Recaps

Fang Shu visited Immortal Long Gu before entering Mount Lu Secret Realm and received a herb list, a map, and a Foundation Establishment Gu insect to help him survive. After he left, Long Gu revealed that she planned to enter the secret realm herself and reflected on Fang Shu’s exceptional cultivation talent.

• Fang Shu went to Venom Hall and asked Immortal Long Gu for instructions on the medicinal herbs she needed from the secret realm.
• Immortal Long Gu gave Fang Shu a jade slip listing herbs and containing a rough map, and promised to guarantee him a place in Foundation Establishment if he brought back three thousand-year spiritual herbs.
• Immortal Long Gu gave Fang Shu a Foundation Establishment Gu insect sealed in amber and warned him to flee after using it.
• After Fang Shu left, a human-headed snake asked whether Long Gu had decided to enter Mount Lu Secret Realm, and Long Gu confirmed that she would go while suppressing her cultivation.
• Long Gu thought about how Fang Shu had used her cultivation manual alongside Five Viscera Temple’s methods to develop an unusually solid path of qi refinement.

Long Gu Immortal gave Fang Shu an amber Gu insect, and he checked it for danger before preparing for the journey to the Mount Lu Secret Realm. The Five Viscera Temple gathered its disciples and elders and arrived at Five Elders Peak, where the other four sects had also assembled.

• Long Gu Immortal considered draining Fang Shu's vital energy or helping him pursue elixir formation, but her painful infestation of insects interrupted her thoughts.
• Fang Shu divined the amber Gu insect and found no hidden danger, though he decided to remain wary and learn how to use it.
• Six bells summoned the Five Viscera Temple disciples, and Fang Shu joined the crowd before the Household Hall.
• Deer Cart Immortal announced the secret realm's reward terms, then used black auspicious clouds to carry the gathered disciples and elders toward Mount Lu.
• The Five Viscera Temple arrived at Five Elders Peak as the other four sects arrived, and each group took a stone platform.

Fang Shu watched the Five Sects summon a mysterious figure to open the Immortal Garden, then entered the secret realm with the other disciples and outside immortals. The Earth Immortals stayed behind to guard the entrance as the expedition began.

• Fang Shu observed the Five Sects' disciples arrive at Five Elders Peak, where their elders argued before warning the crowd of approaching outsiders.
• Withered Bone Abbey silenced the arriving outside immortals, and the Five Sects' elders combined their tokens to summon a featureless figure.
• The figure agreed to open the Immortal Garden, revealing a ruined palace mirage and drawing a gateway in the clouds.
• Fang Shu joined the crowd entering the gateway, and the entrants turned into paper figures as they were swept into the secret realm.
• The Earth Immortals remained at Five Elders Peak to guard the entrance during the expedition, which could last from three months to three years.

Fang Shu entered Mount Lu’s ruined secret realm, where poisonous spiritual energy drove its creatures to hunt outsiders, and hid underground to observe the dangers. Nearby, Luan Tong'er began rampaging through the realm and threatened an immortal who rebuked him.

• Fang Shu found himself scattered to the secret realm’s edge and learned that entrants had to reach its central exit before it closed.
• Fang Shu killed a giant lizard, examined its poisonous evil qi and unusually tough scales, and collected only a few valuable remains.
• Fang Shu realized that the realm’s dense spiritual energy was poisonous and that its creatures hunted outsiders for their pure spiritual essence.
• Fang Shu buried himself underground, concealed his aura, and used Divine Silk and Gu insects to watch the secret realm while avoiding danger.
• Luan Tong'er roamed the realm with followers and two furnace cauldrons, then told an immortal who rebuked him, “Then you may die.”

Luan Tong'er slaughtered and coerced Five Viscera Temple disciples while Fang Shu watched, recognizing his missing acquaintance Mai Shenger among Luan Tong'er's companions. Fang Shu set out to gather resources in the secret realm, where other immortals began clashing over its treasures, and a sudden burst of treasure light appeared near a marsh.

• Luan Tong'er killed a protesting disciple, then ordered his two concubines to catch and kill those who tried to flee; three disciples followed him and claimed the victims' belongings.
• Fang Shu secretly observed Luan Tong'er's group and recognized Mai Shenger, who appeared to have been turned into a puppet-like concubine.
• Fang Shu decided to wait for a chance to deal with Luan Tong'er, then left his hiding place to explore the secret realm and gather spirit herbs for Immortal Long Gu and his own cultivation.
• Fang Shu scouted with gu insects, fought ferocious beasts, and collected hundred-year spirit herbs, sealing them in jade boxes because they contained evil qi.
• Immortals across the secret realm traveled toward its depths and fought over spiritual materials, while Fang Shu reached a marsh where a brilliant treasure light suddenly rose.

