Chapter Summaries

Fang Qing let Primordial Beginning Heaven merge with the Breath-Nourishing Dao, giving him a chance to seize authority while Zhan Hongxiu ascended into a Lunar Yin Golden Core True Lord. The chapter ended with Turtle Elder recognizing Venerable Fuyu and rushing toward her, only to be burned away by Room Sun radiance.

• Fang Qing released his control over Primordial Beginning Heaven, and Zhan Hongxiu was drawn upward as the worlds began to merge.
• Primordial Beginning Heaven appeared in the Breath-Nourishing Dao, pulling hidden Grotto-Heavens and Blessed Lands into view.
• Fang Qing's Winnowing Basket Water Principal Position displaced Mystic Void Subtle Origin Lord's, while Moon-Chasing Xuanlin Primordial Sovereign revealed the Lunar Yin Golden Seat.
• Zhan Hongxiu seized authority from three of the Four-Moon orthodoxies and descended into the Breath-Nourishing Dao as Ninefold Year-Spirit Pure Radiance Primordial Sovereign.
• Zhan Hongxiu recognized Venerable Fuyu on the Fusang Branch and called Turtle Elder to her; after Fang Qing released his hold on him, Turtle Elder flew toward Fuyu and dissolved in Room Sun radiance.

Fang Qing’s allies helped Song Qingzhou seize the Chariot Water Golden Seat, while Fang Qing revealed his restored power and killed Akasagarbha Bodhisattva. The struggle escalated as other True Lords attacked Fang Qing and Song Qingzhou.

• Zhan Hongxiu used Lunar Yin power to attack the weakened Great Sun Dragon-Phoenix Fuyu Primordial Sovereign as the master of the Nether Bureau emerged from a Ghost Gate and attacked her.
• Fang Qing opened the Vast Sea Sect’s mountain gate and released Song Qingzhou, whose four Chariot Water Divine Abilities had reached perfection.
• Fang Xianyuan intercepted and froze the Blackwater Mysterious Serpent Attendant Deity before it could stop Song Qingzhou.
• Song Qingzhou transformed into a dragon, swallowed the Chariot Water Golden Seat, and became True Lord Sea-Tide Clear Harmony.
• Fang Qing revealed Akasagarbha Bodhisattva’s role in supporting Song Qingzhou, then froze and killed him.
• Heavenly Smelting Wu Yue Profound Sword True Lord attacked True Lord Sea-Tide Clear Harmony while a Shen Metal Immortal-Binding Prison appeared before Fang Qing.

Fang Qing shattered the Metal Virtue True Treasure, killed True Lord Sea-Tide Clear Harmony, and assembled Water Virtue’s Four Waters Dao Lineage. As the Breath-Nourishing Dao world broke apart, Moon-Palace Embryo-Forming Origin Lord began seeking Year Guardian, forcing Fang Qing to reconsider when and how he could advance.

• Fang Qing shattered the golden bars of the Metal Virtue True Treasure, unleashing its sword slaves and causing Heavenly Smelting Wu Yue Profound Sword True Lord to turn blood-mad.
• Moon-Palace Embryo-Forming Origin Lord disrupted Great Sun Tathagata’s breakthrough, while Fang Qing killed True Lord Sea-Tide Clear Harmony and let the Chariot Water Principal Position return to heaven and earth.
• Fang Qing took Fang Daoling’s Chariot Water Secondary Position and completed his Four Waters Dao Lineage with Winnowing Basket Water, Chariot Water, Three Stars Water, and Cold Intercalation.
• Fang Qing realized he had to choose between seeking Year Guardian within the Breath-Nourishing Dao world and leaving with the four Golden Seats to prevent anyone else from surpassing Year Guardian.
• Fang Qing saw that the world had shattered into fragments and recognized that Moon-Palace Embryo-Forming Origin Lord was now seeking Year Guardian.

Fang Qing and the Moon-Palace Embryo-Forming Origin Lord began ascending to [Year Guardian] as the Breath-Nourishing Dao world collapsed around them. The chapter left both ascensions underway while the Nine-Heavens Fire Manor’s Golden Core discovered the Devil Ancestor’s hidden Primordial Devil Heaven.

