Chapter Summaries

Fang Qing rescued Ling Xuzi from the Mountain-Sea Secret Realm, studied the powerful banished immortal’s Dao and the Supreme Profound True-Inscription Golden Elixir Scripture, then sent Profound Radiance to a gathering of Mountain-Sea Continent Mahayana cultivators. The chapter left Profound Radiance facing an assembly that included a mysterious immortal.

• Fang Qing defeated the Three-Eyed Race Mahayana cultivator, took the Thunderfire Awl, and rescued Ling Xuzi from the Mountain-Sea Secret Realm.
• Fang Qing recognized the scarlet lotus as the Dao Fruit or its embryonic form of a banished immortal who had cultivated the Supreme Profound True-Inscription Golden Elixir Scripture.
• Fang Qing brought Ling Xuzi to the Spirit Realm and advised him to stay hidden, while telling him that Profound Radiance had recently reached Mahayana and was preparing to rescue him.
• Fang Qing tested his Temporal Light ability with a Mahayana Time-Shedding Clan crystal core, then began studying the Supreme Profound True-Inscription Golden Elixir Scripture.
• Profound Radiance arrived at Moonwatch Mountain and entered an immortal artifact city where more than a hundred Mahayana cultivators had gathered.
• Profound Radiance noticed a silver-robed youth whose faint aura revealed him to be an immortal.

Purple Origin arrived to join the Mahayana cultivators preparing to enter the Mountain-Sea Secret Realm and rescue their trapped clansmen. As they crossed the Great Void, they fought off an eight-headed beast made from a rusted chain, which Madam Sanxuan suspected was a Coffin-Locking Chain.

• Purple Origin arrived in Origin-Nightmare Devil City and said he had come at the Dragon-Taming Clan's request to fight the being from Immortal-Fall Valley.
• Madam Sanxuan explained that the being might be connected to a sealed figure in a coffin bound by nine locks, and the Time-Shed Ancestor proposed using the Profound Abyss Moistening Salvation True Lord to draw it into a clash.
• The Time-Shed Ancestor revealed a void formation diagram and said the Mahayana cultivators could locate and enter the Mountain-Sea Secret Realm by activating Origin-Nightmare Devil City together.
• More than a hundred Mahayana cultivators sent Origin-Nightmare Devil City into the Great Void, where eight black snake heads attacked it.
• The Purple Origin Dragon Emperor seized the Xiangliu-like attacker with a rune-covered dragon claw and burned it with Violet Fire, revealing that it was formed from a rusted black chain.
• Madam Sanxuan identified the chain as possibly being a Coffin-Locking Chain.

The allied Great Ascension cultivators reached the Mountain-Sea Secret Realm and found a crimson lotus refining the Mountain-Sea Immortal Palace. The being within trapped them in a Sealing Gate Coffin and an immortal domain, then fought off their strongest attacks as one cultivator was killed.

• Madam Sanxuan used a pseudo-immortal artifact to cut apart one of the Coffin-Locking Chain’s giant pythons as the cultivators forced their way into the Mountain-Sea Secret Realm.
• Purple Origin Dragon Emperor and the others saw the crimson lotus consuming the Mountain-Sea Immortal Palace, and the being inside sealed the secret realm in a Sealing Gate Coffin.
• Old Man Celestial Fowl identified the enemy as an Immortal Lord, and the cultivators combined their powers to attack the lotus.
• The lotus’s immortal domain swallowed the Demonic Metropolis of the Primordial Demon and weakened the Great Ascension cultivators, while stronger fighters broke through its restrictions.
• Madam Sanxuan unleashed a Primordial Blood Mosquito, an unnamed cultivator used an immortal talisman, and Purple Origin Dragon Emperor fired immortal lightning at the enemy.
• The Immortal Lord destroyed the Primordial Blood Mosquito and split an attacking immortal sword, killing the Great Ascension cultivator whose soul was inside it.

Fang Qing advanced his Golden Core cultivation by harmonizing the Wings Fire and Profound Thunder Golden Seats, then used Profound Light Superior as a vessel to confront the banished immortal. The banished immortal survived the Mahayana cultivators’ combined assault, and Fang Qing revealed his power as the chapter ended with the survivors stunned.

