Recaps

Bai Mu ambushed the Esoteric Treasury forces, but Sangji and Fang Qing countered his abilities and forced him back into his Purple Mansion formation. Injured and nearing Dao Transformation, Bai Mu ordered Bai Mulin to request aid from the Harmonious Bliss Sect, while Bai Mulin considered whether the White Clan might need to seek help elsewhere.

• Bai Mu used Forestbank Concealment to ambush Moonlight White Tara, but the Taras and Fang Qing attacked him after his surprise strike was blocked.
• Bai Mu's Longlasting Sweet Rain immobilized the attackers until Sangji unleashed the White-Bone God-Demon with [Maiden Earth].
• Fang Qing deduced that Forestbank Concealment depended on nearby cover, forcing Bai Mu to appear and attack him directly.
• Fang Qing struck Bai Mu's vine disguise, but Bai Mu turned his body into water and retreated into his Purple Mansion formation after Sangji wounded him.
• Bai Mu ordered Bai Mulin to request reinforcements from the Harmonious Bliss Sect and warned that the White Clan needed to plan for its future.
• Bai Mulin considered seeking help from Fang Qing and Moonlight White Tara, but hesitated because they wanted the White Clan's secret cultivation art.

During the White Bone Way’s siege of the Eastwater White Clan, Fang Qing received a complete Purple Mansion cultivation art from a captured young clansman and recognized it as a calculated overture. The encounter sharpened his resolve to pursue Purple Mansion, with Longlasting Sweet Rain and Forestbank Concealment now possible paths.

• Dharma King Sangji ordered the Dumu to wear down the White Clan’s formation while Fang Qing studied a Third-Order pill recipe in camp.
• Fang Wujiu, Fang Shangxuan, Le Mingxue, and Tian Youliang drove local cultivators into the formation as sacrificial attackers, and the White Clan’s formation killed many of them.
• A young White Clan cultivator and several others left the formation to rescue prisoners, but Le Mingxue attacked them and the White Bone Way captured them.
• Fang Qing recognized Fang Wujiu, rewarded the Azure Departure Fang Family with a chance to exchange merit for a Dao Foundation Pill, and invited the young White Clan cultivator to join the White Bone Way.
• The young cultivator gave Fang Qing a transcription of the Vast Ripple Life-Transformation Scripture, which Fang Qing suspected the White Clan had offered to secure favor and a possible escape route.
• Fang Qing concluded that he needed to plan for Purple Mansion and considered Longlasting Sweet Rain and Forestbank Concealment as possible paths.

Fang Qing and Sangji ambushed the Harmonious Bliss Sect’s reinforcements and forced Silver Bottle and other Dao Foundation cultivators into the Eastwater White Clan’s battle. After the White Clan’s formation fell, Bai Mu True Person revealed a Purple Mansion Magic Treasure and attacked Fang Qing with it, leaving their clash unresolved.

• Fang Qing and Sangji ambushed the Harmonious Bliss Sect’s reinforcements, while Red Medicine True Person escaped using Walk Along the Ground and Silver Bottle submitted to Fang Qing.
• Fang Qing ordered Silver Bottle and the captured Dao Foundation cultivators to attack the Eastwater White Clan’s formation, where they died and weakened it.
• Bai Mulin learned that the reinforcements had been defeated and went to meet Bai Mu True Person in Lone Wood Grove.
• Fang Qing, Sangji, Moonlight White, and Void Sparrow attacked until Fang Qing shattered the White Clan’s Purple Mansion formation with the Bronze Halberd.
• Bai Mu True Person appeared with the Water-Separating Ring, a Purple Mansion Magic Treasure, and used its Water Separation mystery to isolate Fang Qing in a rain-filled domain.
• Fang Qing struck the rain curtain with the Bronze Halberd as the White Bone God-Demon roared and the chapter ended with the battle unresolved.

Fang Qing watched Bai Mu seemingly die and the Eastwater White Clan fall, but later discovered Bai Mu had hidden himself inside a clan youth using Forestbank Concealment. He uncovered how Bai Mu had faked his death and considered whether the same escape technique could one day help the Fang Family.

