Chapter Summaries

Fang Qing completed his Great Void Law comprehension and survived an extraordinary immortal tribulation in the Spirit Realm, becoming a True Immortal. He left the Universe Sect surrounded by a forming immortal Blessed Land and considered his next path while looking toward the Breath-Nourishing Dao.

• Fang Qing announced that he intended to build another hall in the Palace of Vast Cold while communicating with his original body.
• Profound Light Superior ordered the Universe Sect’s disciples to evacuate as strange celestial phenomena and immortal qi appeared over the sect.
• Profound Light Superior and Sect Master Xuanmiao realized that a cultivator was undergoing a Great Void Immortal tribulation and watched the spectacle.
• Fang Qing used the Great Void Great Dao, Profound Thunder, and Temporal Light to withstand the immortal lightning and complete his Law Body.
• After nine days, Fang Qing emerged as a True Immortal, contemplated the paths to becoming an Immortal Lord, and watched an immortal Blessed Land take shape outside the Universe Sect.

Fang Qing created Inch-Gold Hall to accelerate the Lunar Yin Scions’ cultivation, and Xu the Immortal Official sent them inside to train. After they emerged with Lunar Yin Divine Abilities, Zhan Hongxiu recognized that their powers let them travel through the Great Void.

• Fang Qing summoned Inch-Gold Hall and ordered Xu the Immortal Official to accelerate the Lunar Yin Scions’ training.
• Xu the Immortal Official brought Fang Xianyuan, Qin Ruxue, Yu Xiang'er, Mingyue, Zhong Lingxiu, and the other Scions into Inch-Gold Hall, where they could trade lifespan for years of cultivation.
• At Peach Blossom Island, Zhan Hongxiu arrived with Lunar Yin spiritual materials while Qin Ruxue and the others were in seclusion.
• Qin Ruxue and three other Scions emerged with Lunar Yin Divine Abilities, and their powers caused new Spirit Springs, streams, and a forest to appear on the island.
• Zhan Hongxiu asked whether the Scions could roam the Great Void, and Qin Ruxue confirmed that their Divine Abilities allowed it.

Zhan Hongxiu learned about Yu Xiang'er and the others' immortal cultivation, while Fang Xianyuan emerged from sixty years of seclusion with a Divine Ability and Early Purple Mansion cultivation. He reunited with Fang Xianyao and Fang Daoling, who celebrated his breakthrough privately.

• Zhan Hongxiu questioned Yu Xiang'er, Mingyue, and Zhong Lingxiu about their Divine Abilities and left after discussing the risks of seeking the Golden Core.
• Qin Ruxue thanked Heavenfiend Adept and the others for guarding Peach Blossom Island and gave them immortal medicine so they could reincarnate and seek the Dao.
• Fang Xianyuan emerged from Inch-Gold Hall after sixty years, having endured a perilous Purple Mansion breakthrough and gained the Pure Soul Guard Divine Ability.
• Fang Daoling ordered preparations to present Ancient Shu as a gift when Cangmingzi reached Purple Mansion, then traveled with Fang Xianyao to Spirit-Ease Blessed Land.
• Fang Daoling recognized Fang Xianyuan as a Purple Mansion cultivator, and Fang Xianyao was stunned to learn his brother had gained a Divine Ability.
• Fang Xianyuan brought Fang Xianyao to his cave residence and served wine to celebrate his breakthrough.

Fang Qing watched over the worlds as Qin Ruxue and her companions continued cultivating, while Song Qingzhou became a Purple Mansion True Person and received a powerful True Treasure. Fang Daoling offered Ancient Shu to Song Qingzhou’s group as a congratulatory gift, leaving the three cultivators stunned.

