Recaps

Fang Shu and Er Daiyuan used soul communion to exchange parts of their thoughts and memories while she transmitted the Wondrous Response Blood Mother True Scripture. Fang Shu discovered that it was an incomplete inheritance pointing toward Golden Core and Spirit Refinement, with its account of Foundation Establishment surpassing his expectations.

• Fang Shu agreed to soul communion after deciding the Dao Register would protect his deepest memories.
• Er Daiyuan taught Fang Shu the soul communion technique, and their souls began to mingle as they shared thoughts and memories.
• The Dao Register prevented Er Daiyuan from reaching the deepest parts of Fang Shu's soul, while he concealed important secrets and studied her inherited scripture.
• Er Daiyuan grew jealous when she saw a little rabbit demon in Fang Shu's memories, but Fang Shu returned his attention to the scripture.
• Fang Shu realized the Wondrous Response Blood Mother True Scripture was an incomplete inheritance leading toward Golden Core and Spirit Refinement, and that its Foundation Establishment teachings were astonishing.

Fang Shu and Er Daiyuan learned that Dao vein Foundation Establishment followed the Great Dao, distinct from earth-seated and earth-walking methods, and discussed the Profound Gate, side paths, and left-hand ways. Er Daiyuan chose to pursue the Blood Mother Dao foundation while Fang Shu began teaching her, though he suspected her inheritance might carry hidden shortcomings.

• Fang Shu shared the Earth-Walking Foundation Establishment manual with Er Daiyuan and explained his desire to reconcile the earth-seated and earth-walking methods.
• Fang Shu and Er Daiyuan studied the Wondrous Response Blood Mother True Scripture and learned that Dao foundations arose from understanding the laws of heaven and earth or refining a craft until it reached the Dao.
• Er Daiyuan expressed her intent to establish a Blood Mother Dao foundation and invited Fang Shu to cultivate the blood dao with her, but he declined and cautioned her against trusting every claim in the scripture.
• Fang Shu brought out his collection of Dao scriptures and explained how Dao vein, earth-seated, and earth-walking foundations corresponded to the Profound Gate, side paths, and left-hand ways.
• Er Daiyuan asked Fang Shu to teach her, and he guided her through the scriptures and Mystic Script while privately suspecting that the Blood Mother inheritance had hidden drawbacks.

Fang Shu helped Er Daiyuan study the Blood Mother Scripture, then spent nine extra days in the Underground Palace refining a third Nail-Head Arrow and discovering that the three artifacts worked well together. He left the Blood Lake secret realm, while Er Daiyuan stayed behind to cultivate.

• Fang Shu finished explaining the Mystic Script to Er Daiyuan and advised her to pursue Foundation Establishment in the Underground Palace.
• Fang Shu lingered with Er Daiyuan for nine extra days and collected the Underground Palace’s black blood baleful intent.
• Fang Shu used the black substance and materials from the Er Family ancestor and Immortal Long Gu to refine the Black Dog Nail.
• Fang Shu tested the Black Dog Nail alongside the Red Lead Nail and Human-Yellow Nail, discovering that the three artifacts were stronger together.
• Fang Shu bade farewell to Er Daiyuan and followed the Underground Palace formation traces through the blood to emerge outside the Blood Lake.

After leaving the underground palace, Fang Shu rested, then gathered herbs and fought cultivators in the secret realm until his ruthless methods earned him a fearsome reputation. When a golden mountain appeared in the west, he rushed toward it and found an extraordinary flying sword surrounded by fierce metallic qi.

• Fang Shu stored the ruined ceremonial cape, opened a temporary cave dwelling, and spent a day and a half reviewing his gains and studying the Blood Mother Scripture.
• Fang Shu traveled into the secret realm’s depths, gathered spirit herbs, and killed cultivators who threatened him or preyed on others.
• Fang Shu acquired three thousand-year spirit herbs and gained a reputation that caused most cultivators to flee or surrender their belongings.
• Fang Shu saw a golden mountain blaze into view and hurried toward the new inheritance.
• Fang Shu reached the mountain and saw a remarkable blue-white flying sword moving amid torrents of metallic qi.

