Recaps

Fang Qing watched from concealment as True Person Suqing refined the [Horn Wood] Golden Nature and began her attempt to become a Golden Core True Lord. Just as she rode the Horn Wood Flood Dragon toward the eastern sky, a hostile thousand-zhang Flood Dragon surged in to attack her.

• Fang Qing concealed himself beside Fang Daoling and considered how Suqing’s Golden Core attempt might draw out the dormant powers and the Heaven-Dawn Spirit Abyss Dragon Lord.
• Fang Qing weighed disguising himself as True Lord Returning All Rivers to the Sea or a revived Lunar Yin [Year Guardian], using the [Lunar Treasured Mirror] and his [Winnowing Basket Water] Vacant Position.
• On the Great Chun Tree, True Person Suqing refined the [Horn Wood] Golden Nature from her four Divine Abilities as Purple Mansion cultivators watched from the Great Void.
• A Horn Wood Flood Dragon appeared above the tree, and True Person Suqing merged with the Golden Nature and rode the dragon toward the eastern star.
• As True Person Suqing ascended, a thousand-zhang Flood Dragon charged from the east with malice.

True Person Suqing fought the envoy of Heaven-Dawn Spirit Abyss Dragon Lord and Akasagarbha Bodhisattva as she ascended to the [Horn Wood] Golden Seat. With aid from a hidden Lunar Yin Treasury, she became a [Horn Wood] Principal Position True Lord, while the Dragon Lord's envoy fled and the battle's aftermath left Fang Daoling stunned.

• Heaven-Dawn Spirit Abyss Dragon Lord descended into his azure Flood Dragon envoy and attacked Sky Horn Island with [Three Stars Water], while True Lord Guangmu's incarnation battled him through the Horn Wood Flood Dragon.
• True Person Suqing used her ancient [Horn Wood] Golden Nature to wound the azure Flood Dragon, then spent it to shoot Akasagarbha Bodhisattva, who survived by hiding in the void.
• The azure Flood Dragon struck Suqing down, but a second Suqing emerged using [Heart Moon] and [Chariot Water] Divine Abilities and revealed the Lunar Yin Treasury, destroying the concealed wolf beast.
• True Person Suqing joined with the [Horn Wood] Golden Seat and ascended as the [Horn Wood] Principal Position True Lord, taking the title Azure Spirit Brocade-Formed Universal Beneficence.
• True Lord Suqing wounded the azure Flood Dragon with [Horn Wood] Sword Qi, and he escaped into the sea after shedding part of his body; the True Lords then vanished, leaving Fang Daoling to wonder whether Suqing had succeeded.

Azure Spirit Brocade-Completion Universal Aid Origin Lord succeeded in seeking the Golden Core, while Fang Qing secretly helped the Primordial Dragon Envoy survive and planted him as a pawn inside Flood-Dragon Palace. Fang Qing assessed his plans to gather the Water Virtue Golden Seats and pursue Golden Core Perfection.

• Suyuan Sword Immortal and visiting Purple Mansion True Persons congratulated Azure Spirit Brocade-Completion Universal Aid Origin Lord on her Golden Core attainment, and Fang Daoling arrived with a gift for Sky Horn Sect.
• An emerald figure briefly froze Sky Horn Sect, thanked Senior Brother Suyuan, and departed after an old voice warned that she and the figure owed an unknown Lunar Yin True Lord a debt of Causality.
• The wounded Primordial Dragon Envoy lured in and devoured a Purple Mansion Demon King before returning to Flood-Dragon Palace and entering the abyss where Heaven-Dawn Spirit Abyss Dragon Lord lay.
• Fang Qing revealed that he had secretly helped the Primordial Dragon Envoy survive and used his Divine Ability to make him a pawn inside Flood-Dragon Palace.
• Fang Qing considered pursuing [Chariot Water] and helping Heaven-Dawn Spirit Abyss Dragon Lord obtain its Golden Seat as he worked toward Golden Core Perfection.

A Dream Spider cultivator massacred the Mirror-Scaled Fish Clan to collect souls and blood essence, but their royal cultivator killed him with an ancient eighth-tier talisman. A Dream Spider Mahayana cultivator then revealed the first attacker had been a pawn, harvested the royal cultivator, and sent a newly hatched subordinate to attack the Winged Clan.

