Recaps

Fang Shu and the Mount Lu survivors discovered that the Five Sects’ masters had used themselves as bait to trap the Goose Demon with Mount Lu’s Fortune, heavenly lightning, and the secret realm. As the Goose Demon struggled against the trap, Fang Shu and the others honored their forebears’ willingness to risk the sect’s destruction for its future.

• The Goose Demon’s attack struck the cage of fortune protecting Fang Shu and the others, and five-colored light bound the fiend to Ancient Mount Lu.
• Heavenly lightning struck the Goose Demon, and its attempt to redirect the bolts could not damage Mount Lu or the protected disciples.
• The Deer Cart Earth Immortal revealed that the Five Sects’ masters had used their bodies as bait to lure the Goose Demon into a trap, while Mount Lu’s secret realm appeared below the mountain.
• The Deer Cart Earth Immortal explained that the secret realm was the Goose Demon’s only path to survival and could make its origin essence a resource for Mount Lu’s future generations.
• The Goose Demon failed to escape because Mount Lu’s Fortune had entangled it, and the Deer Cart Earth Immortal revealed that the masters had knowingly gambled the sect’s lives for a chance to trap it.
• Fang Shu recited a verse praising the Five Sects’ sacrifice, and those around him echoed his cries across the mountaintop.

The goose-headed demihuman entered the Mount Lu Secret Realm to escape the heavenly lightning, but used a Severing Heaven and Earth Token to erase the gathering’s memories. Fang Shu retained fragments of what happened through the Dao Register, leaving him alone with knowledge of the hidden threat.

• The goose-headed demihuman failed to break the five-colored earthen hill and, battered by heavenly lightning, decided to enter the Mount Lu Secret Realm.
• The goose-headed demihuman shrank its body and entered the secret realm, where it secretly struggled against the realm as it drained its immortal power.
• The goose-headed demihuman revealed a Severing Heaven and Earth Token and activated it before fully disappearing into the secret realm.
• The token’s power spread across Mount Lu and the Jade Kingdom, erasing memories and destroying written records of the gathering.
• Fang Shu’s Dao Register resisted the memory erasure, and he realized what had happened when he regained consciousness among the confused Mount Lu crowd.

After the memories of Mount Lu’s survivors were erased, Fang Shu hid what he knew, gathered five-colored soil from the mound, and returned to the Five Viscera Temple. While the Earth Immortals investigated the disaster, Fang Shu prepared to attempt Foundation Establishment.

• Fang Shu realized that everyone had forgotten the Five Sects’ masters and the Profound Teaching Divine Immortal, and resolved to keep the truth secret while pursuing cultivation.
• Deer Cart Earth Immortal and the other leaders discovered that members of their sects were missing, declared Ancient Mount Lu ill-omened, and led their disciples away.
• Fang Shu collected loose five-colored soil from the mound, drawing startled looks from the others before the mound itself lost its color.
• The Five Sects departed Mount Lu, and Deer Cart and the other Earth Immortals returned the Five Viscera Temple disciples to their sect.
• As the Earth Immortals investigated the strange events, Fang Shu exchanged nearly all his remaining merit and prepared for Foundation Establishment.

Fang Shu prepared for Foundation Establishment but learned that the Five Viscera Temple had reserved its Spiritual Veins for the mountain-protecting formation. After discovering that Floating Mountain and the Profound Teaching threatened Mount Lu, he arranged to leave the sealed mountain and secretly traveled to Little West Mountain to seek its Spiritual Vein.

• Fang Shu gathered pills, formation flags, a mirror talisman, and poisonous gu-insect eggs for his Foundation Establishment attempt.
• A Household Hall disciple told Fang Shu that no Spiritual Veins were available for disciples while the temple maintained its protective formation.
• Jin Duobao revealed that Floating Mountain had cut off the Five Sects' communications and that a Profound Teaching envoy planned to establish a branch altar on Mount Lu.
• Fang Shu resolved not to delay Foundation Establishment and asked Jin Duobao for a way to leave the mountain.
• Fang Shu informed Fang Lu and Er Daiyuan that he was leaving, made preparations with the Jin Family, and slipped out of the mountain that night.
• Fang Shu evaded pursuit and reached Little West Mountain, intending to use its Spiritual Vein.