• Fang Qing judged that Qin Ruxue and the others had reached Purple Mansion, then considered sending cultivators to gain experience in the Great Zhou Martial Dao World and the Veil.
• Xu the Immortal Official told Qin Ruxue and the others to gain experience and offered Fang Xianyuan several realms to explore.
• Zeng Qingshui perfected his Wallside Observation Divine Ability as Song Qingzhou broke through to Purple Mansion and formed the Fish in the Abyss Divine Ability.
• Zhenwu Attendant Deity praised Song Qingzhou’s cultivation, gave him the Overturn Mountains and Submerge Seas Seal, and announced that Vast Sea Heaven would be sealed.
• After leaving Vast Sea Heaven, Song Qingzhou and the Zeng brothers discussed expanding the Vast Sea Sect into Ancient Shu.
• Fang Daoling appeared before the three cultivators and offered Ancient Shu to Song Qingzhou’s group, reserving only Ba Commandery for the Fang Family.

Fang Xianyao delivered Ancient Shu to Song Qingzhou’s Purple Mansion celebration, while Fang Qing considered the Heavenly Horn Sect and the rise of Lunar Yin cultivators. Zhan Hongxiu successfully cultivated the Lunar Yin Divine Ability Pure Soul Guard and prepared to return to Peach Blossom Island after learning Zhong Lingxiu had defeated an attacker.

• Fang Xianyao led the Fang Family’s delegation to the Vast Sea Sect and presented Ancient Shu to Song Qingzhou as a congratulatory gift.
• True Person Bing Mu praised Fang Daoling to Fang Xianyao, prompting Fang Qing to consider the Heavenly Horn Sect’s potential usefulness.
• Fang Qing sensed a qi refinement cultivator had comprehended a Divine Ability and saw through Gui Ling’s eyes that the cultivator was Zhan Hongxiu.
• Zhan Hongxiu explained to Turtle Elder that she had studied Lunar Yin disciples on Peach Blossom Island and used their demonstrations to master Pure Soul Guard.
• Zhan Hongxiu learned that Zhong Lingxiu had defeated a Great Cultivator who attacked Peach Blossom Island, and decided to leave seclusion and visit the island.

Xu the Immortal Official gave five Lunar Yin cultivators Divine Elixir safeguards and gold-seeking methods, assigning them different positions and an order for their attempts. Fang Qing watched from Jade Dust Hall and prepared to use the Lunar Yin ascensions to advance his own plans, which depended on speed and keeping Primordial Beginning Heaven sealed.

• Xu the Immortal Official told Fang Xianyuan, Qin Ruxue, Yu Xiang'er, Mingyue, and Zhong Lingxiu that they could seek Lunar Yin positions and gave each a Return-to-Profundity Divine-Elixir mind method.
• Fang Xianyuan chose the vacant position and received the Corpse-Release Dao-Seeking method; Xu warned him to seek gold in the Eastern Sea Cultivation Realm because evil Lunar Yin Golden Core cultivators watched his world.
• Zhong Lingxiu chose the vacant position, Yu Xiang'er and Qin Ruxue chose the primary position, and Mingyue chose the secondary position.
• Xu ordered Fang Xianyuan and Zhong Lingxiu to seek the vacant position first, followed by Yu Xiang'er and Qin Ruxue for the primary position, with Mingyue last for the secondary position.
• Fang Qing watched the exchange through Xu the Immortal Official and planned to use the five Lunar Yin attempts to earn merit, attain the fifth water, and eventually seize the Four Waters and become the Year Guardian.

Zhan Hongxiu visited Peach Blossom Island to observe Fang Xianyuan's Qiujin attempt and supplied Pure Yang Heavenly Firmament Gold for his ritual sword. Three months later, Fang began the dangerous Lunar Yin Corpse-Release rite, which appeared to be succeeding until an ominous change erupted above the platform.

• Zhan Hongxiu arrived at Peach Blossom Island and learned that Fang Xianyuan planned to attempt Qiujin through Liberation by Violence.
• Fang explained the Lunar Yin Corpse-Release method and asked Zhan Hongxiu to help perform it, but she declined and offered Pure Yang Heavenly Firmament Gold for his ritual sword.
• Fang scheduled his Qiujin attempt for three months later, while Qin Ruxue and the others said they would make their own attempts in the following years.
• Three months later, Zhan Hongxiu and the others watched from the Great Void as Fang began the rite on Peach Blossom Island, with the island cleared of low-level cultivators.
• Fang used the Pure Yang Ritual Sword to kill himself, and his corpse decayed as feathers covered it while his Divine Abilities formed a pillar of light that drew Lunar Yin power to a growing infant spirit.
• Zhan Hongxiu believed Fang was close to succeeding, but Mingyue and Qin Ruxue sensed that the conspicuous display was wrong, and a sudden change erupted above the platform.

