Chapter Summaries

Fang Qing completed Gang Refining, witnessed the deadly duel between Mount Shu and Qingcheng, and refused Jiao Dazuo’s invitation to explore a cave dwelling. His master gave him the materials to refine the Water-Immortal Primordial Pearl, and Fang Qing planned to delay the work so he could avoid future battles.

• Fang Qing completed Gang Refining and used Silken Causality Bind to witness Tu Yushu kill a Qingcheng disciple before the two sects agreed to fight again in twenty years.
• Fang Qing returned the Dark-Yellow Astral-Force Gathering Bottle and learned that Zhang and Yuan had died in the duel at Qingcheng Mountain.
• Jiao Dazuo invited Fang Qing to explore a wandering immortal’s cave dwelling, but Fang Qing refused and severed their friendship.
• Hundred Sufferings Arhat urged Ge Baicao to have Fang Qing refine the Water-Immortal Primordial Pearl for Tu Yushu’s coming Fire Tribulation, while requesting the Heavenly River Sword Art for Fang Qing.
• Mysterious Herb Daoist gave Fang Qing a three-thousand-year-old alligator dragon core and agreed to teach him the Heavenly River Sword Art; Fang Qing resolved to stretch the pearl refinement out for decades.

Fang Qing broke through to Tribulation Crossing while hiding his true cultivation, then taught swordsmanship and practical spells to junior disciples in the Humble Medicine Garden. Jiao Dazuo brought news of Mount Shu’s costly victory and a Heart Demon attack, leaving Fang Qing to suspect that a third sword duel was imminent.

• Fang Qing silently completed a breakthrough to Tribulation Crossing and realized an outer tribulation might be targeting Jiao Dazuo.
• Fang Qing demonstrated the Heavenly River Sword Art to Xu Changqing, Xu Zicao, and Luo Yuxin, then gave them spellbooks and minor wards for tending the garden.
• Jiao Dazuo told Fang Qing that Mount Shu had defeated Azure City, but the fighting had killed Mo Shenggu and left the Demon-Expelling Sword and Chanxin Sword captured.
• Jiao Dazuo’s Heart Demon Divine Ability tried to steal Fang Qing’s spiritual platform, but Fang Qing’s Heart Demon seed revealed an instruction to refine the Water-Immortal Primordial Pearl and give it to Tu Yushu.
• Fang Qing reassured the junior disciples that Mount Shu’s elders would rescue the missing swordsmen, while privately concluding that a third sword duel might be unavoidable.

Fang Qing realized that his third Causality manifestation was Destiny Compensation and foresaw a future conflict over the realm’s fortune. As Mount Shu prepared for another sword duel, Xuanchan set the next confrontation for thirty-three years later and planned to destroy the Hatred-Severing Devil Palace.

• Fang Qing survived Jiao Dazuo’s Heart Demon test, advanced his cultivation, and deduced that his next Causality Divine Ability was Destiny Compensation.
• Fang Qing foresaw a future alliance between Mount Shu and the Buddhist sects against the unorthodox schools and demonic forces, with a major calamity threatening Mount Shu.
• Mysterious Herb Daoist left Mount Shu on sect business while Fang Qing stayed behind to attend to the Water-Immortal Primordial Pearl.
• Xuanchan met with Hundred Sufferings Arhat and Divine Nun Jingyin, confirmed their allies and plans, and scheduled the next sword duel for thirty-three years later.
• Hundred Sufferings Arhat considered his disciple’s progress and planned to urge Mysterious Herb Daoist toward Tribulation Crossing.

Fang Qing foresaw the third sword duel as Mount Shu, Buddhist allies, and other powers confronted the devil path in the Southern Border. As the battle began, the Mount Shu elders used the sect’s Grand Pure Divine Talisman against the Blood-Robed Old Devil, leaving Mysterious Herb Daoist alarmed about the disciples left behind.

