Recaps

Fang Qing rescued Beigong Wei, a girl with awakened Horned Dragon blood, after the Universe Sect confronted the alien cultivators who had abducted her. He learned that Beigong Wei sought to join the Universe Sect and carried a family treasure secret, leaving him interested in using her as a link to ancient immortals.

• The Six-Eared Devil Race cultivator and Kuxiu Zi negotiated over Beigong Wei before a fireball’s arrival prompted them to attack.
• Immortal Maiden Luo Yun arrived aboard a Heaven-Rising Warship, exposed the aliens’ crimes with the Heaven-Patrolling Mirror, and confronted them over Beigong Wei.
• The battle shifted into the Great Void, where the Six-Eared Devil Race cultivator discovered that his storage pouch had mysteriously vanished and suspected a Mahayana cultivator had taken it.
• Fang Qing opened the storage pouch in the wilderness and released Beigong Wei, who thanked him for saving her.
• Beigong Wei told Fang Qing that her ancestors had left behind a treasure trove and asked him to help her join the Universe Sect.

Fang Qing agreed to take Bei Gong Wei to the Universe Sect, obtained her family’s treasures, and discovered a Body Refinement manual among them. He brought her to Black Tortoise Immortal City and settled into a high-level cave abode, where he planned to gather materials for a Void Refinement breakthrough and study the Spirit Realm’s alchemy.

• Fang Qing agreed to help Bei Gong Wei enter the Universe Sect in exchange for payment and another favor.
• While crossing the Myriad Poisons Marsh, Fang Qing took Bei Gong Wei’s family treasures and found the Three Mysteries of Inverse Scales Art, a Body Refinement manual.
• Fang Qing considered advancing his cultivation toward Void Refinement and using the Dao-Born Pearl if he later changed Dao lineages.
• At Black Tortoise Immortal City, Bei Gong Wei learned that the Universe Sect would not open its gates for eight years and only tested Spiritual Vortex martial artists.
• Fang Qing rented a sixth-stage cave abode at Clear Spring Mountain and began planning to gather breakthrough materials and investigate local alchemy.

Fang Qing acquired rare ingredients from the Hundred Merit Pavilion and secluded himself at Clear Spring Mountain to refine a pill, drawing attention from powerful figures after extraordinary celestial phenomena appeared. As a storm of pill thunder gathered, Fang Qing tested it with his body, then brought out his Numinous Treasures to face the remaining strikes.

• Fang Qing bought rare alchemy materials from Tong Hezi and declined the Hundred Merit Pavilion’s offer to recruit him as a high-level alchemist.
• Tong Hezi reported Fang Qing’s alchemical skill and Clear Spring Mountain residence to Marquis Siyi.
• Fang Qing sent Beigong Wei to remain in her cave abode while he secluded himself for several months and began refining a pill in the Spirit Spring.
• Yu Xiuqi and Silver Oriole Adept witnessed the strange phenomena and pill thunder above Clear Spring Cave Abode, and Silver Oriole Adept decided to visit Fang Qing.
• Marquis Siyi praised Tong Hezi after seeing the alchemical phenomena and speculated that Fang Qing was refining an unfamiliar sixth-rank pill.
• Fang Qing flew into the thunderclouds, took a tribulation bolt, and sent out his Numinous Treasures to withstand the heavenly thunder.

Fang Qing rejected Marquis Siyi’s invitation to join the Hundred Merit Pavilion and prepared to break through to Void Refinement. After Marquis Siyi plotted against him, Fang Qing ambushed and killed him and Tong Hezi in the Great Void, then escaped before Fairy Luo Yun arrived.

• Fang Qing refined a Void-Breaking Pill and realized that Questioning Heaven and his divination no longer worked in this world.
• Marquis Siyi and Tong Hezi visited Fang Qing and offered him a contract to become an alchemist for the Hundred Merit Pavilion, but Fang Qing refused because he wanted to join the Universe Sect after reaching Void Refinement.
• Marquis Siyi left furious and vowed to kill Fang Qing once he left Black Tortoise Immortal City, while Fang Qing sent an external incarnation away and decided to enter seclusion.
• Fang Qing used the White Bone Demon City to ambush Marquis Siyi’s flying boat in the Great Void, killing Tong Hezi and destroying Marquis Siyi’s Primordial Spirit.
• Fang Qing recalled the White Bone Demon City as a prayer bead and vanished before Fairy Luo Yun arrived to investigate.

