Recaps

Xu the Immortal Official gave five Lunar Yin cultivators Divine Elixir safeguards and gold-seeking methods, assigning them different positions and an order for their attempts. Fang Qing watched from Jade Dust Hall and prepared to use the Lunar Yin ascensions to advance his own plans, which depended on speed and keeping Primordial Beginning Heaven sealed.

• Xu the Immortal Official told Fang Xianyuan, Qin Ruxue, Yu Xiang'er, Mingyue, and Zhong Lingxiu that they could seek Lunar Yin positions and gave each a Return-to-Profundity Divine-Elixir mind method.
• Fang Xianyuan chose the vacant position and received the Corpse-Release Dao-Seeking method; Xu warned him to seek gold in the Eastern Sea Cultivation Realm because evil Lunar Yin Golden Core cultivators watched his world.
• Zhong Lingxiu chose the vacant position, Yu Xiang'er and Qin Ruxue chose the primary position, and Mingyue chose the secondary position.
• Xu ordered Fang Xianyuan and Zhong Lingxiu to seek the vacant position first, followed by Yu Xiang'er and Qin Ruxue for the primary position, with Mingyue last for the secondary position.
• Fang Qing watched the exchange through Xu the Immortal Official and planned to use the five Lunar Yin attempts to earn merit, attain the fifth water, and eventually seize the Four Waters and become the Year Guardian.

Zhan Hongxiu visited Peach Blossom Island to observe Fang Xianyuan's Qiujin attempt and supplied Pure Yang Heavenly Firmament Gold for his ritual sword. Three months later, Fang began the dangerous Lunar Yin Corpse-Release rite, which appeared to be succeeding until an ominous change erupted above the platform.

• Zhan Hongxiu arrived at Peach Blossom Island and learned that Fang Xianyuan planned to attempt Qiujin through Liberation by Violence.
• Fang explained the Lunar Yin Corpse-Release method and asked Zhan Hongxiu to help perform it, but she declined and offered Pure Yang Heavenly Firmament Gold for his ritual sword.
• Fang scheduled his Qiujin attempt for three months later, while Qin Ruxue and the others said they would make their own attempts in the following years.
• Three months later, Zhan Hongxiu and the others watched from the Great Void as Fang began the rite on Peach Blossom Island, with the island cleared of low-level cultivators.
• Fang used the Pure Yang Ritual Sword to kill himself, and his corpse decayed as feathers covered it while his Divine Abilities formed a pillar of light that drew Lunar Yin power to a growing infant spirit.
• Zhan Hongxiu believed Fang was close to succeeding, but Mingyue and Qin Ruxue sensed that the conspicuous display was wrong, and a sudden change erupted above the platform.

Fang Xianyuan survived his failed attempt to claim the Lunar Yin position by condensing a Divine Elixir, and Fang Qing appointed him Jade Dust Envoy to guard the Fang Family. A year later, after watching others achieve the same transformation, Zhan Hongxiu began considering a quest for the Lunar Yin Golden Nature herself.

• Fang Xianyuan awakened from his apparent breakthrough, used the Lunar Yin Return-to-Profundity Divine-Elixir Mind Method, and merged his four Divine Abilities into a Divine Elixir.
• Fang Xianyuan's Lunar Yin Dharma Body transformed Peach Blossom Island, while Zhong Lingxiu explained to Zhan Hongxiu that a Divine Elixir lacked the authority of a True Lord's position.
• Xu the Immortal Official brought Fang Xianyuan to Jade Dust Hall, where Fang Qing appointed him Jade Dust Envoy and assigned him to Spirit-Ease Blessed Land to guard the Fang Family.
• Fang Qing watched Zhong Lingxiu attempt to seek the Vacant Position and told Xu the Immortal Official to wait before bringing any further Divine Elixir candidates to him.
• A year later, Zhan Hongxiu reflected on Zhong Lingxiu, Yu Xiang'er, Qin Ruxue, and other cultivators becoming Divine Elixirs, then considered seeking the Lunar Yin Golden Nature herself.

Mingyue succeeded in attaining the lunar yin golden seat and became the Moon-Chasing Xuanlin Primordial Sovereign, then pledged herself to Fang Qing and helped him cultivate. Meanwhile, Fang Xianyuan returned as a powerful Lunar Divine Elixir cultivator and discussed the Zeng Clan’s break with Fang Daoling.