• Fang Qing refined the Alligator Dragon Core into a Water-Immortal Primordial Pearl and taught the Humble Medicine Garden disciples, including Xu Changqing, Xu Zicao, and Luo Yuxin.
• Fang Qing used the Silken Causality Bind Divine Ability to see Mysterious Herb Daoist and the Seven Swords of Shu Mountain gathered for the third sword duel in the Southern Border.
• Lady Mei challenged Hundred Sufferings Arhat, who unleashed his Myriad-Sword Dharma Body against Plum-Fragrance Lodge.
• Xuanchan True Person struck at the Hatred-Severing Devil Master and drew both of them into the Myriad-Mile Landscape Painting.
• Zen Master Fakong and Divine Nun Jingyin helped the Mount Shu elders restrain the Blood-Robed Old Devil, and the elders summoned the Grand Pure Divine Talisman to refine him.
• Mysterious Herb Daoist realized Mount Shu had brought its immortal formation to the battlefield and worried about the disciples left at the sect.

Fang Qing defended Mount Shu after its elders took the immortal formation away, killed Jiao Dazuo, and broke through to the Dharma Body Realm. He used Destiny Compensation to collect on his causal debts, leaving Tu Yushu in mortal danger when the Dragon-Slaying Sword abandoned him.

• Fang Qing realized Mount Shu's elders had removed the immortal formation, leaving the disciples exposed to a demonic attack.
• Fang Qing killed the possessed Senior Sister Song with the White Dragon Sword and told Xu Changqing to protect the other disciples.
• Jiao Dazuo attacked Mount Shu with Nine Nether Soul-Devouring Demonfire, but Fang Qing beheaded him with the Heavenly River Sword Art.
• Fang Qing survived his calamity, attained the Dharma Body Realm, and activated Destiny Compensation to call in his causal debts.
• In the Southern Border, Tu Yushu's Dragon-Slaying Sword resisted him and flew away, leaving him exposed to Blazing Fire Demon Venerable's attack and his Inner Tribulation Yin-Fire Calamity.

Fang Qing arrived at Mount Shu after a devil assault had shattered the sect’s defenses, then accused Xuanchan of sacrificing the disciples and announced that he would found a New Mount Shu. The surviving disciples faced a choice between following Fang Qing or remaining with the old sect.

• Fakong and Jingyin discovered that Mount Shu had lost thirty thousand units of merit, and Lihen Old Devil broke free of the Myriad-Mile Landscape Painting as Xuanchan True Person died.
• Hundred Sufferings Arhat left the battle to save Tu Yushu, the unorthodox Dharma Body experts withdrew, and Fakong escaped with the Blood-Robed Old Devil and several Mount Shu treasures and elders.
• Lady Mei attacked Mount Shu with the Myriad Souls Snow-Plum Formation while the sect’s remaining defenders faced defeat.
• Fang Qing reached the devastated Sword Qi Soaring Pavilion, gathered the surviving disciples, and punished a boy who blamed him for not arriving sooner.
• Fang Qing accused Xuanchan of abandoning Mount Shu’s disciples and declared that he would establish a New Mount Shu, asking the survivors to choose whether to follow him.
• The disciples from Humble Medicine Garden stood on Fang Qing’s side.

Fang Qing forced Hundred Sufferings Arhat to recognize a Mount Shu Eastern Sect in exchange for the Water-Immortal Primordial Pearl. After Divine Nun Jingyin’s death made Hundred Sufferings Arhat the sect leader, Fang Qing claimed Mount Shu treasures and departed with the Humble Medicine Garden and disciples, while Hundred Sufferings Arhat hurried to save Tu Yushu.

• Fang Qing fought Hundred Sufferings Arhat, then offered him the Water-Immortal Primordial Pearl in exchange for recognizing the Mount Shu Eastern Sect as an equal branch.
• Hundred Sufferings Arhat agreed, and the Myriad-Mile Landscape Painting and two inherited flying swords pledged themselves to Fang Qing as Divine Nun Jingyin’s death made him Mount Shu’s sect leader.
• Fang Qing refined the Myriad-Mile Landscape Painting, took the Humble Medicine Garden and Xu Changqing and the other disciples, and left Mount Shu.
• Shen Yanqiu returned with a few survivors and told Hundred Sufferings Arhat that Lihen Old Devil had killed Senior Aunt Jingyin.
• Hundred Sufferings Arhat sent the survivors to safety and hurried away with the pearl to save Tu Yushu, while Su Qinghui worried about Mount Shu’s future.