Fang Xianyuan survived his failed attempt to claim the Lunar Yin position by condensing a Divine Elixir, and Fang Qing appointed him Jade Dust Envoy to guard the Fang Family. A year later, after watching others achieve the same transformation, Zhan Hongxiu began considering a quest for the Lunar Yin Golden Nature herself.

• Fang Xianyuan awakened from his apparent breakthrough, used the Lunar Yin Return-to-Profundity Divine-Elixir Mind Method, and merged his four Divine Abilities into a Divine Elixir.
• Fang Xianyuan's Lunar Yin Dharma Body transformed Peach Blossom Island, while Zhong Lingxiu explained to Zhan Hongxiu that a Divine Elixir lacked the authority of a True Lord's position.
• Xu the Immortal Official brought Fang Xianyuan to Jade Dust Hall, where Fang Qing appointed him Jade Dust Envoy and assigned him to Spirit-Ease Blessed Land to guard the Fang Family.
• Fang Qing watched Zhong Lingxiu attempt to seek the Vacant Position and told Xu the Immortal Official to wait before bringing any further Divine Elixir candidates to him.
• A year later, Zhan Hongxiu reflected on Zhong Lingxiu, Yu Xiang'er, Qin Ruxue, and other cultivators becoming Divine Elixirs, then considered seeking the Lunar Yin Golden Nature herself.

Mingyue succeeded in attaining the lunar yin golden seat and became the Moon-Chasing Xuanlin Primordial Sovereign, then pledged herself to Fang Qing and helped him cultivate. Meanwhile, Fang Xianyuan returned as a powerful Lunar Divine Elixir cultivator and discussed the Zeng Clan’s break with Fang Daoling.

• Mingyue completed her lunar yin manifestations, attained the golden seat, and announced herself as the Moon-Chasing Xuanlin Primordial Sovereign.
• Fang Qing welcomed Mingyue into Jade Dust Hall, where she offered to serve him, and he summoned lunar yin authority to aid his cultivation.
• Xu the Immortal Official told Qin Ruxue, Zhong Lingxiu, and Yu Xiang'er to teach the next generation at a steadier pace because the heavens no longer urgently needed manpower.
• Fang Daoling learned that Fang Xianyuan had returned from another world as a Lunar Divine Elixir cultivator whose power nearly matched a Golden Core True Lord.
• Fang Xianyuan accepted that Zeng Qingshu had joined the Vast Sea Sect and said the women of the Zeng Clan who remained with the Fang Family might preserve some of their bloodline.

The master of Jade Dust Hall manifested the [Cold Intercalation] Golden Seat by borrowing [Lunar Yin], reshaping Water Virtue and bringing changes to the lower world. Zhan Hongxiu investigated the effects across the Eastern Sea Cultivation Realm and realized the new cold influence had transformed cultivation and spiritual materials.

• The master of Jade Dust Hall used [Lunar Yin] to manifest the [Cold Intercalation] Golden Seat, prompting Qin Ruxue, Yu Xiang'er, Zhong Lingxiu, and Xu the Immortal Official to recognize the exalted seat's significance.
• Zhan Hongxiu considered seeking a Golden Seat but learned from Turtle Elder that the changed Great Void might have closed her route of ascension.
• Zhan Hongxiu sensed that heaven and earth had changed, then ordered the Myriad Stars Alliance to investigate strange occurrences throughout the Eastern Sea Cultivation Realm.
• Venerable Lingmiao reported that water-attribute cultivation had improved and that his magical power had gained a harmless trace of coldness.
• Wood Elder told Zhan Hongxiu that most spiritual waters had changed, disrupting existing pill formulas but creating new cold-attribute materials that could eventually advance Water-Method Alchemy.

