Recaps

Fang Qing gathered intelligence about Guangmu’s gold-seeking ceremony through the Lord Mountain Association while the Garbed Spirit Demon lured and slaughtered the Profound-Tide Sect’s Core Formation elders. As the demon prepared to devour the sect’s disciples, a yellow-robed youth emerged from the Great Void and struck it.

• Fang Qing convened the Lord Mountain Association in Profound Void Heaven, where True Person Sanmu and other members reported that Guangmu would seek gold on the first day of the eighth month and shared news of other sects’ plans.
• Senior Brother Yuyang returned to the Profound-Tide Sect after hearing that a Nascent Soul devil was attacking the Eastern Sea and followed his junior sister to the Patriarch Hall.
• Yuyang discovered that the Supreme Elder and his junior sister had been killed and their cores removed, while the Garbed Spirit Demon slaughtered the sect’s Core Formation elders inside the Heavenly Dipper Shield.
• The Garbed Spirit Demon used the Profound Tide Banner to kill nearly all the Core Formation cultivators, then turned toward the Foundation Establishment and Qi Refinement disciples outside.
• A yellow-robed youth emerged from the Great Void and punched the Garbed Spirit Demon, knocking it backward and disrupting its ability to traverse the Great Void.

Fang Qing captured the Garbed Spirit Demon with the Myriad Waters Cauldron and fled the Profound-Tide Sect before the South Sea Twin Fiends could question him. When the Beast-Taming Gate’s Earth Qilin confronted him in the Great Void, Fang Qing used [Maiden Earth] radiance to frighten it off, and the Qilin escaped with the Twin Fiends.

• Fang Qing sealed the Great Void and used the Mystic Flame Demon Corpse, his artifacts, and Three-Thousand Weak Water to overpower the Garbed Spirit Demon.
• Fang Qing invoked [Maiden Earth] to suppress the demon as it claimed to be Profound Heaven, then trapped it inside the Myriad Waters Cauldron.
• Fang Qing left the Profound-Tide Sect as the South Sea Twin Fiends demanded an explanation, and he vanished into the Great Void.
• The Earth Qilin arrived to hunt the demon, but Fang Qing used [Maiden Earth] radiance to make it flee back into the world.
• The Earth Qilin seized the South Sea Twin Fiends, carried them to a Desolate Island, and declared that Fang Qing had been a Spirit Transformation monster.

Fang Qing refined the Garbed Spirit Demon and gained insight into using water and fire to harmonize yin and yang. In Xituo Commandery, Fang Daoling encountered Hu Yunshu fleeing her pursuers and considered taking her in after learning her family had lost its Purple Mansion protector.

• Fang Qing burned the Garbed Spirit Demon with the Mystic Flame Demon Corpse’s Withered-Bone Jade Flame and his Ignorance-Slighting Ashen Flame for forty-nine days, but it restored itself by refining the cultivators it had devoured.
• Fang Qing realized water and fire could work together to overcome the Spirit Demon’s protection, then began refining it with the spirit waters in the Myriad Waters Cauldron.
• Fang Daoling searched Xituo Commandery for spirit assets to support his lineage and encountered Hu Yunshu fleeing cultivators from the Lu and Ye Families.
• Hu Yunshu explained that Hu Yanzhou had been taken to Great Treasury Temple and severed ties with the Hu Family, leaving her without his protection.
• Hu Yunshu offered Fang Daoling her storage pouch, which contained a Dao Foundation spirit item, and begged him to save her; he considered taking her in and attacked her pursuers with blades of waterlight.

As Old True Person Guangmu prepared to seek gold beneath the Great Chun Tree, Fang Qing refined the Garbed Spirit Demon and recovered the lower half of the Supreme Simplicity Golden Book. He began studying the book while Guangmu’s disciples waited in the Withered Silence Hall and the Vast Sea Sect aligned itself with the Sky Horn Sect.