• The Metal Virtue [Year Guardian] revived his four golden seats and attacked the Moon-Palace Embryo-Forming Origin Lord, cutting down the Great Sun Dragon-Phoenix Fuyu Primordial Sovereign before the Origin Lord countered with the corpse of the former Great Sun [Year Guardian].
• Fang Qing began his own Water Virtue [Year Guardian] ascension, recalling his incarnations and avatars as the Dao-Born Pearl stirred.
• The world shattered under the competing ascensions, while the Azure Root True Lord and the Azure Spirit Brocade-Completion Universal Aid Origin Lord steadied their territory and Fang Xianyuan sheltered the Azure Departure Fang Family.
• The Nine-Heavens Fire Manor’s Golden Core used great void starflame to reveal a surviving grotto-heaven and recognized it as the Devil Ancestor’s Primordial Devil Heaven.

Zhan Hongxiu was captured by the Kitchen Lord in the Nether Bureau as the Heart Demon Golden Seat awakened and disrupted the world. Fang Qing became a Water Virtue Year Guardian, erased the Heart Demon Great Sage, and confronted the half-mad Great Sun Year Guardian, who attacked him through his past.

• The Kitchen Lord captured Zhan Hongxiu and explained that her Guest Position could prevent her from advancing, while proposing that she reincarnate.
• The Heart Demon Golden Seat emerged from the collapse of Primordial Devil Heaven, unleashing a tribulation that afflicted cultivators and interfered with the Year Guardians' advances.
• Fang Qing became a Water Virtue Year Guardian and erased the Heart Demon Great Sage by restoring Primordial Devil Heaven to a time before its emergence.
• The Great Sun Year Guardian reached back to Fang Qing's birth and sent a vast hand to kill him, but Fang Qing erased the attack from his past.
• Fang Qing recognized that the Great Sun Year Guardian had lost control and prepared to fight her, with the option of escaping and cutting off her path to further advancement.

Fang Qing left the Breath-Nourishing Dao after battling the Great Sun [Year Guardian] and took control of the Myriad Beasts Immortal Palace in the Spirit Realm. He cultivated a new Golden Nature and sent an avatar into the heavens beyond to settle his karmic debt with the Devil Ancestor, while preparing to grow strong enough to face the Great Sun [Year Guardian] again.

• The Nether Bureau's ghosts and gods wept blood as the battle between Fang Qing and the Great Sun [Year Guardian] threatened to erase history and everyone in it.
• Fang Qing concluded that the Great Sun [Year Guardian] was stronger, then traveled beyond the Breath-Nourishing Dao with the Dao-Born Pearl sealing his four Golden Seats.
• Fang Qing appeared in the Myriad Beasts Immortal Palace, took control of it, and used its Karmic Dao to identify the Heart Demon left by the Devil Ancestor.
• Fang Qing cultivated in the palace and formed the Heavenly Water Pivot-Holding Year Nature from his merged Golden Seats.
• Fang Qing sent a Golden Nature avatar into the heavens beyond with a Karmic Divine Talisman to settle his debt with the Devil Ancestor.
• Fang Qing sensed that the Great Sun [Year Guardian] had gone into hiding and that the remaining True Lords had joined fragments of the Breath-Nourishing Dao into a small continent.

Fang Qing reincarnated into a powerful world as a young martial hero and awakened his past-life memories after nearly dying on Eyebrow Mountain. He killed the warriors who had abandoned him as bait and confronted the Red-Brow Old Daoist, demanding his wages and life.

• Fang Qing entered a world with abundant spiritual energy and reincarnated into a body that had not awakened its past-life memories for eighteen years.
• Fang Qing recovered from his mortal wound and learned from his memories that the Red-Brow Old Daoist had treated him as a servant and left him to distract a monster.
• Fang Qing followed the trail out of the forest and found the Red-Brow Old Daoist and his disciples at a camp beside a stream.
• Fang Qing killed the golden-robed warrior who had abandoned him and cut down the other martial heroes with his sword.
• Fang Qing demanded that the Red-Brow Old Daoist give him a cultivation method and pay him with his life.

Fang Qing defeated the Red-Brow Old Daoist and seized his magical belongings and scripture. Reading the Thirty-Six Arts of Mount Mei, he learned that cultivation followed many different paths, but the scripture contained only eighteen spells and no cultivation method.

• The Red-Brow Old Daoist empowered his attendant with a pill and spell, but Fang Qing pierced the attendant's mouth and killed him.
• The Red-Brow Old Daoist attacked Fang Qing with the Yin Soldier Armored-Horse Talisman and his Blood-Crossed Brows, but Fang Qing broke through his defenses with sword qi and killed him.
• Fang Qing searched the Red-Brow Old Daoist's body and found the Thirty-Six Arts of Mount Mei, a crimson gourd, and a black iron token.
• Fang Qing read the scripture and learned about the four broad cultivation paths and the diverse schools within the unorthodox and eclectic traditions.
• Fang Qing realized the scripture held only eighteen of the promised thirty-six arts, then reacted with surprise while calculating on his fingers.

