Recaps

Fang Qing rescued Zhan Hongxiu from the Garbed Spirit Demon and escaped with her through Long Rampart’s sealed restriction. Later, he questioned the Wang Clan's ancestor about the secret realm’s battles and treasures before warning him to avoid a lean old man.

• The Garbed Spirit Demon wounded Zhan Hongxiu and overwhelmed her defenses, while Turtle Elder exhausted itself and fell silent.
• Fang Qing arrived, used the Capital-Sky Blazing Flame Banner, Heaven-Hearing Bell, a Puppet, and the Myriad Waters Cauldron to fight the demon, which retaliated by summoning meteors from the All-Heaven Constellation Array.
• Fang Qing seized Zhan Hongxiu and a severed piece of the demon’s garment, then fled with her through Long Rampart as she closed the restriction behind them.
• In the Supreme Palace Enclosure, the Wang Clan's ancestor told Fang Qing about the struggle over Nascent Soul opportunities, Huang Yuanzi’s killing of Lingxiaozi, and Cai Xiazi’s seizure of a Heavenly King Heart-Protecting Pill.
• Fang Qing warned the Wang Clan's ancestor to avoid a lean old man and vanished, leaving him wondering what kind of threat could frighten a Nascent Soul cultivator.

After escaping the Void Ruins Secret Realm, Fang Qing sought a Fourth-Order Spirit Spring so he could refine Nascent Infant Pills and form his Nascent Soul. He reached Shang Clan Island with Shang Yuanxin, only to learn that its sole Fourth-Order high-grade spring had been reserved for the Shang Clan’s pill-refining effort.

• Fang Qing escaped the collapsing secret realm, resolved to hunt the Garbed Spirit Demon, and decided to refine Nascent Infant Pills before forming his Nascent Soul.
• Fang Qing checked on his disciples through the Dao-Born Pearl and found Sangji still in seclusion after nine years without refining a Divine Ability.
• Fang Qing disguised himself as Fang Shui, met Shang Yuanxin at the Octagonal Trade Tower, and agreed to travel with him to Shang Clan Island for a Fourth-Order Spirit Spring.
• Fang Qing took Shang Yuanxin through the Great Void to Merchant Alliance Immortal City, where they met Shang Kongzhen.
• Shang Kongzhen told Fang Qing that the Shang Clan’s only Fourth-Order high-grade Spirit Spring had been requisitioned to refine Nascent Infant Pills for Wan Baozi and the clan’s young masters.
• Shang Kongzhen reported that more than half of the East Sea Ten Sons had died in the secret realm, including Immortal Luo of Water-Moon Palace.

Fang Qing rented a fourth-order middle-grade spirit spring and secretly refined three Nascent Infant Pills, while Shang Yuanxin awaited the results of another batch for the Shang Clan’s competition. The chapter left Fang Qing with one superior-quality pill and two prime-quality pills, and Shang Yuanxin facing a difficult choice after learning his batch yielded only two prime-quality pills and one flawed pill.

• Shang Kongzhen vouched for Fang Qing, who rented the Shang Falling Blossom spirit spring and learned about the Eastern Sea Cultivation Realm and Yunzhou Continent.
• Shang Kongzhen questioned Shang Yuanxin about his dealings with Fang Qing and warned him that competing for a Nascent Infant Pill could end in failure.
• Fang Qing set up Qin Ruxue’s concealment formation and reviewed the Nascent Infant Pill recipe before beginning his refinement.
• Uncle Fu brought Shang Yuanxin account books and supplies, while Shang Yuanxin considered using a Grudge Infant Fruit if he failed to win a pill.
• A celestial phenomenon announced that three Nascent Infant Pills had been refined at the Three-Origin Moon-Reflecting Spring: two prime-quality pills and one flawed pill.
• Fang Qing completed his batch and received one superior-quality pill and two prime-quality pills from three water-made leopards.

After refining the Nascent Infant Pills, Fang Qing prepared to form his nascent soul on Jade Spring Island, where he expected a fourth-order demonic beast to attack. He began shattering his true core, and the chapter ended as the core broke and blood appeared at his mouth.