• A black-robed Dream Spider cultivator slaughtered the Mirror-Scaled Fish Clan and collected their souls and blood essence for a pseudo-immortal artifact.
• The clan’s Mirror Palace trapped the Dream Spider, but his dream ability let him escape its attack and kill two early-stage Profound Insight cultivators with the Divine Illumination Lamp.
• The royal cultivator used an eighth-tier talisman and the Great Dao of Water to kill the Dream Spider, then learned his victims had been gathered to meet a quota for a powerful lord.
• A Dream Spider Mahayana cultivator appeared, reclaimed the treasures, and drained the royal cultivator’s life and essence through the Great Dao of Dreams.
• The Mahayana cultivator revealed that he sought to become an immortal with a pseudo-immortal artifact, then ordered a Dream Spider born from the royal cultivator’s corpse to attack the Winged Clan.

Sect Master Xuanmiao warned Fang Qing that the Dream Spider Clan had returned and might soon attack humanity while Ling Xuzi remained trapped in the Mountain-Sea Secret Realm. After reaching late-stage Profound Insight, Fang Qing contacted Profound Light Superior’s suppressed Dao abomination and offered it a chance to live in exchange for becoming his servant.

• Sect Master Xuanmiao told Fang Qing that the Dream Spider Clan had struck the Mirror-Scaled Fish Clan and Winged Clan and was likely heading toward human territory with a Mahayana cultivator.
• Fang Qing took a drop of Beigong Wei’s essence blood and used it to probe for a connection to the Myriad Beasts Immortal Palace.
• Fang Qing swallowed an immortal pill and broke through to late-stage Profound Insight while cultivating the Ninefold Firmament Scripture.
• Fang Qing sensed Profound Light Superior’s Dao transformation and received the incantation and hand seals needed to control the Universe Sect’s Grand Illusory World Formation.
• Fang Qing used the Lunar Treasured Mirror’s Jade Mirror Radiance to destroy the corpses and skeletons clinging to the Dao abomination, then offered it a chance to live and advance to Mahayana as his servant.
• The Dao abomination accepted Fang Qing’s offer and chose to live.

Fang Qing saved Profound Light Superior from Dao Transformation, enabling him to break through to Mahayana and survive the True Thunder Tribulation. As the Universe Sect celebrated its new Supreme Elder, Xuanmiao told him that Mahayana cultivators from several races were trapped in the Mountain-Sea Secret Realm and foreign races nearby had been targeted in blood rituals.

• Fang Qing used Heart-Soothing Orchid and the Dao-Born Pearl to reverse Profound Light Superior’s Dao Transformation, then helped him reach Mahayana and supplied Heaven-One Generates Water to heal him.
• Profound Light Superior emerged from the Grand Illusory World Formation, and Xuanmiao and the Universe Sect’s disciples knelt to congratulate him on his breakthrough.
• Profound Light Superior faced the True Thunder Tribulation with the Void Ring and other treasures, but the final bolt destroyed his defenses and left him gravely wounded.
• Profound Light Superior survived the last bolt, received immortal qi as the sun and moon shone together, and restored his Dao body.
• Xuanmiao began planning a grand Mahayana ceremony, then explained that foreign races had suffered blood rituals and elite cultivators were trapped in the Mountain-Sea Secret Realm.

Fang Qing discovered that a Dream Spider Clan Mahayana cultivator had infiltrated Vermilion Bird Immortal City by spreading a plague that forced cultivators to sleep. He entered the intruder’s dream to confront them, where the chapter ended with the dream’s power stripping away his magic power.

• Fairy Luo Yun left Three Saints Pass for the Universe Sect as Qin Yüzi asked her to deliver congratulatory gifts and request Patriarch Profound Light’s visit.
• Fang Qing used Beigong Wei’s blood essence and the Dao-Born Pearl to sense the Myriad Beasts Immortal Palace, then reflected on the sealed Mountain-Sea Secret Realm and the missing Golden Luan Mountain Lord.
• Fang Qing warned Profound Light Superior that a Dream Spider Clan Mahayana cultivator had infiltrated the sect’s Mahayana celebration.
• Fang Qing and Profound Light Superior found sleeping cultivators in Vermilion Bird Immortal City and realized a Dream Plague was spreading through their dreams.
• Fang Qing entered the dream and confronted the Dream Spider Clan Mahayana cultivator, who used the Dao of Dreams to make Fang Qing feel as if he had lost his magic power.

