Recaps

Fang Qing trapped Sangji in the Mystic Ice Skyveil Formation and overpowered the Perfected Dao Foundation guru in a fierce battle. He pressed the Great Sun Empowerment Secret Art against Sangji’s head to convert him, and Sangji realized Fang Qing was a direct disciple of the Temple of the Supreme Source of All Dharmas.

• Sangji discovered Fang Qing’s presence through a fire offering and rushed alone to subdue him in Xituo Commandery.
• Fang Qing used the Mystic Ice Skyveil Formation to trap Sangji and fought off his Maiden Earth Dao Foundation and Brahma artifacts.
• Sangji mistook Fang Qing for a Dharma King’s Duzi and accused another temple of interfering with his destiny.
• Fang Qing battered Sangji with his treasures and the formation until Sangji’s artifacts fell and he was frozen in place.
• Fang Qing pressed the Great Sun Empowerment Secret Art to Sangji’s head, and Sangji recognized Fang Qing as a direct disciple of the Temple of the Supreme Source of All Dharmas.

Fang Qing overcame Sangji’s attempt to summon the Lord of the Charnel Forest, converted him, and arranged to pose as one of Sangji’s Mingzi while hiding his identity at Deathless Temple. After learning Sangji’s plans and Esoteric Treasury teachings, Fang Qing prepared to acquire the [Maiden Earth] magical power needed to make the disguise convincing.

• Fang Qing used a spirit talisman and the Dao-Born Pearl to destroy the Lord of the Charnel Forest’s aspect in Sangji’s spiritual sanctum and convert Sangji.
• Fang Qing ordered Sangji to conceal their true relationship and appointed himself to the vacant Miaohuo Bright Son position.
• Sangji proposed delaying his required breakthrough by requesting resources and eventually entering seclusion at Deathless Temple, potentially buying decades for Fang Qing.
• Sangji presented Fang Qing as a subdued Outer Dao practitioner to Wisdom Consort Miao Shui and announced that he would empower him as a Mingzi.
• Sangji taught Fang Qing about his cultivation methods and explained that the disguise required [Maiden Earth] magical power.
• Fang Qing asked Sangji for Bone-Seed Incense, and Sangji produced a portion of seventh-order high-grade qi.

Fang Qing established his Dao Foundation, joined the White Bone Way as Mingzi Fang Shui, and gained control of its resources while Sangji prepared to enter seclusion. The chapter left Fang Qing settled into his new identity in Ancient Shu and ready to cultivate in relative safety.

• Fang Qing studied the Earth Scripture, established his Dao Foundation, and asked Sangji about the cultivation world and the Temple of the Great Sun Wheel.
• Sangji announced that he would enter seclusion and named Fang Shui head of the Five Bright Sons and acting leader of the White Bone Way.
• Miaofeng Bright Son and Bright Consort Qingjing apologized to Fang Qing, who thanked them and asked to see the White Bone Way's storerooms.
• Fang Qing inspected the underground storehouses, claimed Dragon-Elephant Ghee for cultivation, and left Miao Shan in charge of the White Bone Way's daily affairs.
• Miaofeng Bright Son and Bright Consort Qingjing discussed how to handle the Silver Vase girl and considered giving Fang Qing a gift.
• Fang Qing secured his room and reflected that his new identity would let him trade more safely with powerful cultivators.

Fang Qing visited Xituo Commandery as a White Bone Way Mingzi and sought a Life Spring Flower from the Zeng Clan. The Zeng Clan surrendered it without bargaining, and Fang Qing exempted them from that year's tribute.

• Fang Qing studied Sangji's inheritance and reflected on the Esoteric Treasury's teachings and its methods of empowerment and reincarnation.
• Fang Qing inspected Xituo Commandery with Miao Shui, who described its resources, families, and dependence on incense offerings.
• Fang Qing visited the Zeng Clan to obtain its Life Spring Flower and watched Miao Shui demand that the family offer him a young woman to serve tea.
• Fang Qing sent the frightened girl away and asked Zeng Qingye for the Life Spring Flower, which the patriarch handed over without requesting an exchange.
• Fang Qing accepted the flower and exempted the Zeng Clan from that year's tribute.