Fang Shu reached the golden mountain and found Zong Qingxue and Yan Gou dueling over the Nine-Tribulation White Sword. After Yan Gou attacked him, Fang Shu joined the conflict, subdued Jiao Lulu with Gu insects, and left her unable to help either side as the sword duel continued.

• Fang Shu saw the Nine-Tribulation White Sword and climbed the golden mountain, where he found Zong Qingxue and Yan Gou fighting while other immortals fled.
• A rogue immortal tried to seize the sword, but it severed his arm, and Zong Qingxue and Yan Gou killed him before driving off the remaining onlookers.
• Fang Shu recognized Zong Qingxue and Jiao Lulu, but refused their advice to leave and said he intended to touch the sword.
• Yan Gou attacked Fang Shu, and Zong Qingxue shielded him before resuming her duel with Yan Gou.
• Fang Shu disrupted Yan Gou with a Nail-Head Arrow and used Gu insects to trap Jiao Lulu when she moved to restrain him.
• Yan Gou accused Jiao Lulu of pretending to be trapped while Zong Qingxue and Yan Gou continued their sword duel.

Fang Shu and Zong Qingxue joined forces to defeat and kill Yan Gou on the Golden Mountain, then turned to face each other as rivals. Jiao Lulu remained terrified at the edge of the platform.

• Fang Shu used his gu formation against Yan Gou after Yan Gou dismissed his swordsmanship, and Zong Qingxue rejoined the fight while Jiao Lulu withdrew.
• Yan Gou appealed to the Nine-Tribulation White Sword for a fair duel, but Fang Shu and Zong Qingxue attacked together and grievously wounded him.
• Yan Gou surrendered and pleaded for Jiao Lulu's help, but Fang Shu's cold look stopped her from intervening.
• Zong Qingxue killed Yan Gou and destroyed his soul, while Jiao Lulu watched in fear.
• Fang Shu and Zong Qingxue acknowledged each other's skill, then faced one another with weapons raised.

Fang Shu and Zong Qingxue joined forces to subdue the Nine Tribulations white sword after it rejected them both. With Jiao Lulu’s help and the power of the Foundation-Building War Drum, they gained ground but had not yet captured the sword.

• The white sword attacked Fang Shu and Zong Qingxue, then rejected Zong Qingxue when she tried to approach the platform again.
• Fang Shu proposed they beat the sword into submission, and he and Zong Qingxue agreed to share its inheritance and settle who kept the sword in a later duel.
• Zong Qingxue fought the white sword while Fang Shu trapped it in his Three Talents Four-Gu Formation, but the sword resisted their combined efforts.
• Fang Shu gave Shen Yin's Foundation-Building War Drum to Jiao Lulu, who joined the fight and weakened the sword with her drumming.
• Fang Shu gave Millennium Spirit Herb to Jiao Lulu and Zong Qingxue, and both women used their essence blood to strengthen the war drum.

Fang Shu, Zong Qingxue, and Jiao Lulu wore down the Nine-Tribulation White Sword until the secret realm’s lightning trapped it, but its attempt to turn Zong Qingxue against Fang Shu failed. When lightning exposed and destroyed a hidden remnant soul inside the sword, the weakened blade flew toward Fang Shu and Zong Qingxue, who both reached for it.