• Fang Qing killed a merfolk attacker as the azure-green rain ended, revealing the badly injured Moonlight White, Void Sparrow, and Sangji.
• Bai Mu underwent apparent Dao Transformation, turning the Eastwater White Clan's springs into a Bitter-Drowning Spring, and Bai Mulin killed himself after declaring the clan finished.
• The surviving White Clan cultivators surrendered, but Fang Qing learned Bai Mulin had destroyed their Purple Mansion inheritance and found that the Heavenly Wind Spirit Spring had been contaminated.
• Fang Qing inspected Bai Mu's Water-Separating Ring and used divination and the Dao-Born Pearl to realize that Bai Mu had secretly survived by hiding inside a White Clan youth.
• Fang Qing deduced that Forestbank Concealment let Bai Mu evade death by hiding his true spirit among his blood relatives, and he considered using the Fang Family in a similar escape if he reached Purple Mansion.

After Eastwater fell, Fang Qing considered how to keep Bai Mu True Person from escaping and studied records of grotto-heavens and blessed lands for hidden treasures in the region. He found possible leads to a blessed land but lacked the lineage knowledge needed to open it, and regretted that the Secret Treasury Domain was at war with the Harmonious Bliss Sect.

• Fang Qing realized he had seen through Bai Mu True Person’s staged death and told Sangji to keep watch over the boy harboring Bai Mu’s Divine Ability.
• Sangji offered to threaten Bai Mu into hiding and working for White Bone Way, while Fang Qing decided to first seek the Streamside Deer-Seeking Formula from him.
• Sangji gave Fang Qing Buddhist scrolls about grotto-heavens and blessed lands and asked him to search for sites connected to the fallen Eastwater White Clan.
• Fang Qing studied records of Yiling Paradise and Converging Water Paradise and concluded that a blessed land might lie hidden in Eastwater, though he lacked the means to open it.
• Fang Qing realized the Harmonious Bliss Sect might know how to open some blessed lands, but regretted that the Secret Treasury Domain’s war against it made cooperation impossible.

White Bone Dharma King Sangji exposed True Person Bai Mu’s faked death and recruited him into the White Bone Way, while Fang Qing gained a Winnowing Basket Water cultivation technique and decided to avoid the coming war. The chapter left Fang Qing planning to remain in Eastwater for now, though ready to flee if danger grew.

• Bai Ziye and the other Bai Clan prisoners ate and were forced to sort and load their clan’s possessions, while True Person Bai Mu hid in Bai Ziye’s shadow.
• White Bone Dharma King Sangji revealed that he had seen through Bai Mu’s concealment and offered him a place in the White Bone Way as a secret protector.
• True Person Bai Mu accepted the precepts and agreed to join the White Bone Way in secret, preserving the possibility of rebuilding the Bai Clan’s strength.
• Fang Qing received the Streamside Deer-Seeking Formula through the Dao-Born Pearl and used it to refine his understanding of the Winnowing Basket Water cultivation path.
• Fang Qing decided to have Sangji appoint him to guard Eastwater rather than join the campaign against the Harmonious Bliss Sect, keeping escape as a fallback.

Fang Qing considered the Esoteric Treasury’s campaign and the Harmonious Bliss Sect’s possible plans as the White Bone Way divided its forces. After the main army marched against the Nangong Clan, Fang Qing stayed in Eastwater to guard the Mandala and pondered how to obtain Purple Mansion spiritual materials and advance his cultivation.

• Fang Qing sensed that the Great Void had weakened enough for late-stage Purple Mansion cultivators to pass through and discussed the Harmonious Bliss Sect’s possible Golden Seat candidates with Sangji.
• Battle reports announced the Mystic River Lin Clan’s fall, the White Bone Way’s plan to join the attack on the Nangong Clan, and the Temple of All Living Beings Without Form’s stalled assault on the Aster Sect.
• Sangji ordered Dumu Moonlight White and Dumu Void Sparrow to accompany him against the Nangong Clan, while Steel Strength Dudzi stayed behind to guard the Mandala.
• Fang Qing selected Fang Wujiu and Le Mingxue to remain in Eastwater, while Tian Youliang departed with the main army and entrusted Fang Wujiu with a storage bag for the Lineage.
• Fang Qing reflected on the White Clan’s scarce Purple Mansion spiritual materials and considered whether Mutual Slaughter could help cultivators advance.