• Sangji and Jiumoluo Jie arrived at the Sky Horn Sect, where True Person Sanmu told them Guangmu would seek gold beneath the Great Chun Tree on the first day of the eighth month.
• Great True Person Guangmu told Su Huan and Suyuan that he might die or cease to be himself during his attempt, gave them a jade bottle, and ordered them to hide in the Withered Silence Hall.
• Su Huan and Suyuan entered the Withered Silence Hall, where Suyuan opened the jade bottle and revealed an ordinary brown pill.
• True Person Le Shui admitted to Leshan that he feared their Water Virtue True Lord had fallen and explained why the Vast Sea Sect needed the Sky Horn Sect’s protection.
• Fang Qing used water and fire to destroy the Garbed Spirit Demon’s garments, suppressed its golden light, and recovered the lower half of the Supreme Simplicity Golden Book.
• Fang Qing found Immortal Luo’s storage pouch among the demon’s spoils, including a Heavenly Infant Fruit, a Heaven-Connecting Numinous Treasure fragment, Spirit Transformation insights, and a Great Void travel cloth, then began comprehending the Golden Book.

True Person Guangmu attempted to attain Metal beneath the Great Chun Tree, and the [Horn Wood] Golden Seat responded after he used his four Divine Abilities to pass through death and rebirth. Meanwhile, Fang Qing studied the Supreme Simplicity Golden Book and uncovered the arrangements and hidden traps governing Golden Seats and the path to [Year Guardian].

• True Person Guangmu summoned cultivators from across the world and demonstrated his [Horn Wood] Divine Abilities as the gathered Purple Mansion cultivators watched.
• True Person Guangmu drew the vitality from the Great Chun Tree, withered away, and emerged anew through Perching on a Withered Branch in Silence.
• The [Horn Wood] Golden Seat responded to True Person Guangmu, leaving Sangji and the other observers astonished that he might succeed.
• Fang Qing connected the Golden Seats to Golden Core advancement and worked out the required positions for seeking [Year Guardian].
• Fang Qing realized that mismatched positions and certain polluted Golden Seats could trap cultivators or cause them to die, and he worried about the dangers still hidden.

Fang Qing realized that establishing a Principal Position could invite usurpation, just as True Lord Kui Zang Xianqing attacked Guangmu after he established [Horn Wood]'s Principal Position. Guangmu’s fall erased him from people’s memories, while Suyuan sacrificed himself to send Su Huan into reincarnation.

• Fang Qing concluded that orthodox positions carried the hope of becoming a [Year Guardian] and that usurpation could be an alternative to reincarnation or abdication.
• Guangmu established [Horn Wood]'s Principal Position, became True Lord Eastern Pole Year Guardian Azure Root, and received recognition from Wood Virtue cultivators.
• True Lord Kui Zang Xianqing revealed himself and attacked Guangmu, using his concealed authority over [Kui Wood] to erase Guangmu and undermine his position.
• Wolves descended on Sky Horn Sect, devoured the Great Chun Tree, and left the sect's cultivators unable to remember Guangmu or why they had gathered.
• Suyuan gave Su Huan the reincarnation medicine and used the Pure Yang Ritual Sword to kill her, sending her toward reincarnation as he had planned.

Fang Qing learned that True Lord Kui Zang Xianqing had seized the orthodox [Kui Wood] position and was hiding the master of [Horn Wood], then planned to watch the turmoil and preserve valuable lineages. Great True Person Le Shui faced the Flood Dragon King and the Yinglong Envoy while escorting Leshan away, leaving Vast Sea Sect’s fate uncertain.

• Fang Qing realized True Lord Kui Zang Xianqing had seized [Kui Wood] and was concealing True Lord Eastern Pole Year Guardian Azure Root, and he decided not to personally interfere with Sky Horn Sect.
• Great True Person Le Shui explained to Leshan that [Kui Wood]'s Hiding had concealed a Sky Horn Sect figure, then ordered Vast Sea Sect to seal its mountain for a hundred years.
• The Flood Dragon King confronted Le Shui and Leshan at sea, but Le Shui used [Chariot Water] to wound him and warned that the fight favored Le Shui.
• The Yinglong Envoy appeared beside the Flood Dragon King, and Le Shui sent Leshan fleeing while he stayed behind to face them.
• Leshan reached Southern Wu and saw storms and [Chariot Water] spirit objects spread across the land as he mourned Le Shui.
• The Yinglong Envoy told the Flood Dragon King that their attack had only been a probe and that he had allowed Leshan to escape because Sword Pavilion guarded Southern Wu.

Fang Qing learned that Guangmu’s Gold attainment and disappearance had been erased from the world’s memory, then directed Jiumoluo Jie and Sangji to approach the weakened Vast Sea Sect. The chapter left True Person Leshan refusing to join the Esoteric Treasury as Sangji proposed a trade of cultivation techniques.

