fang Qing tracked the Dream Spider Clan Mahayana cultivator to its underground nest after breaking its dream attack. He defeated the cultivator, captured it with Reflection in Water, and learned that its clan’s immortal-artifact method came from a destroyed Jade Book Golden Seal.

• Fang Qing shattered the Dream Spider Clan Mahayana cultivator’s dream attack and followed their karmic connection through the Great Void.
• The Dream Spider Clan Mahayana cultivator completed the Blood Sea Banner by sacrificing a Dongxuan clansman and sent the others away before destroying the underground palace.
• Fang Qing arrived as the Dream Spider Clan Mahayana cultivator prepared to wield the Blood Sea Banner against him.
• Fang Qing’s [Winnowing Basket Water] golden rank swallowed the banner’s blood sea and defeated its attacks.
• Fang Qing subdued the Dream Spider Clan Mahayana cultivator with Reflection in Water and ordered it to copy the immortal-artifact method from memory.

Fang Qing learned how to make pseudo-immortal artifacts and sent A-Dream to attack the Bone-Pattern Sacred Clan, while humanity prepared for a rescue mission into the Mountain-Sea Secret Realm. There, Mahayana cultivators fled an exiled immortal, and Ling Xuzi disappeared after witnessing a formation break.

• Fang Qing learned that the Dream Spider Clan's Blood Sea Banner was a pseudo-immortal artifact and named its Mahayana cultivator A-Dream, then ordered him to attack the Bone-Pattern Sacred Clan.
• Ancestor Profound Radiance's celebration ended peacefully, and he told Fang Qing that the races planned a rescue mission at Moonwatch Mountain in half a month, led by the Time-Shedding Clan's True Immortal ancestor.
• Fang Qing reassured Ancestor Profound Radiance that humanity would be safe and saw A-Dream fighting several Bone-Pattern Sacred Clan Mahayana cultivators.
• In the Mountain-Sea Secret Realm, Old Man Celestial Fowl told King Xiaoyuan that an exiled immortal had killed a Blood-Covenant Snail Clan Mahayana cultivator and was hunting them.
• King Xiaoyuan and Old Man Celestial Fowl fled when Lady Qi's formation light appeared, while Ling Xuzi watched a jade-like hand break through a formation and vanished.

Ling Xuzi fled Hidden Star Palace as a fire lotus refined its Mahayana cultivators and a barrier sealed the Mountain-Sea Secret Realm. After a Three-Eyed Race cultivator attacked him for his Heavenveil Gauze, Fang Qing intervened and killed the attacker, claiming the Thunderfire Awl.

• Ling Xuzi escaped Hidden Star Palace as a spreading fire lotus consumed Mahayana cultivators, then realized chains had sealed the Mountain-Sea Secret Realm and the whole realm was being refined.
• A Three-Eyed Race cultivator struck down Ling Xuzi’s white crane and demanded his Heavenveil Gauze in exchange for his life.
• Ling Xuzi fought back with his wooden sword, but the attacker used the Thunderfire Awl to break his sword and burn him nearly to ashes.
• Fang Qing appeared, caught the attacker’s immortal lightning, and asked him to surrender the Thunderfire Awl.
• The Three-Eyed Race cultivator unleashed the awl’s thunderfire power, but Fang Qing’s Primordial Thunder Palace swallowed his lightning and destroyed him, leaving the Thunderfire Awl behind.