Fang Qing tracked the Dream Spider Clan Mahayana cultivator to its underground nest after breaking its dream attack. He defeated the cultivator, captured it with Reflection in Water, and learned that its clan’s immortal-artifact method came from a destroyed Jade Book Golden Seal.

• Fang Qing shattered the Dream Spider Clan Mahayana cultivator’s dream attack and followed their karmic connection through the Great Void.
• The Dream Spider Clan Mahayana cultivator completed the Blood Sea Banner by sacrificing a Dongxuan clansman and sent the others away before destroying the underground palace.
• Fang Qing arrived as the Dream Spider Clan Mahayana cultivator prepared to wield the Blood Sea Banner against him.
• Fang Qing’s [Winnowing Basket Water] golden rank swallowed the banner’s blood sea and defeated its attacks.
• Fang Qing subdued the Dream Spider Clan Mahayana cultivator with Reflection in Water and ordered it to copy the immortal-artifact method from memory.

Fang Qing learned how to make pseudo-immortal artifacts and sent A-Dream to attack the Bone-Pattern Sacred Clan, while humanity prepared for a rescue mission into the Mountain-Sea Secret Realm. There, Mahayana cultivators fled an exiled immortal, and Ling Xuzi disappeared after witnessing a formation break.

• Fang Qing learned that the Dream Spider Clan's Blood Sea Banner was a pseudo-immortal artifact and named its Mahayana cultivator A-Dream, then ordered him to attack the Bone-Pattern Sacred Clan.
• Ancestor Profound Radiance's celebration ended peacefully, and he told Fang Qing that the races planned a rescue mission at Moonwatch Mountain in half a month, led by the Time-Shedding Clan's True Immortal ancestor.
• Fang Qing reassured Ancestor Profound Radiance that humanity would be safe and saw A-Dream fighting several Bone-Pattern Sacred Clan Mahayana cultivators.
• In the Mountain-Sea Secret Realm, Old Man Celestial Fowl told King Xiaoyuan that an exiled immortal had killed a Blood-Covenant Snail Clan Mahayana cultivator and was hunting them.
• King Xiaoyuan and Old Man Celestial Fowl fled when Lady Qi's formation light appeared, while Ling Xuzi watched a jade-like hand break through a formation and vanished.

Ling Xuzi fled Hidden Star Palace as a fire lotus refined its Mahayana cultivators and a barrier sealed the Mountain-Sea Secret Realm. After a Three-Eyed Race cultivator attacked him for his Heavenveil Gauze, Fang Qing intervened and killed the attacker, claiming the Thunderfire Awl.

• Ling Xuzi escaped Hidden Star Palace as a spreading fire lotus consumed Mahayana cultivators, then realized chains had sealed the Mountain-Sea Secret Realm and the whole realm was being refined.
• A Three-Eyed Race cultivator struck down Ling Xuzi’s white crane and demanded his Heavenveil Gauze in exchange for his life.
• Ling Xuzi fought back with his wooden sword, but the attacker used the Thunderfire Awl to break his sword and burn him nearly to ashes.
• Fang Qing appeared, caught the attacker’s immortal lightning, and asked him to surrender the Thunderfire Awl.
• The Three-Eyed Race cultivator unleashed the awl’s thunderfire power, but Fang Qing’s Primordial Thunder Palace swallowed his lightning and destroyed him, leaving the Thunderfire Awl behind.

Fang Qing rescued Ling Xuzi from the Mountain-Sea Secret Realm, studied the powerful banished immortal’s Dao and the Supreme Profound True-Inscription Golden Elixir Scripture, then sent Profound Radiance to a gathering of Mountain-Sea Continent Mahayana cultivators. The chapter left Profound Radiance facing an assembly that included a mysterious immortal.