• Mingyue completed her lunar yin manifestations, attained the golden seat, and announced herself as the Moon-Chasing Xuanlin Primordial Sovereign.
• Fang Qing welcomed Mingyue into Jade Dust Hall, where she offered to serve him, and he summoned lunar yin authority to aid his cultivation.
• Xu the Immortal Official told Qin Ruxue, Zhong Lingxiu, and Yu Xiang'er to teach the next generation at a steadier pace because the heavens no longer urgently needed manpower.
• Fang Daoling learned that Fang Xianyuan had returned from another world as a Lunar Divine Elixir cultivator whose power nearly matched a Golden Core True Lord.
• Fang Xianyuan accepted that Zeng Qingshu had joined the Vast Sea Sect and said the women of the Zeng Clan who remained with the Fang Family might preserve some of their bloodline.

The master of Jade Dust Hall manifested the [Cold Intercalation] Golden Seat by borrowing [Lunar Yin], reshaping Water Virtue and bringing changes to the lower world. Zhan Hongxiu investigated the effects across the Eastern Sea Cultivation Realm and realized the new cold influence had transformed cultivation and spiritual materials.

• The master of Jade Dust Hall used [Lunar Yin] to manifest the [Cold Intercalation] Golden Seat, prompting Qin Ruxue, Yu Xiang'er, Zhong Lingxiu, and Xu the Immortal Official to recognize the exalted seat's significance.
• Zhan Hongxiu considered seeking a Golden Seat but learned from Turtle Elder that the changed Great Void might have closed her route of ascension.
• Zhan Hongxiu sensed that heaven and earth had changed, then ordered the Myriad Stars Alliance to investigate strange occurrences throughout the Eastern Sea Cultivation Realm.
• Venerable Lingmiao reported that water-attribute cultivation had improved and that his magical power had gained a harmless trace of coldness.
• Wood Elder told Zhan Hongxiu that most spiritual waters had changed, disrupting existing pill formulas but creating new cold-attribute materials that could eventually advance Water-Method Alchemy.

Fang Qing experimented with combining Golden Seats and discovered that Great Void, Temporal Light, Winnowing Basket Water, and Wings Fire could briefly give him Golden Core Perfection power, though the strain cracked his Law Body. Using the Temporal Light Golden Seat, he looked into the past and witnessed the Great Sun Year Guardian create Primordial Beginning Heaven and seal the Profound Thunder Golden Seat inside it.

• Fang Qing manifested the Cold Intercalation Golden Seat through the void and advanced to Late Golden Core.
• Fang Qing used the Dao-Born Pearl to combine Golden Seats, finding that Lunar Yin and then Wings Fire could temporarily raise his power beyond Late Golden Core.
• Fang Qing paired Great Void, Temporal Light, Winnowing Basket Water, and Wings Fire, forming a terrifying Golden Core Perfection state that Moon-Chasing Xuanlin Primordial Sovereign hid from.
• Fang Qing found that the space-time, water-and-fire combination severely cracked his Law Body, while Profound Thunder could balance other Golden Seat combinations at Late Golden Core.
• Fang Qing traced the past through Temporal Light and saw the Great Sun Year Guardian create Primordial Beginning Heaven and seal the Profound Thunder Golden Seat inside.

Fang Qing used the Primordial Dragon Envoy as a pawn in Flood-Dragon Palace and decided to seize the Three Stars Water Primary Position before the Great Sun became a Year Guardian. He reached the sleeping Heaven-Dawn Spirit Abyss Dragon Lord with the Water-Dividing Dragon King, leaving his plan poised to begin.

• Fang Qing inferred that the Kitchen Lord and the Great Sun Year Guardian had been competing over Zhan Hongxiu’s fate and resolved to act quickly when Primordial Beginning Heaven opened.
• Fang Qing took control of the Primordial Dragon Envoy, whom he had secretly planted beside the Heaven-Dawn Spirit Abyss Dragon Lord, and chose to pursue the Three Stars Water Primary Position.
• Fang Qing considered joining forces with two Heavenly Horn Sect Wood Virtue cultivators to eliminate the Heaven-Dawn Spirit Abyss Dragon Lord and claim his Golden Seat.
• The Water-Dividing Dragon King met the Primordial Dragon Envoy and offered him three hundred boys and girls, then accompanied him to report on the urgent Chariot Water matter.
• Fang Qing and the Water-Dividing Dragon King reached the Dragon Lord’s lair, where they found the immense Heaven-Dawn Spirit Abyss Dragon Lord asleep.