Fang Shu stole a Millennium Spirit Herb from a Blackwater Lake and escaped the guardian python, only to encounter Luan Tong'er and bargain the herb for Mai Shenger. As Mai Shenger attacked him, a yellow phantom burst from the broken herb box and struck toward Luan Tong'er's forehead.

• Fang Shu watched rogue cultivators fall to the blackwater python and seized the dark Millennium Spirit Herb while the beast searched the lake.
• Fang Shu fled with the herb as the python and two hidden immortals pursued him, until Luan Tong'er arrived and burned the python with pink fire.
• Fang Shu recognized Mai Shenger among Luan Tong'er's concubines and refused to travel with him when the Five Viscera Temple disciples surrounded him.
• Fang Shu offered the herb in exchange for Mai Shenger, and Luan Tong'er agreed to trade her for it.
• After the exchange, Mai Shenger attacked Fang Shu, while the herb box broke apart and a yellow phantom flew toward Luan Tong'er's forehead.

Fang Shu fought Luan Tong'er and killed him after overcoming his protective treasures, Bewitching-Bone Yang-Seizing Fire, and desperate escape attempt. The five outer disciples were left stunned as Fang Shu calmly held the returning Human-Yellow Nail.

• Fang Shu trapped Luan Tong'er and five accompanying immortals with the Flood Dragon Spine Hundred-Gu Banner, then struck Luan Tong'er with the Nail-Head Arrow.
• Luan Tong'er attacked with pink flames and talismans, while Fang Shu endured the assault using Old Mountain Lord's protective treasure and his Dragon-Whale Body-Nurturing Method.
• Fang Shu kept pressuring Luan Tong'er with the Nail-Head Arrow as one of the immortals joined the attack, but Luan Tong'er gradually lost his sight from the wound between his brows.
• Luan Tong'er begged Fang Shu to spare him and offered his concubines, then fled using an escape talisman.
• Fang Shu slowed Luan Tong'er and pierced his chest with the yellow phantom, killing him as his own pink flames consumed his body.
• The five outer disciples stared in shock while Fang Shu calmly held the returning Human-Yellow Nail.

Fang Shu survived Luan Tong'er’s death and dealt with the peach-blossom tracking marks, then learned that Bloodwater Lake contained pools capable of cleansing root bones. After eliminating the remaining witnesses and destroying Luan Tong'er’s corpse maidens, he searched the burned remains and found a dark golden Armored Horse intact.

• Peach-blossom marks burst from Luan Tong'er’s corpse, but Fang Shu diverted them onto gu insects and destroyed the marked insects.
• Fang Shu killed two outer disciples, questioned the remaining three about Luan Tong'er and the secret realm, and learned of Bloodwater Lake’s root-cleansing blood-lotus pools.
• After verifying their answers, Fang Shu killed the three surviving disciples and took their belongings.
• Fang Shu burned Mai Shenger, releasing a spiritual light from her body, then smashed and burned the other corpse maiden.
• Fang Shu searched Luan Tong'er’s remains, but his soul and Storage Bag had been destroyed; a thousand-year-old spirit herb and a dark golden Armored Horse remained intact.

Fang Shu claimed Luan Tong'er's Armored Horse talisman artifact, salvaged spirit stones and pink fire, then headed for the Blood Lake in search of a way to improve his false spirit root. Elsewhere, Shen Yin's Flesh Abbey group attacked Dai Jintong and the Five Viscera Temple disciples, while Black Mouse later tracked down and ambushed the wounded Dai Jintong.

• Fang Shu refined Luan Tong'er's Armored Horse talisman artifact and collected spirit stones, including four taels of mid-grade stones, from the scorched area.
• Fang Shu captured a wisp of bewitching-bone yang-seizing fire and set out for the Blood Lake, hoping to find something that could improve his spirit root.
• Dai Jintong threw a thousand-year spirit herb toward the Five Viscera Temple group as a distraction and fled from Shen Yin, Du Yu'er, and Xiao Lili.
• Shen Yin restrained the Five Viscera Temple disciples with her drum while Du Yu'er and Xiao Lili killed several of them; Black Mouse abandoned the group and escaped.
• Black Mouse followed Dai Jintong toward the edge of the secret realm and ambushed him while he was tending his wounds, worsening his injuries.