• Fang Qing used divination to decide against forming his nascent soul at the Shang Clan and chose Jade Spring Island instead.
• Fang Qing planned to use the approaching demonic beast to obtain fourth-order materials and prepared his disciples, a formation, and his second nascent soul to defend the island.
• Fang Qing emerged from seclusion, accepted a third-order Demon Pill from Uncle Fu, and told him Shang Yuanxin still had hope of reaching nascent soul.
• Fang Qing returned to Jade Spring Island, ordered Qin Ruxue, Xiang Dahu, and Yu Xiang'er to attack the expected beast with the formation, and equipped his second nascent soul with a puppet and powerful treasures.
• Fang Qing prepared his pills and treasures, then used the Devouring Sea Method to reverse the rotation of his true core until it shattered.

Fang Qing began forming his Nascent Soul while his Second Nascent Soul defended Jade Spring Island from a Fourth-Order demon beast. The demon was struck down, but the defenders were wounded, and Fang Qing’s Heart Demon Tribulation remained unresolved.

• Fang Qing used the Nascent Infant Pill to kindle an infant spirit, transform it into a Nascent Soul, and begin facing the Heart Demon Tribulation.
• Fang Qing’s Second Nascent Soul warned Yu Xiang'er, Qin Ruxue, and Xiang Dahu as a Fourth-Order earthy-yellow lizard demon approached Jade Spring Island.
• The demon beast resisted the island’s quasi-Fourth-Order lightning formation and advanced toward Fang Qing’s cave abode.
• Fang Qing’s Second Nascent Soul ambushed the demon while Qin Ruxue, Xiang Dahu, and Yu Xiang'er activated the formation to trap it.
• The Second Nascent Soul struck the demon with the Myriad Waters Cauldron, making it crash into the lightning formation, while Qin Ruxue and the others were injured.

Fang Qing endured his Nascent Soul lightning tribulation and used Questioning Heaven to gain profound Water Virtue Dao insights. He survived, advanced his Dragon-Elephant Golden Body to fourth rank, and began planning how to use his gains and captured fourth-rank Demon Pill.

• The Second Nascent Soul trapped the earth-yellow lizard demon’s Demon Pill in the Myriad Waters Cauldron as Fang Qing’s lightning tribulation began.
• Fang Qing endured the tribulation while Questioning Heaven revealed paths for advancing Winnowing Basket Water and developing Origin Spring Ripple.
• The final violet bolt gravely wounded Fang Qing, but Emperor’s Flowing Essence and Heaven-One Generates Life healed him and transformed his body into fourth-rank Golden-Threaded Jade Bones.
• Fang Qing learned that his Life-Bound Artifacts were nearing fourth rank and considered refining a True Spirit Puppet and Mystic Flame Demon Corpse from the demon’s remains and other materials.
• Fang Qing resolved to sort through his new Dao attainment, which let him pursue Longlasting Sweet Rain’s advancement or compose Origin Spring Ripple’s Purple Mansion chapter.

After reaching Nascent Soul, Fang Qing discovered that the Dao-Born Pearl let him see more of the Breath-Nourishing Dao and realized Sangji’s slow progress had drawn Jiumoluo Jie’s suspicion. Fang Qing decided to enter the Esoteric Treasury in disguise to pursue the next sequence of the Horse-Head Vajra Protector Divine Art, leaving Sangji’s fate uncertain.

• Fang Qing found that his Nascent Soul breakthrough had expanded his control over the Dao-Born Pearl and revealed Jiumoluo Jie watching Sangji with growing malice.
• Fang Qing concluded that Sangji’s connection to him had burdened Sangji with heavy Causality, making his failure to master Dust-Cleansing Karmic Affinity suspicious.
• Fang Qing weighed abandoning Sangji, doing nothing, or entering the Esoteric Treasury before deciding to seek opportunities there while monitoring Sangji’s situation.
• Fang Qing divined mixed fortune and misfortune, chose to travel as an ordinary ascetic monk, and planned to give Moonlight White and Void Sparrow a warning without letting them flee.
• Fang Qing chose the Horse-Head Vajra Temple as his first destination, hoping to continue the protector divine art’s fourth sequence.

