Recaps

Fang Shu sold his valuables at Wondrous Truth Hall and discovered that his mid-grade spirit stones could not buy the powerful treasures he wanted. He left with a Ten-Calamity Storage Bag and an unnamed ancient bronze mirror containing the Ink-Jade Pendant, whose Worlds Apart effect remained obstructed by malignant energy.

• Fang Shu sold his valuables to Wondrous Truth Hall for sixty-five thousand taels of mid-grade spirit stones and learned that a suitable auction would not take place for half a month.
• The shopkeeper showed Fang Shu several False Core and Golden Core treasures, but their prices and the high-grade spirit stone exchange rate put them beyond his budget.
• Fang Shu asked to see ancient treasures whose malignant energy had not dissipated, and the shopkeeper brought out the Ancient Treasure Ink-Jade Pendant.
• The shopkeeper explained that the pendant could multiply the distance between Fang Shu and an enemy, though its effect could also hinder his spells and its malignant energy made it dangerous to use.
• Fang Shu negotiated a price of fifty-eight thousand taels for the pendant and a Ten-Calamity Storage Bag, paid, verified the items, and left Wondrous Truth Hall.

Fang Shu refined the Ten-Calamity Storage Bag and ancient jade pendant, gaining access to the pendant’s powerful Worlds Apart ability. Later, he joined the Vast Sea Immortal Prefecture delegation as White Dust True Immortal led them to a grand gathering of West Gourd Province’s immortal factions.

• Fang Shu rented a secluded spirit residence, refined the Ten-Calamity Storage Bag, and used the jade pendant to replenish his Dao Insect’s Dragon Qi.
• Fang Shu refined the jade pendant and discovered that Worlds Apart could slow movement and spells within a radius around him.
• Fang Shu returned to the Vast Sea Immortal Residence, where Qi Yuexin’s closeness to him provoked gossip from Ming Jianxi and two other disciples.
• Over the following weeks, Fang Shu and the Vast Sea disciples visited immortal factions across Scarlet City Immortal Prefecture, where Qi Yuexin saw many other gifted cultivators.
• White Dust True Immortal carried the seven Vast Sea disciples toward the City Above the City on a giant white peacock, as other delegations displayed their own spectacular powers.

Scarlet City’s Red Date Immortal upheld Pei Yizhi’s request for a grand Golden Core Ceremony despite his True Immortals’ misgivings. At the venue, Fang Shu and the other guests watched Ji Rong of the Jade Pool Sacred Sect arrive as host, followed by the Western Altar of the Moral Profound Teaching in a bridal-style procession.

• Red Date Immortal stopped the Scarlet City True Immortals from changing their agreement with Pei Yizhi and sent them to attend to the visiting guests.
• Fang Shu and the Vast Sea delegation took their seats at the ceremony alongside West Gourd Province’s other Divine Immortal Dao lineages.
• Fang Shu noticed the Moral Profound Teaching had no apparent seats, and True Immortal White Dust wondered why its envoys had not arrived.
• Ji Rong of Jade Lake appeared in a magnificent carriage, introduced herself, and thanked the guests for attending Pei Lang’s Golden Core Ceremony.
• The Western Altar of the Moral Profound Teaching entered behind Ji Rong in a lavish procession dressed in scarlet and carrying ceremonial treasures.

Pei Yizhi rejected both Scarlet City Immortal Prefecture and Ji Rong of Jade Lake, then summoned the Scarlet City Secret Realm during his ceremony. He invited cultivators below Golden Core to enter, while attacks by Ji Rong and Qing Gang failed and the realm's crimson lightning grievously wounded them.

• Ji Rong of Jade Lake arrived to take Pei Yizhi back as her son-in-law, prompting the gathered immortals to realize his Golden Core ceremony was a marriage arrangement.
• Pei Yizhi appeared drunk and defied Qing Gang, who attacked him before Ji Rong intervened to protect him.
• Pei Yizhi cut off half his hair, rejected Ji Rong, and declared that he was severing his ties with Scarlet City Immortal Prefecture.
• Pei Yizhi summoned the Scarlet City Secret Realm, entered it, and invited cultivators below Golden Core to follow him.
• Ji Rong and Qing Gang attacked Pei Yizhi as he entered, but their strikes passed through him and crimson lightning from the secret realm blasted them both with grievous injuries.