Black Mouse and Fang Shu pursued the injured Dai Jintong, but Fang Shu stayed out of their fight as they turned on one another. Black Mouse killed Dai Jintong with his rat swarm, then faced Fang Shu amid the surviving rats.

• Dai Jintong fought off Black Mouse with thunder arts until Fang Shu arrived and joined the pursuit.
• Fang Shu followed the two without entering the battle, while Dai Jintong mistook him for Black Mouse’s ally and fled toward the hills.
• Dai Jintong trapped Black Mouse and Fang Shu inside a thunder formation, but Black Mouse attacked Fang Shu and destroyed his paper puppet, revealing Fang Shu’s true body far away.
• Fang Shu refused Dai Jintong’s offer and watched from outside the formation as Dai Jintong and Black Mouse continued fighting.
• Black Mouse unleashed his rat swarm, which overwhelmed and killed the weakened Dai Jintong.
• Black Mouse turned to Fang Shu as the rats surrounded the hill and greeted him.

Fang Shu defeated Black Mouse’s rat swarm, collected Dai Jintong’s wealth and a partly cleansed thousand-year spiritual herb, then headed toward Blood Lake to find Fang Lu. Meanwhile, Fang Lu served Shen Yin, who concealed her true interest in Fang Lu’s virgin essence blood as the group traveled toward the lake.

• Fang Shu ambushed Black Mouse with the Human-Yellow Nail and his Gu swarm, forcing Black Mouse to retreat and abandon his rat swarm.
• Black Mouse warned Fang Shu that Fang Lu had fallen into Shen Yin’s hands, and Fang Shu chose not to use the Bewitching-Bone Yang-Seizing Fire to pursue him.
• Fang Shu collected Dai Jintong’s belongings, including thousands of spirit stones and a thousand-year spiritual herb being cleansed in Thunderfire Lightning Serum.
• Fang Shu decided to head toward Blood Lake to seek a spiritual-root treasure and check on Fang Lu, despite the danger posed by Shen Yin.
• Fang Lu reported that Shen Yin’s group was nearing Blood Lake, while Shen Yin privately planned to exploit Fang Lu’s pure Killing Intent and virgin essence blood.

Fang Shu found Fang Lu, Du Yu'er, Xiao Lili, and other Five Viscera Temple disciples under Shen Yin's control, then fought Shen Yin while trying to take them away. He withdrew when her sound-based spells proved dangerous, and the three women secretly followed after the other disciples escaped.

• Fang Shu followed his identity token to Shen Yin and found her overseeing a battle involving Fang Lu, Du Yu'er, and Xiao Lili.
• Fang Shu asked Shen Yin to release the Five Viscera Temple disciples, but she tried to seduce him and refused.
• Fang Shu resisted Shen Yin's influence, attacked her alcove bed, and used the distraction to bind the disciples and flee.
• Shen Yin's sound-based attack cut open Fang Shu's living-creature bag, and he summoned his gu insects to fight her.
• Fang Shu abandoned the fight and retreated among his insects while Shen Yin pursued him.
• Fang Lu prompted the other disciples to escape, and she, Du Yu'er, and Xiao Lili followed Fang Shu and Shen Yin.

Fang Shu fought Shen Yin with his Gu Formation and quasi-Foundation Establishment artifacts, while Fang Lu, Du Yu'er, and Xiao Lili turned against Shen Yin at a crucial moment. Shen Yin was wounded by the Human-Yellow Nail and swept into Fang Shu’s formation, while her war drum was pinned outside it.

• Fang Shu faced Shen Yin with the Three Talents Four-Gu Formation, and Shen Yin used her Four-Armed Sound-Demon Drum to batter his defenses.
• Fang Shu’s formation corroded Shen Yin’s protective astral qi, and the Human-Yellow Nail struck her; Shen Yin sacrificed an arm to stop its foul qi from entering her body.
• Du Yu'er, Xiao Lili, and Fang Lu arrived, but Fang Lu initially sided with Shen Yin as the others helped her attack Fang Shu’s formation.
• Shen Yin ordered the three women to empower her waist drum, but Fang Lu secretly attacked her with peach-blossom needles after Fang Shu gave the signal.
• Du Yu'er and Xiao Lili then attacked Shen Yin, disrupting her drum and leaving her surrounded by Fang Shu and the three women.
• Fang Shu struck Shen Yin with the Human-Yellow Nail and swept her into his Gu Formation, while Du Yu'er and Xiao Lili held her war drum outside it.