• Fang Qing used the Thunderfire Awl to restore his Wings Fire and Profound Thunder Golden Seats, reach Mid Golden Core, and plan to follow the Law Lord path of the Supreme Profound True-Inscription Golden Elixir Scripture.
• The four-armed banished immortal slaughtered several Mahayana cultivators and trapped the survivors in his crimson-lotus immortal domain.
• The surviving Mahayana cultivators joined forces with the Blood-Covenant Snail Clan’s Grotto-Heaven and a Ninth Rank immortal array to destroy the Demonic Metropolis of the Primordial Demon, but the banished immortal emerged unharmed.
• The Time-Shed Ancestor betrayed the Purple Origin Dragon Emperor by striking him from behind, then declared his allegiance to the awakened Immortal Lord.
• The banished immortal recognized the Supreme Profound True-Inscription Golden Elixir Scripture in Profound Light Superior, and Fang Qing projected his Wings Fire and Profound Thunder Golden Seats into him.
• Fang Qing unleashed the Sorrow of Separation Fire and Blood Fills the City, mingling fire and lightning as Madam Sanxuan and the other survivors realized Profound Light Superior was not himself.

Fang Qing fought the four-armed celestial, an Immortal Lord's remnant soul, and learned to weave the Great Daos of thunder and fire as they exchanged spells. The celestial trapped Fang Qing in the Sealing Gate Coffin, but Fang Qing drew on the Vacant Position of Winnowing Basket Water, surged to Late Golden Core, and held the coffin open with fire.

• The four-armed celestial wielded four immortal artifacts and recognized Fang Qing as a Dharma Lord from beyond the heavens.
• Fang Qing revealed his enormous True Lord manifestation and clashed with the celestial's earth-aligned beast and immortal artifacts.
• The Time-Shed Ancestor tried to retreat, but Old Man Celestial Fowl, Madam Sanxuan, Nine-Sword Boy, and other cultivators turned against him, citing his repeated sacrifices of the clan.
• Fang Qing learned to weave the Great Daos of thunder and fire, healed his wounds, and fought the four-armed celestial to a standstill.
• The four-armed celestial used the Sealing Gate Coffin to trap Fang Qing and began closing it around the Mountain-Sea Secret Realm.
• Fang Qing drew on the Vacant Position of Winnowing Basket Water, rose to Late Golden Core, and used blazing fire to hold the coffin lid open as the celestial's chains coiled around it.

Fang Qing unleashed the power of his Golden Seats and Great Dao, devastating the Mountain-Sea Secret Realm and gravely wounding the four-armed celestial. After the celestial escaped into the Immortal Domain, Fang Qing forced the surviving Mahayana cultivators to submit and learned that the Time-Shed Ancestor might still be alive.

• Fang Qing broke the Sealing Gate Coffin and unleashed a destructive Great Sun that destroyed the Time-Shed Ancestor and devastated the Mountain-Sea Secret Realm.
• Fang Qing used his backup vessel, the Golden Luan Mountain Lord, to rescue Profound Light Superior and confront the wounded four-armed celestial.
• Fang Qing attacked the four-armed celestial with water-based techniques and began making him disappear, but the celestial escaped through the Immortal Domain in a black coffin.
• Fang Qing encountered the badly injured Old Man Celestial Fowl and Madam Sanxuan, who offered to serve him.
• Old Man Celestial Fowl told Fang Qing that the Time-Shed Ancestor might have escaped by shedding his shell, and Fang Qing welcomed the chance to obtain a human crystal core.

Fang Qing advanced to Mahayana in the wilderness, then set out with A-Dream for the Time-Shedding Clan. As he traveled, Madam Sanxuan and a devil host attacked the clan, whose members feared their Ancestor could not be awakened again.

• Fang Qing assessed his gains from the Mountain-Sea Secret Realm and decided to undergo his Mahayana tribulation away from the Universe Sect.
• A-Dream guarded Fang Qing as he survived the lightning tribulation and received immortal qi, advancing to Mahayana.
• A-Dream captured human scouts, and Fang Qing ordered them to forget what they had seen and return to Three Saints Pass.
• Fang Qing and A-Dream departed in a bronze carriage to settle an account with the Time-Shedding Clan.
• The Time-Shedding Clan revived from statue-like forms and discussed the danger of awakening their Ancestor again.
• Madam Sanxuan and a host of devils surrounded the Time-Shedding Clan and ordered their forces to kill everyone.

Fang Qing used Beigong Wei’s Horned Dragon blood essence and the Dao of the Great Void to find and enter the Myriad Beasts Immortal Palace, where he took the form of a Horned Dragon to pass its first trial. Meanwhile, the Immortal Lord’s remnant soul used Purple Origin Dragon Emperor blood essence to connect the palace to his bronze token, and Fang Qing discovered that its trials rewarded cultivators with immortal-beast blood.