After Mount Shu’s crushing defeat, Mysterious Herb Daoist and Tu Yushu learned that Fang Qing had founded the Eastern Sect and become a Dharma Body. Fang Qing chose Mount Luofu as the sect’s new base, then appeared above it and declared that it would be destroyed for killing Mount Shu disciples.

• Mysterious Herb Daoist learned that Fang Qing had moved Humble Medicine Garden and its disciples to the Eastern Sect, which he had established after attaining a Dharma Body.
• Tu Yushu awoke after surviving the Fire Tribulation and learned that Divine Nun Jingyin had died, two swords were lost, and Fang Qing had founded the Eastern Sect.
• Fang Qing inspected the damaged Myriad-Mile Landscape Painting, brought Xu Changqing out, and chose Mount Luofu as the Eastern Sect’s new home.
• Fang Qing used a Heart Demon seed to learn about Yuan Sanlang and Mount Luofu, where Hua Wanqing pleaded to offer her Artifact Cultivator’s essence in exchange for help.
• A celestial river appeared over Mount Luofu as Fang Qing accused the sect of colluding with devils and killing Mount Shu disciples, then vowed to raze it.

Fang Qing seized Mount Luofu and renamed it Mount Shu as he prepared to investigate the shifting balance between Dao and devils. Meanwhile, Zen Master Fakong destroyed the Blood-Robed Old Devil, and Mount Shu’s returning elders learned that Fang Qing had become their sect leader.

• Fang Qing overwhelmed Mount Luofu, learned its master had died to Shen Yanqiu, and made Yuan Sanlang and the others submit to Mount Shu Eastern Sect.
• Fang Qing released Xu Changqing and his companions, renamed Mount Luofu Mount Shu, and appointed Xu Changqing outer sect leader before entering seclusion.
• Fang Qing recovered Myriad-Mile Boy and examined the Submerged Flood Dragon and Phoenix-Banishing Sword, then foresaw the Dao waning as the devils waxed and sensed the Blood-Robed Old Devil’s imminent death.
• Zen Master Fakong used The Two Realms Are Equal to Dust to eradicate the Blood-Robed Old Devil, then kept Chumo and Chanxin at Gold Mountain Temple while Mount Shu’s elders took the Grand Pure Divine Talisman home.
• Mount Shu’s elders lamented their losses on the journey back, then Tu Yushu told them Fang Qing had taken over as sect leader.

Xu Changqing organized Mount Luofu Hall under the Mount Shu Eastern Sect while Fang Qing received a visit from Flowery Grandee, who discussed the weakened devil path and warned him about Lady Mei. The chapter ended with Fang Qing preparing to meet his master, Mysterious Herb Daoist Ge Baicao.

• Xu Changqing reviewed Mount Luofu Hall’s disorganized cultivation methods and received a sword letter from the Mount Shu Sword Sect.
• Yuan Sanlang offered Xu Changqing a life-bound artifact from the Flower Household and asked him to spare its remaining members; Xu Changqing let him keep it and ordered the disciples to study the Nine Palaces Sword Formula.
• Mysterious Herb Daoist Ge Baicao arrived to congratulate Fang Qing, but Xu Changqing told him Fang Qing was receiving a distinguished guest.
• Flowery Grandee visited Fang Qing, assessed the damage suffered by both the righteous and devil paths, and said he had come to befriend Mount Shu Eastern Sect.
• Flowery Grandee warned Fang Qing to beware of Lady Mei, then departed after noticing the close connection between the Eastern and Western Sects.
• Fang Qing took out a flying sword and said it was time to meet his master.