• Fang Shu, Zong Qingxue, and Jiao Lulu suppressed the Nine-Tribulation White Sword for seven days, replenishing their true qi with spirit herbs as the sword grew weaker.
• The Nine-Tribulation White Sword attacked, but the secret realm’s lightning struck its sword light; when the sword challenged the lightning again, a storm trapped it on the shattered platform.
• The sword offered to acknowledge Zong Qingxue if she agreed to kill Fang Shu, but Zong Qingxue refused to submit to its threat, and Fang Shu resumed approaching the sword.
• As lightning battered the sword, a phantom begged the group to save it and teach them the supreme way of the sword; Zong Qingxue identified it as a predecessor’s concealed remnant soul.
• A golden thunderbolt destroyed the remnant soul and weakened the Nine-Tribulation White Sword to six tribulations; the blade flew toward Fang Shu and Zong Qingxue, who both lunged for it.

Fang Shu refined the Sword Ghost and obtained its Sword Dao legacy, while Zong Qingxue claimed the weakened white sword. Fang Shu offered to share the inheritance through a merging of divine souls, and Jiao Lulu eagerly accepted as Zong Qingxue reconsidered her impression of him.

• Fang Shu used the Dao Register to refine the Sword Ghost’s divine thoughts and absorb its Sword Dao legacy, learning that it had planned to possess Yan Gou or another sword slave.
• Zong Qingxue refined the Six-Tribulation White Sword and explained that its lingering sword intent made it more useful to her than a dangerous Nine-Tribulation artifact.
• Fang Shu offered to share the Sword Cultivator’s manuals and Golden Mountain sword formation with Zong Qingxue through a merging of divine souls, but she declined after realizing what he meant.
• Fang Shu apologized for teasing Zong Qingxue, and she silently accepted his apology.
• Jiao Lulu asked to see Fang Shu’s inheritance, then agreed to merge divine souls with him after Zong Qingxue explained what it entailed.
• Zong Qingxue listened as Fang Shu openly discussed the merging with Jiao Lulu and began to question whether she had misjudged his frankness.

Above Five Elders Peak, five True Immortals discussed the dangerous inheritances inside the secret realm and decided to let the younger cultivators face their own trials. Fang Shu refused to merge souls with Jiao Lulu, carved the sword inheritance onto the Golden Mountain, and left as the realm’s exit began to open, expecting to return laden with resources and ready to establish his foundation.

• Five True Immortals discussed the predecessors’ schemes inside the secret realm and agreed that the younger cultivators should overcome them themselves.
• Fang Shu declined Jiao Lulu’s request to merge souls, then used his Nail-Head Arrows to carve sword cultivation formulas onto the Golden Mountain for her, Zong Qingxue, and future visitors.
• Fang Shu’s understanding of the sword inheritance deepened as he carved, while Jiao Lulu and Zong Qingxue studied the mountain’s arts and drew upon its metallic energy.
• After three days, Fang Shu finished the inscriptions, divided some of Yan Gou’s resources between the two women, and left the Golden Mountain with a sense that its inheritance had an owner.
• The secret realm’s astral currents gathered into towering columns as passages opened, signaling the approaching exit, and Fang Shu anticipated returning to the Five Viscera Temple with his gains.

Fang Shu encountered Withered Bone Abbey immortals guarding the Mount Lu Secret Realm exit, where Luo Fuyin recognized him and accused him of knowing the whereabouts of the dragonspawn thieves. He killed Luo and fought Grey, only to realize Grey had arranged for Fang Shu to kill the other disciples so their corpses could become skeleton helpers.

• Fang Shu reached the secret realm exit and confronted Grey, who demanded information about the dragonspawn thieves in exchange for letting him pass.
• Luo Fuyin recognized Fang Shu and urged Grey to seize him, but Fang Shu struck her with a Nail-Head Arrow and killed her despite her protective talisman.
• Grey attacked Fang Shu with a powerful white-bone claw, disrupting Fang Shu's attempt to form a Gu Formation.
• Fang Shu fought Grey and killed or crippled the other Withered Bone Abbey disciples, while Grey revealed his arm was the remains of an ancient predecessor.
• Grey killed a wounded disciple and transformed the fallen disciples' corpses into skeletons, revealing that he had used Fang Shu to create more helpers.