Fang Qing traveled through the Secret Treasury Domain disguised as the wandering monk Yundan and sought lodging at the declining Horse-Head Vajra Temple. He revealed that he had cultivated its protective Divine Art, leaving the temple’s leaders to consider who he was and what he wanted.

• Fang Qing learned that Blue Tile Lake belonged to Lord Taqin and refused a chieftain’s request to drive away an evil spirit unless Taqin personally offered him lavish gifts.
• Fang Qing reached the Horse-Head Vajra Temple, stopped its gates from closing with one arm, and made the servant monk recognize his strength.
• The temple master and senior monks discussed how the Lotus Temple and a Great Snow Mountain envoy had raised their tribute demands, including a demand for thirteen skullcaps from accomplished cultivators.
• The temple master considered capturing the unknown ascetic monk Yundan to offer as tribute, then went with the senior monks to meet him at the gate.
• Fang Qing told the temple leaders that he had learned an incomplete version of the Horse-Head Vajra Protector Divine Art and had come seeking their guidance.

Fang Qing entered Horse-Head Vajra Temple as Monk Yundan and was invited to inspect its hidden inheritance. He opened the sealed fourth level and discovered the Immovable Wisdom King Radiance Sequence, which he could cultivate through his Great Sun Empowerment Secret Art.

• Fang Qing revealed the Ignorance-Slighting Ashen Flame, and Abbot Dorje recognized his mastery of the Horse-Head Wisdom King Wrath Sequence and welcomed him into the temple.
• Dorje reported Fang Qing’s arrival to Venerable Invincible, who ordered that Yundan be brought to the Horse-Head Vajra Principal Deity Hall to test whether he could inherit the temple’s Position Seal.
• Dorje and Invincible guided Fang Qing through the first three sealed levels, where he saw the Fierce Donkey Demon, Mule-Faced Vajra, and Horse-Headed Wisdom King statues.
• Invincible recognized that Fang Qing bore the Horse-Head Wisdom King Wrath Sequence with ease and revealed that the final sealed level held a secret fourth sequence.
• Fang Qing opened the final doors and saw the Immovable Wisdom King, whose mysteries revealed the Immovable Wisdom King Radiance Sequence to him through his Great Sun Empowerment Secret Art.

Fang Qing discovered that the Kapala Bowl was Horse-Head Vajra Temple’s Position Seal and tamed it with the Dao-Born Pearl. He restored Invincible’s Duzi status and helped him refine the seal, leaving Horse-Head Vajra Temple with a new Duzi.

• Invincible begged Fang Qing to refine the Kapala Bowl’s Position Seal and protect Horse-Head Vajra Temple from Lotus Temple.
• Invincible explained that Lianyan Mingduzi had refined Lotus Temple’s Position Seal and was steadily encroaching on their temple.
• Fang Qing took the Kapala Bowl, and the Dao-Born Pearl subdued it when it tried to merge with him.
• Fang Qing revealed his Dharma King radiance, restored Invincible’s Duzi position, and offered him the Position Seal.
• Invincible refined the Position Seal, and Horse-Head Vajra Temple’s halls and golden roofs shone as Temple Master Dorje witnessed the signs.

Duzhi Invincible reclaimed his rank at Horse-Head Vajra Temple, prompting Lotus Temple to challenge it to a ritualized scriptural debate over offerings. As the debate began, Fang Qing recognized that its topic, the view of emptiness, concerned realizing Gold Nature.

• Duzhi Invincible emerged from the Horse-Head Vajra Principal Deity Hall with his rank certificate restored, while Fang Qing remained concealed beside him.
• Duzhi Lotus-Eyed Radiance learned that Horse-Head Vajra Temple had gained a Duzhi and ordered a scriptural debate to decide how the temples would divide offerings.
• Fang Qing and Duzhi Invincible discussed Lotus-Eyed Radiance's likely response and the dangers of the debate, in which the losing side's monks would die.
• Lotus Temple and Horse-Head Vajra Temple assembled before a crowd, and Duzhi Lotus-Eyed Radiance was startled to see Invincible presiding again.
• The monks began the debate ritual, which Fang Qing identified as preventing Dharma attacks while allowing verbal persuasion to compel suicide.
• Dorje announced that the debate topic was the view of emptiness, and Fang Qing interpreted it as a debate about realizing Gold Nature.