Fang Qing discussed the Zeng Clan’s [Turtle Beak Fire] Dao Foundation, then learned about Water Virtue inheritances and gave Sangji a Purple Mansion spiritual treasure for his own use. He later met Princess Qingling of the Azure Bird Tribe at Deathless Temple, where Li Rulong served as her guard.

• Fang Qing discussed the Zeng Clan’s Stagnant Cloud Smoke and [Turtle Beak Fire] Dao Foundations, and Zeng Qingye explained the inheritance’s unstable fate and its cultivators’ hardships.
• Fang Qing returned to Deathless Temple and asked Sangji to find Water Virtue lineages, learning about the Eastwater White Clan and the Vast Sea Sect.
• Sangji told Fang Qing that the Temple of All Living Beings Without Form would send an Yin-Earth Spirit Jade Wall, but Fang Qing told him to keep it to aid his own attempt to reach Purple Mansion.
• Miao Shui told Fang Qing that a noble guest from the Azure Bird Tribe had arrived, and explained the tribe’s descent from Fallen Phoenix Mountain’s Phoenix.
• Fang Qing met Princess Qingling, the Green Clam Demon General, and saw Li Rulong serving as her guard.

Fang Qing learned that the Azure Bird Tribe’s move south might conceal a great demon’s attempt to attain the Golden Seat, while the beings above the Golden Seat appeared to be growing more active. He resolved to proceed cautiously and wondered who had obtained the Kitchen Lord divinity.

• Green Clam proposed that the Azure Bird Tribe and White Bone Way cooperate, but Fang Qing declined to commit while his master was in seclusion.
• Green Clam told Li Rulong that Sangji might emerge as a Dharma King and that the White Bone Way could eventually have six Purple Mansion cultivators; Qingling asked Li Rulong if he wanted to become one.
• Miao Shui warned Fang Qing that the Azure Bird Tribe’s Purple Mansion Peak great demon might be pursuing the Golden Seat by bringing calamity to the world.
• Sangji suggested the Azure Bird Tribe’s outreach could be a decoy and confirmed that no one had attained the Golden Seat during the Near Antiquity.
• Sangji calculated that Golden Seat attempts had become more frequent, and Fang Qing suspected beings above the Golden Seat were recovering and exerting influence.
• Fang Qing reviewed the world’s history, cautioned himself against trusting divinations or underestimating powerful beings, and wondered who had obtained the Kitchen Lord divinity.

Fang Qing refined a Life Spring Pill, reviewed events on Supreme White Island, and learned that Zhan Hongxiu had become a disciple on Three Origins Island. A jade pendant tied to his old measure on Zhan Hongxiu began glowing as she approached Supreme White Island.

• Fang Qing learned that Qin Ruxue had reached the middle stage of Foundation Establishment and considered whether reincarnation could improve her aptitude in another life.
• Fang Qing authorized Xu Hei to trade across Ancient Shu and began refining the Life Spring Flower at the Ice Soul Cold Spring.
• After several months, Fang Qing successfully refined the Life Spring Pill, which could help an early Dao Foundation [Winnowing Basket Water] cultivator break through.
• Xiang Dahu and Bei Lingshu reported that demonic cultivators had probed the island and that the wider conflict had grown more stable.
• Bei Lingshu told Fang Qing that a cultivator named Zhan Hongxiu lived on Three Origins Island and zealously hunted the Jiang Family's remnants.
• Fang Qing's jade pendant began glowing, indicating that Zhan Hongxiu was near Supreme White Island.

Zhan Hongxiu traveled to Supreme White Island to seek a Mystic-Soul Restoration Pill for her injured master, Greenwater Wanderer. Fang Qing agreed to refine it after extracting her valuable possessions, and she remained hopeful that he would save her master.