Fang Shu began Foundation Establishment beneath Little West Mountain by using his Cordyceps Spiritual Root to devour the mountain’s spiritual vein and steal its heaven-and-earth primal qi. When the root resisted his attempt to stop its transformation, he tore it from his forehead and refined it, facing the surge of power from his nascent worm-dragon spiritual vein.

• Fang Shu prepared an underground meditation chamber, set up a Five-Colored Spirit-Gathering Formation, and built a five-colored earthen altar before spending three days readying himself.
• Fang Shu swallowed a Golden Crystal Glazed Pill and began Foundation Establishment, causing his Cordyceps Spiritual Root to sprout and divine silk to spread through Little West Mountain’s spiritual vein.
• Fang Shu felt that he could merge with the mountain and become an earth immortal, but he rejected that path and let his spirit root develop into a worm-dragon form.
• Fang Shu fed the root with spirit stones as it drained Little West Mountain’s spiritual vein and heaven-and-earth primal qi without any backlash.
• When the spirit root resisted his attempt to interrupt its final transformation, Fang Shu pulled it from his forehead and refined it on the spot.
• Fang Shu endured the pain and emptiness of having no spirit root as the nascent worm-dragon spiritual vein’s power surged through him and his Foundation Establishment Earth Immortal pressure rose.

Fang Shu completed his Foundation-Building breakthrough by refining the Cordyceps Spiritual Root, books, and Dao Register into a Dao vein. After his body dissolved and reformed through metamorphosis, he gained a renewed body and lifespan before discovering that his Dao vein was a strange Gu insect rooted in the void.

• The Cordyceps Spiritual Root failed to become a spiritual vein, and its spiritual energy propelled Fang Shu into the Seventh Tribulation and Foundation-Building realm.
• Fang Shu realized that forging his Dao vein required Gu refinement and fed the Cordyceps Spiritual Root, Gu insects, Gu eggs, and the words from his books and scriptures into the refining process.
• Fang Shu removed the Dao Register from his mind and used it with golden threads and characters to form a cocoon that absorbed the cave's spiritual energy.
• Fang Shu's body and soul dissolved inside the cocoon, then slowly reformed over several days into a youthful, uninjured body with a lifespan of 360 years.
• Fang Shu briefly perceived the Outer World as a vast net of laws and discovered that his Dao vein was a Gu insect rooted in the void, which he called a Dao Insect.

After establishing Foundation through a Dao vein, Fang Shu discovered that his Dao Insect could devour Mystic Script and that his body could refine and nourish Gu insects. He left the chapter resolved to explore these new abilities after preserving part of the five-colored earth to help Little West Mountain recover.

• Fang Shu transformed into a Dao Insect and gnawed Mystic Script from magical implements, discovering that he could also wear away Foundation Establishment-level artifacts with greater effort.
• Fang Shu realized his Dao Insect could undermine formations and restrictions, then examined the five-colored altar and found that it had gathered the Fortune of heaven and earth.
• Fang Shu kept part of the five-colored earth and returned the rest to Little West Mountain, hoping to nurture its earth vein and restore its Spiritual Vein someday.
• Fang Shu tested his newly strengthened flesh, then discovered that drops of his blood could produce many kinds of Gu insects and strengthen existing ones.
• Fang Shu found that his flesh and bones could refine Gu more easily than blood, while hair and saliva could only feed them, and he began using his blood as a universal food for his Gu insects.

Fang Shu completed his seventh Foundation Establishment tribulation and named his flesh-and-blood Gu technique Insect Transformation at Will. He returned to Guling Town, revealed his achievement to Second Uncle Yu Le and Lone Pavilion Master, and left them linked Gu insects for protection.