Fang Qing noticed something suspicious about Initiate Lotus-Eyed Radiance and used Facing the Abyss to weave a net of fate around him. Lotus-Eyed Radiance then challenged Initiate Invincible to a scripture debate, and, realizing he had acted recklessly, began to falter before the crowd.

• Qiongda lost the scripture debate to Lobsang, then took his own life and became a white bone prayer bead that Lobsang claimed.
• Initiate Invincible praised Lobsang and admitted him to the Sutra Academy for further study.
• Fang Qing questioned how Lotus-Eyed Radiance had risen to his position and used divination and Facing the Abyss to investigate him.
• Lotus-Eyed Radiance suddenly challenged Initiate Invincible to a scripture debate, and Invincible accepted after hearing the Venerable One's command.
• Fang Qing's Causality net took hold as Lotus-Eyed Radiance's resolve faltered and he struggled to answer Invincible.

After defeating the Lotus Temple in debate, Fang Qing took Lianyan Mingduzi’s Position Seal and discovered it was the key to the Lotus Blessed Land. He entered the realm alone, where Moluoshi of the Temple of All Living Beings Without Form was waiting for him.

• Invincible defeated Lianyan Mingduzi in debate, and the debate ritual compelled Lianyan Mingduzi to cut his own throat; Invincible claimed his lotus-shaped Position Seal.
• Temple Master Dorje declared the Horse-Head Vajra Temple the victor, and Lord Taqin credited the monks with curing him of the Lotus Temple’s curse.
• Invincible presented the Position Seal to Fang Qing, who discovered it opened the Lotus Blessed Land and decided to explore it for a refuge and treasures.
• After Lianyan Mingduzi’s death, rival factions at the Lotus Temple erupted into bloody infighting while Fang Qing entered the abandoned courtyard and opened the Blessed Land.
• Fang Qing crossed into the Lotus Blessed Land and found Moluoshi, a mid-Purple Mansion Dharma King, waiting for him on a golden lotus.

Moluoshi’s hidden scheme brought Fang Qing into the Lotus Blessed Land, where the Lord of the Charnel Forest’s Human-Skin Thangka unleashed a Golden Core-level attack. Fang Qing activated the Dao-Born Pearl as [Maiden Earth] emptiness began possessing him, leaving the confrontation unresolved.

• Years earlier, Jiumoluo Jie ordered Moluoshi to prepare to sacrifice Sangji and the White Bone Way, then received a Buddhist decree and a Human-Skin Thangka from the Lord of the Charnel Forest.
• Jiumoluo Jie completed a rite to obscure Heavenly Secrets and sent Moluoshi toward the snowy mountains with the Thangka to await a destined person.
• At Lotus Temple, Moluoshi secretly helped Lianyan Mingduzi touch the lotus platform, then hid in the Lotus Blessed Land and erased traces of his involvement.
• When Fang Qing arrived, Moluoshi revealed the Human-Skin Thangka, which consumed him and transformed him into the Lord of the Charnel Forest’s enormous White Bone Dharma Aspect.
• The Dharma Aspect trapped Fang Qing and began to devour him, but Fang Qing activated the Dao-Born Pearl, awakening a strand of [Maiden Earth] emptiness.
• Fang Qing let the [Maiden Earth] Golden Nature possess him and touch the Dao-Born Pearl, which began spinning at tremendous speed.

Fang Qing survived Lord of the Charnel Forest’s attempt to seize his body, and the Dao-Born Pearl captured the [Maiden Earth] Golden Nature and gravely wounded the True Lord. He left Lotus Blessed Land with a plan to pose as Lord of the Charnel Forest’s agent and use his authority to free Sangji.