• Zhan Hongxiu and her junior brother arrived near Supreme White Island, seeking its guardian's help after other alchemists failed to refine the pill their master needed.
• Xiang Dahu escorted Zhan Hongxiu to Fang Qing, who said he could refine the Mystic-Soul Restoration Pill despite only one attempt's worth of ingredients remaining.
• Zhan Hongxiu offered a high-grade spirit stone and thousand-year-old spirit herbs, but Fang Qing demanded more because her master's life was at stake.
• Fang Qing discovered an Ice-Soul Pearl Talisman Treasure in Zhan Hongxiu's belongings and claimed it alongside the spirit stone, herbs, and everything else in her storage pouch.
• Fang Qing promised success, noticed Zhan Hongxiu's hairpin, and left her with Bei Lingshu while privately deciding to take her hidden reserves another time.

Fang Qing refined a Mystic-Soul Restoration Pill for Zhan Hongxiu, kept a second pill for himself, and resumed cultivating toward Foundation Establishment perfection. After Zhan Hongxiu returned to Three Origins Island with the medicine, Fang Qing received word that a Foundation Establishment cultivator had come to visit.

• Fang Qing used the ice soul cold spring to refine a Mystic-Soul Restoration Pill and reflected on the Ice-Soul Pearl Talisman Treasure and his divination abilities.
• Fang Qing gave Zhan Hongxiu and her scholarly junior brother one Mystic-Soul Restoration Pill, then kept a second pill he had refined from the same pool.
• Zhan Hongxiu returned to Three Origins Island with the pill, and Lu Lingfeng and the other disciples prepared to deliver it to Greenwater Wanderer.
• Fang Qing cultivated with the Azure Sea Method, reached fifty-two drops of liquid mana, and considered preparing for Core Formation and its heavenly tribulation.
• Xiang Dahu informed Fang Qing that a Foundation Establishment cultivator had come to visit.

After refining a pill for Greenwater Wanderer, Fang Qing realized his alchemy had drawn the attention of the Sea-Extinguishing Alliance. Months later, Yu Xiang'er came to abduct him for Heavenly Heart Island, but Fang Qing overpowered her and left her fate unresolved.

• Greenwater Wanderer thanked Fang Qing for saving her and offered him a ten-percent silent share in Three Talents Market, but he declined.
• Fang Qing refused visiting-card requests for pills and suspected that revealing his alchemy skills had attracted the Sea-Extinguishing Alliance.
• Yu Xiang'er arrived at Supreme White Island intending to capture Fang Qing and take him to Heavenly Heart Island.
• Fang Qing confronted Yu Xiang'er, used Maiden Earth to swallow her yin souls and Refined Corpses, and evaded the needles from her Heavenly Net Umbrella.
• Fang Qing struck Yu Xiang'er's umbrella with Slay-Break-Wolf, pierced her protective barrier, and placed his hand on her head as golden light shone from his eyes.

Fang Qing learned that the war in the Lesser Vast Sea remained under his watch while the Azure Bird Tribe’s invasion of Ancient Shu drove refugees toward Xituo Commandery. After opening West-Guard Pass to them, he learned that a great demon had killed General Ji Fengchun and received a slightly auspicious hexagram when he considered going to Fang Fortress.

• Fang Qing questioned Yu Xiang'er about Black Origin True Person and the Eastern Sea, identified Zhong Lingxiu as the source of the treasure map that brought Black Origin to the Lesser Vast Sea, and sent Yu Xiang'er back as his spy.
• Fang Qing learned from Miao Shan that the Azure Bird Tribe had taken nine passes and three commanderies, while the conflict was being orchestrated through bargains among powerful factions and had not yet cost a Purple Mansion cultivator.
• Fang Qing went to West-Guard Pass and saw refugees fleeing the invasion; Miao Feng had been charging cultivators spirit items to enter Xituo Commandery.
• Fang Qing ordered West-Guard Pass opened to the refugees, then overheard that a great demon had killed General Ji Fengchun and that Ancient Shu’s cultivators were too weakened to intervene.
• Fang Qing tried to calculate the situation at Fang Fortress, found that Ancient Shu’s muddled Heavenly Secrets blocked him, and received a slightly auspicious hexagram about going there himself.