• Fang Qing defeated the Three-Eyed Race Mahayana cultivator, took the Thunderfire Awl, and rescued Ling Xuzi from the Mountain-Sea Secret Realm.
• Fang Qing recognized the scarlet lotus as the Dao Fruit or its embryonic form of a banished immortal who had cultivated the Supreme Profound True-Inscription Golden Elixir Scripture.
• Fang Qing brought Ling Xuzi to the Spirit Realm and advised him to stay hidden, while telling him that Profound Radiance had recently reached Mahayana and was preparing to rescue him.
• Fang Qing tested his Temporal Light ability with a Mahayana Time-Shedding Clan crystal core, then began studying the Supreme Profound True-Inscription Golden Elixir Scripture.
• Profound Radiance arrived at Moonwatch Mountain and entered an immortal artifact city where more than a hundred Mahayana cultivators had gathered.
• Profound Radiance noticed a silver-robed youth whose faint aura revealed him to be an immortal.

Purple Origin arrived to join the Mahayana cultivators preparing to enter the Mountain-Sea Secret Realm and rescue their trapped clansmen. As they crossed the Great Void, they fought off an eight-headed beast made from a rusted chain, which Madam Sanxuan suspected was a Coffin-Locking Chain.

• Purple Origin arrived in Origin-Nightmare Devil City and said he had come at the Dragon-Taming Clan's request to fight the being from Immortal-Fall Valley.
• Madam Sanxuan explained that the being might be connected to a sealed figure in a coffin bound by nine locks, and the Time-Shed Ancestor proposed using the Profound Abyss Moistening Salvation True Lord to draw it into a clash.
• The Time-Shed Ancestor revealed a void formation diagram and said the Mahayana cultivators could locate and enter the Mountain-Sea Secret Realm by activating Origin-Nightmare Devil City together.
• More than a hundred Mahayana cultivators sent Origin-Nightmare Devil City into the Great Void, where eight black snake heads attacked it.
• The Purple Origin Dragon Emperor seized the Xiangliu-like attacker with a rune-covered dragon claw and burned it with Violet Fire, revealing that it was formed from a rusted black chain.
• Madam Sanxuan identified the chain as possibly being a Coffin-Locking Chain.

The allied Great Ascension cultivators reached the Mountain-Sea Secret Realm and found a crimson lotus refining the Mountain-Sea Immortal Palace. The being within trapped them in a Sealing Gate Coffin and an immortal domain, then fought off their strongest attacks as one cultivator was killed.

• Madam Sanxuan used a pseudo-immortal artifact to cut apart one of the Coffin-Locking Chain’s giant pythons as the cultivators forced their way into the Mountain-Sea Secret Realm.
• Purple Origin Dragon Emperor and the others saw the crimson lotus consuming the Mountain-Sea Immortal Palace, and the being inside sealed the secret realm in a Sealing Gate Coffin.
• Old Man Celestial Fowl identified the enemy as an Immortal Lord, and the cultivators combined their powers to attack the lotus.
• The lotus’s immortal domain swallowed the Demonic Metropolis of the Primordial Demon and weakened the Great Ascension cultivators, while stronger fighters broke through its restrictions.
• Madam Sanxuan unleashed a Primordial Blood Mosquito, an unnamed cultivator used an immortal talisman, and Purple Origin Dragon Emperor fired immortal lightning at the enemy.
• The Immortal Lord destroyed the Primordial Blood Mosquito and split an attacking immortal sword, killing the Great Ascension cultivator whose soul was inside it.

Fang Qing advanced his Golden Core cultivation by harmonizing the Wings Fire and Profound Thunder Golden Seats, then used Profound Light Superior as a vessel to confront the banished immortal. The banished immortal survived the Mahayana cultivators’ combined assault, and Fang Qing revealed his power as the chapter ended with the survivors stunned.

• Fang Qing used the Thunderfire Awl to restore his Wings Fire and Profound Thunder Golden Seats, reach Mid Golden Core, and plan to follow the Law Lord path of the Supreme Profound True-Inscription Golden Elixir Scripture.
• The four-armed banished immortal slaughtered several Mahayana cultivators and trapped the survivors in his crimson-lotus immortal domain.
• The surviving Mahayana cultivators joined forces with the Blood-Covenant Snail Clan’s Grotto-Heaven and a Ninth Rank immortal array to destroy the Demonic Metropolis of the Primordial Demon, but the banished immortal emerged unharmed.
• The Time-Shed Ancestor betrayed the Purple Origin Dragon Emperor by striking him from behind, then declared his allegiance to the awakened Immortal Lord.
• The banished immortal recognized the Supreme Profound True-Inscription Golden Elixir Scripture in Profound Light Superior, and Fang Qing projected his Wings Fire and Profound Thunder Golden Seats into him.
• Fang Qing unleashed the Sorrow of Separation Fire and Blood Fills the City, mingling fire and lightning as Madam Sanxuan and the other survivors realized Profound Light Superior was not himself.