Fang Qing used a Void-Breaking Pill to break through to Spirit Transformation, drawing the attention of Black Tortoise Immortal City. After Silver Oriole Adept visited, Fang Qing agreed to join the Universe Sect and secured Beigong Wei’s entry as a disciple.

• Fang Qing swallowed a Void-Breaking Pill and successfully broke through to Spirit Transformation while enduring the heavenly tribulation.
• Silver Oriole Adept and Yu Xiuqi recognized the breakthrough at Clear Spring Cave Abode, and Silver Oriole Adept prepared a congratulatory gift and visit.
• Fang Qing sensed his new ability to refine the void and received congratulatory gifts from nearby cultivators, then told Beigong Wei that Silver Oriole Adept would help settle her matter.
• Silver Oriole Adept visited Fang Qing and gave him a Xuanyu Thunder-Repelling Talisman, then invited him to join the Universe Sect.
• Fang Qing accepted the invitation and asked Silver Oriole Adept to admit Beigong Wei, who was approved to enter the sect immediately.

Fang Qing entered the Universe Sect as a Void Refinement cultivator and received permission to choose a cultivation method. At the Scripture Repository, he learned about the sect’s void-path scriptures and began considering the Ninefold Firmament Scripture.

• Silver Oriole Adept brought Fang Qing and Beigong Wei through the Universe Sect’s Grand Illusory World Formation, and Beigong Wei was assigned to He Qiudao to complete her entry procedures.
• Silver Oriole Adept escorted Fang Qing to Sect Leader Xuanmiao, who questioned his intentions, accepted him into the sect, and granted him a peak and a token for the Scripture Repository.
• Fang Qing visited the repository’s sixth floor and met Fairy Luo Yun, who described the sect’s void cultivation methods and warned him about the difficulty of the Ninefold Firmament Scripture.
• Fang Qing read records about Immortal Origin Stones and a text on Immortal Script before deciding to seek out the Ninefold Firmament Scripture.

Fang Qing converted to the Ninefold Firmament Scripture and rapidly comprehended the Great Void Dao, reaching the threshold for Profound Insight. His breakthrough in understanding let him see the Universe Sect’s deepest secret: Profound Light Superior had become a monstrous being through Dao Transformation and was confined inside a hidden realm.

• Fang Qing studied the Ninefold Firmament Scripture and compared the Spirit Realm’s gradual Dao cultivation with the Breath-Nourishing Dao system.
• Fang Qing replaced the Azure Spirit Vast Sea Art with the Ninefold Firmament Scripture, advanced to Void Refinement, and began cultivating the Great Void Dao.
• Fang Qing’s comprehension of the Great Void Dao grew at an extraordinary pace as he perceived it like a Golden Seat and adapted to its torrent of information.
• After an unknown span of time, Fang Qing saw through the Great Void Dao’s mysteries and judged that his comprehension could carry him past the Profound Insight bottleneck.
• Fang Qing’s heightened perception pierced the Universe Sect’s hidden realm, where he saw a giant bound by chains and identified it as Profound Light Superior, transformed into a monster through Dao Transformation.

Fang Qing reflected on the danger surrounding Profound Light Superior and checked on Beigong Wei’s progress before Sect Master Xuanmiao assigned him to lead a group to Three Saints Pass. He accepted the mission, where he was expected to refine pills and could investigate the condition of the human race’s Mahayana cultivator, Ling Xuzi.