• Fang Qing refined his understanding of the Great Void and Temporal Light, then asked Beigong Wei for another drop of Horned Dragon blood essence to settle their bond of Causality.
• Fang Qing used the blood essence to locate the Myriad Beasts Immortal Palace in the Great Void and forced his way inside.
• The Immortal Lord’s remnant soul sensed the palace’s disturbance, infused his Myriad Beasts Bronze Token with Purple Origin Dragon Emperor blood essence, and connected it to the palace.
• Fang Qing arrived in the palace as a Horned Dragon, learned that its trials required immortal-beast blood, and entered Myriad Poisons Hall.
• Fang Qing froze the swarms of venomous gu and insects to clear the first trial, then found the Myriad Beasts Dharma Body art on the steps beyond it.

The Myriad Beasts Immortal Palace opened, drawing the True Spirit Aristocratic Clans into its trials while Fang Qing studied how to adapt the Myriad Beasts Dharma Body to his own bloodlines. He sent Beigong Wei into the palace with her Horned Dragon essence blood, where she died in her first Puppet-Control Hall trial but discovered she could enter again.

• The Feng Family elder announced that the Myriad Beasts Immortal Palace had opened and ordered the younger generations of the thirty-six True Spirit Aristocratic Clans to enter its trials.
• Fang Qing realized he could adapt the Myriad Beasts Dharma Body to temper his body with the law power of Winnowing Basket Water, Wings Fire, and Profound Thunder.
• Fang Qing offered Beigong Wei a dangerous chance to gain an inheritance and sent her into the Myriad Beasts Immortal Palace using her Horned Dragon essence blood.
• Beigong Wei entered the Puppet-Control Hall as a white snake and learned that challengers had to command Puppets with Spiritual Sense to advance.
• Beigong Wei lost the first Puppet battle and awoke in her cave dwelling, then realized the light on her forehead let her enter the palace again.

Fang Qing entered the Myriad Beasts Immortal Palace’s final trial and faced the purple True Dragon in a test to select the Immortal Lord’s heir. Though he was outmatched in nearly every quality, the Dao-Born Pearl amplified his fortune enough to win, and he escaped as the Immortal Lord’s remnant soul was destroyed.

• Fang Qing entered the Balance Palace, where the Immortal Lord’s remnant thought trapped him and the purple True Dragon in the heir-selection trial.
• The purple True Dragon explained that the trial would compare their qualities and that failure could let the Karmic Dao destroy their true bodies.
• Fang Qing’s aptitude, comprehension, and other qualities appeared weaker than the purple True Dragon’s, but his fortuitous encounters produced an overwhelming flame of fortune.
• The Immortal Lord’s remnant thought selected Fang Qing as heir and erased the purple True Dragon with a strike of karmic power.
• Fang Qing used the moment when the palace’s power was spent to disperse his Spiritual Sense, then decided Beigong Wei could investigate the palace instead.
• The Karmic Dao followed the remnant soul’s Spiritual Sense link to its undersea coffin and destroyed it.

Beigong Wei entered the Myriad Beasts Immortal Palace again, allowing Fang Qing to receive its inheritance and pass its seal to her. Elsewhere, Zhan Hongxiu reached Spirit Transformation and confronted the escaped True Spirit Fengxi, while Zeng Qingshui broke through to Purple Mansion in the Breath-Nourishing Dao.

• Profound Light Superior sent Beigong Wei back into the Myriad Beasts Immortal Palace, where Fang Qing received its scriptures and Great Dao insights and placed its inheritance seal in her body.
• Fang Qing learned that Zhan Hongxiu had reached Spirit Transformation and sent his divine sense to observe her breakthrough.
• Zhan Hongxiu explained that the vanished Heavenly Tribulation had eased cultivation breakthroughs and set out to face Fengxi, an earth-aspected True Spirit that had escaped its seal.
• Zhan Hongxiu confronted Fengxi with a Heaven-Piercing Numinous Treasure as it attacked with earth-aspected divine light.
• Zeng Qingshui emerged from twenty years of seclusion as a Purple Mansion True Person, and Vast Sea Sect disciples celebrated his breakthrough.

After breaking through to the Purple Mansion, Zeng Qingshui discovered that a young disciple named Song Qingzhou possessed extraordinary [Chariot Water] destiny and made him his junior martial brother, Cangming. Fang Qing observed the encounter and concluded that rival powers were using the boy and a possible Water Virtue Grotto-Heaven as bait while he prepared to return.