Fang Qing fought the four-armed celestial, an Immortal Lord's remnant soul, and learned to weave the Great Daos of thunder and fire as they exchanged spells. The celestial trapped Fang Qing in the Sealing Gate Coffin, but Fang Qing drew on the Vacant Position of Winnowing Basket Water, surged to Late Golden Core, and held the coffin open with fire.

• The four-armed celestial wielded four immortal artifacts and recognized Fang Qing as a Dharma Lord from beyond the heavens.
• Fang Qing revealed his enormous True Lord manifestation and clashed with the celestial's earth-aligned beast and immortal artifacts.
• The Time-Shed Ancestor tried to retreat, but Old Man Celestial Fowl, Madam Sanxuan, Nine-Sword Boy, and other cultivators turned against him, citing his repeated sacrifices of the clan.
• Fang Qing learned to weave the Great Daos of thunder and fire, healed his wounds, and fought the four-armed celestial to a standstill.
• The four-armed celestial used the Sealing Gate Coffin to trap Fang Qing and began closing it around the Mountain-Sea Secret Realm.
• Fang Qing drew on the Vacant Position of Winnowing Basket Water, rose to Late Golden Core, and used blazing fire to hold the coffin lid open as the celestial's chains coiled around it.

Fang Qing unleashed the power of his Golden Seats and Great Dao, devastating the Mountain-Sea Secret Realm and gravely wounding the four-armed celestial. After the celestial escaped into the Immortal Domain, Fang Qing forced the surviving Mahayana cultivators to submit and learned that the Time-Shed Ancestor might still be alive.

• Fang Qing broke the Sealing Gate Coffin and unleashed a destructive Great Sun that destroyed the Time-Shed Ancestor and devastated the Mountain-Sea Secret Realm.
• Fang Qing used his backup vessel, the Golden Luan Mountain Lord, to rescue Profound Light Superior and confront the wounded four-armed celestial.
• Fang Qing attacked the four-armed celestial with water-based techniques and began making him disappear, but the celestial escaped through the Immortal Domain in a black coffin.
• Fang Qing encountered the badly injured Old Man Celestial Fowl and Madam Sanxuan, who offered to serve him.
• Old Man Celestial Fowl told Fang Qing that the Time-Shed Ancestor might have escaped by shedding his shell, and Fang Qing welcomed the chance to obtain a human crystal core.

Fang Qing advanced to Mahayana in the wilderness, then set out with A-Dream for the Time-Shedding Clan. As he traveled, Madam Sanxuan and a devil host attacked the clan, whose members feared their Ancestor could not be awakened again.

• Fang Qing assessed his gains from the Mountain-Sea Secret Realm and decided to undergo his Mahayana tribulation away from the Universe Sect.
• A-Dream guarded Fang Qing as he survived the lightning tribulation and received immortal qi, advancing to Mahayana.
• A-Dream captured human scouts, and Fang Qing ordered them to forget what they had seen and return to Three Saints Pass.
• Fang Qing and A-Dream departed in a bronze carriage to settle an account with the Time-Shedding Clan.
• The Time-Shedding Clan revived from statue-like forms and discussed the danger of awakening their Ancestor again.
• Madam Sanxuan and a host of devils surrounded the Time-Shedding Clan and ordered their forces to kill everyone.

Fang Qing used Beigong Wei’s Horned Dragon blood essence and the Dao of the Great Void to find and enter the Myriad Beasts Immortal Palace, where he took the form of a Horned Dragon to pass its first trial. Meanwhile, the Immortal Lord’s remnant soul used Purple Origin Dragon Emperor blood essence to connect the palace to his bronze token, and Fang Qing discovered that its trials rewarded cultivators with immortal-beast blood.