Fang Qing joined forces with two [Horn Wood] True Lords to ambush Heaven-Dawn Spirit Abyss Dragon Lord and killed him before the other True Lords could intervene. Back at Jade Dust Hall, Fang Qing absorbed his [Three Stars Water] golden seat and advanced to late Golden Core.

• Azure Spirit Brocade-Completion Universal Aid Origin Lord and Eastern Pole Year Guardian Azure Root surrounded the Flood-Dragon Palace and confronted Heaven-Dawn Spirit Abyss Dragon Lord.
• Fang Qing revealed himself as True Lord Returning All Rivers to the Sea and used the [Cold Intercalation] power he had planted in the Dragon Lord to freeze him.
• Fang Qing unleashed the power of the [Great Void] golden seat and killed Heaven-Dawn Spirit Abyss Dragon Lord, while the watching True Lords failed to identify him.
• Fang Qing brought the Dragon Lord's body and golden seats to Jade Dust Hall and suppressed the [Three Stars Water] primary position with the Dao-Born Pearl.
• Fang Qing absorbed [Three Stars Water] and became a late Golden Core Water Virtue True Lord.

Fang Qing prepared a reserve plan for claiming the [Chariot Water] Golden Seat by transforming Fang Daoling into a [Chariot Water] cultivator, while Song Qingzhou’s new Divine Ability revealed danger to the Vast Sea Sect. The chapter left Zeng Qingshui confronting a late-Purple-Mansion White Crane Demon King after Song Qingzhou warned that Zeng Qingshu had fallen into a deadly calamity.

• Fang Qing concluded that he needed the [Chariot Water] Principal Position for the safest route to Water Virtue [Year Guardian], and summoned Fang Daoling to prepare him as a backup candidate.
• Fang Qing replaced Fang Daoling’s [Winnowing Basket Water] Divine Abilities with [Chariot Water] abilities, gave him cultivation materials and a Gold-Seeking Method, and ordered him to train at Inch-Gold Hall.
• Song Qingzhou emerged from seclusion with two [Chariot Water] Divine Abilities and used “Facing the Abyss” to discern that the Vast Sea Sect’s disciples faced a deadly calamity.
• Song Qingzhou sensed that Zeng Qingshu’s fate had dimmed, so Zeng Qingshui rushed into the Great Void to find him.
• Zeng Qingshui reached a grassland and discovered a late-Purple-Mansion White Crane Demon King watching Zeng Qingshu, prompting him to suspect he had been lured into a trap.

Fang Xianyao learned that a demon invasion had begun after a Purple Mansion cultivator fell, while Song Qingzhou escaped a battle with the Blackwater Mysterious Serpent’s Attendant Deity. He retreated to Spirit-Ease Blessed Land and discovered that Fang Xianyuan had become powerful enough to dismiss the demon threat, though he still wondered whether his brother was truly himself.

• Fang Xianyao reached mid Dao Foundation and, after seeing a Purple Mansion cultivator’s death signaled by [Turtle Beak Fire], ordered the Fang Family to abandon its outposts and retreat to its main clan.
• The Blackwater Mysterious Serpent’s Attendant Deity wounded Song Qingzhou and ordered the Demon Race’s army to march south.
• Fang Xianyao visited Spirit-Ease Blessed Land and mistook Fang Xianyuan’s enormous lunar yin manifestation for a True Lord possessing his brother.
• Fang Xianyao told Fang Xianyuan that Zeng Qingshu had fallen and the Northern Plains demons were invading, while Cangmingzi had failed to save him and suffered injuries.
• Fang Xianyuan claimed he could kill the Attendant Deity with one breath, leaving Fang Xianyao relieved by the clan’s powerful ally but uncertain whether Fang Xianyuan was really himself.

Fang Qing suspected the attack on the Vast Sea Sect was a prelude to a strike in the Esoteric Treasury. At Great Snow Mountain, a crimson wolf-shaped force clashed with a golden wing, and the Dumus and Duzis later found a feather of the Great Peng Wisdom King before the Buddha, leaving them to fear he had lost.