• Fang Shu discovered that his flesh-and-blood Gu insects could carry his spells, parasitize living creatures, and combine traits from different Gu insects.
• Fang Shu named his ability Insect Transformation at Will, gathered valuable belongings from the cave chamber, and left after completing his Foundation Establishment tribulation.
• Fang Shu flew to Guling Town and found Second Uncle Yu Le and Lone Pavilion Master there.
• Fang Shu demonstrated that he could walk through the air and confirmed that he had become a seventh-tribulation Foundation Establishment immortal.
• Fang Shu asked Second Uncle Yu Le and Lone Pavilion Master to keep his achievement quiet and gave them flesh-and-blood Gu insects to protect them and keep track of their safety.
• Fang Shu began considering another way to protect his family and friends.

Fang Shu arranged a refuge for his family and the Solitary Gu Hall, then received Senior Brother Wu Tong’s secret letter offering them a retreat route to Vast Sea Immortal City. After Fang Shu left, Lone Pavilion Master learned that he had given her and Yu Le a merit each and was overwhelmed by his generosity.

• Fang Shu told Yu Le and Master Du that he planned to visit Old Mountain Lord and advised them to seek shelter at the Monster Market if Mount Lu became dangerous.
• Lone Pavilion Master gave Fang Shu Wu Tong’s hidden letter, which revealed that Wu Tong had established himself in Vast Sea Immortal City and offered the hall refuge there.
• Fang Shu told Lone Pavilion Master that Du Yu'er and Xiao Lili had survived the secret realm, and warned her to keep their alliance with him secret from Flesh Abbey.
• Fang Shu accepted preserved goods from Yu Le, told him to share the health-preserving pills, and revealed that he had left one merit each for Yu Le and Lone Pavilion Master.
• After Fang Shu vanished from the Solitary Gu Hall, Yu Le informed Lone Pavilion Master of the merits, and she was deeply moved by Fang Shu’s generosity.

Fang Shu visited Old Mountain Lord and met the Lord of Floating Mountain, learning that an envoy of the Moral Profound Teaching had arrived and that Floating Mountain was recruiting allies. After securing Old Mountain Lord’s promise to protect his family, Fang Shu left with congratulations on his foundation establishment and a vow to return for another drink.

• Fang Shu returned to the Monster Market and joined Old Mountain Lord and a brocade-robed boar demon for wine on Ganoderma Terrace.
• The boar demon tried to persuade Old Mountain Lord to join Floating Mountain, then left after warning that Floating Mountain’s fortunes might fade.
• Old Mountain Lord told Fang Shu that the Lord of Floating Mountain was recruiting demons amid the arrival of a Moral Profound Teaching envoy and other immortal families.
• Fang Shu asked Old Mountain Lord to protect his Second Uncle and the others in Guling Town, and Old Mountain Lord agreed.
• Old Mountain Lord congratulated Fang Shu on establishing his foundation, and Fang Shu promised to return for another drink before flying away.

After returning to the Five Viscera Temple, Fang Shu learned that the Venom Hall was being plundered amid the temple’s turmoil. He drove off Beast Hall looters and entered the ravaged valley, where he sensed a familiar person overseeing the seizure of its remaining assets.

• Fang Shu reentered the Five Viscera Temple with Jin Duobao’s help and learned that the Five Sects of Mount Lu were fracturing and that the temple’s foundation establishment plans had been suspended.
• Jin Duobao warned Fang Shu that other cultivators were carving up the Venom Hall’s wealth after Master Long’s reported death, and urged him to stay out of the conflict.
• Fang Shu went looking for Senior Sister Fang Lu, then headed to the Venom Hall after learning more about the rumors surrounding it.
• Fang Shu found Beast Hall disciples carrying off the Venom Hall’s resources, knocked them down, and released venomous insects among them before entering the valley.
• Fang Shu saw that the Venom Hall had been stripped and sensed a familiar person inside, overseeing and approving the looting.

Fang Shu returned to the Venom Hall and confronted Black Mouse, who claimed the Beast Hall had come to merge the halls and had protected Fang Shu’s people. Fang Shu attacked anyway, trapping Black Mouse and burning the rats he had transformed into, while preparing himself for a greater fight.