Fang Qing experimented with combining Golden Seats and discovered that Great Void, Temporal Light, Winnowing Basket Water, and Wings Fire could briefly give him Golden Core Perfection power, though the strain cracked his Law Body. Using the Temporal Light Golden Seat, he looked into the past and witnessed the Great Sun Year Guardian create Primordial Beginning Heaven and seal the Profound Thunder Golden Seat inside it.

• Fang Qing manifested the Cold Intercalation Golden Seat through the void and advanced to Late Golden Core.
• Fang Qing used the Dao-Born Pearl to combine Golden Seats, finding that Lunar Yin and then Wings Fire could temporarily raise his power beyond Late Golden Core.
• Fang Qing paired Great Void, Temporal Light, Winnowing Basket Water, and Wings Fire, forming a terrifying Golden Core Perfection state that Moon-Chasing Xuanlin Primordial Sovereign hid from.
• Fang Qing found that the space-time, water-and-fire combination severely cracked his Law Body, while Profound Thunder could balance other Golden Seat combinations at Late Golden Core.
• Fang Qing traced the past through Temporal Light and saw the Great Sun Year Guardian create Primordial Beginning Heaven and seal the Profound Thunder Golden Seat inside.

Fang Qing used the Primordial Dragon Envoy as a pawn in Flood-Dragon Palace and decided to seize the Three Stars Water Primary Position before the Great Sun became a Year Guardian. He reached the sleeping Heaven-Dawn Spirit Abyss Dragon Lord with the Water-Dividing Dragon King, leaving his plan poised to begin.

• Fang Qing inferred that the Kitchen Lord and the Great Sun Year Guardian had been competing over Zhan Hongxiu’s fate and resolved to act quickly when Primordial Beginning Heaven opened.
• Fang Qing took control of the Primordial Dragon Envoy, whom he had secretly planted beside the Heaven-Dawn Spirit Abyss Dragon Lord, and chose to pursue the Three Stars Water Primary Position.
• Fang Qing considered joining forces with two Heavenly Horn Sect Wood Virtue cultivators to eliminate the Heaven-Dawn Spirit Abyss Dragon Lord and claim his Golden Seat.
• The Water-Dividing Dragon King met the Primordial Dragon Envoy and offered him three hundred boys and girls, then accompanied him to report on the urgent Chariot Water matter.
• Fang Qing and the Water-Dividing Dragon King reached the Dragon Lord’s lair, where they found the immense Heaven-Dawn Spirit Abyss Dragon Lord asleep.

Fang Qing joined forces with two [Horn Wood] True Lords to ambush Heaven-Dawn Spirit Abyss Dragon Lord and killed him before the other True Lords could intervene. Back at Jade Dust Hall, Fang Qing absorbed his [Three Stars Water] golden seat and advanced to late Golden Core.

• Azure Spirit Brocade-Completion Universal Aid Origin Lord and Eastern Pole Year Guardian Azure Root surrounded the Flood-Dragon Palace and confronted Heaven-Dawn Spirit Abyss Dragon Lord.
• Fang Qing revealed himself as True Lord Returning All Rivers to the Sea and used the [Cold Intercalation] power he had planted in the Dragon Lord to freeze him.
• Fang Qing unleashed the power of the [Great Void] golden seat and killed Heaven-Dawn Spirit Abyss Dragon Lord, while the watching True Lords failed to identify him.
• Fang Qing brought the Dragon Lord's body and golden seats to Jade Dust Hall and suppressed the [Three Stars Water] primary position with the Dao-Born Pearl.
• Fang Qing absorbed [Three Stars Water] and became a late Golden Core Water Virtue True Lord.

Fang Qing prepared a reserve plan for claiming the [Chariot Water] Golden Seat by transforming Fang Daoling into a [Chariot Water] cultivator, while Song Qingzhou’s new Divine Ability revealed danger to the Vast Sea Sect. The chapter left Zeng Qingshui confronting a late-Purple-Mansion White Crane Demon King after Song Qingzhou warned that Zeng Qingshu had fallen into a deadly calamity.