• Fang Qing connected the attack on the Vast Sea Sect to his hunt for the Heaven-Dawn Spirit Abyss Dragon Lord and predicted the real strike would come in the Esoteric Treasury.
• Duzi Invincible warned Moonlight White Tara, Medicine King Qing, and Empty Peacock that the Esoteric Treasury’s temple lineages were weakening, though Yuan Liansheng said his own lineage remained strong.
• Moonlight White Tara and the others saw Great Snow Mountain vanish as a crimson star appeared, and they identified it as [Kui Wood] and suspected Akasagarbha Bodhisattva had attacked.
• A golden wing appeared above the Thirty-Six Heavens of Tiangang and clashed with a crimson wolf-shaped force, forcing Moonlight White Tara and the others to take shelter in the temple.
• After the battle ended, Moonlight White Tara and the others found a golden feather of the Great Peng Wisdom King before the Buddha and feared he had been defeated.

Fang Qing learned that Great Peng Wisdom King had died to deliver a golden feather that served as a key to Great Sun Tathagata’s Buddha-Land. Using Sangji as a proxy, Fang Qing entered the Great Sun Dharma Realm and found himself trapped in a scripted dream set in High Antiquity.

• Fang Qing explained that Great Peng Wisdom King had used his death to deliver the golden feather, which revealed a path into Great Sun Tathagata’s Buddha-Land.
• Fang Qing assigned Moon-Chasing Xuanlin Primordial Sovereign the Qi Refinement Way’s [Lunar Yin] Golden Seat and told her to guide Zhan Hongxiu toward the [Lunar Yin] Guest Position.
• Fang Qing entered the Great Sun Dharma Realm through Sangji, using the golden feather as a key.
• After passing through a golden door, Sangji awoke in a dream with Dao Foundation-level power, and Fang Qing recognized the setting as High Antiquity.
• A noble headman and his serfs surrounded Fang Qing’s dream-self, intending to offer the monk to a Demon General.

Fang Qing experienced the Discipline Sect monk’s life in High Antiquity, from his sacrifice to the founding of the Esoteric Sect, while gaining insight into several Golden Seats. The dream’s final trial changed when the Lunar Yin [Year Guardian] emerged as Great Sun Tathagata’s true enemy, leaving Fang Qing to face the battle with its teachings and powers.

• A Discipline Sect monk let mortals bind and sacrifice him, then accepted food from a slave girl before a rat-demon prepared to eat him.
• Fang Qing regained control, killed the rat demon and dissolved the surrounding people in an Ink Pool, then watched the monk gain merit from the demon’s defeat.
• Fang Qing experienced events involving Chariot Water, Net Moon, Yuezhuo and Bi Yue Crow, gaining insight into the [Emptiness Sun] Golden Seat.
• The aged monk established the Esoteric Sect in the Secret Treasury Domain, and Fang Qing realized Great Sun Tathagata had made him experience its history through a dream.
• The Secret Treasury split open as the Great Sun [Year Guardian] emerged, and Fang Qing understood that the dream’s final enemy had changed.

Fang Qing defeated the Great Sun [Year Guardian]'s corpse in the dream with the Womb-Realm Sun-Wheel Great Awe Divine Thunder, exposing Moon-Palace Embryo-Forming Origin Lord. In the Secret Treasury Domain, Great Sun Tathagata began a desperate attempt to become a [Year Guardian], but Great Sun Dragon-Phoenix Fuyu Primordial Sovereign appeared to challenge him.

• Fang Qing used [Profound Thunder] and the Womb-Realm Sun-Wheel Great Awe Divine Thunder to break the Great Sun [Year Guardian]'s golden armor and shatter the dream, revealing Moon-Palace Embryo-Forming Origin Lord.
• Moonlight White Tara saw Esoteric Treasury temples and spells collapsing as monks sought refuge with Namo White Bone Manifestation Great Compassion Tathagata.
• Great Sun Tathagata appeared through a gate of rainbow-body essences, manifested three suns and a [Tathagata] Golden Seat, and began drawing power from the three suns to become a [Year Guardian].
• Cultivators across the world recognized that Great Sun Tathagata was making a desperate gamble to strike the reviving [Year Guardian].
• Fang Qing, controlling Sangji in the Eight Cold Forest Buddha Lands, realized Great Sun Tathagata had briefly escaped the [Year Guardian]'s influence after his victory in the dream.
• Great Sun Dragon-Phoenix Fuyu Primordial Sovereign appeared in a newly risen Great Sun, threatening Great Sun Tathagata's attempt.