Fang Qing discovered a hidden devil seed on Mysterious Herb Daoist and suspected that the Western Sect of Mount Shu faced a wider Heart Demon scheme. Meanwhile, Tu Yushu killed two fellow disciples after believing they were plotting to poison his master, then lost his grip on what was real as his cultivation surged toward Dharma Body.

• Fang Qing welcomed Mysterious Herb Daoist, noticed a devil seed on him through their karmic connection, and discussed the dangers surrounding Mount Shu and the Western Sect.
• Tu Yushu overheard what seemed to be Xuan Shen and Xuan Qi plotting to poison Xuan Ku with a Hundred-Insect Heart-Devouring Pill, and he killed them both.
• Tu Yushu found no evidence of the pill or his supposed conversation, and he wondered whether his Tribulation Crossing Heart Demon had begun.
• Xuanwen discovered the two bodies, and Hundred Sufferings Arhat blamed a thief from the Northern Devil Palace for the killings.
• Tu Yushu believed Hundred Sufferings Arhat was covering for him, then saw the Myriad-Sword Dharma Body smile at him as his cultivation surged toward the Dharma Body threshold.

Several years later, Fang Qing witnessed Kou Zhun’s attempt to establish a Royal Way Paradise, which revealed the Lesser Sage’s transformation into a Self-Attachment Demon under the influence of [Heart Demon]. As the mortal world descended into chaos, Fang Qing’s true body left the Spirit Realm and its passage devastated the world of Mount Shu.

• At the Lesser Sage Academy, Kou Zhun gathered cultivators to witness his attempt to establish an age of peace, while Fang Qing arrived and sensed that Tu Yushu and much of Mount Shu Western Sect had been corrupted by [Heart Demon].
• Tu Yushu attacked Fang Qing with a Myriad-Sword Dharma Body, and Fang Qing defended himself with the Heavenly River Sword Art while watching Kou Zhun.
• Kou Zhun tore out Fellow Daoist Ruo’s heart and unleashed a surge of noble spirit, revealing himself as a Self-Attachment Demon as a blood-marked White Sun Star appeared above the world.
• Hundred Sufferings Arhat ambushed Zen Master Fakong, and Fang Qing recognized that several cultivators had fallen to different [Heart Demon] Divine Abilities.
• Fang Qing’s true body left the Spirit Realm and traveled toward the world of Mount Shu, where his mere passage shattered all three Grotto-Heavens and caused immortals and Buddhas to fall.

Fang Qing exposed the Devil Ancestor behind Tu Yushu’s corruption and used Mount Shu’s accumulated causality to awaken his fourth [Causality] divine ability. As immortals and Buddhas fell from the heavens and went mad, the Devil Ancestor recognized Fang Qing as a being from beyond the heavens.

• Fang Qing and Zen Master Fakong recognized that the White Sun Star and the severing of heaven and earth were part of a plot to corrupt the world and cut off the Daoist and Buddhist paths.
• Shen Yanqiu nearly fell to demonic corruption while fighting Su Qinghui, but the Grand Pure Divine Talisman stopped him and warned that the Mount Shu Western Sect had been devastated.
• Shen Yanqiu and Su Qinghui watched fallen immortals and Buddhas go mad, while Fang Qing defeated Tu Yushu’s false Dharma Body and forced the hidden Devil Ancestor to reveal himself.
• Fang Qing drew on Mount Shu Eastern Sect’s vast causality to redirect merit, causing Flowery Grandee and other mighty cultivators to attack Hundred Sufferings Arhat.
• Fang Qing manifested Shattered Ring Void, his fourth [Causality] divine ability, and the master of [Heart Demon] realized he came from beyond the heavens.

Fang Qing watched the mortal world collapse into purgatory as gods, immortals, Buddhas, and devils descended, then confronted the lord of [Heart Demon]. The chapter ended with Fang Qing using [Causality] and [Year Guardian] to seize the [Heart Demon] Golden Seat.