• Fang Qing refined his understanding of the Great Void and Temporal Light, then asked Beigong Wei for another drop of Horned Dragon blood essence to settle their bond of Causality.
• Fang Qing used the blood essence to locate the Myriad Beasts Immortal Palace in the Great Void and forced his way inside.
• The Immortal Lord’s remnant soul sensed the palace’s disturbance, infused his Myriad Beasts Bronze Token with Purple Origin Dragon Emperor blood essence, and connected it to the palace.
• Fang Qing arrived in the palace as a Horned Dragon, learned that its trials required immortal-beast blood, and entered Myriad Poisons Hall.
• Fang Qing froze the swarms of venomous gu and insects to clear the first trial, then found the Myriad Beasts Dharma Body art on the steps beyond it.

The Myriad Beasts Immortal Palace opened, drawing the True Spirit Aristocratic Clans into its trials while Fang Qing studied how to adapt the Myriad Beasts Dharma Body to his own bloodlines. He sent Beigong Wei into the palace with her Horned Dragon essence blood, where she died in her first Puppet-Control Hall trial but discovered she could enter again.

• The Feng Family elder announced that the Myriad Beasts Immortal Palace had opened and ordered the younger generations of the thirty-six True Spirit Aristocratic Clans to enter its trials.
• Fang Qing realized he could adapt the Myriad Beasts Dharma Body to temper his body with the law power of Winnowing Basket Water, Wings Fire, and Profound Thunder.
• Fang Qing offered Beigong Wei a dangerous chance to gain an inheritance and sent her into the Myriad Beasts Immortal Palace using her Horned Dragon essence blood.
• Beigong Wei entered the Puppet-Control Hall as a white snake and learned that challengers had to command Puppets with Spiritual Sense to advance.
• Beigong Wei lost the first Puppet battle and awoke in her cave dwelling, then realized the light on her forehead let her enter the palace again.

Fang Qing entered the Myriad Beasts Immortal Palace’s final trial and faced the purple True Dragon in a test to select the Immortal Lord’s heir. Though he was outmatched in nearly every quality, the Dao-Born Pearl amplified his fortune enough to win, and he escaped as the Immortal Lord’s remnant soul was destroyed.

• Fang Qing entered the Balance Palace, where the Immortal Lord’s remnant thought trapped him and the purple True Dragon in the heir-selection trial.
• The purple True Dragon explained that the trial would compare their qualities and that failure could let the Karmic Dao destroy their true bodies.
• Fang Qing’s aptitude, comprehension, and other qualities appeared weaker than the purple True Dragon’s, but his fortuitous encounters produced an overwhelming flame of fortune.
• The Immortal Lord’s remnant thought selected Fang Qing as heir and erased the purple True Dragon with a strike of karmic power.
• Fang Qing used the moment when the palace’s power was spent to disperse his Spiritual Sense, then decided Beigong Wei could investigate the palace instead.
• The Karmic Dao followed the remnant soul’s Spiritual Sense link to its undersea coffin and destroyed it.

Beigong Wei entered the Myriad Beasts Immortal Palace again, allowing Fang Qing to receive its inheritance and pass its seal to her. Elsewhere, Zhan Hongxiu reached Spirit Transformation and confronted the escaped True Spirit Fengxi, while Zeng Qingshui broke through to Purple Mansion in the Breath-Nourishing Dao.

• Profound Light Superior sent Beigong Wei back into the Myriad Beasts Immortal Palace, where Fang Qing received its scriptures and Great Dao insights and placed its inheritance seal in her body.
• Fang Qing learned that Zhan Hongxiu had reached Spirit Transformation and sent his divine sense to observe her breakthrough.
• Zhan Hongxiu explained that the vanished Heavenly Tribulation had eased cultivation breakthroughs and set out to face Fengxi, an earth-aspected True Spirit that had escaped its seal.
• Zhan Hongxiu confronted Fengxi with a Heaven-Piercing Numinous Treasure as it attacked with earth-aspected divine light.
• Zeng Qingshui emerged from twenty years of seclusion as a Purple Mansion True Person, and Vast Sea Sect disciples celebrated his breakthrough.

After breaking through to the Purple Mansion, Zeng Qingshui discovered that a young disciple named Song Qingzhou possessed extraordinary [Chariot Water] destiny and made him his junior martial brother, Cangming. Fang Qing observed the encounter and concluded that rival powers were using the boy and a possible Water Virtue Grotto-Heaven as bait while he prepared to return.

