Chapter Summaries

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.

Fang Qing discovered that Old Tian was the disguised Tian Jinchen, then returned to the Lesser Vast Sea and learned that Zhan Hongxiu was being hunted after being framed for her master's murder. He sent Xiang Dahu to bring her to him, while Zhan Hongxiu remained surrounded by pursuers at sea.

• Fang Qing saw Fang Wuchen share Spirit Grain pastries with Le Mingxue, but Old Tian seized Le Mingxue and drove Fang Wuchen away.
• Fang Qing recognized Old Tian as the weakened Tian Jinchen and wondered how she had fallen from her former standing.
• Fang Qing left town, hid underground, divined three auspicious hexagrams, and returned to Supreme White Island in the Lesser Vast Sea.
• Fang Qing learned that Zhan Hongxiu had been framed by Lu Lingfeng and the Jiang Family's Foundation Establishment cultivator, and divined that she faced a death tribulation.
• Fang Qing sent Xiang Dahu to fetch Zhan Hongxiu, who was being pursued at sea after her identity was exposed while escaping with a Second-Order Demon Core.

Zhan Hongxiu survived an ambush, secured three prime-quality Foundation Establishment Pills from Fang Qing, and successfully established her foundation on White Merfolk Island. She emerged from seclusion intending to strengthen herself and her Longevity Tortoise, then encountered a mysterious half-demon cultivator.

• Xiang Dahu killed Cai Huafeng just as the bandit tried to capture the exhausted Zhan Hongxiu, then gave her pills and brought her to Fang Qing.
• Zhan Hongxiu asked Fang Qing to refine Foundation Establishment Pills, and he accepted her second-order demon core and Millennium Spirit Milk as payment.
• Fang Qing refined three prime-quality Foundation Establishment Pills for Zhan Hongxiu and returned to secluded cultivation to raise his mana.
• Zhan Hongxiu reached foundation establishment in a rented cave abode on White Merfolk Island, believing her breakthrough would help the Longevity Tortoise advance.
• A white-gauzed cultivator with scales on her cheeks greeted Zhan Hongxiu, who suspected the woman was a half-demon of mixed blood.

Ten years after Fang Qing entered seclusion, Fang Yixin worried about Fang Wuchen’s rapid cultivation and incomplete inheritance while war continued to trouble Xituo Commandery. At Deathless Temple, Miaofeng Bright Son feared Sangji’s uncertain breakthrough as enemies began probing the temple’s weakness.

• Fang Yixin and Hu Quan'an discussed the Zeng Clan’s recurring conflicts and worried that Fang Wuchen’s exceptional cultivation speed would attract dangerous attention.
• Hu Quan'an warned that the Treasure-Earth Origin-Returning Formula lacked a Dao Foundation method, and Fang Yixin considered acquiring one by trading for the Le Family’s Azure Mulberry Jujube Tree.
• Nine urgent bell peals signaled another war as Fang Yixin and Hu Quan'an wondered which force had attacked.
• Miaofeng Bright Son and Wisdom Consort Miao Shui received another plea for aid from the battered Azure Bird Tribe and feared that Sangji might fail to attain Dharma King.
• Miao Shan reported that the Kitchen God Cult was recruiting in Xituo Commandery, and Bright Consort Qingjing warned that a Fire Virtue Dao Foundation cultivator had approached Deathless Temple about its Withered-Bone Jade Flame.

Fang Qing stayed hidden in the Lesser Vast Sea while watching threats gather around the White Bone Way and the mysterious Stomach Earth connection. Meanwhile, Chu Zhaohuang claimed the Withered-Bone Jade Flame, and Fang Wuchen learned that the Kitchen God Cult practiced the same cultivation path as Hu Quan'an, setting the stage for a battle.

• Fang Qing reviewed developments in both worlds, concluded that Sangji’s breakthrough would likely fail, and decided to remain hidden in the Lesser Vast Sea rather than return to Xituo Commandery.
• Fang Qing visited several pleasure houses and spent time with Qin Ruxue and Yu Xiang'er before returning to Supreme White Island to resume seclusion.
• Chu Zhaohuang defeated the White Bone Way’s formations and leaders in a contest, then took the Withered-Bone Jade Flame from Miao Shui.
• Chu Zhaohuang left Deathless Temple and resolved to enter life-or-death seclusion when he returned north.
• Fang Wuchen told Fang Yixin that the Kitchen God Cult organized and aided commoners, but Fang Yixin insisted they treat it as an enemy because the Zeng Clan called it a demonic cult.
• Hu Quan'an reported that the Kitchen God Cult cultivated [Stomach Earth] and that its leader had forged a Dao Foundation, prompting Fang Yixin to prepare for battle.

Zeng Yuchuan’s forces fought the Kitchen God Cult and the Iron Clan, while Fang Yixin, Fang Wuchen, and Hu Quan'an stole a senior cult member’s belongings and found a cultivation method for the Origin-Refining Cauldron Dao Foundation. Fang Qing watched as the Fang Family became entangled in the conflict and continued arranging his own plans.

• Zeng Yuchuan battled the Kitchen God Cult Leader, whose Origin-Refining Cauldron Dao Foundation let him absorb flames and turn harm into strength.
• Fang Yixin and Hu Quan'an ambushed and killed a Kitchen God Cult elder, while Fang Wuchen helped them escape with his storage pouch.
• Tie Kuangtu ambushed Zeng Yuchuan, but Miaofeng Bright Son and the Dharma protectors arrived; the Iron Clan and Kitchen God Cult fled after the fighting.
• Fang Yixin, Fang Wuchen, and Hu Quan'an returned to Zeng Clan Town and found the Treasure-Earth Origin-Returning Formula’s lower volume among the stolen items.
• Fang Qing watched the live feed and reflected on the competing forces in Xituo Commandery as he continued arranging his plans.