• Fang Qing reminded Sanmu that Guangmu had attained Gold as Eastern Pole Year Guardian Azure Root, though people outside the Profound Void Grotto-Heaven would forget him again.
• Sanmu reported that Great True Person Le Shui had died and that Leshan had returned to the Vast Sea Sect and closed its mountain.
• Fang Qing dismissed the other cultivators, ordered Sanmu to let him inspect the Sky Horn Sect’s Dao Treasury, and logged out as a vast consciousness stirred nearby.
• Fang Qing reflected on the rising power of awakened True Lords and studied the Supreme Simplicity Golden Book, considering the risks of choosing a Breath-Nourishing Dao lineage.
• Jiumoluo Jie and Sangji arrived at the Vast Sea Sect, where Leshan mistook them for members of the Sword Pavilion and refused Jiumoluo Jie’s proposal to relocate and become the Vast Sea Temple.
• Sangji clarified that they had another request and asked Leshan whether he would trade cultivation techniques with their temple.

Leshan negotiated with Temple of All Living Beings Without Form over two more Vast Sea Sect legacies, while True Person Sanmu gained a second Divine Ability but failed to secure the Sky Horn Sect’s [Horn Wood] legacy. Fang Qing received Sanmu’s [Dipper Wood] materials in Profound Void Heaven, where he met a powerful white beast and learned it was probing his connection to [Maiden Earth].

• Leshan recognized Temple of All Living Beings Without Form’s role in Steel Strength Dudzi’s interest and asked what it would offer for the Cloud-Sea Hidden-Scale Scripture and Gongsun's Insight on Viewing Clouds.
• True Person Sanmu advanced to the Purple Mansion Middle Stage and formed the Divine Ability Bridge Sinking Moon.
• True Person Suyuan offered Sanmu a copy of the [Dipper Wood] Dao Treasury but refused his request to study the Sky Horn Sect’s [Horn Wood] legacy.
• Fang Qing reviewed his cultivation progress and considered his prospects for reaching the Golden Seat without refining Golden Nature.
• Sanmu reported to Fang Qing that Suyuan would not surrender the Sky Horn Sect’s legacy, but offered three [Dipper Wood] Purple Mansion legacies instead.
• A white, sheep-shaped immortal subordinate appeared before Fang Qing in Profound Void Heaven and asked whether he was from the Monster Demon Way.

Fang Qing learned about Bai Ze’s Supreme Unity lineage and its knowledge of the [Year Guardians], then escaped when Bai Ze turned hostile. Back in his cave abode, he reconsidered his path to Golden Core and settled on pursuing the vacant [Winnowing Basket Water] position while weighing other dangerous possibilities.

• Bai Ze described the Supreme Unity Ancestor’s disciples and revealed that it had awakened only recently, after forgetting what happened when a [Year Guardian] began to awaken.
• Bai Ze explained that manifested Dao rightful positions were difficult to change, leading Fang Qing to conclude that [Rooftop Moon] held the Lunar Yin Principal Position and had placed itself on a doomed path.
• When Fang Qing asked where Profound Void Subtle True Lord was, Bai Ze transformed into a hostile Black Ze and attacked him.
• Fang Qing escaped by ending the borrowed disciple’s True Spirit, then wondered whether Bai Ze’s fractured nature reflected its missing master’s condition.
• Fang Qing weighed pursuing thunder, combining Dao lineages, and other approaches, but chose vacant [Winnowing Basket Water] as his main route toward Golden Core.

Fang Qing perfected the Origin Spring Ripple Divine Ability and became a Winnowing Basket Water Great True Person, drawing the Golden Seat’s attention. He then used his new attainments and a surge of inspiration to attempt a breakthrough from the Nascent Soul Early Stage to the middle stage, while the Crippled Immortal watched the upheaval on Copper Immortal Island.

• Fang Qing tested and perfected the Origin Spring Ripple, then formed its Dao Foundation and gathered it with two other Divine Abilities in his Purple Mansion.
• Fang Qing became a Winnowing Basket Water Great True Person, and the Golden Seat’s gaze raised his status while verdant qi, rain, and new springs transformed Copper Immortal Island.
• Fang Qing considered how to find Winnowing Basket Water’s fourth Divine Ability and decided he could rely on Qi Refinement while seeking further Qi Ingestion methods.
• Fang Qing drew on his completed Winnowing Basket Water attainments and Nascent Soul cultivation to attempt a breakthrough to the Nascent Soul Middle Stage.
• The Crippled Immortal saw the island’s changes and realized that Fang Qing’s mana had surged beyond the Nascent Soul Early Stage as he began breaking through.