Fang Shu fought Hui Yi, whose White Bone power nearly overwhelmed him, but the poison carried by Fang Shu’s Nail-Head Arrows turned the battle in his favor. Hui Yi fled toward the secret realm’s exit and seemed poised to escape, but his pupils contracted at the chapter’s end.

• Hui Yi sent skeletons and attacked Fang Shu with his white-bone arm, but Fang Shu’s Armored Horse talisman blocked the strike and restrained the arm.
• Fang Shu’s three Nail-Head Arrows pierced Hui Yi through his weakened defenses, and their poison began clouding Hui Yi’s mind as Fang Shu pressed the attack.
• Hui Yi burned essence blood to break free and unleashed his white-bone phantom, but Fang Shu evaded the strike and continued pursuing him.
• Hui Yi ordered the skeletons to delay Fang Shu, then fled toward the secret realm’s exit while Fang Shu followed, firing the Nail-Head Arrows.
• Hui Yi reached the exit formation and began to leave, taunting Fang Shu, but his pupils suddenly contracted.

Fang Shu emerged from the secret realm carrying Hui Yi’s severed head and arm, provoking a confrontation between Five Viscera Temple and Withered Bone Abbey. Protected by the Three Capitals, Fang Shu surrendered Hui Yi’s arm but kept a piece hidden, then offered eight thousand-year spiritual herbs and part of another; he still had Hui Yi’s Storage Bags to search.

• Fang Shu struck Shen Yin’s Foundation-Building War Drum to disrupt the exit formation, caught up with Hui Yi, and dragged him through the exit before killing him.
• The other immortals gathered to watch, and Fang Shu emerged before the sect elders holding Hui Yi’s head and severed arm while Hui Yi’s corpse fell and broke apart below.
• A Withered Bone Abbey Earth Immortal tried to attack Fang Shu, but Ox Cart Earth Immortal blocked him, and the Three Capitals defended Fang Shu from the abbey’s accusations.
• The Withered Bone Abbey skull demanded Hui Yi’s white-bone arm, and Fang Shu handed it over after secretly removing a piece.
• Fang Shu collected Hui Yi’s remains and Storage Bag, then presented the Three Capitals with eight whole thousand-year spiritual herbs and half of another.

Fang Shu’s haul of fifteen thousand-year spirit herbs raised the Five Viscera Temple’s hopes of winning the sect competition, while his encounter with Black Mouse left him wary of the hidden strength among his fellow disciples. As the secret realm closed, nine unaffiliated cultivators emerged, including a formidable man Fang Shu had once seen in a teahouse, raising the question of what would happen to any spirit herbs they had gathered.

• Deer Cart Earth Immortal removed the Storage Bag’s seals and collected Fang Shu’s fifteen thousand-year spirit herbs, then returned his chopped half-herb after calling it ruined.
• The Earth Immortals from the other sects challenged the Five Viscera Temple’s apparent lead, and Skinny Bone warned them against mocking the Withered Bone Abbey.
• Black Mouse emerged with three thousand-year spirit herbs, while Fang Shu studied him and privately resolved to stay on guard against the dangerous cultivator.
• The remaining disciples emerged with their hauls, including Ouyang Fuyun, who had gathered twelve spirit herbs without robbing or killing anyone.
• Nine unaffiliated cultivators emerged just before the secret realm’s exit vanished, and Fang Shu recognized a burly, halberd-carrying man he had once encountered in a teahouse.

After the Five Sects’ secret-realm expedition, Fang Shu learned that Beauty Palace had used rogue cultivators’ herbs to claim first place and kept his own role in the deaths of several Foundation Establishment seeds hidden. When Jade Face demanded Shen Yin’s relics, Deer Cart intervened, forcing an exchange that left Fang Shu with the Peach Blossom Mistcloud as Three Capitals led the temple back to its sect.