Fang Qing returned to the Eastern Sea Cultivation Realm under the guise of Fang Jin and sought a safe place to advance his Core Formation cultivation while refining his swordsmanship. He joined the Wang sisters on a hunt for a Fish-Eagle Beast, unaware they were also considering him as an ally in an upcoming duel.

• Fang Qing hid in the Eastern Sea Cultivation Realm, practiced sword techniques, and planned to obtain ingredients for the Mystic Star Flying-Waterfall Pill.
• Wang Ziqin and Wang Ziying met Fang Qing after seeing his sword practice and invited him to help hunt a wounded Fish-Eagle Beast.
• Fang Qing divined that the sisters were sincere and that the beast's water-attributed Demon Pill and nearby Roc-Transforming Grass would be useful to him, so he accepted.
• Wang Ziqin privately told Wang Ziying that they needed another Core Formation Early Stage fighter for Jin Feng and Jin Hai's deadly duel against the Three Fiends of the Tong Clan.
• Wang Ziqin said she wanted to judge Fang Qing's character and consider him as a possible ally for the duel.

Fang Qing killed the Fish-Eagle Beast at Thunderfall Cliff and claimed its Demon Pill and Roc-Transforming Grass while the Heart-Eroding Wanderer attacked the Wang sisters. The Wanderer trapped the sisters with his Black Poison Bell and turned his attention to Fang Qing, who faced the descending Black Spirit Threads.

• Fang Qing and the Wang sisters found the Fish-Eagle Beast's nest at Thunderfall Cliff, where lightning struck a hidden island.
• Fang Qing fought the wounded Fish-Eagle Beast as the Heart-Eroding Wanderer arrived and attacked the Wang sisters with black snakes.
• Wang Ziqin and Wang Ziying joined forces against the Wanderer, but his Black Poison Bell poisoned their core power and weakened them.
• Fang Qing killed the Fish-Eagle Beast, captured its Demon Pill in the Devouring Sea Flask, and picked the Roc-Transforming Grass from its nest.
• The Heart-Eroding Wanderer trapped the sisters with his Black Poison Bell and sent Black Spirit Threads toward Fang Qing.

Fang Qing killed Heart-Eroding Wanderer and accepted the Wang sisters’ invitation to their clan in exchange for treasures and thousand-year-old Spirit Herbs. At the Wang Clan, he exposed a plot against its Core Formation cultivators and left the clan to confront the conspirators while he awaited his payment.

• Fang Qing cut apart Heart-Eroding Wanderer’s Black Spirit Threads, destroyed his flying fork, subdued the Black Poison Bell, and killed him.
• Wang Ziqin and Wang Zixuan offered Fang Qing the demon’s treasures and the spirit objects from the Fish-Eagle Beast’s nest, then asked him to help their clan in its dispute with the Three Fiends of the Tong Clan.
• Fang Qing arrived at the Wang Clan Immortal Island with Wang Ziqin and Wang Ziying and agreed to stay after Grand-Uncle Feng welcomed him.
• Wang Jinyuan questioned Fang Qing about the sisters’ journey, and he used divination to identify her role in a scheme involving Wang Chufang, Wang Dalu, and Wang Qiao.
• Fang Qing confronted Wang Jinyuan with a Recording Talisman, exposing her plot to provoke a deadly conflict and get Wang Clan Core Formation cultivators killed.
• Fang Qing sent a communication talisman as unrest spread through the Wang Clan, expecting its cultivators to deal with the conspirators while he collected his reward.

Fang Qing accepted a Fourth-Order Brilliant Radiance Crystal from the Wang Clan treasury and left Wang Family Island, while the clan’s leaders dealt with the fallout from its internal betrayal and the coming contest with the Three Fiends of the Tong Clan. The Wang Clan ancestor suspected Fang Qing and Bai Jianfeng might have ties to the demonic path, but saw such a connection as potentially useful.