• Fang Qing concluded that he needed the [Chariot Water] Principal Position for the safest route to Water Virtue [Year Guardian], and summoned Fang Daoling to prepare him as a backup candidate.
• Fang Qing replaced Fang Daoling’s [Winnowing Basket Water] Divine Abilities with [Chariot Water] abilities, gave him cultivation materials and a Gold-Seeking Method, and ordered him to train at Inch-Gold Hall.
• Song Qingzhou emerged from seclusion with two [Chariot Water] Divine Abilities and used “Facing the Abyss” to discern that the Vast Sea Sect’s disciples faced a deadly calamity.
• Song Qingzhou sensed that Zeng Qingshu’s fate had dimmed, so Zeng Qingshui rushed into the Great Void to find him.
• Zeng Qingshui reached a grassland and discovered a late-Purple-Mansion White Crane Demon King watching Zeng Qingshu, prompting him to suspect he had been lured into a trap.

Fang Xianyao learned that a demon invasion had begun after a Purple Mansion cultivator fell, while Song Qingzhou escaped a battle with the Blackwater Mysterious Serpent’s Attendant Deity. He retreated to Spirit-Ease Blessed Land and discovered that Fang Xianyuan had become powerful enough to dismiss the demon threat, though he still wondered whether his brother was truly himself.

• Fang Xianyao reached mid Dao Foundation and, after seeing a Purple Mansion cultivator’s death signaled by [Turtle Beak Fire], ordered the Fang Family to abandon its outposts and retreat to its main clan.
• The Blackwater Mysterious Serpent’s Attendant Deity wounded Song Qingzhou and ordered the Demon Race’s army to march south.
• Fang Xianyao visited Spirit-Ease Blessed Land and mistook Fang Xianyuan’s enormous lunar yin manifestation for a True Lord possessing his brother.
• Fang Xianyao told Fang Xianyuan that Zeng Qingshu had fallen and the Northern Plains demons were invading, while Cangmingzi had failed to save him and suffered injuries.
• Fang Xianyuan claimed he could kill the Attendant Deity with one breath, leaving Fang Xianyao relieved by the clan’s powerful ally but uncertain whether Fang Xianyuan was really himself.

Fang Qing suspected the attack on the Vast Sea Sect was a prelude to a strike in the Esoteric Treasury. At Great Snow Mountain, a crimson wolf-shaped force clashed with a golden wing, and the Dumus and Duzis later found a feather of the Great Peng Wisdom King before the Buddha, leaving them to fear he had lost.

• Fang Qing connected the attack on the Vast Sea Sect to his hunt for the Heaven-Dawn Spirit Abyss Dragon Lord and predicted the real strike would come in the Esoteric Treasury.
• Duzi Invincible warned Moonlight White Tara, Medicine King Qing, and Empty Peacock that the Esoteric Treasury’s temple lineages were weakening, though Yuan Liansheng said his own lineage remained strong.
• Moonlight White Tara and the others saw Great Snow Mountain vanish as a crimson star appeared, and they identified it as [Kui Wood] and suspected Akasagarbha Bodhisattva had attacked.
• A golden wing appeared above the Thirty-Six Heavens of Tiangang and clashed with a crimson wolf-shaped force, forcing Moonlight White Tara and the others to take shelter in the temple.
• After the battle ended, Moonlight White Tara and the others found a golden feather of the Great Peng Wisdom King before the Buddha and feared he had been defeated.

Fang Qing learned that Great Peng Wisdom King had died to deliver a golden feather that served as a key to Great Sun Tathagata’s Buddha-Land. Using Sangji as a proxy, Fang Qing entered the Great Sun Dharma Realm and found himself trapped in a scripted dream set in High Antiquity.

• Fang Qing explained that Great Peng Wisdom King had used his death to deliver the golden feather, which revealed a path into Great Sun Tathagata’s Buddha-Land.
• Fang Qing assigned Moon-Chasing Xuanlin Primordial Sovereign the Qi Refinement Way’s [Lunar Yin] Golden Seat and told her to guide Zhan Hongxiu toward the [Lunar Yin] Guest Position.
• Fang Qing entered the Great Sun Dharma Realm through Sangji, using the golden feather as a key.
• After passing through a golden door, Sangji awoke in a dream with Dao Foundation-level power, and Fang Qing recognized the setting as High Antiquity.
• A noble headman and his serfs surrounded Fang Qing’s dream-self, intending to offer the monk to a Demon General.