• Fang Qing suspected the lotus was Profound Light Superior’s Primordial Spirit suppressing his transformed body and resolved to be cautious about the Ninefold Firmament Scripture.
• Beigong Wei broke through to the Spiritual Vortex stage, joined the Heroine Society, and used her connection to an inner-sect peak elder to deter other disciples.
• Fang Qing watched Beigong Wei from above, then traveled to Lone Cloud Peak to meet Sect Master Xuanmiao.
• Xuanmiao explained the Hundred Tribes Battlefield and said Fairy Luo Yun needed someone skilled in the Hundred Arts of Immortality at Three Saints Pass.
• Fang Qing accepted command of a team of ten Spirit Severing cultivators and a hundred Infant Transformation disciples, along with a Cloud Firmament Battleship, and prepared to go to Three Saints Pass.

Fang Qing arrived at Three Saints Pass, where he was assigned to refine pills for the Law Enforcement Squad and explored the Library Pavilion for information about the Mountain-Sea Secret Realm. He left with Fairy Yuxin after Qiao Wang publicly revealed his coercive intentions, and told her to report him to Fairy Luo Yun.

• Fang Qing guided the Cloud Firmament Flying Vessel through Three Saints Pass after presenting his Universe Sect authorization.
• Fairy Luo Yun assigned Fang Qing’s subordinates to the Law Enforcement Squad and ordered him to refine pills for them.
• Fang Qing read about Immortal Scripts and the Mountain-Sea Secret Realm in the Library Pavilion.
• Fairy Yuxin told Fang Qing that the squad had suffered injuries and deaths, and he gave her pills to restore her strength.
• Qiao Wang admitted that he wanted Fairy Yuxin’s primordial yin for an evil technique and offered payment to secure her cooperation.
• Fang Qing took Fairy Yuxin away and advised her to ask Fairy Luo Yun to uphold justice.

Fang Qing turned the Golden Luan Mountain Lord’s Heart-Inquiry Art against him and secretly took control of him. He ordered the Mountain Lord to secure a Mountain-Sea Token for the Nine Laws Sect.

• Fairy Luo Yun and the Golden Luan Mountain Lord fought outside Three Saints Pass after Qiao Wang accused Fang Qing of using a bewitching art.
• The Golden Luan Mountain Lord demanded to examine Fang Qing with the Heart-Inquiry Art, and Fang Qing agreed.
• Fang Qing’s power transformed the Heart-Inquiry Art’s intrusion into the Venerable Great Sun Tathagata of Serenity, compelling the Golden Luan Mountain Lord to accept Fang Qing’s denial and end the dispute.
• Fang Qing contacted the Golden Luan Mountain Lord through the Dao-Born Pearl and ordered him to dispose of Qiao Wang.
• Fang Qing asked how many Mountain-Sea Tokens the Nine Laws Sect could obtain and ordered the Golden Luan Mountain Lord to secure one.

Fang Qing studied the Mountain-Sea Continent’s foreign races and used a Lunar Treasured Mirror fragment to sense another nearby fragment. He met Ling Xuzi, the human race’s hidden Mahayana cultivator, and learned that foreign powers were gathering around the region because a True Immortal had once fallen to a siege by Mahayana cultivators.

• Fang Qing read about the Time-Shedding Clan, the Word-Curse Clan, and the Blood-Covenant Snail Clan, then refined his Lunar Treasured Mirror fragment to comprehend the Great Dao of Lunar Yin.
• Fang Qing sensed another Lunar Treasured Mirror fragment nearby, concealed himself with Lunar Yin moonlight, and traveled through the Great Void to meet its owner.
• Fang Qing recognized Ling Xuzi as the human race’s sole Mahayana cultivator and discovered that Ling Xuzi had hidden his full strength while pretending to be gravely injured.
• Ling Xuzi explained that foreign Mahayana cultivators had focused on the region after hearing rumors of a True Immortal’s descent, and named Old Man Celestial Fowl, King Xiaoyuan, and cultivators of the Word-Curse and Time-Shedding Clans.
• Ling Xuzi told Fang Qing that a True Immortal on another continent had been besieged and killed by Mahayana cultivators, scattering immortal items and leading to reports of immortals appearing elsewhere.