Fang Qing traveled east through a war-ravaged land to check on the Fang Family, while Fang Jingchun and Fang Yixin prepared to flee Ba Commandery with the Hu Family. Their westbound convoy reached Hu Quan'an, who hinted that he had a task for the Fang family's armed men.

• Fang Qing saw starving refugees and dead along the road as he headed toward Fang Fortress.
• Fang Yixin told Fang Jingchun that the demon army was advancing and that the Hu Family planned to flee west; they discussed the Fang Family's secret cultivation manual and hidden stores of true essence.
• Fang Jingchun decided the Fang Family should escort the Hu Family, while splitting the family into branches to improve their chances of survival.
• Fang Yixin asked his wife to arrange for the Fang Family to travel with her relatives, and she warned that the Esoteric Treasury Monks might demand strong young men in Xituo Commandery.
• Several days later, the convoy traveled west, and Hu Quan'an told Fang Jingchun that he needed the Fang family's martial guards for something ahead.

Fang Yixin helped Hu Quan'an explore a hidden cave abode, where Hu Quan'an claimed a valuable Qi Ingestion Dharma Artifact and discovered the Fang Family's Earth-Origin Tempering qi. Hu Quan'an unexpectedly chose to refine it for the Fang Family, while Fang Qing watched and noted the strange profundity of Hu Quan'an's Yaolingxuan Dao Foundation.

• Fang Yixin recruited ten men and led them with Hu Quan'an to a concealed cave abode.
• Ma San shattered into rubble while pushing the stone door, and Hu Quan'an killed a fleeing man before Old Chen safely opened the entrance.
• Hu Quan'an found a Cloudcrag Sect cultivator's remains and took a Qi Ingestion Dharma Artifact, books, and spiritual herbs.
• Fang Yixin told Hu Quan'an that he wanted help for Wuchen and Wujiu, and Hu Quan'an acknowledged that cultivating them would require a breath of True Steam.
• Fang Jingchun realized Hu Quan'an had discovered the family's hidden Earth-Origin Tempering qi, but Hu Quan'an offered to refine it for them and support both families.
• Fang Qing watched Hu Quan'an meditate under the Heaven-Shielding Curtain and recognized the unusual profundity of his Yaolingxuan Dao Foundation.

Fang Qing encountered a Qi Ingestion cultivator carrying the Jun Heaven Pot, a Luo Family heirloom that could transport water veins, but returned it after divining that it might be bait. Elsewhere, True Person Sanji offered the youth with a divination ability a chance to enter Grand Yellow Heaven, and the youth agreed to help in exchange for several treasures and Stomach Earth destiny.

• Fang Qing left Ba Commandery after subtly influencing Hu Quan'an to support the Fang Family, then traveled onward on the Fire Raksha Bowl.
• Fang Qing stopped a group of Qi Ingestion cultivators pursuing a man with a Dao Foundation spirit artifact and examined the jade pot he carried.
• The cultivator explained that the Jun Heaven Pot had belonged to the Heavenly Water Luo Family before passing through the Kui'an Luo Clan, and Fang Qing returned it after divining an inauspicious omen.
• True Person Sanji met a youthful diviner on a black cliff and asked whether he had found enough children of destiny to open an East Sea Blessed Land.
• Sanji revealed that he sought help entering Grand Yellow Heaven, and the youth agreed after demanding several Purple Mansion spiritual treasures and a rich share of Stomach Earth destiny.

Fang Yixin and Hu Quan'an crossed into Xituo Commandery and sought a place for their families to settle, while Fang Qing reviewed reports from the commandery and learned that they had become tenant farmers under the Zeng Clan. Fang Qing resolved to keep a discreet eye on them, troubled by a sense that misfortune was approaching.