Fang Qing broke through to the Nascent Soul Middle Stage and learned that unrest was spreading across the Eastern Sea Cultivation Realm, then inspected the nearly finished True Spirit Puppet. Meanwhile, Heavenfiend Old Monster summoned four Nascent Soul Great Cultivators and proposed a righteous-demonic war against the Water-Moon Palace and Thunderclap Temple to prevent their leaders from reaching Spirit Transformation.

• Fang Qing broke through to the Nascent Soul Middle Stage without using a Breakthrough Pill, and his Spiritual Sense expanded to one hundred and fifty li.
• Crippled Immortal told Fang Qing that sects and Nascent Soul cultivators across the Eastern Sea were growing active despite the demon's reported defeat and the settlement of recent gains.
• Fang Qing inspected the nearly completed Winged Tiger True Spirit Puppet and planned to refine its spirit core into it.
• Heavenfiend Old Monster summoned Dongmen Jin, Heavenly Mechanism Elder, Mystical Flame Superior, and a blue-robed fairy from the Four Seas Gate.
• Heavenfiend Old Monster proposed a righteous-demonic war against the Water-Moon Palace and Thunderclap Temple, warning that their leaders had reached Nascent Soul Perfection and might achieve Spirit Transformation.

Heavenfiend Old Monster gathered support for a war against Thunderclap Temple and Water-Moon Palace by promising the other factions a share of the chance to reach Spirit Transformation. Meanwhile, Fang Qing completed a True Spirit Puppet, cultivated the Immovable Wisdom King Vajra Boundary Art, and left Copper Immortal Island just before Bloodfiend Island’s Third Island Master arrived.

• Heavenfiend Old Monster won Dongmen Jin and Heavenly Mechanism Elder’s agreement to join the war, while the woman representing Four Seas Gate refused to commit and Mystical Flame Superior offered pills without direct intervention.
• Heavenfiend Old Monster told Dongmen Jin and Heavenly Mechanism Elder that Talisman Sword Island would act, Shang Clan Island would remain neutral, and Xuanzhong Gate might side with the opposing powers.
• Fang Qing completed the True Spirit Puppet with Crippled Immortal, arranged to keep renting his cave abode, and stored the puppet after shrinking it.
• Fang Qing cultivated the Immovable Wisdom King Radiance Sequence and gained the Immovable Wisdom King Vajra Boundary Art, which could form barriers to seal the Great Void and strengthen his abilities.
• After several months, Fang Qing left Copper Immortal Island, and Crippled Immortal’s disciple warned him that Bloodfiend Island’s Third Island Master had come to visit.

Fang Qing visited Shang Clan Island to learn about the coming righteous-demonic war and gather materials for refining the Infant-Nurturing Pill. The Shang Clan Ancestor offered to trade for the ingredients if Fang Qing agreed to fight him in a spell battle.

• Fang Qing obtained Shang Yuanxin’s confidential intelligence and deduced that Water-Moon Palace and Thunderclap Temple would fight Bloodfiend Island and its allies, while the Shang Clan secretly supported the demonic side.
• Fang Qing decided to focus on alchemy rather than the war and asked the Shang Clan to obtain rare materials for the Infant-Nurturing Pill.
• Shang Yuanxin brought in Shang Kongzhen, who explained that the materials were exceptionally rare and that he lacked authority to provide the aged creature’s flesh.
• The Shang Clan Ancestor arrived, recognized Fang Qing’s cultivation and his plan to refine the Infant-Nurturing Pill, and said the clan could gather only about half its ingredients.
• The Shang Clan Ancestor offered to trade the available ingredients if Fang Qing fought him in a spell battle so he could experience Fang Qing’s void divine abilities.

Fang Qing and the Shang Clan ancestor dueled in the Dead Profound Sea, revealing powerful treasures, spirit beasts, and techniques. Fang Qing gained the upper hand by breaking through the ancestor’s layered defenses, but their battle remained underway.