• Beauty Palace counted eleven herbs donated by rogue cultivators, bringing its total to fifty-two and overtaking Five Viscera Temple’s forty-three.
• Fang Shu realized he had killed every Foundation Establishment seed of the Five Sects and resolved to enter seclusion and establish his foundation after receiving his reward.
• Jade Face confronted Fang Shu and demanded the Foundation-Building War Drum and Shen Yin’s corpse, but Fang Shu claimed he had only picked up the drum and knew nothing about the body.
• Deer Cart stopped Jade Face from taking the drum without compensation and made her offer Fang Shu a choice of rewards.
• Fang Shu chose the Peach Blossom Mistcloud instead of spirit stones, pills, or the Flesh-Paper Cauldron Art, and Jade Face took back the war drum.
• Deer Cart inspected the cloud mist, advised Fang Shu to keep it until after Foundation Establishment, and led Three Capitals and the disciples back to the sect.

After the secret realm expedition, the Five Elders Peak divine beings declared that Mount Lu’s fortune was flourishing and agreed to unite in refining spirit after the disciples established their foundations. Back at the Five Viscera Temple, Fang Shu learned that a foundation establishment ceremony would be held in eighty-one days, then hid Chu Yang’s unusual fire and returned to his cave residence to sort through his abundant spoils.

• Five enormous divine beings emerged from Five Elders Peak, discussed Mount Lu’s rising fortune and future refining spirit, then departed toward the five sects’ territories as the peak collapsed.
• The Three Capitals sealed the Five Viscera Temple, provided care and exchange opportunities for the expedition’s disciples, and announced a foundation establishment ceremony in eighty-one days.
• Fang Shu attracted attention for earning the most merit points, then invited Jin Duobao and fellow disciples to a banquet at the Jin Family Treasure Hall three days later.
• Fang Shu buried Luan Tong’er’s Storage Bag containing the bewitching-bone yang-seizing fire and concealed his traces before returning to his cave residence.
• Fang Shu emptied his Storage Bags onto the ritual altar, filling his cave residence with the resources he had gathered.

After counting his secret-realm spoils, Fang Shu discovered the White Bone Sharira held a method for refining powerful White Bone Dao-Soldiers, then tested the Peach Blossom Mistcloud. Confident his gains had greatly improved his Foundation Establishment prospects, he headed to the temple’s Medicine Hall and Scripture Hall to spend his fifteen merits.

• Fang Shu counted his secret-realm gains, set aside items to sell, and kept valuable materials for refining gu, raising insects, and preparing for Foundation Establishment.
• Fang Shu examined the Er Family Patriarch’s array tablets and found they would be difficult to master before he reached Foundation Establishment or gained more dragon qi.
• Fang Shu read the White Bone Sharira and learned the White Bone True Womb Dao-Soldier Refinement Method, which could culminate in a quasi-Ten-Tribulation White Bone True Womb.
• Fang Shu used the Dao Register to erase the Sharira’s secret inscriptions, then tested the Peach Blossom Mistcloud and found he could control it with the Golden Niter Cloud Method.
• Fang Shu resolved to use his fifteen merits, earned for fifteen thousand-year spirit herbs, and left for the Medicine Hall and Scripture Hall.

Fang Shu exchanged merit for a Foundation Establishment cloud-riding spell and a full batch of Innate Bone-Transmuting Pills before attending a banquet at the Jin Family Treasure Hall. After sealing his cave dwelling, he began seclusion with more than two months before the Foundation Establishment Assembly, hoping to cultivate a hundred toads of true qi.