Fang Qing used his insight into the Karmic Dao to uncover the debt attached to the Thirty-Six Arts of Mount Mei, then killed the snake demon holding the other half. After completing the inheritance, he considered the Arts Cultivator path but decided to seek an orthodox Daoist inheritance instead.

• Fang Qing realized the Mount Mei inheritance carried a karmic debt and that the snake demon on Eyebrow Mountain possessed its other half.
• Fang Qing recognized the snake demon as the creature that had killed his predecessor and used the Yin Soldier Armored-Horse Talisman to kill it.
• The snake demon’s Primordial Spirit attacked Fang Qing’s sea of consciousness and was destroyed.
• Fang Qing recovered the other half of the Thirty-Six Arts of Mount Mei and read the complete set of spells, including the Three-Corpses Primordial Spirit Technique.
• Fang Qing concluded that the Arts Cultivator path was inferior and resolved to seek an orthodox Daoist inheritance.

Shen Yanqiu and Su Qinghui followed a mysterious inheritance’s signs while searching for the Dragon-Slaying Sword, and Fang Qing reached the same opportunity first. He opened an immortal’s jade box and obtained a spirit sword and an Elder Water Immortal Sky Scripture.

• Shen Yanqiu and Su Qinghui discussed their search for the Dragon-Slaying Sword and the strange inheritance book that pointed toward a coming opportunity.
• Fang Qing used pills to power the Forest-Walking Method and climbed to a cliff where he collected extraordinary pinecones.
• Fang Qing sensed that the cliff’s opportunity already had an owner and that powerful beings had been scheming over it.
• Fang Qing found a hidden jade box in a cave and opened it, causing a white dragon carrying a Sky Scripture to emerge.
• Fang Qing caught the dragon, which became a spirit sword, and identified the Sky Scripture as an Elder Water Immortal inheritance.

Fang Qing studied the Wave-Treading Immortal Scripture, rapidly advanced through Meridian Unblocking, and met Mount Shu Sword Sect disciples Shen Yanqiu and Su Qinghui. They agreed to bring him to their elders, while a thick-browed young man suddenly fell onto the ledge after they departed.

• Fang Qing learned the cultivation stages and discovered that inheriting the Wave-Treading Immortal Scripture and White Dragon Sword carried karmic obligations, including killing a Dharma Body Realm demonic cultivator.
• Fang Qing absorbed Primordial Ren Water Essence, formed magical force, and used a pinecone to complete Meridian Unblocking.
• Fang Qing tested his new strength by gliding from the cliff ledge and examined the White Dragon Sword, which he suspected contained an Innate Divine Restriction.
• Shen Yanqiu and Su Qinghui arrived, and Fang Qing asked them to take him as a disciple; they agreed to bring him before their elders.
• Shen Yanqiu gave Fang Qing the Grand Change Seventy-Two Arts and carried him away on a sword gleam, after which a thick-browed young man fell onto the ledge.

Fang Qing traveled with Shen Yanqiu and Su Qinghui to Spring City to awaken Tu Yushu, the reincarnated Dragon-Slaying Sword, and guide him toward the Dao. After Tu Yushu rescued a child from mounted messengers, Fang Qing offered him three divinations and left him stunned by displaying his ability to fly.

• Shen Yanqiu and Su Qinghui told Fang Qing that their mission was to awaken a reincarnated Mount Shu senior destined to become the Dragon-Slaying Sword, and assigned Fang Qing to guide him.
• Fang Qing learned the senior was Tu Yushu, the eldest son of Spring City's lord, and entered the city after Shen Yanqiu and Su Qinghui vanished.
• Tu Yushu rescued a young boy from being trampled by galloping horses and hurried toward home after hearing the mounted messengers carried urgent news.
• Fang Qing approached Tu Yushu and offered three divinations, warning him to enter no forest, halt before a snake, and rejoice at the sight of water.
• Tu Yushu dismissed Fang Qing as a charlatan, but Fang Qing flew into the sky and vanished, leaving Tu Yushu and the onlookers amazed.

Fang Qing watched events unfold as a giant snake demon attacked the countryside outside Spring City, where Tu Yushu defied his father and joined the fight. Shen Yanqiu killed the demon and suspected a demonic cultivator had deliberately raised it, leaving the Mount Shu elders intent on investigating the scheme.