Fang Qing accepted a Mountain-Sea Token and a fragment of the [Lunar Treasured Mirror] from Ling Xuzi, then used the token to glimpse the Mountain-Sea Secret Realm and an immensely powerful being within it. The token's unexpected reaction signaled that the secret realm would open centuries ahead of schedule, prompting Old Man Celestial Fowl and King Xiaoyuan to prepare.

• Fang Qing reflected on his strength and considered using immortal artifacts to restore his damaged Golden Seats.
• Ling Xuzi gave Fang Qing six Mountain-Sea Tokens, and Fang Qing kept one while returning the other five.
• Ling Xuzi revealed and offered his fragment of the [Lunar Treasured Mirror], explaining that he had found it in the Palace of Pure Lunar Radiance; Fang Qing merged it with his own fragment.
• Fang Qing refined the Mountain-Sea Token and saw the secret realm's ruins and a corpse whose golden eyes overwhelmed his perception, leaving a golden mark on the token.
• Old Man Celestial Fowl and King Xiaoyuan noticed a Mountain-Sea Token react and concluded that the secret realm might open nearly four hundred years early, so they planned to return to their clans and prepare.

Fang Qing used the Golden Luan Mountain Lord to lure a Time-Shedding Clan Mahayana cultivator into revealing himself at Thunder Nirvana Cliff. After exposing and confronting the enemy, Fang Qing launched a Divine Elixir attack, but the cultivator distorted time and made the strike return to its starting point.

• Fang Qing sent the Golden Luan Mountain Lord to arrange a trade with a foreign cultivator, offering a clue about a descended True Immortal in exchange for rare treasures.
• At Thunder Nirvana Cliff, the Golden Luan Mountain Lord traded a drop of dew carrying the Dao rhythm of a Water Immortal for the Earth-Burying Divine Fruit and three Azure Network Heavenly Origin Leaves.
• The cloaked cultivator betrayed the Golden Luan Mountain Lord, but Fang Qing revealed that the apparent trade and its participants were illusory past selves of a Time-Shedding Clan Mahayana cultivator.
• Fang Qing took control of the Golden Luan Mountain Lord, used the dew to mark the crystal skull, and pursued the Time-Shedding Clan cultivator to a mist-covered sea.
• Fang Qing struck the Time-Shedding Clan Mahayana cultivator with his Divine Elixir Dharma Idol, but the enemy distorted time and returned the attack to its starting point.

Fang Qing defeated a Mahayana cultivator of the Time-Shedding Clan by trapping him in an illusion and claimed his crystal core and an immortal scripture. The chapter left Fang Qing beginning to decipher the scripture while Old Man Celestial Fowl and King Xiaoyuan considered how to deal with the suspected Water Virtue True Immortal.

• The Time-Shedding Clan cultivator appeared to summon past selves and borrow power from his future self, but Fang Qing revealed that the battle had been an illusion cast with the [Winnowing Basket Water] Golden Seat.
• The illusion ended with the Time-Shedding Clan cultivator vanishing from spacetime, leaving behind a purple crystal core and a pearl that Fang Qing collected.
• Old Man Celestial Fowl told King Xiaoyuan that Kuwo had fallen and claimed the Water Virtue True Immortal was still in the region, prompting them to consider whether the lords would try to kill an immortal.
• At Three Saints Pass, the Golden Luan Mountain Lord secretly passed his gains to Fang Qing's true body.
• Fang Qing examined a Jade Book Golden Seal taken from the pearl and identified it as an immortal cultivation scripture, then began deciphering its opening as the Profound True Seal Elixir Restoration Secret Scripture.

Fang Qing studied the Supreme Profound True-Inscription Golden Elixir Scripture and explored how it might help him reach Golden Core Perfection and pursue new [Year Guardian] paths. After Kuwo’s death, the Time-Shedding Clan voted to awaken its ancestor, while a voice inside a chained coffin in Immortal-Fall Valley spoke of the Mountain-Sea Immortal Palace.