Fang Qing promoted Xu Hei to a Bright Son and recruited two Deathless Temple monks as pawns, concealing his involvement behind the Esoteric Treasury’s internal conflicts. He returned to cultivating on Supreme White Island, with his Qi Refinement path clear toward foundation establishment perfection.

• Fang Qing decided he needed more agents and bestowed a Bright Son position on Xu Hei, raising him to Dao Foundation despite his weak combat ability.
• Fang Qing abducted Faquan and Fajian from the Deathless Temple, removed their curse marks, empowered them as disciples, and gave them pills to improve their cultivation.
• Faquan and Fajian accepted Fang Qing as their guru and fled separately after he vanished.
• Xu Hei returned to his old form after Fang Qing withdrew his power and realized the abduction might be mistaken for infighting within the Esoteric Treasury.
• Fang Qing returned to his cave on Supreme White Island and resumed taking pills and cultivating.

Fifteen years later, Fang Wuchen and his family considered breaking from the weakening Zeng Clan and claiming Azure Departure Mountain. When Zeng Yushan’s death omen appeared, the Fang and Hu Families fled town as fighting erupted, while Deathless Temple learned that the Zeng Clan’s direct line had been wiped out.

• Fang Wuchen reached Qi Ingestion Perfection, but family tensions grew when he proposed giving Le Mingxue spirit dates and Fang Wujiu left the meal in anger.
• Fang Wuchen told Fang Yixin and Hu Quan'an that the Zeng Clan was recruiting cultivators, and proposed taking Azure Departure Mountain and seeking a new patron.
• A fiery omen over the Zeng Clan’s main peak signaled Zeng Yushan’s death, so Fang Yixin and Hu Quan'an led their families out of town.
• Cultivator Bandits attacked near the fleeing caravan, and Zeng Yuchai’s severed head fell by the road before Fang Wuchen drove off her killer.
• At Deathless Temple, Miao Shui told Miao Feng that Zeng Yushan had died in Dao Transformation and the Zeng Clan’s direct line had been wiped out.

Fang Wuchen built up Azure Departure Mountain and received a Dao Foundation Pill from the Kitchen God Cult, while Fang Qing assessed rising dangers and other clans faced orders tied to Dao Foundation breakthroughs. The chapter ended with Le Mingxue realizing she was pregnant and noticing that Fang Wujiu seemed afraid.

• Fang Wuchen established a small Qi Ingestion lineage on Azure Departure Mountain, and Du Huo invited the Fang and Hu families to join the Kitchen God Cult.
• Fang Qing reflected on his cultivation, the growing threats to Deathless Temple, and the risks facing the Fang Family and its allies.
• Liu Junyan received a Dao Foundation Pill from the Liu Family elders, who lamented that the higher sect’s order put him in danger.
• A Corpse Yin Sect cultivator learned that a sect task offered a Dao Foundation Pill and worried that he would be forced into a perilous assignment.
• Du Huo rewarded Fang Wuchen with a Dao Foundation Pill for finding the Jade Juan Flower and defeating the Blood Demon Three Fiends.
• Le Mingxue noticed Fang Wujiu’s fearful reaction to Fang Wuchen’s reward, then realized she was pregnant.

As Deathless Temple weakened, the Profound Earth Sect forced it to provide cultivators, while Fang Wuchen forged his Dao Foundation and was summoned south with Hu Quan'an. Powerful human and demon factions gathered in the Southern Border to open Grand Yellow Heaven, where Kaiyuanzi questioned Sanji’s absence.

• Miao Feng and Miao Shui suppressed Miao Feng’s signs of Dao Transformation as Sangji remained in seclusion and Deathless Temple faced encroaching powers.
• A Profound Earth Sect cultivator ordered Deathless Temple to provide three [Maiden Earth] Dao Foundation cultivators, and Miao Feng sent Miao Shui and Qingjing while Miao Shan stayed behind.
• Fang Wuchen emerged from seclusion after forging his Dao Foundation, and Hu Quan'an announced that he would travel to the Southern Border with his disciple.
• The Kitchen God Cult Leader arrived at Azure Departure Mountain and summoned Hu Quan'an and Fang Wuchen; Fang Wuchen left his family a storage pouch and flew south.
• At Grand Yellow Heaven, Sichen met Kaiyuanzi and the Gale Tribe as Earth Virtue cultivators gathered, and Kaiyuanzi asked where Sanji was.

Fang Qing watched Earth Virtue cultivators slaughter one another in a Grotto-Heaven formation until True Person Sanji sacrificed himself to connect with Grand Yellow Heaven. When Fang Qing’s Fajian and Faquan entered the Grotto-Heaven, he revealed Fajian’s Mingzi strength and sent him toward the mountain buildings.

• Fang Wuchen killed a Qi Ingestion cultivator in the underground maze and hurried deeper, worried that his Master might encounter a Dao Foundation opponent.
• Miaofeng Bright Son and other Esoteric Sect disciples were killed by a Purple Mansion cultivator, while True Lord Profound Earth also destroyed the Dao Foundation cultivators who had brought them into the formation.
• Fang Qing recognized that the underground maze was raising a strongest Earth Virtue cultivator, but concluded he could not save Fang Wuchen under the Purple Mansion cultivators’ watch.
• True Person Sanji entered the mirage and sacrificed himself to connect with Grand Yellow Heaven, causing heaven and earth to intersect.
• Fang Qing saw Fajian and Faquan in the Grotto-Heaven, then revealed Fajian’s Dao Foundation might as a Mingzi and watched him fly toward the mountain buildings.
• Fajian introduced himself to Liu Junyan, who suspected that the Esoteric Sect monk’s Great Sun cultivation was connected to the strange Earth Virtue events.