Fang Shu defeated Shen Yin and learned that the Blood Lake was rumored to hold a treasure that could cleanse spirit roots and heal bodies. After Shen Yin died, he reunited with Du Yu'er, Xiao Lili, and Fang Lu and began dividing her spoils.

• Fang Shu trapped the poisoned Shen Yin in his Gu Formation while Du Yu'er and the others withdrew and subdued her magical artifact.
• Shen Yin revealed that the Blood Lake treasure might cleanse spirit roots and heal bodies, and that she possessed an Earth Resonance Spirit Root she hoped to evolve.
• Fang Shu refused Shen Yin's offers and threatened to search her soul, so she attempted to escape by abandoning her body and dissipating as a soul.
• Fang Shu confirmed Shen Yin was dead, withdrew the formation, and reunited with Du Yu'er, Xiao Lili, and Fang Lu.
• Fang Shu destroyed Shen Yin's storage pouch, divided the spirit stones and miscellaneous items into four portions, gave the two thousand-year spiritual herbs to Du Yu'er and Xiao Lili, and handed Fang Lu an item from his sleeve.

Fang Shu rescued Fang Lu, Du Yu'er, and Xiao Lili, then went alone to the Blood Lake to await its treasures and cultivate. He reached Qi Refinement Complete while factions converged on the Blood Lake.

• Fang Shu gave Fang Lu a Foundation Establishment Gu insect for protection and urged the three women to stay away from the Blood Lake.
• Fang Shu told the women he would enter the Blood Lake alone, then left to find a place to wait and refine his gains.
• Fang Shu examined the Blood Lake's dangerous crimson mist from above, recognized that the lake was enclosed by a formation, and hid underground nearby.
• Fang Shu used the bronze pot to purify Millennium Spirit Herbs and consumed one, rapidly increasing his true qi.
• Fang Shu reached ninety toads of true qi and Qi Refinement Complete as cultivator parties gathered around the Blood Lake.

Er Daiyuan questioned the Er Family’s decision to bring Essence Refinement clansmen into the secret realm, then settled into a routine of gathering herbs and cultivation. As Blood Lake opened, Fang Shu, Long Gu, and the Er Family entered the crimson mist, while Fang Shu carried ninety-six toad measures of true qi and hoped to find a chance to improve his spirit root.

• Er Daiyuan learned that the Er Family had smuggled more than a hundred Essence Refinement clansmen into the secret realm in spirit beast bags, then set aside her unease and began cultivating and gathering herbs with the clan’s support.
• Long Gu and Hao Junliang waited near Blood Lake, discussed their unsuccessful search for Azure Spider, and worried briefly about Fang Shu before Long Gu assured Hao Junliang that Fang Shu should be safe.
• Fang Shu continued cultivating in his underground cave until his true qi reached ninety-six toad measures, though he knew it needed further tempering before he could attempt Foundation Establishment.
• Fang Shu sensed Blood Lake stirring, and the lake’s water receded within half a day to reveal reef-like footholds beneath the crimson mist.
• Er Family disciples, Long Gu and Hao Junliang, and Fang Shu stepped onto the exposed reefs and entered Blood Lake’s mist.

Fang Shu entered the Underground Palace beneath the blood lake and was trapped with more than a hundred immortals as the Er Family manipulated the plaza’s formation and carried out a blood sacrifice. The bloodwater swallowed most of the survivors before a lotus of infant-headed seeds emerged, and Fang Shu realized the seeds could help him establish his foundation.

• Fang Shu descended into the shattered Underground Palace beneath the pale reef and reached a plaza where more than a hundred immortals had gathered.
• The Er Family’s beautiful woman claimed the stone pillars formed an ancient restriction and urged the crowd to break them, while Fang Shu secretly confirmed that invisible bloodwater corroded anything beneath the plaza floor.
• As the bloodwater rose, the beautiful woman ordered the Er Family to attack nearby immortals and revealed that opening the place required a blood sacrifice.
• The surviving immortals turned on one another as the bloodwater and mist consumed their companions; Fang Shu killed three attackers who targeted him.
• The blood mist became pure spiritual qi, and a lotus formed above the plaza with infant-headed seeds that Fang Shu believed could let him establish his foundation.