• Fang Shu arrived at the Venom Hall, where Black Mouse claimed he had been sent to handle the Beast Hall’s merger and had treated Fang Shu’s people well.
• Fang Shu wounded two Guling Town cultivators who tried to smooth things over, then attacked Black Mouse with Peach Blossom Mistcloud and Nail-Head Arrows.
• Fang Shu called on Venom Hall disciples to gather behind him, and fewer than a third—including Gou Yandi—chose to do so.
• Black Mouse tried to flee, but Fang Shu’s gu insects surrounded him and formed a Gu Formation; Black Mouse scattered into countless rats to escape.
• Fang Shu trapped the rats with Peach Blossom Mistcloud and gu insects, then set them ablaze with the Bewitching-Bone Yang-Seizing Fire as Black Mouse cried out in terror.

Fang Shu lured Flame Crow Earth Immortal into Venom Hall Valley after killing Black Mouse, then revealed his Foundation Establishment cultivation and killed Flame Crow in a swift battle. The valley formation trapped the surviving Beast Hall disciples and Flame Crow’s spirit birds as everyone stared at the dead hall master.

• Fang Shu ordered Venom Hall and Beast Hall disciples to secure the valley formation and prepare for Flame Crow’s arrival while Black Mouse continued suffering inside the Peach Blossom Mistcloud.
• Flame Crow Earth Immortal attacked the valley formation and demanded that Fang Shu release Black Mouse, then rushed inside when Fang Shu opened the formation.
• Fang Shu killed Black Mouse in front of Flame Crow, provoking the Beast Hall master to attack him with his flaming crows and sparrows.
• Fang Shu revealed that he had reached Seven Tribulations Foundation Establishment, and Gou Yandi and the others sealed the valley formation to prevent Flame Crow from escaping.
• Fang Shu fought Flame Crow with his Five Poisons Complete Formation and killed him with a streak of white light, leaving the disciples and spirit birds in shock.

Fang Shu killed Flame Crow in Venom Hall and faced an inquest from Five Viscera Temple’s Earth Immortals, but Deer Cart shielded him and brought him before the Three Capitals. As news of Fang Shu’s foundation breakthrough spread, Venom Hall was restored while Azure Spider seethed over her own stalled advancement.

• Fang Shu destroyed Flame Crow’s body and soul, then the temple bell rang and Venom Hall’s formation began to collapse.
• Foundation Establishment Earth Immortals gathered at Venom Hall, discovered Flame Crow’s death, and questioned how Fang Shu had established his foundation.
• Fang Shu explained that Flame Crow had attacked him first, and Deer Cart defended his clean background and invited him to answer the accusations.
• Deer Cart dismissed the gathered Earth Immortals and escorted Fang Shu away, while word of Fang Shu’s breakthrough spread through the temple.
• Jin Duobao celebrated Fang Shu’s rise, while Azure Spider burned the sound-transmission talismans in anger and regretted returning her spirit vein to the temple.
• Household Hall disciples moved into Venom Hall to repair it, and a Foundation Establishment cultivator sealed away the remaining fire crows and fire sparrows.

Fang Shu learned from Deer Cart Earth Immortal that his Foundation Establishment had revealed him as a rare Dao-vein cultivator whose divine ability could attract deadly covetousness. Deer Cart urged him to hide his achievement and claim Earth-Walking Foundation Establishment, and Fang Shu asked him to teach a way to preserve his life and avoid calamity.

• Deer Cart Earth Immortal recognized Fang Shu as a Dao-vein Foundation Establishment cultivator and explained that Mount Lu’s secret-realm inheritances pointed disciples toward that path.
• Fang Shu questioned why the Five Sects of Mount Lu suppressed Foundation Establishment, and Deer Cart asked about his divine ability and breakthrough process.
• Deer Cart explained that Dao-vein cultivators possessed divine ability seeds that greatly improved their chances of reaching Core Formation, but could be hunted by cultivators seeking to seize those abilities.
• Deer Cart warned Fang Shu to keep his Dao-vein Foundation Establishment secret and tell others he had achieved Earth-Walking Foundation Establishment.
• After hearing about methods for stealing divine abilities and Dao foundations, Fang Shu asked Deer Cart to teach him how to preserve his life and avoid calamity.