• Fang Shu examined the Scripture Hall’s Gu Dao texts, recognized copies left by Long Gu, and considered the inheritances he had obtained from her and the Er Family Patriarch.
• Fang Shu exchanged for the Lesser Cloud-Gathering True-Returning Cloud Restriction spell and a notebook of Foundation Establishment insights.
• Fang Shu spent two merits on eighteen Innate Bone-Transmuting Pills after an old alchemist warned him to take the entire batch according to its prescription.
• Fang Shu acquired assorted pills and Gu worm feed, then attended the banquet at the Jin Family Treasure Hall while Black Mouse kept mostly silent.
• Fang Shu sealed his cave dwelling and began seclusion, intending to cultivate the remaining true qi needed to reach a hundred toads before the Foundation Establishment Assembly.

Fang Shu consumed all eighteen Innate Bone-Transmuting Pills and spent his reserves of spirit herbs and stones to break through to one hundred and eight toads of true qi. As the Foundation Establishment Assembly arrived, persistent urges to refine Gu led him to suspect that his Gu lineage was budding.

• Fang Shu refined the eighteenth Innate Bone-Transmuting Pill and used its accumulated medicinal power to push his true qi toward one hundred toads.
• Fang Shu swallowed millennium spirit herbs and crushed Mid-grade Spirit Stones, breaking through to one hundred toads and then reaching one hundred and eight.
• Fang Shu finished withdrawing from cultivation and found that his denser true qi greatly improved his spiritual perception, combat power, and use of the Peach Blossom Mistcloud.
• Fang Shu decided to wait for the Foundation Establishment Assembly and its spirit-vein reward before attempting Foundation Establishment.
• Fang Shu repeatedly felt compelled to refine Gu and, as the Foundation Establishment Assembly arrived, realized that his Gu lineage might be budding.

Fang Shu attended the Five Viscera Temple’s Foundation Establishment assembly after signs suggested his future Dao vein would be rooted in the Gu Dao. The temple master transformed the gathering into moths and led them to Ancient Mount Lu, where all Five Sects assembled for their teachings.

• Fang Shu interpreted the signs from cultivating Hundred Toad True Qi as a heavenly indication that he would establish a gu-related Dao vein.
• Fang Shu reunited with Jin Duobao, Fang Lu, and other disciples before the Household Hall, where they discussed his secret-realm achievements and Er Daiyuan’s family troubles.
• The Three Capitals summoned the Five Viscera Temple’s master, whose appearance stirred the crowd’s internal organs and changed the sky above the temple.
• The temple master transformed the temple’s cultivators into moths and led them toward Ancient Mount Lu, explaining that all Five Sects would hold their Foundation Establishment assemblies together.
• The Five Sects arrived at Ancient Mount Lu and arranged their disciples around the summit’s earthen mound, where Fang Shu sat in the front row among the gathered sects.

Fang Shu and the other disciples attended the Foundation Establishment Dao Discussion Assembly, where the five sect masters expounded their teachings and granted listeners powerful benefits. After half a month of sermons, the cultivators had grown stronger, while the five True Immortals watched them with intense expectation.

• The five sect masters welcomed their disciples to the gathering and began the assembly with the master of the Flesh Abbey expounding the Dao for three days.
• The master of the Flesh Abbey’s sermon nourished the listeners, improved their cultivation, and even helped some disciples enter Qi Refinement.
• The master of the Withered Bone Abbey taught for more than three days, strengthening listeners’ bones, tendons, marrow, and qi and blood.
• The master of the Four Limbs Temple, the master of the Five Viscera Temple, and the master of the Beauty Palace each expounded the Dao and bestowed further benefits.
• For half a month, the sermons transformed the cultivators and revitalized the earthen mound, as the five sect masters watched them with eager anticipation.

Fang Shu and the disciples of the Five Sects discovered that the Foundation Establishment Assembly had trapped them, and they watched the sect masters refine several Earth Immortals and disciples. The Three Capitals then revealed their support for the sect masters’ attempt at Spirit Refinement, as the five began sacrificing themselves to open the way.