• Fang Qing reflected on how his ties to the Seven Swords of Shu Mountain could disrupt the future and make its path more unpredictable.
• Tu Tianhao told Tu Yushu that a monster had devoured several villages, but Tu Yushu secretly left Spring City to confront it.
• Master Guo and Master Li led troops into the forest, where a giant venomous snake demon killed Master Li and overwhelmed the soldiers.
• Tu Yushu used the Eight-Fragrance Fuling Sword to wound the snake demon and rescued Master Guo, then escaped toward a river as his sword was lost.
• Shen Yanqiu killed the snake demon with a blade of sword energy, explained the cultivation world's factions, and suspected someone had raised the monster as part of a scheme.

Fang Qing and Su Qinghui tested Tu Yushu’s resolve to cultivate immortality, and he agreed to join the Mount Shu Sword Sect. The Five Poisons Master attacked during the meeting, forcing Fang Qing to flee with Tu Yushu into an ambush by Meiniang.

• Shen Yanqiu flew off to pursue the devil cultivators while Su Qinghui explained the Mount Shu Sword Sect’s sword arts to Fang Qing.
• Su Qinghui used the Dream-Entering Art to show Tu Yushu that worldly ties would fade, and Tu Yushu woke determined to seek immortality.
• Fang Qing met Tu Yushu at the city lord’s residence, where Tu Yushu knelt and agreed to join the sect under Su Qinghui’s guidance.
• The Five Poisons Master attacked Su Qinghui, who engaged him while Fang Qing carried Tu Yushu away.
• Meiniang blocked Fang Qing and Tu Yushu in a desolate wilderness, and Fang Qing summoned Nether Soldiers and Horses and empowered Tu Yushu with a pill.

Fang Qing killed Meiniang, learned that the Heavenly Demon Secret Sound was linked to the Heart Demon golden seat, and met the secretly protecting Flowery Grandee Ling Ye. After the group resolved the city’s crisis, Shen Yanqiu and Su Qinghui took Fang Qing and Tu Yushu toward Mount Shu, where their prospects for joining the sect differed.

• Fang Qing resisted Meiniang’s Heavenly Demon Secret Sound, killed her with the Arts Sword, and searched her corpse while Tu Yushu collapsed from exhaustion.
• Ling Ye appeared, explained that Tu Yushu should not awaken his past-life memories yet, and carried the group back to Spring City with straw figures.
• Shen Yanqiu and Su Qinghui returned and reported that the Five Poisons Master had used a feint to ambush them, while Shen Yanqiu had killed his four emissaries.
• Shen Yanqiu invited Tu Yushu to join the Mount Shu Sword Sect, and the group prepared to leave for Mount Shu after he bid farewell to his father.
• Fang Qing sensed that the arrangement might bring future causality but chose not to warn the others, then traveled toward Mount Shu with Su Qinghui as Shen Yanqiu carried Tu Yushu.

Fang Qing and Tu Yushu entered the Mount Shu Sword Sect, where Tu Yushu was chosen by the Dragon-Slaying Sword and became Hundred Sufferings Arhat’s disciple. Fang Qing became Master Hundred Herbs’ disciple, received the Daoist name Yipin, and surprised his new master by revealing that he had completed Meridian Unblocking.

• Su Qinghui and Shen Yanqiu brought Fang Qing and Tu Yushu through Mount Shu’s immortal array, and Xuan Chan discussed assigning them masters with the sect’s senior cultivators.
• Xuan Chan assigned Fang Qing to Master Hundred Herbs, while Tu Yushu was chosen by the Dragon-Slaying Sword and accepted Hundred Sufferings Arhat as his master.
• Xuan Chan formally admitted both disciples, naming Tu Yushu Yiyuan and Fang Qing Yipin.
• Master Hundred Herbs took Fang Qing to the Humble Medicine Garden and explained his modest monthly pill allowance and prospects for obtaining a sword.
• Fang Qing told Master Hundred Herbs that he had completed Meridian Unblocking, prompting the old Daoist to recognize his potential as a Sword Immortal.

After learning Mount Shu’s sword arts from Mysterious Herb Daoist, Fang Qing mastered the Lesser Five-Elements and Four Symbols Sword Arts and sought a way to condense baleful force. At the Sword-Practice Platform, he learned that Tu had already claimed the sect’s cultivation treasure and discovered that Jiao Dazuo had planted a Heart Demon seed in him.