• Zeng Qingshui returned to the Vast Sea Sect after years in seclusion and asked about the sect’s affairs.
• Zeng Qingshui failed to divine Song Qingzhou’s life and grew wary when he learned the boy was an unusually gifted [Chariot Water] prospect.
• Zeng Qingshui recognized Song Qingzhou as a Golden-Natured Destiny Child, refused his bow, and named him Cangming as his junior martial brother.
• Fang Qing watched from hiding and suspected the Dragon Lord and other True Lords had arranged the encounter to test [Chariot Water] and lure him out.
• Fang Qing considered that Water Virtue Destiny Children and a Water Virtue Grotto-Heaven, possibly Vast Sea Heaven, could advance the pursuit of gold.
• Fang Qing entered the Fang Family estate undetected and resolved to return by pursuing a Water Virtue [Year Guardian] path.

Fang Daoling mourned Fang Xianzhi’s failed Purple Mansion breakthrough and confronted the limits of his own Dao Path. After Liu Junyan warned him that Chariot Water was flourishing and urged him to prepare, Fang Daoling ordered his clan to watch for its treasures and gifted cultivators.

• Fang Daoling learned that Fang Xianzhi had failed her Purple Mansion breakthrough, while Zeng Qingshui succeeded and took the Daoist name Cangyuan.
• Fang Daoling reflected on his failed attempt to add a fourth Divine Ability and realized that the weakness of Longlasting Sweet Rain was blocking his progress toward Golden Core.
• Liu Junyan told Fang Daoling that Willow Earth cultivators could hold only three Divine Abilities because Stomach Earth Seizes Willow had taken Willow Earth’s rightful nature and Thick Virtue Carries.
• Liu Junyan offered to trade three Wall Water Great Pills and Darksea Heavy Water for the Fang Family’s Roaming Spirit Harnesses Qi and Yellow Springs Yin Stone, and warned that Chariot Water was flourishing.
• Fang Daoling accepted the trade and ordered an azure bird to tell the clan to monitor Chariot Water’s heavenly treasures and gifted cultivators.

Fang Qing assessed the Kitchen Lord’s attempt to attain [Year Guardian] as the Kitchen Lord began refining Grand Yellow Heaven and was attacked by two Golden Core cultivators. The chapter left the outcome of the confrontation unresolved.

• Fang Qing overheard Liu Junyan warn Fang Daoling and decided to wait and see whether the Kitchen Lord could succeed.
• Fang Daoling attended Zeng Qingshui’s Purple Mansion celebration at Vast Sea Sect and heard guests discuss Song Qingzhou, a Golden-Natured One.
• Grand Yellow Heaven began opening, and Fang Daoling recognized that the Kitchen Lord was refining the Grotto-Heaven into his body.
• Fang Qing watched the Kitchen Lord use Earth Virtue positions and the [Nether Warden] Principal Position to attempt [Year Guardian].
• Great Sun Dragon-Phoenix Fuyu Primordial Sovereign and Akasagarbha Bodhisattva attacked the Kitchen Lord to disrupt his breakthrough.

Fang Qing watched Kitchen Lord attempt to attain the Earth Virtue [Year Guardian] seat while other Golden Core True Lords fought over the Kingdom of Yue. Kitchen Lord’s breakthrough failed, but he used his death to unite with the Nether Bureau and become its true lord.

• Mystic Void Subtle Origin Lord, a Wuyue Sword Pavilion sword lord, and Heaven-Dawn Spirit Abyss Dragon Lord joined forces against Great Sun Dragon-Phoenix Fuyu Primordial Sovereign and protected the Kingdom of Yue with [Shen Metal Immortal-Binding Prison].
• Kitchen Lord invoked the [Maiden Earth], [Root Earth], [Stomach Earth], and [Nether Warden] Golden Seats as he attempted to become an Earth Virtue [Year Guardian].
• Fang Qing realized that [Nether Warden] could serve as a fifth Earth and that Kitchen Lord’s success might open another path to power beyond [Year Guardian].
• Kitchen Lord’s breakthrough failed when [Stomach Earth] collapsed, and [Maiden Earth] and [Root Earth] returned to the Great Void as a catastrophic earthquake shook the Breath-Nourishing Dao world.
• Kitchen Lord emerged from the Ghost Gate as a departed soul, swallowed the [Nether Warden] Golden Seat, and entered the Nether Bureau to unite with its Dao and become its true lord.

Fang Qing explored the Myriad Beasts Immortal Palace through Beigong Wei, discovered a one-use waymarker to a world beyond the heavens, and used the palace’s resources to cultivate his body. He reached Eighth Rank Body Refinement and planned to perfect his laws, become an immortal, and master the Great Void Dao.