When Pei Yizhi opened Scarlet City Immortal Prefecture’s Ancestor’s Secret Realm, Red Date Immortal withdrew from the crisis and left the prefecture’s affairs to his juniors. As the gathered immortals prepared to enter the realm, White Dust True Immortal tried to control his disciples, but Fang Shu defied him and slipped into the secret realm, leaving White Dust furious.

• Red Date Immortal recognized the Ancestor’s Secret Realm, returned to his temple, and refused to manage the prefecture’s affairs, telling the other True Immortals to decide for themselves.
• Ji Rong clashed with Qing Gang True Immortal while the gathered immortals learned that the secret realm restricted True Immortals and that Scarlet City would allow those at the celebration to enter under conditions.
• White Dust True Immortal warned his disciples about the realm’s dangers, then demanded to cast a spell on them so he could control and recover their gains.
• White Dust ordered Hu Muhuang, also known as Fang Shu, to submit or stay outside, but Fang Shu charged into the secret realm despite White Dust’s icy-sand attack.
• Qi Yuexin and two other disciples escaped into the secret realm’s protection, while White Dust caught two disciples and crushed Fang Shu’s White Bone Sharira in rage.

Fang Shu and the other cultivators entered the Scarlet City Immortal Prefecture’s secret realm and discovered the Crimson Dragon Treasure Pagoda, whose shifting maze held traps and valuable materials. Fang Shu reached a chamber where advancing required defeating another cultivator, and his opponent turned out to be Ming Jianxi.

• True Immortal White Dust branded Ming Jianxi and two other disciples with restrictions before ordering them into the secret realm to report back on what they found.
• Fang Shu reunited with Qi Yuexin and her companions inside the secret realm, while Ming Jianxi confronted them over defying True Immortal White Dust.
• The cultivators learned from Baizhi that the pagoda contained tokens and trials, then entered its shifting, flight-restricting maze separately.
• Fang Shu dodged traps in the maze and collected a seven-tribulation magical artifact arrow, spirit-stone ore, and a wisp of Foundation Establishment wondrous fire.
• Fang Shu reached a chamber with an exit and a locked staircase, where a token announced that one cultivator had to defeat the other to advance.
• Ming Jianxi stumbled into the chamber as Fang Shu’s opponent, and both recognized each other.

Fang Shu defeated Ming Jianxi in the secret chamber, destroying her body while her soul escaped through White Dust’s protection. He collected her remains and took the chamber token, preparing to claim the Scarlet City Immortal Prefecture’s inheritance.

• Ming Jianxi attacked Fang Shu with her azure bracelet and ice bird, but Fang Shu countered with gu insects and Azure Heavens Blue Nether Lightning.
• Fang Shu used lightning, Sword Qi, and gu insects to wear down Ming Jianxi, then tricked her into exposing herself while attempting to flee.
• Fang Shu struck Ming Jianxi with lightning and Sword Qi, killing her and destroying her body despite her desperate attempt to make the ice bird take him down with her.
• The chamber’s Mystic Script restrictions absorbed the released frost and spiritual energy, while Ming Jianxi’s protected soul escaped the pagoda.
• Fang Shu sealed Ming Jianxi’s remains in jade boxes, picked up the chamber token, and looked forward to the inheritance.

After killing Ming Jianxi’s physical body, Fang Shu chose to continue through the Crimson Dragon Treasure Pagoda’s increasingly dangerous trials. He mastered a succession of Scarlet City cultivation methods and arts, and remained absorbed in the inheritance chambers as the tower provided everything he needed to practice.

• White Dust True Immortal learned from Ming Jianxi’s soul that Fang Shu had destroyed her physical body, and vowed to deal with him while waiting for his other disciples.
• Fang Shu inspected the secret chamber, chose not to leave with its valuable token, and entered the passage to the next trial.
• Fang Shu cultivated the Scarlet City Primordial Spirit's Qi Refining Classic, strengthening his foundation and gaining Scarlet City true qi.
• Fang Shu mastered Gu Dao methods and refined six kinds of Gu insects, then continued into chambers containing systematic formation techniques.
• Fang Shu progressed through chambers devoted to insects, formations, sword Dao, lightning arts, and other disciplines, eagerly practicing each inheritance the pagoda provided.

Fang Shu began cultivating the Scarlet Star Golden Might Foundation-Building Method in the Crimson Dragon Treasure Pagoda, discovering that it could potentially help him form an immortal Golden Core. While he remained inside for months, Qi Yuexin returned to the Scarlet City gathering, but Fang Shu and several other cultivators still had not emerged.