• Wang Ziqin thanked Fang Qing for exposing the Wang Clan members who framed Wang Jinhai and Wang Jinfeng, and offered him his choice of treasury treasures as a reward.
• Fang Qing entered the treasury and chose a Brilliant Radiance Crystal, which Wang Junjie identified as a rare Fourth-Order material suited to Fang Qing’s Dark Nether Mirror.
• Wang Junjie removed the crystal’s seals and gave it to Fang Qing, who thanked the Wang Clan and flew away from Wang Family Island.
• Wang Junjie rebuked Wang Junfeng for the clan’s turmoil, while Wang Junfeng asked to surrender clan authority and reported that the Three Fiends of the Tong Clan refused to abandon their contest.
• Wang Junjie and Wang Junfeng speculated that Bai Jianfeng might come from Bloodfiend Island, and Wang Junjie said he had given Fang Qing the crystal because a demonic-path connection could benefit the Wang Clan.

Fang Qing arrived at Yuanxin Market under the identity of Bai Jianfeng, settled into the Zhong Alliance’s base, and cultivated with the Devouring Sea Art. After exploring the market’s entertainment district with Zhong Lingxiu, he encountered several Core Formation cultivators who seemed to recognize someone.

• Fang Qing entered Yuanxin Market disguised as Bai Jianfeng and was welcomed by the old Daoist Xuanqi at the Zhong Alliance’s base.
• Zhong Lingxiu gave Fang Qing the gathered herbs and reported that the Heavenly Frost Sect sought a mutually beneficial relationship with the Zhong Alliance; Fang Qing told him to handle it as he saw fit.
• Fang Qing began cultivating the Devouring Sea Art, absorbed a fish-eagle beast’s inner core, and found that his Core Formation progress was advancing rapidly.
• Fang Qing monitored the conflicts on the Breath-Nourishing Dao side and decided to avoid returning there until the Hehuan Sect’s major conflict ended.
• Fang Qing asked Zhong Lingxiu to show him the market’s entertainment venues, and they entered Hundred Blossoms Tower, where several Core Formation cultivators came out to meet them.

Fang Qing rented the Origin Ice Spring in Yuanxin Market and refined a premium Mystic Star Flying-Waterfall Pill. During the alchemy, he broke through his Dao Foundation bottleneck and perfected his foundation, leaving him with the promise of reaching the Purple Mansion.

• Zhong Lingxiu introduced Bai Jianfeng to Shang Yuanxin, while Fang Qing considered doing business at Yuanxin Market and went with Zhong Lingxiu to enjoy its hospitality.
• Shang Yuanxin learned that the Zhong Alliance had applied to use a Third-Order Spirit Spring and approved its rental of the vacant Origin Ice Spring for two years.
• Fang Qing inspected the Origin Ice Spring and began refining the Mystic Star Flying-Waterfall Pill with his Wind-Approaching Foundation.
• Fang Qing drew on what he had learned from the Eastwater White Clan and transformed his alchemy technique as the spring, wind, and medicinal ingredients answered his incantations.
• Fang Qing completed a premium Mystic Star Flying-Waterfall Pill with six Pill Patterns and perfected his Dao Foundation in the process.

Fang Qing perfected his Dao Foundation, refined the Dark Nether Mirror, and began preparing for a future Purple Mansion breakthrough. After leaving seclusion, he met Shang Yuanxin to trade alchemy for intelligence and leads on treasures and techniques he would need for advancement.

• Fang Qing reviewed the dangers of breaking through to the Purple Mansion and decided to gather Winnowing Basket Water spiritual items and Heart Demon protections.
• Fang Qing spent several months refining the Dark Nether Mirror from Brilliant Radiance Crystal and nurtured it alongside the Devouring Sea Flask.
• A Shang Clan steward invited Fang Qing to meet Shang Yuanxin at the Merchant Tower after he emerged from seclusion.
• Fang Qing told Shang Yuanxin he could refine Third-Order upper-grade pills and offered alchemy in exchange for spiritual items or useful intelligence.
• Fang Qing gave Shang Yuanxin a list of Nascent Soul and Heart Demon preparations he sought, and Shang Yuanxin hinted that he had less-common leads.

Fang Qing learned that Heavenly Spring Island’s damaged fourth-order Spirit Spring could yield treasures capable of helping Winnowing Basket Water reach the Purple Mansion stage, and he asked Shang Yuanxin to investigate while agreeing to refine Jade Spring Pills. Divination suggested that trading through Shang Yuanxin would be auspicious if Fang Qing revealed his Fang Shui identity, leaving him to weigh that plan’s risks to Zhong Alliance and Zhong Lingxiu.