• Fang Qing attended the Great Achievement Bell summons, where Qin Yüzi ordered Three Saints Pass to cancel leave and prepare for an attack ahead of the Mountain-Sea Secret Realm’s opening.
• Fang Qing continued refining pills and studying the immortal scripture, realizing its Great Dao inscriptions could help him stabilize his cultivation and pursue Golden Core Perfection.
• Fang Qing used a Time-Shedding Clan crystal core to sense the Great Dao of Temporal Light.
• After discovering Kuwo had died and his future branches had vanished, the Time-Shedding Clan voted to awaken its ancestor.
• A voice from a massive coffin in Immortal-Fall Valley spoke the words “Mountain-Sea Immortal Palace.”

Fang Qing entered the Mountain-Sea Secret Realm and tracked another fragment of the Lunar Treasured Mirror to the Palace of Pure Lunar Radiance. The chapter left him facing five Mahayana cultivators of the Inkbind Tribe, who attacked him as he invoked the power of Winnowing Basket Water.

• Fang Qing swallowed a bottle of Void-Origin Pills, broke through to late Void Refinement, then converted his excess magic power into Origin Qi and returned to early Void Refinement.
• The Mountain-Sea Token transported Fang Qing into the Mountain-Sea Secret Realm, where he killed an animated plant and collected its crystals.
• Fang Qing sensed Golden Luan Mountain Lord battling Puppets and discovered that the Dao-Born Pearl let him open doors to enter and leave the secret realm at will.
• Fang Qing tracked a moving fragment of the Lunar Treasured Mirror to the Palace of Pure Lunar Radiance.
• Five Mahayana cultivators of the Inkbind Tribe confronted Fang Qing and attacked him with a domain ability and ink-black treasures.
• Fang Qing called on Winnowing Basket Water and invoked the authority of a Golden Core True Lord with the words, “Purify the Turbid!”

Fang Qing defeated an Inkbind Tribe Mahayana cultivator in the Palace of Pure Lunar Radiance and recovered most of the Lunar Treasured Mirror. He broke through the palace’s deepest restrictions, found genuine immortal pills and a pill furnace, and sensed the final mirror fragment nearby.

• The Time-Shed Ancestor appeared before Old Man Celestial Fowl, spoke of his fallen junior, and offered to help him enter the Mysterious Feminine Hall, but Old Man Celestial Fowl declined.
• Fang Qing used Winnowing Basket Water to dispel the Inkbind Tribe cultivator’s ink illusions and overwhelm him with the Palace of Pure Lunar Radiance’s power.
• Fang Qing took the Moonlight Compass, shattered it, and merged its Lunar Treasured Mirror fragment with his own, restoring most of the mirror.
• Fang Qing used Winnowing Basket Water to dissolve the deepest palace restrictions and entered a pill-refining hall.
• Fang Qing found a jade gourd containing nine genuine immortal pills and took the purple-copper pill furnace.
• Fang Qing sensed the Lunar Treasured Mirror’s final fragment behind the Pill Hall.

Fang Qing was ambushed by four Mahayana cultivators inside the Palace of Pure Lunar Radiance, but escaped their immortal formation with Great Void power. The surviving attackers debated pursuing him and taking the Lunar Yin fragment, while the Time-Shed Ancestor warned that doing so could summon an Immortal Lord.

• Fang Qing detected an ambush near the moon-osmanthus tree and drew out Ao Yin and a Mahayana devil, who attacked him with immortal artifacts.
• Ao Yin and the devil activated the Sun-Moon Twofold Annihilation Divine Radiance formation, and King Xiaoyuan and Lady Qi joined the assault.
• Fang Qing summoned his thousand-zhang manifestation and fought back with Winnowing Basket Water, but the Time-Shed Ancestor froze time and struck him with Immortal-Eroding Flame.
• Fang Qing's manifestation vanished from the formation, and the Time-Shed Ancestor realized that Fang Qing was a Great Void Immortal who had escaped by teleportation.
• Lady Qi and Ao Yin proposed breaking the formation to obtain the Lunar Yin fragment and track Fang Qing, but the Time-Shed Ancestor warned that this could reveal Hidden Star Palace and bring down an Immortal Lord.