Fang Qing adjusted time around Song Qingzhou while the world’s attention was on the Great Sun Tathagata’s struggle for [Year Guardian]. In the Qi Refinement Way, Zhan Hongxiu attained the [Lunar Yin] Guest Position as the Ninefold Year-Spirit Pure Radiance Primordial Sovereign, but Primordial Beginning Heaven tried to force her to ascend, and Fang Qing blocked the realms from intersecting.

• Zeng Qingshui sealed the Vast Sea Sect behind its Purple Mansion formation after seeing three suns in the sky.
• Fang Qing froze time across the Vast Sea Sect, altered the flow of time in Song Qingzhou’s cave abode, concealed the change with Lunar Yin, and preserved Zeng Qingshui’s memories of the True Lord Returning All Rivers to the Sea.
• Zhan Hongxiu decided to seek the [Lunar Yin] Golden Seat, took the mystic medicine given by the Moon-Chasing Xuanlin Primordial Sovereign, and began the breakthrough on Peach Blossom Island.
• Zhan Hongxiu fused with the [Lunar Yin] Guest Position and proclaimed herself the Ninefold Year-Spirit Pure Radiance Primordial Sovereign.
• Primordial Beginning Heaven began forcing Zhan Hongxiu to ascend, but Fang Qing appeared and prevented the two realms from intersecting without his approval.

Fang Qing let Primordial Beginning Heaven merge with the Breath-Nourishing Dao, giving him a chance to seize authority while Zhan Hongxiu ascended into a Lunar Yin Golden Core True Lord. The chapter ended with Turtle Elder recognizing Venerable Fuyu and rushing toward her, only to be burned away by Room Sun radiance.

• Fang Qing released his control over Primordial Beginning Heaven, and Zhan Hongxiu was drawn upward as the worlds began to merge.
• Primordial Beginning Heaven appeared in the Breath-Nourishing Dao, pulling hidden Grotto-Heavens and Blessed Lands into view.
• Fang Qing's Winnowing Basket Water Principal Position displaced Mystic Void Subtle Origin Lord's, while Moon-Chasing Xuanlin Primordial Sovereign revealed the Lunar Yin Golden Seat.
• Zhan Hongxiu seized authority from three of the Four-Moon orthodoxies and descended into the Breath-Nourishing Dao as Ninefold Year-Spirit Pure Radiance Primordial Sovereign.
• Zhan Hongxiu recognized Venerable Fuyu on the Fusang Branch and called Turtle Elder to her; after Fang Qing released his hold on him, Turtle Elder flew toward Fuyu and dissolved in Room Sun radiance.

Fang Qing’s allies helped Song Qingzhou seize the Chariot Water Golden Seat, while Fang Qing revealed his restored power and killed Akasagarbha Bodhisattva. The struggle escalated as other True Lords attacked Fang Qing and Song Qingzhou.

• Zhan Hongxiu used Lunar Yin power to attack the weakened Great Sun Dragon-Phoenix Fuyu Primordial Sovereign as the master of the Nether Bureau emerged from a Ghost Gate and attacked her.
• Fang Qing opened the Vast Sea Sect’s mountain gate and released Song Qingzhou, whose four Chariot Water Divine Abilities had reached perfection.
• Fang Xianyuan intercepted and froze the Blackwater Mysterious Serpent Attendant Deity before it could stop Song Qingzhou.
• Song Qingzhou transformed into a dragon, swallowed the Chariot Water Golden Seat, and became True Lord Sea-Tide Clear Harmony.
• Fang Qing revealed Akasagarbha Bodhisattva’s role in supporting Song Qingzhou, then froze and killed him.
• Heavenly Smelting Wu Yue Profound Sword True Lord attacked True Lord Sea-Tide Clear Harmony while a Shen Metal Immortal-Binding Prison appeared before Fang Qing.