• Fang Qing woke in Lotus Blessed Land beside the dead white bat and realized the Dao-Born Pearl had repelled Lord of the Charnel Forest’s possession attempt.
• Fang Qing discovered that the Dao-Born Pearl had sealed the Lord of the Charnel Forest Human-Skin Thangka and its [Maiden Earth] Golden Nature, leaving its ownerless power available for him to study.
• Fang Qing concluded that Lord of the Charnel Forest had gambled on taking his body, lost a precious strand of Golden Nature, and likely fallen into a worse state of decay and slumber.
• Fang Qing borrowed the Golden Nature’s aura to disguise himself as Lord of the Charnel Forest and reasoned that he could claim authority over the Temple of All Living Beings Without Form and release Sangji.
• Fang Qing used the Dao-Born Pearl to inspect Sky Horn Sect’s intelligence in Profound Void Heaven and considered using Golden Nature’s overwhelming status there to impersonate a Golden Core True Lord.
• Fang Qing left Lotus Blessed Land after realizing that the Radiant Great Hand Seal Art and the Gong of the Immoveable Wisdom King Radiance Sequence had protected a trace of his thoughts.

Fang Qing used the Lord of the Charnel Forest’s Human-Skin Thangka and sealed Golden Nature to take control of the Temple of All Living Beings Without Form as its Buddha Child. After Sangji advanced to middle-stage Purple Mansion, Fang Qing explored whether he could strengthen him with a Position Seal and a Duzi status, but learned that Dharma lineages limited what could be combined.

• Fang Qing arrived at the Temple of All Living Beings Without Form, where Jiumoluo Jie recognized him as a Buddha Child and explained the status and power of Buddha Children.
• Fang Qing ordered Jiumoluo Jie to resume treating Sangji as before, then witnessed Sangji advance to middle-stage Purple Mansion in the Dust-Cleansing Pool.
• Fang Qing’s Golden Nature status made the temple’s monks’ Sole Secret Deities answer to him, allowing him to control the temple while the Lord of the Charnel Forest remained absent.
• Fang Qing gave Sangji the Lotus Temple Position Seal to refine, but stopped him when the attempt caused signs of Dao Transformation; he then healed Sangji and considered finding him a seal from the correct lineage.
• Fang Qing questioned Sangji about Dharma lineages and considered combining a temple Position Seal with a Duzi status, while recognizing that Duzi statuses could not be stacked.

Fang Qing returned from the Esoteric Treasury with Maiden Earth Golden Nature, intelligence about the major powers, and suspicions that Great Sun Tathagata had noticed him. Back in the Qi Refinement Way, he decided to consolidate his Nascent Soul cultivation and build strength while keeping a low profile before Grand Yellow Heaven opened.

• Fang Qing questioned Jiumoluo Jie about Position Seals, Temple of All Living Beings Without Form’s remaining treasures, and intelligence on the other great powers.
• Jiumoluo Jie reported that the temple’s treasures had mostly been spent in a Shaman ritual and described developments among the Esoteric temples, Monster Demon Way, and Supreme Unity Arcane Sect.
• Fang Qing sent Sangji back to oversee White Bone Way, then returned through Deathless Temple to Jade Spring Island.
• Fang Qing reflected on the dangers of Lord of the Charnel Forest’s trap and the Esoteric Treasury’s long-lived Position Seal holders and reincarnation method.
• Fang Qing suspected Great Sun Tathagata had shown him attention, then resolved to consolidate his cultivation, refine Puppets, and gather intelligence before Grand Yellow Heaven opened.

Fang Qing left seclusion to gather materials for two powerful creations and visited Shang Yuanxin at Shang Clan Immortal City. Shang Yuanxin explained the dangers surrounding his Nascent Infant Pill qualification, while the Octagonal Trade Tower lacked the rare Bone-Spirit Flower Fang Qing needed.

• Fang Qing refined his Nascent Soul treasures and the Myriad Waters Cauldron, then studied the Mystic Flame Demon Corpse and True Spirit Puppet secret arts.
• Fang Qing decided to seek materials in Shang Clan Immortal City and visit Shang Yuanxin, whose fate he had previously divined.
• Shang Yuanxin told Fang Qing that he had secured the exchange qualification for a flawed Nascent Infant Pill and had been transferred back to Shang Clan Island.
• Fang Qing requested three large pieces of Mysterious Soul Crystal, a three-thousand-year-old Bone-Spirit Flower, and yang-attributed blood essence from the Octagonal Trade Tower.
• Shang Yuanxin described the casualties in the Void Ruins Secret Realm and Zhan Hongxiu's escape from an ambush by Nascent Soul cultivators.
• Uncle Fu reported that the tower had Mysterious Soul Crystal and yang-attributed blood essence but no Bone-Spirit Flower, prompting Shang Yuanxin to suspect interference from a clan brother.