Fang Qing used immortal pills to temper his body and break through toward Profound Insight while his Golden Luan Mountain Lord persona explored the Mountain-Sea Secret Realm for a Lunar Yin immortal artifact. At Three Saints Pass, Fang Qing’s breakthrough drew the attention of the elders, and he faced the powerful Ten-Thousand-Blade Void-Dusk Tribulation.

• Fang Qing returned to his cave residence, learned his pill-refining assignment had ended, and swallowed immortal pills to push his body refinement and cultivation toward new breakthroughs.
• Fang Qing sent the Golden Luan Mountain Lord to the Palace of Pure Lunar Radiance, where he found the other cultivators gone and began breaking the restrictions around a Lunar Treasured Mirror fragment beneath the laurel tree.
• Qin Yüzi, Granny Zeng, Master Jing Kun, and Fairy Luo Yun sensed a Profound Insight breakthrough at Three Saints Pass and recognized Fang Qing as the cultivator behind it.
• Fang Qing’s thousand-zhang dharma manifestation faced the Ten-Thousand-Blade Void-Dusk Tribulation, destroying the incoming Great Void blades with silvery-white orbs as devastating lightning descended.

Fang Qing survived the Dongxuan tribulation and chose to return to the Universe Sect, while a mysterious upheaval trapped cultivators inside the Mountain-Sea Secret Realm. After leaving the realm through the Dao-Born Pearl, he sensed a response from it pointing to an unexpected place.

• Fang Qing endured the Ten-Thousand-Blade Void-Dusk Tribulation and Dongxuan Lightning Tribulation, advanced his body refinement, and broke through to Dongxuan as Fairy Yuxin and other cultivators watched.
• The final fragment of the Lunar Treasured Mirror fell into the Golden Luan Mountain Lord’s hands, and the Hidden Star Palace appeared as a scarlet comet and a chained coffin heralded a calamity in the Mountain-Sea Secret Realm.
• The Devil Race Mahayana cultivator failed to escape by crushing his Mountain-Sea Token, and Lady Qi realized the cultivators were trapped inside the changed realm.
• Fairy Luo Yun congratulated Fang Qing on his breakthrough and offered him Void-Stabilizing Heart-Origin Pills; Fang Qing said he would return to the Universe Sect.
• Fang Qing reflected on the realm’s upheaval and his cultivation plans, then sensed a response from the Dao-Born Pearl pointing to an unexpected place.

Fang Qing returned to the Universe Sect after learning that his Spirit Tide Revival in Great Zhou had led a martial artist to approach Golden Nature, potentially strengthening his plans for the Water Virtue [Year Guardian] Dao Path. Beigong Wei formed a Nascent Soul and awakened Horned Dragon bloodline, while Fang Qing warned Sect Master Xuanmiao that high-level cultivators in the Mountain-Sea Secret Realm might be trapped.

• Fang Qing traveled back to the Universe Sect and considered how the Great Zhou world's Golden Nature seed could strengthen the [Winnowing Basket Water] Vacant Position.
• Silver Oriole Adept witnessed Beigong Wei's Nascent Soul breakthrough, whose three-hundred-li phenomenon drew a powerful Heavenly Tribulation.
• Beigong Wei's Horned Dragon bloodline manifested and swallowed the thunderclouds, after which Sect Master Xuanmiao promoted her to a True Disciple and gave her the Three-Yin Pearl.
• Fang Qing returned to the sect as a Profound Insight elder, requested a better cultivation abode and library access, and warned Xuanmiao that high-level cultivators in the Mountain-Sea Secret Realm might be trapped.
• Beigong Wei asked to fulfill her promise to Fang Qing, and he assigned her to tend and clean his new abode.

Fang Qing advanced his Body Refinement to Seventh-Order, then used his incarnation to enjoy himself in Great Zhou, where a martial duel revealed the hidden strength of Flower-Plucking Hand Fang Ye. He left the Qinhuai River after killing Li Fan with his Celestial grandmaster power.