Fang Shu learned that the Five Sects of Mount Lu planned to surrender to the Profound Teaching and that his safest course was to leave the mountain. Armed with a Golden Core True Immortal’s calling card, he set his sights on Vast Sea Immortal City to seek a master and pursue Golden Core formation.

• Deer Cart Earth Immortal explained that the Five Sects of Mount Lu faced surrender, with Foundation Establishment disciples expected to join the Profound Teaching, remain in Mount Lu, or leave for refuge.
• Fang Shu chose to leave, since his Dao Lineage Foundation Establishment and minor divine ability made the first two paths too dangerous.
• Deer Cart Earth Immortal gave Fang Shu a calling card for a Golden Core True Immortal in Vast Sea Immortal City and a token granting him access to the temple’s books and grounds.
• Deer Cart Earth Immortal warned Fang Shu not to cultivate the temple’s Foundation Establishment methods and told him he could return if he failed to find a true method or a welcoming master.
• Fang Shu left the small temple and resolved to seek a True Immortal in Vast Sea Immortal City and pursue a Golden Core that would never grow old.

After leaving the Five-Viscera Shrine, Fang Shu returned to Venom Hall, rewarded his loyal followers with positions, and arranged for Fang Lu to become Deer Cart Earth Immortal’s disciple before his departure from Mount Lu. Among Black Mouse’s charred possessions, Fang Shu discovered a strange piece of skin that had survived the flames but revealed no secrets when he examined it.

• Deer Cart Earth Immortal explained that he had sent Fang Shu away to spare him from hidden karma and the shrine’s weakened prospects, while hoping to merge the Five-Viscera Shrine into the Profound Teaching.
• Fang Shu returned to Venom Hall and appointed Fang Lu chief steward, gave his loyal followers official posts, and ordered an investigation into theft by the hall’s immortals.
• Fang Shu told Fang Lu he would leave Mount Lu soon and proposed that Deer Cart Earth Immortal take her as a disciple to protect her and Venom Hall.
• Fang Lu brought Fang Shu the surviving objects recovered from Black Mouse’s corpse, and Fang Shu found a palm-sized piece of skin marked with faint, twisted characters.
• Fang Shu recognized the skin as likely tied to Black Mouse’s Mount Lu Secret Realm inheritance, but his divine sense could not activate it or draw out any information.

Fang Shu left Venom Hall, investigated the Golden Cicada and seized the Scripture Hall’s books for his Dao Insect to absorb. After receiving Flame Crow Earth Immortal’s records, he deciphered the dead skin and discovered the True Explanation of Skin-Bag Beastmasters, a method that could enslave demonic beasts and lead toward Golden Core.

• Fang Shu recognized the Golden Cicada in Fang Lu’s ear as a rare insect connected to Long Gu, but returned it to Fang Lu and entrusted her with caring for Venom Hall as he prepared to leave the mountain.
• Fang Shu searched the Scripture Hall for Golden Cicada records and methods to open Black Mouse’s dead skin, then spent four days absorbing the hall’s entire collection into his Dao Insect.
• Fang Shu found no Golden Core method or instructions for opening the dead skin in the temple’s books, and Ink and Brush Earth Immortal brought him Flame Crow Earth Immortal’s books and records.
• Fang Shu studied Flame Crow’s beast-controlling materials, then returned to his cave and used his Dao Insect to consume the dead skin’s hidden words.
• Fang Shu learned the True Explanation of Skin-Bag Beastmasters, a Foundation Establishment method that could enslave demonic beasts, preserve dead beasts as skin bags, and use beasts to aid cultivation.