• Zeng Qingshui returned to the Vast Sea Sect after years in seclusion and asked about the sect’s affairs.
• Zeng Qingshui failed to divine Song Qingzhou’s life and grew wary when he learned the boy was an unusually gifted [Chariot Water] prospect.
• Zeng Qingshui recognized Song Qingzhou as a Golden-Natured Destiny Child, refused his bow, and named him Cangming as his junior martial brother.
• Fang Qing watched from hiding and suspected the Dragon Lord and other True Lords had arranged the encounter to test [Chariot Water] and lure him out.
• Fang Qing considered that Water Virtue Destiny Children and a Water Virtue Grotto-Heaven, possibly Vast Sea Heaven, could advance the pursuit of gold.
• Fang Qing entered the Fang Family estate undetected and resolved to return by pursuing a Water Virtue [Year Guardian] path.

Fang Daoling mourned Fang Xianzhi’s failed Purple Mansion breakthrough and confronted the limits of his own Dao Path. After Liu Junyan warned him that Chariot Water was flourishing and urged him to prepare, Fang Daoling ordered his clan to watch for its treasures and gifted cultivators.

• Fang Daoling learned that Fang Xianzhi had failed her Purple Mansion breakthrough, while Zeng Qingshui succeeded and took the Daoist name Cangyuan.
• Fang Daoling reflected on his failed attempt to add a fourth Divine Ability and realized that the weakness of Longlasting Sweet Rain was blocking his progress toward Golden Core.
• Liu Junyan told Fang Daoling that Willow Earth cultivators could hold only three Divine Abilities because Stomach Earth Seizes Willow had taken Willow Earth’s rightful nature and Thick Virtue Carries.
• Liu Junyan offered to trade three Wall Water Great Pills and Darksea Heavy Water for the Fang Family’s Roaming Spirit Harnesses Qi and Yellow Springs Yin Stone, and warned that Chariot Water was flourishing.
• Fang Daoling accepted the trade and ordered an azure bird to tell the clan to monitor Chariot Water’s heavenly treasures and gifted cultivators.

Fang Qing assessed the Kitchen Lord’s attempt to attain [Year Guardian] as the Kitchen Lord began refining Grand Yellow Heaven and was attacked by two Golden Core cultivators. The chapter left the outcome of the confrontation unresolved.

• Fang Qing overheard Liu Junyan warn Fang Daoling and decided to wait and see whether the Kitchen Lord could succeed.
• Fang Daoling attended Zeng Qingshui’s Purple Mansion celebration at Vast Sea Sect and heard guests discuss Song Qingzhou, a Golden-Natured One.
• Grand Yellow Heaven began opening, and Fang Daoling recognized that the Kitchen Lord was refining the Grotto-Heaven into his body.
• Fang Qing watched the Kitchen Lord use Earth Virtue positions and the [Nether Warden] Principal Position to attempt [Year Guardian].
• Great Sun Dragon-Phoenix Fuyu Primordial Sovereign and Akasagarbha Bodhisattva attacked the Kitchen Lord to disrupt his breakthrough.

Fang Qing watched Kitchen Lord attempt to attain the Earth Virtue [Year Guardian] seat while other Golden Core True Lords fought over the Kingdom of Yue. Kitchen Lord’s breakthrough failed, but he used his death to unite with the Nether Bureau and become its true lord.

• Mystic Void Subtle Origin Lord, a Wuyue Sword Pavilion sword lord, and Heaven-Dawn Spirit Abyss Dragon Lord joined forces against Great Sun Dragon-Phoenix Fuyu Primordial Sovereign and protected the Kingdom of Yue with [Shen Metal Immortal-Binding Prison].
• Kitchen Lord invoked the [Maiden Earth], [Root Earth], [Stomach Earth], and [Nether Warden] Golden Seats as he attempted to become an Earth Virtue [Year Guardian].
• Fang Qing realized that [Nether Warden] could serve as a fifth Earth and that Kitchen Lord’s success might open another path to power beyond [Year Guardian].
• Kitchen Lord’s breakthrough failed when [Stomach Earth] collapsed, and [Maiden Earth] and [Root Earth] returned to the Great Void as a catastrophic earthquake shook the Breath-Nourishing Dao world.
• Kitchen Lord emerged from the Ghost Gate as a departed soul, swallowed the [Nether Warden] Golden Seat, and entered the Nether Bureau to unite with its Dao and become its true lord.