The Er Family massacred the cultivators in the Underground Palace to feed the Blood Lotus, while Fang Shu tried to survive by claiming Er Family ties. After the Er Family ancestor murdered Pei Zhongshan and ordered Fang Shu killed as an outsider, a mysterious voice demanded to know who had harmed its disciple.

• The Er Family ancestor ordered his family to kill the other cultivators and use their bodies as fertilizer for the Blood Lotus.
• Fang Shu claimed to be an immortal seed of the Er Family, and Er Daiyuan shielded him from the initial attacks.
• The Er Family matron released more clan members into the palace, while the survivors watched the Blood Lotus grow redder from the bloodshed.
• Er Daiyang and Er Daiyuan argued over Fang Shu and Pei Zhongshan, but Pei Zhongshan urged everyone to prioritize the ancestor's affairs.
• The Er Family ancestor secretly killed Pei Zhongshan, then ordered his clan to kill all outsiders, including Fang Shu.
• As Fang Shu prepared to fight, a cold voice demanded to know who had killed its disciple, and the Er Family ancestor turned toward it.

Immortal Long Gu arrived at the Underground Palace and confronted the Er Family patriarch over the Blood Lotus Seeds. He revealed that he planned to use his clansmen to purify the Human Elixirs, then began sacrificing them as Long Gu and Fang Shu watched.

• Long Gu appeared in the Underground Palace, and Fang Shu left Er Daiyuan’s side to greet his master.
• Long Gu and the Er Family patriarch agreed to divide the spiritual medicines, but the Blood Lotus Seed she gathered awakened as a sinister, resentful creature.
• The patriarch revealed his wasting body and explained that the Underground Palace was a Blood Mother Legacy where flesh and blood could be refined into Human Elixirs.
• The patriarch admitted he intended to make his clansmen consume the tainted elixirs, then harvest them with a secret bloodline art to nourish himself.
• The Er Family members panicked and tried to flee, but bloody mist killed those who reached for the exit.
• The patriarch summoned bloody mist, and Blood Lotus Ghost-Children attacked the Er Family members while Long Gu hesitated to intervene.

The Er Family ancestor sacrificed most of his clan to refine the Blood Lotus Saint Child, then revealed that he intended to use the wounded Long Gu as an even greater medicinal ingredient. Long Gu seized the Saint Child but was infected by its blood mist, leaving her in danger as the ancestor moved to attack.

• The Er Family ancestor refined the Blood Lotus Seeds by draining the Er Family members, leaving Er Daiyuan as the last surviving potential cauldron.
• The ancestor ordered Er Daiyuan to bear the Blood Lotus Saint Child, but Long Gu interrupted to inspect the nearly purified seed.
• After testing the seed, Long Gu refused to guard the ancestor and snatched the Blood Lotus Saint Child from him.
• The Saint Child reverted to its ferocious form and burst into blood mist, which entered Long Gu through a flaw in her protective qi.
• The Er Family ancestor attacked Long Gu and revealed that he had intended to sacrifice her, while Er Daiyuan found that her restraints had disappeared.

Long Gu and the Er Family Patriarch battled in the Underground Palace until he abandoned his body and invaded her with the Blood Lotus Seed, intending to make a ghost fetus. Long Gu refused to accept that fate and asked Fang Shu to help her, leaving him stunned.

• Long Gu unleashed her Gu insects against the Er Family Patriarch, who raised a blood formation and sent ghostly faces to fight them while Fang Shu and Er Daiyuan watched for a chance to survive.
• Fang Shu gave Er Daiyuan the Foundation-Building War Drum and told her to strike it with her essence blood when he gave the command.
• A serpent hidden in the bloodwater attacked the Er Family Patriarch, and he and Long Gu fought on despite their injuries until he released his Foundation-Building pressure and drew lightning from the secret realm.
• The Er Family Patriarch’s soul entered Long Gu and fused with the blood mist in her body, intending to use her womb to refine the Blood Lotus Saint Child and become a ghost cultivator.
• Fang Shu realized the Er Family Patriarch had intended to use a clansman as a vessel, and Long Gu concluded that the Blood Lotus Seed’s child would not be a ghost fetus before asking Fang Shu for help.