• Fang Yixin became a Qi Ingestion cultivator on the journey, and he and Fang Jingchun shared their cultivation art with the Hu Family as the two families agreed to cooperate.
• Fang Yixin and Hu Quan'an paid the White Bone Way’s checkpoint tax with spirit grass and passed West-Guard Pass, where they learned a Mingzi was stationed.
• Hu Quan'an explained that he hoped to rent spirit land through an old connection with the Zeng Clan, though the arrangement could demand steep rent and dangerous service.
• Fang Qing asked Sangji to contact Black Spring Temple about refining a Winnowing Basket Water Dao Foundation Spirit Artifact, and Sangji agreed to observe the Azure Bird Tribe’s great demon attaining Gold to buy Fang Qing more time.
• Fang Qing read a report stating that the Zeng Clan had taken in the Hu, Lu, Fang, and Le families as Qi Ingestion tenant farmers, and he decided to watch over them.

Fang Yixin struggled to cultivate while farming spirit rice under the Zeng Clan’s protection, while Fang Qing advanced rapidly and received a powerful artifact suited to Winnowing Basket Water. Fang Qing refined the Wondrous Spring Purification Vase and wondered how long it would take the Fang family to rise to his level.

• Fang Yixin and Hu Quan'an worked the Zeng Clan’s spirit fields, accepting an eighty-percent harvest share in exchange for protection from the Cultivator Bandits.
• Fang Yixin returned home to find Fang Jingchun frail and asleep, then cultivated through the night with little progress.
• Fang Yixin visited the town market, found spirit pills far beyond his means, and saw Zeng Yuchai enter a tavern with other clan members.
• Fang Qing emerged from seclusion after rapidly advancing his cultivation and met Miaofeng Bright Son, who presented him with the Wondrous Spring Purification Vase.
• Fang Qing transformed his foundation into Winnowing Basket Water, refined the vase with the Six-Syllable Great Illumination Mantra, and considered how the Fang family was faring.

Fang Qing emerged from seclusion after reaching Mid Dao Foundation and received an invitation for Sangji to witness a Great Demon attempt to attain the Golden Core. As Li Rulong prepared for a risky Purple Mansion breakthrough, Fang Qing weighed whether to accompany Sangji north and decided the journey could expose his secrets.

• Fang Qing broke through to Mid Dao Foundation after more than a year in seclusion and discovered new mysteries in his Dao Foundations, including mastery of wind escape.
• Fang Qing checked on the Lesser Vast Sea, found Three Talents Market thriving, and learned that the wider world was descending into chaos.
• Wisdom Consort Miao Shui told Fang Qing that the Azure Bird Tribe had sent an invitation for Sangji to witness a Great Demon attempt to attain the Golden Core.
• Li Rulong delivered the invitation and revealed that he and other veteran Demon Generals planned to risk premature Purple Mansion breakthroughs, prompting Fang Qing to suspect they were expendable pawns.
• Fang Qing took the invitation to Sangji, who asked him to travel north; Fang Qing feared exposure and wondered whether his old premonition about the Fang Family concerned this choice.

Fang Qing stayed hidden on Supreme White Island while Sangji traveled to the Azure Bird Tribe to witness a great demon’s attempt to ascend to the Golden Seat. At the royal encampment, True Person Sichen arrived, and Sangji was confronted by Tashi, who demanded that he give up his chance to become a Dharma King.

• Fang Qing decided to keep his Fang Shui identity and sent Sangji to attend the Azure Bird Tribe’s ceremony in his place.
• Fang Qing hid on Supreme White Island and used the Dao-Born Pearl to speak privately with Sangji, who assured him that no Purple Mansion cultivator could detect their conversations.
• Sangji traveled north with Miao Feng and Qingjing, and explained that the great demon seeking [Net Moon] was likely descended from the Silver Crow.
• True Person Sichen met Sangji at the Azure Bird Tribe’s royal encampment and praised him for delaying his breakthrough until after the upheaval caused by the Golden Seat ascent.
• Tashi of the Great Black Heaven Temple confronted Sangji and urged him to return to the temple so Tashi’s Black Heaven Way could claim the chance to attain the Dharma King’s path.