• Fang Qing learned that the Kitchen Lord had failed to become a Year Guardian and reflected on the upcoming Chariot Water arrangement.
• Through Beigong Wei, Fang Qing inspected the Myriad Beasts Immortal Palace’s storerooms and found a bone-flute waymarker to a world beyond the heavens.
• Fang Qing considered sending an incarnation beyond the heavens to investigate the waymarker, then returned to cultivating.
• Fang Qing consumed a Thunder-Annihilating Sacred Fruit and used immortal beast bloodline laws and Golden Seats to cultivate the Myriad Beasts Dharma Body.
• Fang Qing achieved minor mastery of the Myriad Beasts Dharma Body and reached Eighth Rank Body Refinement.
• Fang Qing resolved to perfect his laws, cross the tribulation, become an immortal, and gain complete command of the Great Void Dao.

After overcoming the tribulation of taking a Golden Seat, Fang Qing traveled beyond the heavens and sent a prepared Mahayana clone into a strange world divided by a powerful veil. The clone was drawn into the hidden inner world, where it found a ruined palace, an eerie song, and a painted scepter resembling the bone flute that led Fang Qing there.

• Fang Qing passed the tribulation of taking the [Winnowing Basket Water] Golden Seat and tested how his Golden Seats interacted with one another.
• Fang Qing followed the bone flute’s Causality thread beyond the heavens and discovered a world with an outer material domain and a veiled inner domain.
• Fang Qing created a Mahayana clone, severed its Causality ties, and sent it into the world while his original body returned to prepare for immortal tribulation.
• The veil diverted the clone into the inner world, where Fang Qing found a forest filled with human faces and then stepped into a ruined bone-white palace.
• Fang Qing examined a painting of a man holding a scepter that resembled the bone flute as an ethereal song grew stronger nearby.

Fang Qing encountered the Lord of Hidden Corpses in the depths of the Veil, learned that it was an ancient World Eroder whose authority was shelter, and escaped its attack into the Veil’s shallows. He arrived at a deserted hospital and found a strange nurse, suspecting she was one of the Lord’s possessions.

• Fang Qing killed the beetle-infested mermaids, then faced a colossal land tortoise and spirit forms that warned him the Lord of Hidden Corpses was approaching.
• Fang Qing questioned the spirit forms and learned that the Lord of Hidden Corpses was a World Eroder whose authority was shelter, while its many apparent personalities were one being split by ascension.
• Fang Qing realized the Lord’s power overlapped with [Maiden Earth] and might help Sangji, then let the frightened tortoise flee.
• Fang Qing fled the Lord’s black cloak with help from [Winnowing Basket Water] and reached the Veil’s shallows.
• Fang Qing entered a deserted hospital, found a medical chart marked Dongli Hospital, and encountered a contorted nurse he suspected belonged to the Lord of Hidden Corpses.

Trapped in Dongli Hospital’s Erosion Domain, Shen Bai teamed up with Su Nian, who explained the ghost and the missing Defense Bureau rescue. On the fifth floor, Fang Qing held Su Nian’s notebook and considered how supernatural powers could counter the ghost’s higher standing.

• Shen Bai fled the ghost through the hospital and escaped into a room with Su Nian, after a fat man who attacked him was killed.
• Su Nian told Shen Bai that they were trapped in an Erosion Domain, explained that ghosts could not be killed, and revealed that her sister in the Defense Bureau had advised her through a supernatural notebook.
• Su Nian said rescue had not arrived and proposed that they head to the fifth floor to retrieve the notebook, where she suspected there might be a second ghost.
• Fang Qing stood on the fifth floor with Su Nian’s Strawberry Cat notebook and explained to himself that the Veil restricted powerful beings from crossing into the mortal world.
• Fang Qing reasoned that ghosts’ standing made them impossible for ordinary humans to kill, but that one standing could counter another.

Shen Bai and Su Nian searched Dongli Hospital for a notebook, but its messages revealed that Su Nian was a ghost and Shen Bai was already dead. As Fang Qing influenced events from Behind the Curtain, the Defense Bureau entered the hospital and suppressed the nurse ghost, clearing the way for a rescue operation.

• Shen Bai and Su Nian crept through the fifth floor to retrieve Su Nian’s notebook, but a corpse’s fall alerted the ghost and they fled.
• Su Nian led Shen Bai toward an escape route, but black hair blocked the window and they tumbled down the stairs.
• The notebook revealed that Su Nian was a ghost and Shen Bai was already dead, and Shen Bai remembered dying at Dongli Hospital.
• Fang Qing wrote in the notebook from Behind the Curtain and considered whether to send his true body into the mortal world.
• Outside Dongli Hospital, Iron Hand opened a passage through the Erosion Domain, allowing Su Wan and the Defense Bureau teams to enter.
• Su Wan, Iron Hand, and Water Child suppressed the nurse ghost on the fourth floor, and its writhing hair fell still.