• Shang Yuanxin told Fang Qing that Bloodfiend Island’s attack had damaged Heavenly Spring Island’s fourth-order Spirit Spring and that its decline could release valuable treasures.
• Fang Qing considered offering the Grudge Infant Fruit and taking Shang Yuanxin as a disciple, but decided not to force him into submission while there was another option.
• Fang Qing gave Shang Yuanxin a list of Spirit Spring waters he needed and agreed to refine Jade Spring Pills in exchange for his help investigating Heavenly Spring Island.
• Months later, Fang Qing finished refining Jade Spring Pills and used divination to compare sneaking onto Heavenly Spring Island with arranging a trade through Shang Yuanxin.
• Fang Qing concluded that a trade would be auspicious if he revealed his Fang Shui identity, though doing so could expose his connection to the Zhong Alliance and Zhong Lingxiu.

Fang Qing traded a Resentment-Marriage Fruit through Shang Yuanxin to secure the Clearbright Spirit Spring, then vanished after warning Shang to look after the Zhong Alliance. On Sea Serpent Island, a cultivator’s Core Formation drew greedy onlookers and the attack of the notorious Heartless Daoist.

• Fang Qing revealed himself to Shang Yuanxin as Fang Shui and offered the Resentment-Marriage Fruit in exchange for the Clearbright Spirit Spring.
• Shang Yuanxin agreed to obtain the spring and secure the opportunity to form a Nascent Soul, while Fang Qing asked him to look after the Zhong Alliance.
• Fang Qing vanished using his Void-related Divine Ability, leaving Shang Yuanxin impressed by his growing strength and cautious planning.
• On Sea Serpent Island, turbulent spiritual energy signaled that someone was attempting Core Formation, and nearby cultivators gathered hoping to profit if the attempt failed.
• The gathered Foundation Establishment cultivators found a powerful formation and a peak Second-Order Longevity Tortoise guarding the cultivator’s cave.
• Heartless Daoist attacked the formation during the Core Formation attempt, prompting several female Foundation Establishment cultivators to flee.

Zhan Hongxiu formed a High-Grade True Pill on Sea Serpent Island and faced the Heartless Daoist, while Fang Qing learned of her breakthrough and traded the Resentment-Marriage Fruit to Shang Yuanxin for the Clearbright Spirit Spring. Fang Qing accepted a Shang Clan Token for a premier auction and promised Shang Yuanxin one favor.

• The Heartless Daoist used a Third-Order Forbidden-Breaking Talisman to enter Zhan Hongxiu’s formation and drove the Longevity Tortoise back toward her cave.
• The Longevity Tortoise activated a low-grade Third-Order talisman, and Zhan Hongxiu completed core formation with a High-Grade True Pill.
• Zhan Hongxiu endured the heavenly lightning tribulation with a tortoise-shell treasure and prepared to kill the Heartless Daoist.
• Fang Qing divined that Zhan Hongxiu had formed her core and concluded that the opportunity involving the All-Heaven Star Palace was nearing.
• Fang Qing met Shang Yuanxin at the Zhong Alliance and exchanged the Resentment-Marriage Fruit for the Clearbright Spirit Spring.
• Shang Yuanxin gave Fang Qing a Shang Clan Token for the Merchant Alliance’s premier auction, and Fang Qing promised to repay him with one safe, principled favor.

Fang Qing, disguised as Bai Jianfeng, saved Zhan Hongxiu from the Huanhua Adept and met with her on a desolate island. Zhan Hongxiu repaid him with a remaining piece of Ten-Thousand-Year Skyblue Essence.

• Fang Qing examined the Shang Clan's auction token, then divined Zhan Hongxiu's whereabouts.
• Zhan Hongxiu fled the Huanhua Adept, who had tracked her using a mark left by the Heartless Daoist.
• Fang Qing arrived as Bai Jianfeng and joined Zhan Hongxiu against the Huanhua Adept.
• Fang Qing destroyed the Huanhua Adept's artifacts and defenses with his sword, killing him with one strike.
• Fang Qing purified a scent the Huanhua Adept had left on Zhan Hongxiu, and they moved to a desolate island.
• Zhan Hongxiu offered Fang Qing a partly used piece of Ten-Thousand-Year Skyblue Essence to repay him for saving her.