Fang Qing experienced the Discipline Sect monk’s life in High Antiquity, from his sacrifice to the founding of the Esoteric Sect, while gaining insight into several Golden Seats. The dream’s final trial changed when the Lunar Yin [Year Guardian] emerged as Great Sun Tathagata’s true enemy, leaving Fang Qing to face the battle with its teachings and powers.

• A Discipline Sect monk let mortals bind and sacrifice him, then accepted food from a slave girl before a rat-demon prepared to eat him.
• Fang Qing regained control, killed the rat demon and dissolved the surrounding people in an Ink Pool, then watched the monk gain merit from the demon’s defeat.
• Fang Qing experienced events involving Chariot Water, Net Moon, Yuezhuo and Bi Yue Crow, gaining insight into the [Emptiness Sun] Golden Seat.
• The aged monk established the Esoteric Sect in the Secret Treasury Domain, and Fang Qing realized Great Sun Tathagata had made him experience its history through a dream.
• The Secret Treasury split open as the Great Sun [Year Guardian] emerged, and Fang Qing understood that the dream’s final enemy had changed.

Fang Qing defeated the Great Sun [Year Guardian]'s corpse in the dream with the Womb-Realm Sun-Wheel Great Awe Divine Thunder, exposing Moon-Palace Embryo-Forming Origin Lord. In the Secret Treasury Domain, Great Sun Tathagata began a desperate attempt to become a [Year Guardian], but Great Sun Dragon-Phoenix Fuyu Primordial Sovereign appeared to challenge him.

• Fang Qing used [Profound Thunder] and the Womb-Realm Sun-Wheel Great Awe Divine Thunder to break the Great Sun [Year Guardian]'s golden armor and shatter the dream, revealing Moon-Palace Embryo-Forming Origin Lord.
• Moonlight White Tara saw Esoteric Treasury temples and spells collapsing as monks sought refuge with Namo White Bone Manifestation Great Compassion Tathagata.
• Great Sun Tathagata appeared through a gate of rainbow-body essences, manifested three suns and a [Tathagata] Golden Seat, and began drawing power from the three suns to become a [Year Guardian].
• Cultivators across the world recognized that Great Sun Tathagata was making a desperate gamble to strike the reviving [Year Guardian].
• Fang Qing, controlling Sangji in the Eight Cold Forest Buddha Lands, realized Great Sun Tathagata had briefly escaped the [Year Guardian]'s influence after his victory in the dream.
• Great Sun Dragon-Phoenix Fuyu Primordial Sovereign appeared in a newly risen Great Sun, threatening Great Sun Tathagata's attempt.

Fang Qing adjusted time around Song Qingzhou while the world’s attention was on the Great Sun Tathagata’s struggle for [Year Guardian]. In the Qi Refinement Way, Zhan Hongxiu attained the [Lunar Yin] Guest Position as the Ninefold Year-Spirit Pure Radiance Primordial Sovereign, but Primordial Beginning Heaven tried to force her to ascend, and Fang Qing blocked the realms from intersecting.

• Zeng Qingshui sealed the Vast Sea Sect behind its Purple Mansion formation after seeing three suns in the sky.
• Fang Qing froze time across the Vast Sea Sect, altered the flow of time in Song Qingzhou’s cave abode, concealed the change with Lunar Yin, and preserved Zeng Qingshui’s memories of the True Lord Returning All Rivers to the Sea.
• Zhan Hongxiu decided to seek the [Lunar Yin] Golden Seat, took the mystic medicine given by the Moon-Chasing Xuanlin Primordial Sovereign, and began the breakthrough on Peach Blossom Island.
• Zhan Hongxiu fused with the [Lunar Yin] Guest Position and proclaimed herself the Ninefold Year-Spirit Pure Radiance Primordial Sovereign.
• Primordial Beginning Heaven began forcing Zhan Hongxiu to ascend, but Fang Qing appeared and prevented the two realms from intersecting without his approval.