• Fang Shu studied the Scarlet Star Golden Might Foundation-Building Method and realized it was an extraordinary foundation art with a chance of forming an immortal Golden Core.
• Fang Shu spent nearly half a month comprehending the method, then devoted himself to cultivating it inside the secret chamber.
• White Dust Immortal reassured his disciples that the missing cultivators might have gained deeper inheritances in the Crimson Dragon Treasure Pagoda.
• Qi Yuexin emerged from the secret realm and returned safely to the Vast Sea Immortal Prefecture seats.
• Over the following days, more cultivators emerged, but Fang Shu remained missing, worrying the Vast Sea group and the visitors gathered in Scarlet City.
• Snow Lotus Immortal Maiden brought Qi Yuexin back to the Vast Sea Immortal Prefecture, while Azure Lion Immortal grew sorrowful when Fang Shu still did not appear.

Azure Lion Immortal waited for Fang Shu as years passed without his return, while Fang Shu remained trapped inside the Crimson Dragon Treasure Pagoda and cultivated for thirty years. After reaching perfected Eight Tribulations, Fang Shu entered a new chamber and began crossing his ninth tribulation.

• White Dust Immortal left Scarlet City after deciding the secret realm was too dangerous to enter, while Azure Lion Immortal stayed behind to wait for Fang Shu.
• A year later, an immortal emerged from the secret realm with a major opportunity, and three more followed over the next year, but Fang Shu did not appear.
• As decades passed and hopes of Fang Shu’s return faded, Azure Lion Immortal departed after leaving a strand of divine thought lightning at the exit.
• Fang Shu realized he was trapped in a sealed chamber and spent thirty years studying cultivation manuals and advancing his cultivation.
• Fang Shu reached perfected Eight Tribulations, entered a new chamber containing tribulation-crossing resources, and began his ninth tribulation.

Fang Shu crossed the ninth tribulation by condensing a ninety-foot Sun-Moon spiritual pool and reached Foundation Establishment Late Stage. As his secret chamber began rising inside the Crimson Dragon Treasure Pagoda, a consciousness within the pagoda noticed his breakthrough, while the secret realm gate briefly stirred outside.

• Fang Shu used the nine-layered Treasure Pagoda True Pool and Azure Heavens Blue Nether Lightning to temper his spiritual liquid and successfully cross the ninth tribulation.
• Fang Shu formed a damaged, pure-gold spiritual pool ninety feet across, gained greater power, and resolved to pursue Golden Core formation.
• Fang Shu struck the secret chamber walls, but they absorbed his power and carried the chamber upward, alarming him.
• A consciousness within the Crimson Dragon Treasure Pagoda noticed Fang Shu's breakthrough as the secret realm entrance at Scarlet City Immortal Prefecture briefly trembled.
• The guarding disciples dismissed the movement, then later watched an Eight Tribulations couple visit the gate and leave without gaining entry.

Fang Shu met the Crimson Dragon Treasure Pagoda’s artifact spirit, who offered him a chance to inherit the Scarlet City Dao Lineage and explained that he first had to form a Golden Core. The spirit demanded that Fang Shu reveal his Dao vein and fortune and swear eternal allegiance, but Fang Shu challenged the demand and discovered the spirit might be unable to force him.

• After the secret chamber returned to normal, Fang Shu encountered a childlike figure who identified himself as the Scarlet City Ancestor’s servant and offered him the Dao Lineage inheritance if he formed a Golden Core.
• Fang Shu realized the child was the Crimson Dragon Treasure Pagoda’s artifact spirit, who promised to help him claim the Refining Spirit inheritance and possibly the Divine Immortal treasure if he eventually succeeded.
• Fang Shu asked the artifact spirit to teach him how to form a Golden Core, and the spirit demanded details of his Dao vein and fortune along with an eternal vow of loyalty to Scarlet City.
• Fang Shu questioned the demand, explaining that he belonged to the Vast Sea Immortal Prefecture and needed to consult its Ancestor before making such a binding vow.
• Fang Shu asked whether he could refuse the inheritance, whether the vows could be revised, and whether refusal would get him killed; the artifact spirit fell silent, revealing that he might not be able to compel Fang Shu.