Fang Shu reflected on the Mount Lu inheritances, explored the Five Viscera Temple before leaving, and visited old friends. He ended up at Er Valley to see Er Daiyuan, where he whispered that he had come to give her his Primordial Yang as a parting gift.

• Fang Shu tested the blank skin with his White Bone Sharira and concluded that it was likely hide from an Eight- or Nine-Tribulation beast.
• Fang Shu realized that spells he had learned before joining the Five Sects of Mount Lu might have descended from the Mount Lu Orthodox Lineage, and felt the ache of leaving home.
• Fang Shu used the Deer-Head Token to wander through the Five Viscera Temple, visiting its halls and friends before receiving a cryptic message from Deer Cart Earth Immortal that read, "Good."
• Fang Shu visited the declining Er Valley and asked to see Er Daiyuan, who greeted him respectfully as an Earth Immortal.
• Fang Shu led Er Daiyuan to a private room and whispered that he had come to give her his Primordial Yang as a parting gift.

Fang Shu visited Er Daiyuan to give her his Foundation Establishment Primordial Yang and explained why he would soon leave Mount Lu. After spending a day and night together, he left Er Valley while Er Daiyuan began refining his Primordial Yang and struggled with an unexpected consequence.

• Fang Shu told Er Daiyuan he had come to give her his Primordial Yang, then explained the Five Viscera Temple's arrangements and confirmed he had achieved Dao vein Foundation Establishment.
• Fang Shu warned Er Daiyuan to keep any future Dao vein Foundation Establishment secret, while she urged him to reconsider giving up his Primordial Yang.
• Fang Shu carried Er Daiyuan to bed, and they spent a day and night together until she fell asleep exhausted.
• Fang Shu left protective items for Er Daiyuan and departed Er Valley, glancing back toward the depths of the Er Family hall before vanishing into the horizon.
• Er Daiyuan awoke and began refining Fang Shu's Primordial Yang, then held her lower abdomen with a conflicted expression.

Fang Shu explored the spiritual vein beneath Five Viscera Temple, where he glimpsed countless coffins before the Three Capitals sent him away. He then joined the first group of sect members departing for Vast Sea Immortal City, where representatives of all five sects gathered aboard a Cloud Ship whose operators remained unseen.

• Fang Shu entered the spiritual vein beneath White Pool, and the Deer-Head Token summoned a Five-Colored Spirit Deer that protected him from the spiritual pressure.
• Fang Shu discovered coffins floating in a river of spiritual energy, but the Three Capitals blocked his path and the spirit deer carried him back toward the surface.
• After waiting in his cave, Fang Shu answered the Deer-Head Token's summons and met Jin Yan the Earth Immortal and Chu Yang the Earth Immortal before departing with the first group for Vast Sea Immortal City.
• Fang Shu boarded the Cloud Ship with the Five Viscera Temple group, then greeted Jade Face the Earth Immortal and met Hua Man'ou, Old Mo, Mo Bailing, Broad Heart, and Lu Shan.
• The Cloud Ship picked up representatives from Beauty Palace, including Cloud Guest the Earth Immortal, Moon Mirror the Earth Immortal, and Clouds' Depths, bringing all five sects together while its operators stayed hidden.

After Fang Shu and the others left Mount Lu, the Five Viscera Temple’s allies and disciples reacted to their departure, while Fang Lu discovered that Long Gu Immortal’s remnant was hidden in her ear. Aboard the cloud ship bound for Vast Sea Immortal City, the Five Sects found its cabins filled with corpses and its uppermost chambers eerily untouched and empty.

• Deer Cart Earth Immortal and the other two temple guardians worried that they could not leave the Five Viscera Temple to watch over Fang Shu and the others.
• Jin Duobao sought answers from his Ancestor, who told him not to trust rumors, ordered him to protect Fang Shu’s friends and relatives, and gave him authority to discipline the Jin Family.
• Azure Spider decided that Fang Shu’s departure showed the Five Viscera Temple could not protect its disciples, while Zong Qingxue continued refining her sword in silence.
• Fang Lu suppressed unrest in the Venom Hall, then heard a voice in her ear that identified itself as Long Gu Immortal and urged her to establish her foundation before Fang Shu might be gone for a hundred years.
• Cloud Guest Earth Immortal broke through the cabin restrictions after receiving no answer, and the Five Sects discovered nearly a hundred slaughtered passengers inside the cloud ship.
• The Five Sects forced their way into the ship’s uppermost chambers and found no bodies or signs of battle, only a pristine room with a boiling pot of tea and no living occupants.