• The sect masters sealed the assembly, and Fang Shu realized that their talk of seasoning and marinating might mean they intended to refine those gathered.
• The Withered Bone Abbey Master seized and devoured an Earth Immortal, then the other sect masters began refining Earth Immortals and disciples from the crowd.
• Fang Shu noticed that the sect masters gained little strength from their victims and that the Three Capitals sat calmly, suggesting the apparent slaughter concealed another purpose.
• The five sect masters stopped selecting victims and joined the Three Capitals, who suppressed the crowd and declared that the disciples of Mount Lu invited the five to refine their spirits and open the way.
• The sect masters revealed their ruined bodies and recited words of sacrifice, and one released a brilliant streak of white light that shook the Mount Lu mountain range.

Fang Shu witnessed four of Mount Lu’s sect masters sacrifice their Great Elixirs to help the master of Beauty Palace reach Refining Spirit, while Deer Cart explained the Five Sects’ shared origin and the cleansing of their ranks. The disciples’ prayers steadied the final azure light, which joined the four other masters’ remains to form one complete body, apparently completing the breakthrough.

• The masters of Withered Bone Abbey and the Five Viscera Temple dispersed their Great Elixirs, and two more sect masters followed, leaving only the master of Beauty Palace.
• Deer Cart told Fang Shu and the other disciples that the Five Sects shared an ancient lineage and that their masters had sacrificed themselves to clear obstacles and help one of them reach Refining Spirit.
• Deer Cart declared that those who survived the cleansing could join the Mount Lu Dao Lineage, and Fang Shu noticed that Azure Spider had not been purged.
• The master of Beauty Palace’s azure Great Elixir began to scatter, so Deer Cart ordered the disciples to pray and swear loyalty to the Mount Lu Dao Lineage.
• The disciples’ prayers sent power into the azure light, which stabilized and combined the five masters’ remains into a complete body as the crowd celebrated.

After the Beauty Palace Lord refined his spirit, Cloud Immortal arrived claiming to represent the Profound Teaching and attacked him when he refused to leave Mount Lu. The white goose overpowered and began devouring the Palace Lord while the trapped Mount Lu disciples watched helplessly and begged him to flee.

• The Beauty Palace Lord completed spirit refinement, and Mount Lu’s people celebrated the birth of an immortal.
• Cloud Immortal arrived on a giant white goose and invited the Palace Lord to the Profound Teaching to join the immortal registers.
• The Palace Lord asked for several days to settle Mount Lu’s affairs, but Cloud Immortal accused him of being an ancient demon and attacked.
• The white goose shattered the Palace Lord’s defenses, seized him, and Cloud Immortal began tearing out his organs and limbs.
• Mount Lu’s immortals and disciples tried to help, but spiritual-light barriers kept them trapped; they called for the Palace Lord to escape and preserve Mount Lu.

The goose-headed half-human revealed that the Five Sects’ masters had only feigned refining spirit by borrowing Mount Lu’s fortune, then killed the Beauty Palace Master. As Mount Lu’s death stirred heaven and earth, he attacked the disciples to devour their fortune, swallowing Fang Shu and the others in one gulp.

• The goose-headed half-human explained that the Five Sects’ masters would revert to the Pill Fruit realm if they left Mount Lu’s fortune, provoking angry disbelief from Fang Shu, the Deer Cart Earth Immortal, and the other disciples.
• The goose-headed half-human admitted that the Profound Teaching had cultivated Mount Lu’s fortune as bait and mocked the Beauty Palace Master for trying to refine spirit before the right time.
• The Beauty Palace Master condemned the Profound Teaching for monopolizing fortune and blocking others from refining spirit, then spat luminous blood at the goose-headed half-human.
• The goose-headed half-human cracked the Beauty Palace Master’s skull against the goose’s head, killing them as Mount Lu’s aura shifted and lightning gathered overhead.
• The goose-headed half-human decided to seize the disciples’ fortune and swooped down on the earthen mound, swallowing Fang Shu and the gathered Mount Lu disciples in one gulp.