Fang Qing went to Copper Immortal Island to obtain a three-thousand-year-old Bone-Spirit Flower from Crippled Immortal, avoiding the danger and intrigue surrounding Shang Yuanxin. When Crippled Immortal refused and attacked him, Fang Qing fought back with his Devouring Sea Flask, and the two began a battle over the island.

• Fang Qing learned that Crippled Immortal had bought up the Shang Clan's Bone-Spirit Flowers and decided to negotiate with him directly rather than send Shang Yuanxin into danger.
• Fang Qing arrived at Copper Immortal Island and asked Crippled Immortal to sell him a three-thousand-year-old Bone-Spirit Flower for twice the market price.
• Crippled Immortal refused, attacked Fang Qing with a divine-sense strike and hidden wooden spikes, and dismissed the danger to his disciples and followers.
• Fang Qing dodged the attack and released Three-Thousand Weak Water from his fourth-rank Devouring Sea Flask, weighing down the island and restricting flight.
• Crippled Immortal transformed his cane into a wooden dragon, rose into the air, and formed a bronze sword formation as Fang Qing sent the weak water surging toward it.

Fang Qing defeated Crippled Immortal with his water-element treasures and forced him to surrender a five-thousand-year Bone-Spirit Flower. He then arranged for Crippled Immortal to help refine two treasures and began preparing a special Spirit Contract to protect the secret of their work.

• Fang Qing used the Myriad Waters Cauldron’s water ape to destroy Crippled Immortal’s Refined Corpses and wound his drought demon corpse, forcing Crippled Immortal to yield a five-thousand-year Bone-Spirit Flower.
• Fang Qing accepted the flower and High-Grade Spirit Stones, then demanded compensation for Crippled Immortal’s earlier sneak attack.
• Fang Qing made Crippled Immortal agree to help refine two treasures and invite him to Copper Immortal Island, where Fang Qing settled into a fourth-order mid-grade spiritual abode.
• Fang Qing replaced his Purple Mansion Divine Abilities with Maiden Earth’s White Bone Visualization and Dust-Cleansing Karmic Affinity, then began constructing an altar to refine a Spirit Contract.

Fang Qing used the spiritual rank of [Maiden Earth] to create a powerful shamanic contract, then made the Crippled Immortal sign it to keep his identity and stolen treasures secret. He hired the Crippled Immortal to refine corpses and a puppet, and returned to secluded cultivation hoping to trade for fourth-tier Essence Spirit Great Pills.

• Fang Qing performed a shamanic sacrifice and received a blank contract capable of binding even a Great True Person.
• Fang Qing presented the contract to the Crippled Immortal, who signed it with his mana aura and felt its terrifying binding force.
• Fang Qing showed the Crippled Immortal the Winged Tiger and other refined corpses, revealing that they came from powerful factions and assigning him preliminary refinement work.
• Fang Qing offered the Crippled Immortal chances to trade for a Heavenly Infant Fruit and a Nascent Infant Pill in exchange for successfully completing the work.
• Fang Qing returned to his cave abode and circulated the Devouring Sea Method, planning to use the Crippled Immortal to trade his treasures for fourth-tier Essence Spirit Great Pills.

Fang Qing investigated the surge of Wood Virtue cultivators in Profound Void Heaven and discovered that a [Horn Wood] True Lord was backing Guangmu’s bid for the Principal Position. He forced True Person Sanmu to reveal what he knew and bound him to the Lord Mountain Association, but left still wondering who had placed Chuli Sect in Southern Wu.