• Kou Zhun died as the Royal Way Paradise crumbled, and the righteous qi protecting the mortal world vanished, allowing the heavenly beings to descend.
• An evil Buddha attacked Shen Yanqiu and Su Qinghui, but Patriarch Yuan Mu arrived and killed him with a sword strike.
• Patriarch Yuan Mu revealed that he was suppressing signs of Dao Transformation, while Zen Master Fakong pinned and refined the Hundred Sufferings Arhat.
• Fang Qing observed the Hundred Sufferings Arhat's death and the Hatred-Severing Devil Master's predicament, then confronted the lord of [Heart Demon] about his origins and plan.
• The lord of [Heart Demon] realized Fang Qing's true body had attained [Year Guardian], but Fang Qing seized him and used countless Causality threads to make the [Heart Demon] Golden Seat disappear.

Fang Qing killed the master of [Heart Demons] and joined Patriarch Yuan Mu and the World-Honored King Buddha in destroying the corrupted world. The three then created a new world and resettled its survivors, with Fang Qing considering naming it the Three Kingdoms.

• Fang Qing used the Golden Seat of [Causality] to destroy the master of [Heart Demons], causing its countless incarnations and the Grand Heavenly Devil to die across the world.
• Patriarch Yuan Mu isolated the mortal world from the fallen immortals and Buddhas, and Fang Qing persuaded him and the World-Honored King Buddha to destroy the world and begin anew.
• Fang Qing sent Mysterious Herb Daoist and Xu Changqing to gather East Sea survivors inside his Grotto-Heaven while the righteous factions prepared to evacuate others.
• The World-Honored King Buddha and Fang Qing helped destroy the mortal realm, while the survivors remained safe inside Fang Qing's Grotto-Heaven.
• Patriarch Yuan Mu used the Twofold Unity Mystic Mirror to form a new land, and the World-Honored King Buddha helped bring it to life.
• Fang Qing released the survivors into the new world, where Shen Yanqiu took charge of the Mount Shu Western Sect and the cultivators began rebuilding; Fang Qing considered naming the world the Three Kingdoms.

Fang Xianyao consulted Fang Xianyuan about the Fang Family’s struggling cultivation traditions, while Fang Daoling and Fang Xianyuan discussed the worsening world and sent promising descendants out to seek opportunities. Fang Zhenya and Fang Yinxuan reached an oasis and found cultivators fighting there, leaving them to decide whom to help.

• Fang Xianyao told Fang Xianyuan that few young Fang Family members could cultivate Water Virtue traditions, and Fang Xianyuan allowed them to choose other traditions besides the Great Sun Dao Path and a few exceptions.
• Fang Xianyuan and Fang Daoling discussed how Water Virtue had waned, the parched world, and the power of the [Year Guardian].
• Fang Daoling told Fang Xianyuan that several young Fang Family members had reached Dao Foundation and were leaving to seek Purple Mansion opportunities, including Fang Zhenya and Fang Yinxuan.
• Fang Zhenya and Fang Yinxuan emerged into the scorching world outside and agreed to search for an inhabited place and cultivation powers.
• Fang Zhenya and Fang Yinxuan found an oasis covered by a Dao Foundation-level array, where cultivators were fighting, and Fang Yinxuan asked which side they should help.

Fang Zhenya and Fang Yinxuan encountered cultivators fighting over Spirit-Communing Jade Water, and Fang Zhenya killed Zhang Xuangan with a powerful sword strike. After learning about the harsh outside world and a newly discovered Secret History Grotto-Heaven, they heard that Purple Mansion True Persons were sending Dao Foundation cultivators inside to scout its dangers.