• The Shang Clan ancestor invited Fang Qing to duel in the Great Void, and Shang Yuanxin resolved to reach the Nascent Soul realm ahead of the coming war between the righteous and demonic factions.
• Fang Qing kept pace with the ancestor through the Great Void, and they chose the Dead Profound Sea as a place where they could fight without endangering others.
• Fang Qing revealed his Steel Qiongqi Puppet, Mystic Flame Demon Corpse, Heaven-Hearing Bell, and Devouring Sea Flask, leading the Shang Clan ancestor to recognize him as the mysterious Nascent Soul cultivator from the Void Ruins Secret Realm.
• The Shang Clan ancestor summoned his Dark Sun Crow and Myriad Souls Banner, and his forces battled Fang Qing’s puppet, demon corpse, and soul essences.
• The ancestor used his Five-Element Armor and ink-black lotuses to restrain Fang Qing’s allies, but Fang Qing countered with the Devouring Sea Flask, Dark Nether Mirror, and a punch that dimmed the armor’s five jewels.

Fang Qing defeated the Shang Clan ancestor in a duel, demonstrating the power of his domain Divine Ability and earning the ancestor’s respect. The two agreed to cooperate and trade materials for the Infant-Nurturing Pill, whose final ingredient might be held by the Beast-Taming Gate.

• Fang Qing broke the Shang Clan ancestor’s defenses and trapped him within the Immovable Wisdom King Vajra Boundary Art, destroying his Five-Element Armor and Life-Substitute Doll.
• The Shang Clan ancestor accepted Fang Qing’s proposal to pursue opportunities during the war and agreed to provide half the Infant-Nurturing Pill materials plus a fourth-rank water-attributed Essence Spirit Great Pill.
• Fang Qing agreed to trade Heavenly Infant Fruits and Nascent Infant Pills for the Shang Clan’s remaining materials.
• At the Octagonal Trade Tower, the Shang Clan ancestor ordered Shang Kongzhen to retrieve all the spiritual items Fang Qing required and said the clan could search for missing supplementary ingredients.
• The Shang Clan ancestor identified Bodhi Blood as the missing main ingredient and suggested the Beast-Taming Gate might possess it because its Supreme Elder had a Qilin spirit venerable.

Fang Qing traded spirit materials and stolen treasures with the Shang Clan and obtained locations for sea-eye alchemy. As Thunderclap Temple prepared for war with the demonic forces, Zhan Hongxiu and Gui Ling discussed helping bring down Water-Moon Palace and Thunderclap Temple.

• Fang Qing exchanged surplus treasures for the Shang Clan’s alchemy materials, keeping one Heavenly Infant Fruit, and received a jade slip listing sea eyes suitable for Nascent Soul alchemy.
• The Shang Clan Patriarch admitted Fang Qing surpassed him in strength and urged Shang Yuanxin to recount how she had met Fang Qing.
• Zen Master Dazhi told Dragon Tree Holy Monk that an external demon from the Void Ruins Secret Realm still troubled him, while Dragon Tree Holy Monk entered a half-secret realm to pursue Spirit Transformation.
• Monk Sacred Enlightenment and Datong planned Thunderclap Temple’s defense against the Beast-Taming Gate and discussed redirecting Heavenfiend Old Monster toward Water-Moon Palace.
• Thunderclap Temple and Water-Moon Palace reinforced their defenses as war loomed, while Zhan Hongxiu questioned Gui Ling’s plan to bring down both sects.

Fang Qing established a guarded cave near the Hidden Mystery Sea Eye and prepared to study pill refinement while awaiting Bodhi Blood for the Infant-Nurturing Pill. Elsewhere, Jiumoluo Jie and Sangji investigated the Vast Sea Sect’s destruction, rescued its surviving disciple Cang Lin, and encountered Demon Kings who had also pursued Demon Moon.

• Fang Qing built a temporary cave in an iceberg and set his Second Nascent Soul, True Spirit Puppet, and Mystic Flame Demon Corpse to guard it.
• Fang Qing planned to test sea-eye pill refinement with other pills before attempting the Infant-Nurturing Pill once Bodhi Blood arrived.
• Jiumoluo Jie and Sangji learned that the Vast Sea Sect’s longevity stone had shattered and traveled to investigate its destruction.
• Sangji and Jiumoluo Jie discovered that Great True Person Demon Moon had broken the Vast Sea Sect’s formation and killed True Person Leshan.
• Jiumoluo Jie and Sangji recruited Cang Lin to rebuild the Vast Sea Sect in Xituo Commandery and accepted the sect’s Spirit Artifact containing its treasury and Dao lineage.
• Demon King Vermilion Ibis and an earth-yellow-robed Demon King revealed that they had pursued Demon Moon, then left after arguing with the Dharma Kings over Cang Lin.