The Five Sects of Mount Lu investigated the deaths aboard the Cloud Ship and suspected a curse, while He Shoufeng revealed that he had cast it to frame the Witch-Gu Dao. He explained that Mount Lu’s fortune protected its disciples from his curse, leaving Floating Mountain Lord pondering the danger of losing fortune.

• The Five Sects debated whether the deaths aboard the ship were caused by a Dao calamity or a traitor, until Mo Bailing suggested they were the work of a curse doll.
• Old Mo agreed with Mo Bailing, and the Five Sects searched the Cloud Ship for further evidence of a curse.
• He Shoufeng admitted to Floating Mountain Lord that he had cursed the Vast Sea Immortal City passengers to shift blame onto the Witch-Gu Dao.
• He Shoufeng threatened to kill Floating Mountain Lord to erase the last witness, but relented after the pig demon calmly accepted the risk.
• Floating Mountain Lord asked why He Shoufeng had spared the Five Sects’ disciples, and He Shoufeng explained that their fortune made them dangerous targets for a curse.
• He Shoufeng described how losing fortune could ruin a Golden Core cultivator’s immortal path, prompting Floating Mountain Lord to ponder the warning.

The Five Sects discovered that the cloudship was sealed and heading over the Dead Sea, then argued over how to survive when a strange fire broke out aboard. Chu Yang Immortal revealed that he had targeted Fang Shu and attacked him, leaving Fang Shu ready to fight back with venomous insects.

• The Five Sects debated claiming the cloudship until Cloud Guest Immortal ordered them to secure the corpses and valuables, and Fang Shu alerted Jin Yan Immortal that the ship’s formations were sealed.
• Moon Mirror Fairy warned that the cloudship was over the Dead Sea, while Jin Yan Immortal explained that the vessel could float there if its structure remained intact.
• Chu Yang Immortal advocated breaking the restrictions, and the Five Sects agreed to search the ship for charts before deciding what to do.
• A spiritual fire erupted from the cargo hold and spread across the cloudship, prompting Jade Face Immortal to accuse Chu Yang Immortal of deliberately forcing the group to act.
• Chu Yang Immortal accused Fang Shu of killing his son and stealing his treasure, then attacked him while the other Earthly Immortals hesitated.
• Fang Shu recognized that Chu Yang Immortal meant to intimidate the Five Sects and summoned swarms of venomous insects to face him.

Fang Shu fought Chu Yang the Earth Immortal aboard the Cloud Ship, revealing powerful treasures and the strength of his Dao-vein Foundation. He severed Chu Yang’s lower body with the White Bone Sharira, and the ship’s formation finished off the weakened Eight Tribulations Earth Immortal.

• Chu Yang attacked Fang Shu with strange fire and a field of fire, while Fang Shu defended himself with Gu insects and the Five-Spirit Deer-Head Token.
• Fang Shu used the Armored Horse Talisman Artifact to armor the spirit deer, which charged through Chu Yang’s fiery shroud and knocked him from the flames.
• Chu Yang revealed that he had passed the Eighth Tribulation, transformed into a flame giant, and overwhelmed Fang Shu’s defenses with Yang Fire.
• Fang Shu launched the White Bone Sharira, which pierced Chu Yang’s Yang-Fire Glazed Body and exposed his true form.
• Fang Shu drove the White Bone Sharira with his true qi and severed Chu Yang’s legs and lower body in one strike, revealing that he had established his Foundation on a Dao vein.
• Chu Yang tried to flee, but the Cloud Ship’s formation caught him and killed him while he was weakened.