Fang Shu rejected Red Dragon Boy’s invitation to join the Scarlet City lineage and chose to face another trial. He found a nearly dead pair of Red True Flying Centipede eggs, mastered a difficult Gu-rearing art over several years, and prepared to refine the surviving egg so he could escape the insect’s carcass.

• Red Dragon Boy urged Fang Shu to become a disciple of the Scarlet City Ancestor, but Fang Shu chose to seek his golden core opportunity at Mount Lu and requested another trial.
• Red Dragon Boy opened the way to a new chamber and granted Fang Shu a pair of Red True Flying Centipede eggs as a gift.
• Fang Shu learned that one egg was dead and the other barely alive, and discovered the Embryonic Egg Moisture-Transformation Gu-Rearing Art could raise a centipede to false core within its egg.
• Fang Shu learned he had to refine a false core centipede to break out of the chamber, which was the carcass of a related false core wondrous insect.
• After several years, Fang Shu mastered the art, swallowed the dead egg to strengthen his magical power, and prepared to refine the surviving egg.

Fang Shu completed his seclusion on his ninetieth birthday with his cultivation perfected at the ninth tribulation and his Scarlet True Flying Centipede at the false core realm. After escaping the Crimson Dragon Treasure Pagoda, he evaded Scarlet City Immortal Prefecture’s true immortals and pierced its mountain-protecting formation.

• Fang Shu refined the dead insect egg, filled his Sun-Moon Golden Pool to ninety-nine percent, and completed the ninth tribulation.
• Fang Shu used the Scarlet True Flying Centipede’s Scarlet Gold Divine Light to burn through the insect husk, and Red Dragon Boy taught him an incantation for passing through a restriction.
• Fang Shu emerged from the secret realm, bound the two Scarlet City disciples on watch, and identified himself as Hu Muhuang, a direct-line disciple of the Vast Sea Immortal Prefecture.
• Fang Shu fled as the secret realm’s protective measures alerted nearby true immortals, while three of them pursued him.
• Fang Shu used the centipede’s speed and Red Dragon Boy’s incantation to pass through Scarlet City Mountain’s formation and escape the prefecture.

Fang Shu escaped Scarlet City Mountain but was pursued by True Immortal Qing Gang, who wounded him as he fled. Fang Shu used several tricks to evade capture and ultimately scattered his escape into four directions, leaving Qing Gang unable to tell which one carried his true body.

• True Immortal Mountain Root obstructed the two Scarlet City True Immortals and delayed them while Fang Shu escaped the formation.
• Fang Shu sent messages to Vast Sea Immortal Prefecture, but Qing Gang caught up and pursued him with his flying sword.
• Fang Shu used the Scarlet True Flying Centipede and a lightning feint to wound Qing Gang with Scarlet Gold Divine Light.
• Fang Shu used a spirit deer and a strange object to slow Qing Gang's sword, then narrowly avoided its strike.
• Fang Shu ordered the Scarlet True Flying Centipede to bite off his limbs and sent four golden lights fleeing in different directions, leaving Qing Gang unable to identify his true body.

After escaping the Scarlet City Immortal Prefecture, Fang Shu fled for days before collapsing underground, where Curse Frog Mantou carried him to safety. As Fang Shu and the wounded Red True Flying Centipede resonated during their recovery, news of his escape reached the Vast Sea Immortal Prefecture and stirred its immortals.

• True Immortal Qing Gang returned to the Scarlet City Immortal Prefecture after Fang Shu escaped, and news of the escape spread through the city.
• Red Dragon Boy told a barefoot Witch-Ghost Dao disciple that the Scarlet True Flying Centipede had already been taken, then offered her another curiosity from the pagoda.
• Azure Lion Immortal sensed Fang Shu's emergence from the secret realm and learned that he had escaped Qing Gang, but stayed in the Vast Sea Immortal Prefecture to await his return.
• Fang Shu fled for more than ten days, then collapsed in an underground chamber after placing the injured Red True Flying Centipede in the Sun-Moon Golden Pool and asking Curse Frog Mantou to guard him.
• Curse Frog Mantou swallowed Fang Shu and burrowed underground, while the sleeping Fang Shu and the centipede began resonating and changing his Imperial Dew.

Fang Shu recovered from his injuries, restored his severed limbs with his gu insects, and returned to the Vast Sea Immortal Prefecture. After reuniting with Azure Lion Immortal and reporting what happened in the Crimson Dragon Treasure Pagoda, he headed to visit friends and family while sensing that something was amiss.