• Fang Qing told Mysterious Herb Daoist that pinecones from the Sky Scripture had rapidly advanced his cultivation, and his master explained Mount Shu’s cultivation path and offered to teach him its sword arts.
• Mysterious Herb Daoist taught Fang Qing the Lesser Five-Elements Sword Art and then the Four Symbols Sword Art, which Fang Qing soon mastered while practicing in the Humble Medicine Garden.
• Fang Qing considered following the Wave-Treading Immortal Scripture to cultivate Netherdark Water Baleful Intent and decided to seek suitable waters or borrow Mount Shu’s treasure for condensing baleful force.
• At the Sword-Practice Platform, Shen Yanqiu told Fang Qing that Junior Brother Tu had already taken the Heavenly Pivot Earthly Baleful Ring and was cultivating the Formless Sword Canon after gaining the Dragon-Slaying Sword’s recognition.
• Shen Yanqiu introduced Fang Qing to Mo Shenggu and Jiao Dazuo, and Fang Qing sensed that Jiao Dazuo’s demonic Heart Demon Golden Seat Divine Ability had planted a seed in him.

Fang Qing left Mount Shu to seek baleful qi in the East Sea, while his master and Hundred Sufferings Arhat secretly discussed plans involving him and Dragon-Slayer. Fang Qing reached an ancient underwater source of Netherdark Yin Water and began cultivating the Wave-Treading Immortal Scripture, risking death as he condensed baleful qi.

• Fang Qing used his Causality Divine Ability to inspect Jiao Dazuo and sensed that Mount Shu’s Causality threads around him had grown more tangled.
• Fang Qing demonstrated his mastery of the Four Symbols Sword Art, and Mysterious Herb Daoist taught him further sword techniques and gave him the Taoyao Sword.
• Hundred Sufferings Arhat asked Mysterious Herb Daoist to help his disciple overcome a Fire Tribulation, offering Dragon-Slayer access to powerful Mount Shu sword arts in return.
• Fang Qing sensed that others were scheming through his ties to Mount Shu and the Water Immortal Inheritance, then traveled to the East Sea.
• Fang Qing killed a three-headed python and used the White Dragon Sword to break through Netherdark Water Baleful Intent in a deep-sea canyon.
• Fang Qing found ancient Netherdark Yin Water and began drawing its baleful intent into his body to cultivate the Wave-Treading Immortal Scripture.

Fang Qing completed Baleful Intent Condensation, took netherdark yin water from the East Sea, and easily defeated Yuan Sanlang when Hua Wanqing’s group challenged him. He returned to Mount Shu, where Su Qinghui introduced him to Mingzhu and Fisher Girl.

• Hua Wanqing and the young cultivators aboard her boat discussed Mount Luofu and the female Sword Immortal who had killed its disciples.
• Fang Qing emerged from the sea after completing Baleful Intent Condensation and set off toward Mount Shu.
• Hua Wanqing demanded to know whether Fang Qing had taken the netherdark yin water, and Yuan Sanlang attacked him.
• Fang Qing cut Yuan Sanlang’s sword in two and left the group unable to pursue him.
• Fang Qing realized that Su Qinghui was the Sword Immortal linked to the Silken Causality Bind and continued to Mount Shu.
• Su Qinghui greeted Fang Qing at Mount Shu and introduced him to Mingzhu and Fisher Girl.

Fang Qing returned to Mount Shu, avoided Tu Yushu’s challenge, and agreed to make a High Antiquity Water Immortal Origin Pearl in exchange for the Heavenly River Sword Art. After several years of gathering Primordial Water Astral Force, he reached the threshold of Gang Refining while keeping clear of the realm’s growing conflicts.

• Tu Yushu emerged from seclusion after cultivating his baleful aura, and Fang Qing declined his invitation to a sword match.
• Mysterious Herb Daoist told Fang Qing that Hundred Sufferings Arhat wanted a High Antiquity Water Immortal Origin Pearl and offered the Heavenly River Sword Art in return; Fang Qing accepted and borrowed the Dark-Yellow Astral-Force Gathering Bottle.
• Several years later, Fang Qing gathered enough Primordial Water Astral Force to prepare for a breakthrough to Gang Refining.
• Mo Shenggu and Jiao Dazuo told Fang Qing that Tu Yushu had become famous and was arranging a sword duel at Qingcheng Mountain amid rising tensions among the realm’s factions.
• Fang Qing refused to join the duel and asked Jiao Dazuo for Essence of the Five Metals, leaving Jiao flustered.