• Fang Qing integrated the Horned Dragon's inherited Body Refinement art into his own and reached Seventh-Order Body Refinement.
• Fang Qing's incarnation visited a Yangzhou pleasure house and watched Zuo Xiaoman perform as martial artists gathered to see Li Fan duel Daoist Suiyun.
• Li Fan broke through to the Outer Landscape during the duel and killed Daoist Suiyun, then challenged Fang Ye after spotting him.
• Apophis of the Western Extremity Cult appeared, and Fang Ye revealed a Celestial grandmaster's power by spreading a rainstorm across Yangzhou.
• Li Fan tried to flee, but Fang Qing transformed him into water that fell into the Qinhuai River.

Liu Qi attempted to break through beyond the Celestial realm by forging Golden Nature from his four Divine Abilities, but he found no Golden Seat and vanished. Fang Qing secretly absorbed the Golden Nature Liu Qi left behind, while the Spirit Atmosphere in Great Zhou began transforming toward Wood Virtue.

• Experts gathered at Ten Thousand Flowers Cliffs to witness Liu Qi attempt a breakthrough beyond the Celestial realm.
• Liu Qi displayed his four Divine Abilities—Longlasting Sweet Rain, Fate-Reversing Book, Clear-as-Turbid, and Moon in Water—and combined them to form an embryonic Golden Nature.
• Liu Qi sensed that no Golden Seat existed ahead, then shot into the sky as a golden rainbow and disappeared without a trace.
• Fang Qing absorbed Liu Qi’s failed breakthrough and Golden Nature through the [Winnowing Basket Water] Golden Seat.
• Fang Qing sensed Great Zhou’s Spirit Atmosphere begin changing as water gave birth to wood, prompting him to identify the change as Wood Virtue.

Fang Qing studied the restored [Lunar Treasured Mirror] and considered how Lunar Yin could complement his water-virtue cultivation. In the Breath-Nourishing Dao, Zeng Qingshui resisted a deadly sword-artifact’s influence just as Fang Daoling revealed that he had reached the late stage of Purple Mansion.

• Fang Qing used the restored [Lunar Treasured Mirror] to deepen his understanding of Lunar Yin and considered testing how it manifested in the original land of origin.
• Zeng Qingshui defeated a Golden Sword Sect sword cultivator and occupied the sect’s stronghold for the Azure Departure Fang Family.
• Zeng Qingshui discovered a painting of an ancient sword in the Golden Sword Sect’s vault, and its influence drove him to raise a water sword to his throat.
• Zeng Qingshui broke free of the painting’s influence and knocked it from the offering table before the sword inside could fully leave its sheath.
• A sword-bearing Purple Mansion True Person speculated that Zeng Qingshui had a powerful protector, then encountered Fang Daoling, whose [Winnowing Basket Water] radiance suppressed him.
• Fang Daoling revealed that he had cultivated three divine powers and advanced to the late stage of Purple Mansion.

Fang Qing examined the vacant Lunar Yin Golden Seats and uncovered how the Great Sun [Year Guardian] had blocked the Lunar Yin [Year Guardian] and other moon-phase paths. At Sky Horn Sect, True Person Suqing began seeking the [Horn Wood] Principal Position, drawing Purple Mansion cultivators toward the Outer Sea.

• Fang Qing projected his Spiritual Sense into Ancient Shu, observed Fang Daoling’s growing power, and contemplated the Lunar Treasured Mirror and three vacant moon Golden Seats.
• Fang Qing sensed the dormant will of the ancient Lunar Yin [Year Guardian], then withdrew the mirror before the will could use it as an opportunity to awaken.
• Fang Qing realized the Great Sun [Year Guardian] had used the Lunar Yin [Year Guardian] to obstruct other moon-phase Golden Seats and considered alternatives to the [Wall Water] impasse.
• True Person Suqing, backed by True Lord Guangmu, began seeking the [Horn Wood] Principal Position at Sky Horn Sect.
• Suqing used Shattering Edge and Vast Forest Wood to summon the island’s trees around the Great Chun Tree.
• Fang Daoling saw the eastern portent and rushed to the Outer Sea, where Purple Mansion cultivators witnessed the enormous phantom of the Great Chun Tree.