Fang Qing shattered the Metal Virtue True Treasure, killed True Lord Sea-Tide Clear Harmony, and assembled Water Virtue’s Four Waters Dao Lineage. As the Breath-Nourishing Dao world broke apart, Moon-Palace Embryo-Forming Origin Lord began seeking Year Guardian, forcing Fang Qing to reconsider when and how he could advance.

• Fang Qing shattered the golden bars of the Metal Virtue True Treasure, unleashing its sword slaves and causing Heavenly Smelting Wu Yue Profound Sword True Lord to turn blood-mad.
• Moon-Palace Embryo-Forming Origin Lord disrupted Great Sun Tathagata’s breakthrough, while Fang Qing killed True Lord Sea-Tide Clear Harmony and let the Chariot Water Principal Position return to heaven and earth.
• Fang Qing took Fang Daoling’s Chariot Water Secondary Position and completed his Four Waters Dao Lineage with Winnowing Basket Water, Chariot Water, Three Stars Water, and Cold Intercalation.
• Fang Qing realized he had to choose between seeking Year Guardian within the Breath-Nourishing Dao world and leaving with the four Golden Seats to prevent anyone else from surpassing Year Guardian.
• Fang Qing saw that the world had shattered into fragments and recognized that Moon-Palace Embryo-Forming Origin Lord was now seeking Year Guardian.

Fang Qing and the Moon-Palace Embryo-Forming Origin Lord began ascending to [Year Guardian] as the Breath-Nourishing Dao world collapsed around them. The chapter left both ascensions underway while the Nine-Heavens Fire Manor’s Golden Core discovered the Devil Ancestor’s hidden Primordial Devil Heaven.

• The Metal Virtue [Year Guardian] revived his four golden seats and attacked the Moon-Palace Embryo-Forming Origin Lord, cutting down the Great Sun Dragon-Phoenix Fuyu Primordial Sovereign before the Origin Lord countered with the corpse of the former Great Sun [Year Guardian].
• Fang Qing began his own Water Virtue [Year Guardian] ascension, recalling his incarnations and avatars as the Dao-Born Pearl stirred.
• The world shattered under the competing ascensions, while the Azure Root True Lord and the Azure Spirit Brocade-Completion Universal Aid Origin Lord steadied their territory and Fang Xianyuan sheltered the Azure Departure Fang Family.
• The Nine-Heavens Fire Manor’s Golden Core used great void starflame to reveal a surviving grotto-heaven and recognized it as the Devil Ancestor’s Primordial Devil Heaven.

Zhan Hongxiu was captured by the Kitchen Lord in the Nether Bureau as the Heart Demon Golden Seat awakened and disrupted the world. Fang Qing became a Water Virtue Year Guardian, erased the Heart Demon Great Sage, and confronted the half-mad Great Sun Year Guardian, who attacked him through his past.

• The Kitchen Lord captured Zhan Hongxiu and explained that her Guest Position could prevent her from advancing, while proposing that she reincarnate.
• The Heart Demon Golden Seat emerged from the collapse of Primordial Devil Heaven, unleashing a tribulation that afflicted cultivators and interfered with the Year Guardians' advances.
• Fang Qing became a Water Virtue Year Guardian and erased the Heart Demon Great Sage by restoring Primordial Devil Heaven to a time before its emergence.
• The Great Sun Year Guardian reached back to Fang Qing's birth and sent a vast hand to kill him, but Fang Qing erased the attack from his past.
• Fang Qing recognized that the Great Sun Year Guardian had lost control and prepared to fight her, with the option of escaping and cutting off her path to further advancement.

Fang Qing left the Breath-Nourishing Dao after battling the Great Sun [Year Guardian] and took control of the Myriad Beasts Immortal Palace in the Spirit Realm. He cultivated a new Golden Nature and sent an avatar into the heavens beyond to settle his karmic debt with the Devil Ancestor, while preparing to grow strong enough to face the Great Sun [Year Guardian] again.