• Fang Qing observed reports of new Wood Virtue Purple Mansions and suspected they were part of a wider plan to support Guangmu.
• Fang Qing entered Jade Pivot Immortal Hall through Profound Void Heaven and considered the sealed Grotto-Heaven beyond it.
• Fang Qing trapped True Person Sanmu in a private residence and forced him to name a [Horn Wood] True Lord as Guangmu’s backer.
• True Person Sanmu explained that he helped spread Wood Virtue cultivation techniques and guide Rogue Cultivators to create a flourishing spectacle for Guangmu’s bid.
• Fang Qing took a thread of Sanmu’s aura and made him join the Lord Mountain Association.
• Fang Qing accused Sanmu of hiding information about Chuli Sect, then left unconvinced that Sanmu knew who had placed the sect as a chess piece in Southern Wu.

Fang Qing learned that a powerful spirit demon was growing more intelligent and set his sights on hunting it once his Mystic Flame Demon Corpse was ready. He also heard that Heavenfiend Old Monster had obtained a complete lightning-path Heaven-Connecting Numinous Treasure and risen to challenge the Eastern Sea’s major powers.

• Fang Qing reviewed his cultivation progress and concluded that completing Origin Spring Ripple could let him advance to the Purple Mansion Late Stage.
• Crippled Immortal showed Fang Qing the repaired corpse intended for a Mystic Flame Demon Corpse and agreed to trade a Prime Quality Nascent Infant Pill for a fourth-tier water-attribute Essence Spirit Great Pill.
• Crippled Immortal told Fang Qing that a spirit demon had destroyed Windwalker Sect, devoured its Nascent Soul Early Stage supreme elder, and escaped pursuit after learning to use magical treasures.
• Fang Qing resolved to hunt the spirit demon after refining the Mystic Flame Demon Corpse, while doubting that the proposed Demon-Slaying Assembly would come together.
• Crippled Immortal revealed that Heavenfiend Old Monster had restored a lightning-path Heaven-Connecting Numinous Treasure and defeated two Nascent Soul Late Stage cultivators, raising Bloodfiend Island’s standing among the major powers.

Fang Qing completed refining the Mystic Flame Demon Corpse, gained strength by devouring two Fourth-Order Great Pills, and decided to pursue the Garbed Spirit Demon before it grew stronger. He left his cave abode and used a fragment of its garment to track it through the Great Void.

• Fang Qing prepared to refine the Great Demon's corpse with the Withered-Bone Jade Flame and [Maiden Earth], completing the Mystic Flame Demon Corpse after several months.
• Crippled Immortal visited Fang Qing with a water-aspected Demon Pill and an earth-aspected Essence Spirit Great Pill, then warned him that repeated exchanges for Nascent Infant treasures could expose their connection.
• Fang Qing devoured both Fourth-Order Great Pills, strengthening his primary Nascent Soul and advancing the Essence Spirits within the pills into battle-ready forms.
• Fang Qing divined that the Garbed Spirit Demon would soon grow much stronger by devouring Nascent Soul cultivators, so he chose to attack immediately rather than wait for the True Spirit Puppet.
• Fang Qing left a talisman double in his cave abode and traveled through the Great Void, using a garment fragment from the Garbed Spirit Demon to track it.

The Hu Family learned that its long-secluded elder Hu Yanzhou had succeeded in breaking through to the Purple Mansion, transforming the clan into an Immortal Clan. Sangji then received an invitation to attend Guangmu True Person’s gold-seeking ceremony at Sky Horn Sect and prepared to go alone.

• Hu Zhaoming warned Hu Yunshu and Hu Chengan that the weakened Hu Family had to avoid conflict, and said Hu Ruowei would marry into the Lu Family.
• Hu Yunshu realized the Hu Family’s Dao Foundation elders had suffered grave losses while supporting Hu Yanzhou’s attempt to break through to the Purple Mansion.
• A Wood Virtue Spirit Atmosphere rose from Black Tea Mountain, and Hu Yunshu recognized that Hu Yanzhou had succeeded.
• Sangji concluded that Sky Horn Sect had helped raise the Hu Family’s new Purple Mansion True Person as part of a wider arrangement involving the Esoteric Treasury and Wood Virtue.
• Leshan True Person delivered Sangji an invitation to Guangmu True Person’s gold-seeking ceremony at Sky Horn Sect on the first day of the eighth month.
• Sangji accepted the invitation and ordered Moonlight White and Void Sparrow to guard the White Bone Way while he attended alone.