Fang Qing accepted Ten-Thousand-Year Skyblue Essence and agreed to explore an East Sea secret realm with Zhan Hongxiu after they cultivated further. In the Central Plains, Great True Person Purple Origin escaped the Secret Treasury's assault, but the Aster Sect was destroyed, leaving Jiumoluo Jie questioning the purpose of the attack on the Harmonious Bliss Sect.

• Fang Qing accepted Zhan Hongxiu's invitation to explore a secret realm for Azure Emperor Wood and other treasures after a period of cultivation.
• Fang Qing consumed Ten-Thousand-Year Skyblue Essence to strengthen his True Core.
• Jiumoluo Jie used the Heavenly-Wind Hidden-Treasure Pearl to break the Aster Sect's purple-qi formation and confronted Liu Bin, Great True Person Purple Origin.
• Liu Bin fought off the Secret Treasury forces with his Divine Abilities, then escaped after Jiumoluo Jie survived his sword strike using Dust-Cleansing Karmic Affinity.
• Jiumoluo Jie ordered the monk-soldiers to destroy the Aster Sect and wondered whether the question about Liu Bin's final Divine Ability explained the attack on the Harmonious Bliss Sect.

Fang Qing broke through to middle-stage Core Formation without using his exceptional Mystic Star Flying-Waterfall Pill and examined the benefits to his artifacts and cultivation. He then discussed Zhan Hongxiu’s secret-realm expedition and secured her promise to lend him her turtle shell when he attempted to reach Nascent Soul.

• Fang Qing advanced to middle-stage Core Formation without taking a pill, and his Spiritual Sense expanded to cover roughly ten miles.
• Fang Qing’s Devouring Sea Flask advanced to a Third-Order, middle-grade artifact, while his Dark Nether Mirror neared the same rank.
• Fang Qing met Zhan Hongxiu after emerging from seclusion and concealed his breakthrough by changing the apparent nature of his Dao Foundation.
• Zhan Hongxiu explained that Third-Order demonic beasts guarded the route to the secret realm, while Fang Qing learned from her thoughts that Turtle Elder had not taught her a promised concealment technique.
• Fang Qing asked Zhan Hongxiu to lend him her Fourth-Order, high-grade turtle shell and protect him during his future Nascent Soul tribulation, and she agreed.

Fang Qing watched Zhan Hongxiu’s Longevity Tortoise survive its tribulation and reach the Third Order, then learned that she planned to explore a nearby secret realm. Meanwhile, the Esoteric Treasuries gathered to attack the Harmonious Bliss Sect, where Great True Person Xin Yi failed to condense her Golden Nature and died, prompting the invaders to break the formation.

• The Longevity Tortoise endured nine layers of heavenly thunder and advanced to the lower Third-Order stage, growing two horns.
• Fang Qing congratulated Zhan Hongxiu, who said she was ready to explore the nearby secret realm with him.
• Tian Youliang and the gathered monk-soldiers saw the Esoteric Treasuries assemble outside the Harmonious Bliss Sect’s mountain gate.
• Dharma King Vilu accused Great True Person Xin Yi of orchestrating the conflict to delay the Esoteric Treasuries while she prepared to prove her Golden Nature.
• Great True Person Xin Yi used her four Divine Abilities and the Sun and Moon’s essences to attempt her breakthrough, but her Golden Nature failed to solidify and her body shattered.
• Xin Yi’s death brought a cursed land and strange phenomena over the Harmonious Bliss Sect, and a Buddhist chant called for the attackers to break the formation.

Fang Qing and Zhan Hongxiu crossed the dangerous Outer Sea and found a way into the hidden Star Palace secret realm. Inside, they began searching for the core area, where Zhan Hongxiu hoped to find the Azure Emperor Wood and a soul-nourishing treasure.