• The Nether Bureau's ghosts and gods wept blood as the battle between Fang Qing and the Great Sun [Year Guardian] threatened to erase history and everyone in it.
• Fang Qing concluded that the Great Sun [Year Guardian] was stronger, then traveled beyond the Breath-Nourishing Dao with the Dao-Born Pearl sealing his four Golden Seats.
• Fang Qing appeared in the Myriad Beasts Immortal Palace, took control of it, and used its Karmic Dao to identify the Heart Demon left by the Devil Ancestor.
• Fang Qing cultivated in the palace and formed the Heavenly Water Pivot-Holding Year Nature from his merged Golden Seats.
• Fang Qing sent a Golden Nature avatar into the heavens beyond with a Karmic Divine Talisman to settle his debt with the Devil Ancestor.
• Fang Qing sensed that the Great Sun [Year Guardian] had gone into hiding and that the remaining True Lords had joined fragments of the Breath-Nourishing Dao into a small continent.

Fang Qing reincarnated into a powerful world as a young martial hero and awakened his past-life memories after nearly dying on Eyebrow Mountain. He killed the warriors who had abandoned him as bait and confronted the Red-Brow Old Daoist, demanding his wages and life.

• Fang Qing entered a world with abundant spiritual energy and reincarnated into a body that had not awakened its past-life memories for eighteen years.
• Fang Qing recovered from his mortal wound and learned from his memories that the Red-Brow Old Daoist had treated him as a servant and left him to distract a monster.
• Fang Qing followed the trail out of the forest and found the Red-Brow Old Daoist and his disciples at a camp beside a stream.
• Fang Qing killed the golden-robed warrior who had abandoned him and cut down the other martial heroes with his sword.
• Fang Qing demanded that the Red-Brow Old Daoist give him a cultivation method and pay him with his life.

Fang Qing defeated the Red-Brow Old Daoist and seized his magical belongings and scripture. Reading the Thirty-Six Arts of Mount Mei, he learned that cultivation followed many different paths, but the scripture contained only eighteen spells and no cultivation method.

• The Red-Brow Old Daoist empowered his attendant with a pill and spell, but Fang Qing pierced the attendant's mouth and killed him.
• The Red-Brow Old Daoist attacked Fang Qing with the Yin Soldier Armored-Horse Talisman and his Blood-Crossed Brows, but Fang Qing broke through his defenses with sword qi and killed him.
• Fang Qing searched the Red-Brow Old Daoist's body and found the Thirty-Six Arts of Mount Mei, a crimson gourd, and a black iron token.
• Fang Qing read the scripture and learned about the four broad cultivation paths and the diverse schools within the unorthodox and eclectic traditions.
• Fang Qing realized the scripture held only eighteen of the promised thirty-six arts, then reacted with surprise while calculating on his fingers.

Fang Qing used his insight into the Karmic Dao to uncover the debt attached to the Thirty-Six Arts of Mount Mei, then killed the snake demon holding the other half. After completing the inheritance, he considered the Arts Cultivator path but decided to seek an orthodox Daoist inheritance instead.

• Fang Qing realized the Mount Mei inheritance carried a karmic debt and that the snake demon on Eyebrow Mountain possessed its other half.
• Fang Qing recognized the snake demon as the creature that had killed his predecessor and used the Yin Soldier Armored-Horse Talisman to kill it.
• The snake demon’s Primordial Spirit attacked Fang Qing’s sea of consciousness and was destroyed.
• Fang Qing recovered the other half of the Thirty-Six Arts of Mount Mei and read the complete set of spells, including the Three-Corpses Primordial Spirit Technique.
• Fang Qing concluded that the Arts Cultivator path was inferior and resolved to seek an orthodox Daoist inheritance.

Shen Yanqiu and Su Qinghui followed a mysterious inheritance’s signs while searching for the Dragon-Slaying Sword, and Fang Qing reached the same opportunity first. He opened an immortal’s jade box and obtained a spirit sword and an Elder Water Immortal Sky Scripture.

• Shen Yanqiu and Su Qinghui discussed their search for the Dragon-Slaying Sword and the strange inheritance book that pointed toward a coming opportunity.
• Fang Qing used pills to power the Forest-Walking Method and climbed to a cliff where he collected extraordinary pinecones.
• Fang Qing sensed that the cliff’s opportunity already had an owner and that powerful beings had been scheming over it.
• Fang Qing found a hidden jade box in a cave and opened it, causing a white dragon carrying a Sky Scripture to emerge.
• Fang Qing caught the dragon, which became a spirit sword, and identified the Sky Scripture as an Elder Water Immortal inheritance.