Fang Qing examined the Vast Sea Sect’s hidden Dao Treasury and considered the risks of pursuing a different Water Virtue path. Meanwhile, Demon Moon attacked Deathless Temple and cursed Cang Lin and Sangji, leaving their battle unresolved.

• Fang Qing studied the Vast Sea Sect’s cultivation manuals, including the Dragon-Transformation Scripture, and weighed whether to pursue [Chariot Water] attainment.
• Cang Lin lamented the fall of the Vast Sea Sect and his lost prospects before silver-white rain struck his residence and overwhelmed him despite his Nine Rivers Returning to the Sea Talisman.
• Sangji sealed Cang Lin in a mound of black earth and confronted Great True Person Demon Moon, who had attacked Deathless Temple.
• Demon Moon used [Rooftop Moon]’s “All Things Beget Life” to make Sangji’s body gestate a spirit infant and drain the mysteries of his Divine Abilities.
• Sangji escaped the curse by abandoning his body through “Dust-Cleansing Karmic Affinity,” but Demon Moon’s “Heaven-Eroding Rain” afflicted the abandoned flesh as Fang Qing watched.

Fang Qing secretly took control of Sangji to protect Deathless Temple from Great True Person Demon Moon, who revealed that the Phoenix had devoured Azure Luan and other offspring to seize the Golden Seat. Demon Moon escaped, and Fang Qing was left weighing the truth of her revelations and the danger of the Phoenix’s contaminated positions.

• Fang Qing used the Dao-Born Pearl to empower Sangji with the rank of Golden Nature and strengthen his Death-Terror Aspect against Demon Moon’s Silver Moon Palace.
• Sangji’s witch-sacrificial dance overwhelmed the Silver Moon Palace as Jiumoluo Jie arrived, forcing Demon Moon to abandon her attack.
• Fang Qing questioned Demon Moon about the destruction of the Vast Sea Sect, and she warned that it must never produce another [Chariot Water] Great True Person.
• Demon Moon revealed that the Phoenix had devoured Azure Luan to control the Golden Seat, then escaped into the Great Void.
• Sangji warned Cang Lin against producing a [Chariot Water] Great True Person, and Fang Qing considered whether Demon Moon’s account of the Phoenix was true.

Fang Qing pieced together the Phoenix’s plans involving the Year Guardians and considered the risks of pursuing Golden Seats, then learned the honorifics of the Phoenix and the master of [Rooftop Moon]. Meanwhile, Talisman Sword Island’s forces used the Heaven Talisman Palace to isolate Seven-Star Island and began attacking its defenses.

• Fang Qing connected the Phoenix’s offspring and the deaths of several Great Sages to the vacant positions tied to the Year Guardians, and concluded that avoiding [Net Moon] had been wise.
• Fang Qing told the three Taras that their cultivation could no longer help with his Body Refinement and claimed he had independently proved the Purple Mansion.
• Empty Peacock Tara gave the Phoenix’s honorific names, while she and Moonlight White Tara identified the master of [Rooftop Moon] as the Moon-Palace Embryo-Forming Origin Lord.
• Fang Qing considered whether having a child with a True Lord upon a Fruit Seat could enable someone to control or annex a Golden Seat.
• Talisman Sword Island’s Heaven Talisman Palace sealed off Seven-Star Island as Nascent Soul Cultivators and warships surrounded it.
• Beast-Taming Gate cultivators and puppet birds attacked Seven-Star Island’s grand formation while Heavenly Mechanism Elder, Dongmen Jin, Heaven Talisman Superior, and Sky Sword High Person watched.

The demonic forces captured Seven-Star Island and launched assaults against Water-Moon Palace and Thunderclap Temple. As the battle reached Red Reef Island, Dongmen Jin and Monk Sacred Enlightenment fought while their forces attacked the island’s formation.