Suwu began his attempt to attain the Golden Seat through Net Moon while Li Rulong was secretly used to refine a Dragon-Tiger Grand Elixir. Suwu’s breakthrough reached its final stage, but the Golden Nature stalled after his fourth Divine Ability, leaving the outcome uncertain.

• Sangji refused Tashi’s challenge to debate the Brahma Dharma, while Sichen and the other Purple Mansion elders discussed Suwu’s plans and the coming Golden Seat attempt.
• Li Rulong swallowed a powerful Purple Mansion elixir, but Suwu appeared and used Profound Yin Silver Flame to refine him and Lord Pu into a Dragon-Tiger Grand Elixir.
• After a year, Fang Qing watched as Suwu appeared at the moon-shaped lake and began his Net Moon Golden Seat attempt, forming Nether Palace amid frost and rain.
• Suwu’s Frost-Rending Rain and Light Convergence gathered Emperor’s Flowing Essence as his Golden Nature began to form, drawing admiration from Sichen and Moluoshi.
• Suwu manifested his fourth Divine Ability, Heaven-Overturning, but the dark shell did not break, and a voice declared that the Golden Seat had shifted and the Divine Abilities could not answer.

The cultivators learned that the Golden Seat had changed, making many new-method Divine Abilities useless for attaining Golden Nature. Suwu failed its attempt and became an evil thing, while Fang Qing concluded that ancient methods were safer but beyond his abilities and wondered whether his Dao-Born Pearl could transform Divine Abilities.

• Moluoshi and the other cultivators discussed how the changed Golden Seat had invalidated old Divine Ability instructions, and Moluoshi suggested that ancient methods might still work.
• Softening Hardness appeared in the darkness, revealing that Suwu had combined the results of the Calendar-Intercalation rituals with the Dragon-Tiger Golden Elixir Method.
• Suwu failed to attain the Golden Seat and transformed into an evil thing whose gaze injured Miao Feng, Qingjing, and others; Moluoshi rescued them and identified the creature as a danger to the Demon Race.
• Moluoshi and Sangji suspected Cloud-Touching Cliff had sabotaged Suwu to devastate the Azure Bird Tribe, and Moluoshi ordered Sangji to enter seclusion and attempt to become a Dharma King.
• Fang Qing assessed the coming conflict and the dangers of new-method cultivation, then wondered whether his Dao-Born Pearl could transform Divine Abilities.

Fang Qing prepared to leave Supreme White Island and discovered he could divide the island’s Third-Order Spirit Spring, while Zhan Hongxiu reached Qi Refining Ninth Layer amid rising danger at Three Talents Market. After Lu Lingfeng and the Jiang Family betrayed Greenwater Wanderer and attacked the market, Zhan Hongxiu escaped as a Foundation Establishment cultivator arrived.

• Fang Qing filled the Wondrous Spring Purification Vase with Ice Soul Cold Spring water and realized his Winnowing Basket Water power could divide the Spirit Spring’s vein.
• Bei Lingshu told Fang Qing that Three Talents Market was thriving but threatened by rival Foundation Establishment forces and Cultivator Bandits.
• Zhan Hongxiu reached Qi Refining Ninth Layer and considered her options for Foundation Establishment while preparing to help Greenwater Wanderer.
• Lu Lingfeng shut down the market’s Second-Order formation and joined the Jiang Family cultivators, who revealed that their ancestor had reached Foundation Establishment and was attacking Greenwater Wanderer.
• Zhan Hongxiu’s junior disciple died saving her from an ambush, and she used Jia Wood Yang-Thunder Talismans to fend off her attackers.
• Zhan Hongxiu activated a Second-Order Low Grade escape talisman and fled the market as a Foundation Establishment cultivator arrived.

After months of rain ended, Fang Yixin learned that Ancient Shu was recruiting Rogue Cultivators, then lost his grandfather, Fang Jingchun. At Deathless Temple, Fang Qing accompanied Sangji into death seclusion and judged that Sangji had little chance of reaching the Dharma King stage, leaving Fang Qing considering escape.