• Fang Qing and Zhan Hongxiu used the Jingfeng Pearl and Heaven-Shielding Curtain to conceal themselves as they traveled deeper into the Outer Sea, avoiding a Seat-King Whale and a swarm of Soul-Devouring Jellyfish.
• Fang Qing silently killed the Stone Azure Ray with his magic treasures and sword, allowing them to enter its cave and find the star chart marking the secret realm entrance.
• Zhan Hongxiu activated the chart with the Fourth-Order tortoiseshell, but the passage failed to open, so Fang Qing used his void treasure and Duzi's status to take them into the realm.
• Fang Qing and Zhan Hongxiu found the Star Palace, its damaged teleportation arrays, and a landscape with Fourth-Order spiritual energy and restricted treasure sites.
• Zhan Hongxiu asked Fang Qing to let her take any soul-nourishing treasures they found, and he agreed before they began gathering treasures along their route.

Fang Qing and Zhan Hongxiu crossed a secret realm and fought a Three-Eyed Evil Flood Dragon in the Three-Thousand Weak Water. Fang Qing killed the dragon, but Zhan Hongxiu was left badly injured by its Divine Sense attack, and Fang Qing discovered that its third eye was a weakened Abyssal Eye Pearl magic treasure.

• Fang Qing and Zhan Hongxiu found the Three-Thousand Weak Water, and Fang Qing used two water-element treasures to drain a path through it.
• Fang Qing and Zhan Hongxiu drew out a Third-Order Upper Grade Three-Eyed Evil Flood Dragon and attacked it together.
• Fang Qing wounded the Flood Dragon with the Water-Separating Ring and a sword strike, while Zhan Hongxiu hit it with her Myriad Transformations Thunder Pearl.
• The badly injured Flood Dragon attacked Zhan Hongxiu with a Divine Sense strike, leaving her disoriented and the Longevity Tortoise unconscious.
• Fang Qing killed the Flood Dragon before it could swallow Zhan Hongxiu and collected its blood.
• Fang Qing discovered that the Flood Dragon's third eye was a weakened Abyssal Eye Pearl magic treasure and saw that Zhan Hongxiu had been gravely affected by its attack.

Fang Qing and Zhan Hongxiu crossed the Three-Thousand Weak Water to explore Lake Heart Island, where they found rare treasures and records of the island’s former master. The story then shifted to Tian Youliang and the Esoteric Treasury assaulting Acacia Mountain Gate with the Jambudvipa Hell Diagram.

• Fang Qing extracted the Three-Thousand Weak Water water vein, shared some Flood Dragon spoils with Zhan Hongxiu, and led her across the river to Lake Heart Island.
• Fang Qing and Zhan Hongxiu found an ancient Azure Emperor Wood and a garden of rare Spirit Herbs, including ingredients for a Nascent Infant Pill and a Nine-Illusion Heart Orchid that could heal their Spiritual Sense injuries.
• Fang Qing discovered the Tortoise-Crane Longevity Formula, two valuable treasures, and a blank-faced portrait in the island’s thatched huts.
• Tian Youliang joined the assault on the Acacia Mountain Gate, while Dharma King Vilu revealed the Jambudvipa Hell Diagram and brought its layers of hell crashing down on the formation.

Zhan Hongxiu recovered and claimed the Spirit Monarch’s inheritance while Fang Qing realized the Qi Refinement Way might be a vast Grotto-Heaven connected to his own world. Meanwhile, the Harmonious Bliss Sect neared destruction until a strange infant appeared beneath a moon that halted the battlefield.

• Zhan Hongxiu woke healed, and Turtle Elder told her that the secret realm held the legacy of Spirit Monarch Fuyu, including a Spirit Transformation technique.
• Fang Qing shared the five treasures with Zhan Hongxiu, who took the technique and Seven-Star Lamp while he kept the Heaven-Hearing Bell, Clear-Heart Meditation Mat, and Soul-Nourishing Prayer Beads.
• Turtle Elder recognized the Spirit Monarch as Fuyu, prompting Fang Qing to connect the Qi Refinement Way to a vast Grotto-Heaven and suspect a link between the two worlds.
• At the Acacia Mountain Gate, Vilu Dharma King and the Great Black Heaven Temple’s forces devastated the Harmonious Bliss Sect while its hidden True Lord did not intervene.
• Tian Youliang saw rain fall as a moon appeared, then watched it reveal a white-limbed infant whose first cry shook heaven and earth.