• Fang Zhenya warned Zhang Xuangan to stay away, then killed him with Heaven-Piercing Sword Draw when he kept approaching.
• Fang Yinxuan collected Zhang Xuangan's surviving treasures, while the Three Fragrance Sect cultivators watched from a distance.
• Fang Yinxuan returned the Spirit-Communing Jade Water to Nie Erniang, and Fang Zhenya asked her about the outside world and Purple Mansion spiritual materials.
• Nie Erniang explained that the outside world followed the Blazing Sun Calendar and named the Sky Horn Sect and Nether Bureau as sources of the spiritual materials they sought.
• Nie Erniang told them that True Person Zihao and other True Persons had found an entrance to a Secret History Grotto-Heaven and planned to send Dao Foundation cultivators in first to scout it.

Fang Zhenya and Fang Yinxuan entered the Secret History Grotto-Heaven and discovered that its history had brought them to the moment before Primordial Devil Heaven descended. They found the illusory grotto-heaven held the still-existing [Heart Demon] Golden Seat, and faced the prospect of pursuing its immense power.

• Purple Mansion True Persons gathered in the Great Void and chose Dao Foundation cultivators to enter the Secret History Grotto-Heaven, while recognizing Fang Zhenya and Fang Yinxuan as members of the powerful Fang Family.
• Fang Zhenya declined the three Fragrance Masters’ offer to accompany him and Fang Yinxuan.
• The Secret History Grotto-Heaven opened and transported Fang Zhenya and Fang Yinxuan into an unfamiliar world.
• Fang Zhenya used a Void-Walking Talisman to take Fang Yinxuan into the Great Void and approach a descending grotto-heaven.
• Fang Zhenya identified the demonic grotto-heaven as Primordial Devil Heaven and realized the [Heart Demon] Golden Seat still existed within the Secret History.

Fang Zhenya and Fang Yinxuan explored Primordial Devil Heaven and claimed an ancient Willow Earth treasure, while the Three Fragrance Masters clashed with Kua Muzi over scattered Spirit Assets. Outside the Grotto-Heaven, True Person Zihao sensed the sisters’ Purple Mansion phenomenon collapsing and entered Secret History, prompting several other Purple Mansion cultivators to follow.

• Fang Zhenya and Fang Yinxuan defeated the Willow Earth Puppets in Heavenly River Hall and discovered that the Grotto-Heaven dated from before the Wei Seizing Liu Virtue upheaval.
• Fang Yinxuan collected the Five-Colored Millet Soil, an ancient Willow Earth Purple Mansion spiritual treasure, and the two men flew deeper into Primordial Devil Heaven.
• The Three Fragrance Masters gathered demonic materials from a blood pool, then Human Fragrance reached for Spirit Assets scattered when Kua Mu of the Heavenly Horn Sect crashed to the ground.
• Kua Muzi rebuked the sisters, and Human Fragrance attacked him with her incense burner as her sisters prepared to join the fight.
• True Person Zihao sensed his One Lead Seizing Three Mercuries phenomenon collapsing and entered Secret History, followed by True Person Siyuan and several other Purple Mansion cultivators.
• A Dharma King warned that evil causes brought evil fruit, leaving several nearby Purple Mansion Great True Persons sweating.

Fang Qing entered Primordial Devil Heaven and recognized how the sealed Heart Demon Golden Seat could threaten the unstable Great Sun Year Guardian. As Fang Zhenya, Fang Yinxuan, Kua Muzi, Zihao, and other cultivators converged on the Grotto-Heaven, Fang Qing revealed his Year Guardian power and froze them all.

• Fang Qing inspected the sealed Heart Demon Golden Seat and reasoned that the Great Sun Year Guardian’s damaged mind could be vulnerable to it.
• Fang Qing realized the Great Sun Year Guardian was restoring the Great Sun Dao Path, but Water Virtue remained exclusively his.
• Fang Zhenya and Fang Yinxuan encountered Kua Muzi, and the three agreed to go their separate ways before the Grotto-Heaven erupted with competing Divine Abilities.
• Zihao and other Purple Mansion True Persons entered Primordial Devil Heaven, drawn by the promise of Golden Nature.
• Zihao, Siyuan, and the other True Persons reached the depths and found Fang Qing holding the Heart Demon Golden Seat; Fang Qing halted them all with watery light and Temporal Light.