• Fang Yixin finished harvesting Spirit Rice as the sun returned, and Xu Hei announced that Ancient Shu was recruiting Rogue Cultivators with rewards including Dao Foundation Pills.
• Fang Yixin learned that Old Tian had fled Ancient Shu’s misery and did not want to return, while the Lu Family cultivator grew excited about the promised rewards.
• Fang Yixin found Fang Jingchun dying; his grandfather asked to be buried facing east and died before finishing his final words.
• Xu Hei left Zeng Clan Town after completing a trade as the Fang family mourned Fang Jingchun.
• Fang Qing reflected that the deaths of the Three-Water Hollow residents had severed his old ties, then joined Miao Feng and the others to see Sangji enter death seclusion.
• Sangji sealed himself in a Purple Mansion-protected Mandala to pursue the Dharma King stage, while Fang Qing concluded that Sangji’s deficient fate made success unlikely and considered fleeing.

Fang Qing weighed his escape options as danger gathered around Deathless Temple, while Fang Yixin built hopes for his sons’ cultivation. The Zeng Clan led an assault on the Wu Family, but a sudden emerald-green flame turned the battle into a massacre and sent both sides fleeing.

• Fang Qing used divination to judge possible escape routes and decided he might need to wait for the northern danger to settle before leaving.
• Fang Yixin arranged for Fang Wuchen to learn Hu Quan'an’s cultivation method and secretly gathered Central Yellow Vapor from the spirit fields.
• Zeng Guangli summoned the tenant cultivators, and Zeng Qingye recruited Yuan Bukong and Xuan Lu to attack the Wu Family.
• The allied families broke through the Wu Family’s protective formation, and Wu Qishen appeared after his attack killed nearby Qi Ingestion cultivators.
• Zeng Qingye exposed Wu Qishen’s hiding place with Fisherman’s Lantern Fire, but an emerald-green true flame erupted and forced the battlefield’s cultivators to flee.

Fang Qing learned that the Withered-Bone Jade Flame had surfaced after Wu Qishen died, while Fang Yixin and Hu Quan'an returned to town and found the Le Family mourning its dead. The chapter ended with Zeng Clan's Ancestor Green Leaf returning safely, as Fang Yixin worried about the Le Family girl and considered arranging a betrothal with Wuchen.

• Wisdom Consort Miao Shui told Fang Qing that Wu Qishen's death had exposed the Withered-Bone Jade Flame, and Miao Feng went to claim it.
• Fang Yixin and Hu Quan'an fled the emerald fire, and Fang Yixin kept a storage pouch he found on the battlefield.
• Fang Yixin and Hu Quan'an learned that the Zeng Clan's ancestor had not returned and went to pay their respects at the Le Family home.
• Old Tian returned the Le Family ancestor's and family head's remains along with their storage pouches, while the family members eyed him with suspicion.
• Fang Yixin worried about the Le Family girl, and Hu Quan'an suggested he arrange a childhood betrothal between her and Wuchen.
• Zeng Clan's Ancestor Green Leaf appeared in the sky and returned safely to the mountain.

After leaving Deathless Temple in a staged dispute over the Withered-Bone Jade Flame, Fang Qing traveled to the Zeng Clan and exploited their fear of offending him. He later descended to Zeng Clan Town, claiming he was searching for someone with spiritual affinity.

• Zeng Qingye revealed that the Withered-Bone Jade Flame had severely damaged him and killed Yuan Bukong, then warned his clan against seeking the flame instead of submitting it to powerful figures.
• Fang Qing let Miao Feng and the other Bright Sons and Bright Consorts refuse his demand to safeguard the flame, then feigned indignation and left Deathless Temple.
• Fang Qing arrived at the Zeng Clan, where Zeng Yuchai and the Dao Foundation cultivators welcomed him and worried that he resented their offering the flame to Miao Feng.
• Fang Qing feasted for several days, demanded offerings, and took whatever he wanted from the Zeng Clan's treasure vault.
• Fang Qing mounted the Fire Raksha Bowl and descended to Zeng Clan Town, brushing aside Zeng Yushan's warning that the residents might offend him.