• Sky Sword Superior broke through the formation and killed a Nascent Soul monk, after which the demonic army took Seven-Star Island and began building defenses.
• Dongmen Jin led his forces toward Thunderclap Temple while Bloodfiend Island and Talisman Sword Island advanced on Water-Moon Palace.
• Zhan Hongxiu watched the invasion with Turtle Elder, who said Water-Moon Palace might defend itself with a Spirit Transformation Venerable’s preserved external incarnation.
• At Red Reef Island, Monk Sacred Enlightenment appeared and killed an ox-horned Beast King with a crescent-shaped blade of light.
• Dongmen Jin and Monk Sacred Enlightenment fought with the Myriad-Poison Cloud Miasma and the Medicine Buddha Glazed Dharma Body.
• Beast-Taming Gate’s Beast Kings and demon beasts attacked Red Reef Island’s formation as Buddhist cultivators emerged to fight them.

Fang Qing weighed the hidden powers and Grotto-Heaven of the Breath-Nourishing Dao, then seized an opportunity created by the war between the righteous and demonic factions. He lured the South Sea Twin Fiends away from the Beast-Taming Gate and trapped them with two Earth Dragon Beasts.

• Fang Qing suspected that Bi Yue Crow’s history concealed secrets, considered how Water Virtue True Lords might be watching the Vast Sea Sect’s descendants, and concluded that the missing Grotto-Heaven mattered most.
• Fang Qing learned that Bloodfiend Island and Talisman Sword Island had reached Water-Moon Island, giving him a chance to obtain the Bodhi Blood needed for the Infant-Nurturing Pill.
• Fang Qing infiltrated the Beast-Taming Gate’s territory and waited for a suitable target while its high-level cultivators were away at war.
• The South Sea Twin Fiends left the sect after mistaking Fang Qing’s staged pillar of light for a treasure, and Fang Qing sealed the Great Void and trapped them in an illusion formation.
• Fang Qing overwhelmed the brothers with his Great True Person standing, released their two Earth Dragon Beasts, and used his boundary Divine Ability to separate the fiends.

Fang Qing defeated and converted the South Sea Twin Fiends, then sent them back into the Beast-Taming Gate to weaken its defenses and find the Bodhi Blood. The brothers lured the acting Sect Leader Bai Yuanhu, formation master Iron Inkstone, and alchemist Xuanxiao to their cave abode, where Big One revealed the Capital-Sky Blazing Flame Banner.

• Fang Qing used his Divine Abilities to defeat the South Sea Twin Fiends separately and convert them into his servants, naming them Big One and Second One.
• Big One and Second One killed their Earth Dragon Beasts and gave Fang Qing their fourth-rank Essence Spirit Great Pills.
• The brothers told Fang Qing that the Beast-Taming Gate had only two other Nascent Soul Cultivators remaining, including formation master Iron Inkstone and alchemist Xuanxiao, who managed the Bodhi Blood.
• Fang Qing ordered Big One and Second One to infiltrate the Beast-Taming Gate, kill the formation master and acting Sect Leader, and seek the Bodhi Blood.
• Big One and Second One returned to the sect and invited Bai Yuanhu, Iron Inkstone, and Xuanxiao to their cave abode for a gathering.
• Big One presented the Capital-Sky Blazing Flame Banner to the gathered cultivators.

Fang Qing and the South Sea Twin Fiends attacked Beast-Taming Gate, killed Iron Inkstone and Xuanxiao, and looted the sect before escaping. The Earth Qilin arrived to find the formation core stolen and three sealed ferocious beasts breaking free.

• Big One and Second One ambushed Iron Inkstone and Xuanxiao after poisoning them, killing Iron Inkstone and capturing Xuanxiao’s Nascent Soul.
• Fang Qing appeared, took the Bodhi Blood, ordered the South Sea Twin Fiends to plunder Beast-Taming Gate, and had Xuanxiao fed to the Mystic Flame Demon Corpse.
• Fang Qing searched the Scripture Repository while Beast-Taming Gate’s guards revealed the sect’s history and its inherited cultivation methods.
• Big One and Second One returned with rare treasures, pills, spirit herbs, and the sealing treasures from Ferocious Beast Cave, then Fang Qing tore open the void and left with them.
• The Earth Qilin arrived and learned that the South Sea Twin Fiends had betrayed the sect and that its formation core was gone.
• Three sealed ferocious beasts broke out, and the black ape lunged at the Earth Qilin as the sect’s cultivators prepared to fight without their formation.