Fang Shu rejected Long Gu’s demand for his primordial yang and fought alongside Er Daiyuan as the master-disciple conflict turned deadly. Long Gu and the Er Family ancestor died, and Er Daiyuan declared that she had fulfilled Fang Shu’s command.

• The Er Family ancestor revealed Long Gu’s plan to use Fang Shu’s essence to create and refine a fetus, and Fang Shu refused to obey her.
• Long Gu attacked Fang Shu with her gu insects, while Hao Junliang revealed himself as a serpent and died after calling Long Gu his master.
• Fang Shu and Er Daiyuan broke through Long Gu’s defenses, and Fang Shu killed her with the Human-Yellow Nail.
• The Er Family ancestor emerged as a blood infant and urged Er Daiyuan to help him kill Fang Shu in exchange for the Blood Lotus Saint Child.
• Er Daiyuan turned her war drum against the blood infant and destroyed the ancestor’s soul.
• Er Daiyuan told Fang Shu that the fiend had been eliminated and that she had fulfilled his command, and Fang Shu nodded.

Fang Shu and Er Daiyuan survived the Underground Palace and divided the recovered treasures, including Long Gu’s storage bracelet and the Er Family ancestor’s Living Seed Bag. Fang Shu then let Er Daiyuan absorb the Blood Lotus Saint Child while he used cultivation techniques to draw out some of its power, leaving them enveloped in bloody mist.

• Fang Shu confirmed that he and Er Daiyuan were the only survivors, gave her a mid-grade spirit stone, and collected Long Gu’s bracelet and the Er Family ancestor’s storage bag.
• Fang Shu opened Long Gu’s bracelet and found spirit stones, texts, gu recipes, and spells, but no Foundation Establishment artifacts or gu insects.
• Er Daiyuan used her blood essence and the Er Family’s secret technique to open the Living Seed Bag and erase its bloodline imprint for Fang Shu.
• Fang Shu found extensive resources in the Living Seed Bag, collected eighteen Mystic Script steles, transferred Long Gu’s belongings into the bag, and gave Er Daiyuan Long Gu’s bracelet.
• Fang Shu offered Er Daiyuan the Blood Lotus Saint Child, then crushed it into bloody mist and used bedchamber harvesting techniques to draw out some of its power while she absorbed it.

Fang Lu and her companions gathered treasures in the secret realm, where Fang Shu’s Three-Winged Golden Cicada drove off a powerful cultivator before hiding in Fang Lu’s ear. In the Underground Palace, Fang Shu ended his cultivation with Er Daiyuan and discovered that his spirit root had improved and his true qi had reached ninety-nine toads.

• Fang Lu, Du Yu'er, and Xiao Lili met Zong Qingxue at Golden Mountain, heeded her warning about the Beauty Palace, and left the dangerous area.
• The three women seized a thousand-year-old scarlet lingzhi, but a formidable independent cultivator pursued them until Fang Lu released Fang Shu’s Three-Winged Golden Cicada and drove him away.
• The golden cicada fed on the lingzhi, then shrank and settled inside Fang Lu’s ear, where it rested despite her attempts to inspect it.
• After more than ten days of cultivating with Er Daiyuan, Fang Shu withdrew when the Blood Lotus Saint Child’s medicinal power had been absorbed and began examining his gains.
• Fang Shu found that his spirit root had become medium-grade and innate, while his true qi had risen from ninety-six to ninety-nine toads.
• Fang Shu sensed that his Dao Register’s connection to his body and soul had grown stronger, and that its deductive analysis function had changed.

Fang Shu discovered that the Dao Register could now deduce incomplete secret scripts from cultivation arts, then learned that Er Daiyuan’s blood lotus seed had transformed her spiritual root and granted her an ancient blood-path inheritance. The chapter ended with Er Daiyuan asking Fang Shu to commune with her spiritually so they could study the Wondrous Response Blood Mother True Scripture together.

• Fang Shu confirmed that the Dao Register could use spell knowledge to complete secret scripts and even deduce scripts from scratch.
• Fang Shu guarded Er Daiyuan while tempering his true qi and reviewing the collections of Long Gu and the Er Family ancestor.
• Er Daiyuan emerged from cultivation with a blood spiritual root and scarlet true qi, along with troubling blood-drinking urges.
• Er Daiyuan told Fang Shu that refining the Blood Lotus Saint Child had transmitted the Wondrous Response Blood Mother True Scripture to her.
• Er Daiyuan invited Fang Shu to commune with her spiritually and study the blood-path art together.