• Fang Shu awakened in an underground cavern, discovered Curse Frog Mantou had hidden and protected him, and used his gu insects to conceal himself and rebuild his missing limbs.
• Fang Shu left the cavern and flew west toward the Vast Sea Immortal Prefecture, hoping to report his grievances and prepare to obtain a core-formation method.
• Fang Shu reached Vast Sea Immortal City, where Azure Lion Immortal recognized his return and the city’s formations sounded an alarm.
• Fang Shu told Azure Lion Immortal about the Crimson Dragon Treasure Pagoda and Qing Gang’s attack, and Azure Lion Immortal promised to report the matter and inform Yellow Pelt.
• Azure Lion Immortal gave Fang Shu a Storage Bag sent by Yellow Pelt and urged him to visit his friends and old acquaintances.
• Fang Shu received messages from prefecture disciples and flew to visit someone, suspecting Azure Lion Immortal had a reason for directing him there.

Fang Shu returned to the Iron Clan and reunited with Wu Tong and Tie Zhengnan, learning that they had been mistreated while he was away. Wu Tong revealed that their plans to have a child had led them into the hands of Tie Zhenglian’s master, and Fang Shu’s killing intent surged as the chapter ended.

• Wu Tong and Tie Zhengnan prepared to flee when a commotion approached their courtyard, but discovered Fang Shu had returned.
• Fang Shu reunited with the couple and told them he had reached the consummation of Nine Tribulations after thirty years in the Crimson Dragon Treasure Pagoda.
• Fang Shu pressed Wu Tong and Tie Zhengnan to explain the hardships they had suffered during his absence.
• Wu Tong explained that a True Immortal had identified Tie Zhengnan’s Spirit-Nurturing Constitution and advised them to try to have a child.
• Wu Tong revealed that Tie Zhenglian’s master had guided them, prompting Fang Shu to erupt with killing intent.

Fang Shu learned that Tie Zhenglian was implicated in the tragedy that left Wu Tong and Tie Zhengnan’s child dead and Tie Zhengnan’s foundation damaged. He attacked the Iron Clan, found Tie Zhenglian on her immortal mountain, and confronted her after killing Wang Tishen.

• Wu Tong told Fang Shu that Tie Zhengnan’s childbirth had drained her spiritual qi and innate essence blood, and that Fu Qing True Immortal had severed her connection to the fetus.
• Fang Shu left Wu Tong’s courtyard, blocked him from following, and loudly challenged Tie Zhenglian within the Iron Clan grounds.
• Fang Shu wounded an Iron Clan cultivator who blamed Tie Zhengnan, then seized Wang Tishen and searched his soul to learn where Tie Zhenglian lived.
• Fang Shu flew to Tie Zhenglian’s immortal mountain and used lightning to shake her protective formation until he forced his way inside.
• Tie Zhenglian attacked Fang Shu with a silver flower, but Wang Tishen was killed by the strike, and Fang Shu destroyed his escaping soul with sword qi.

Fang Shu attacked Tie Zhenglian’s immortal mountain and forced her to reveal that Ming Jianxi had arranged attacks on his family, while White Dust Immortal was also implicated. The True Immortals avoided a full reckoning, but White Dust disowned Ming Jianxi, and Fang Shu left with Azure Lion Immortal as Tie Zhenglian remained behind.

• Fang Shu trapped Tie Zhenglian on her immortal mountain, destroyed its spiritual veins, and wounded her as she tried to flee.
• Facing Fang Shu’s sword light, Tie Zhenglian offered to confess and revealed that Ming Jianxi had asked her to target Wu Tong and Tie Zhengnan, and that Fang Shu’s sister-in-law had never had a Spirit-Nurturing Constitution.
• Immortal Fuqing, the Iron Clan patriarch, White Dust Immortal, and other True Immortals arrived, and Tie Zhenglian recanted her accusations while the senior immortals tried to dismiss the matter.
• Fang Shu demanded justice against Ming Jianxi and challenged White Dust Immortal over his intentions, prompting Azure Lion Immortal to prepare for a clash.
• White Dust Immortal disowned Ming Jianxi and departed, while Azure Lion Immortal ended the dispute and took Fang Shu back to the Prefecture.

After Fang Shu caused a stir in Vast Sea Immortal City, the Azure Lion Immortal explained the rules, spiritual objects, and luck needed to form a Golden Core, while hinting that the Prefecture’s support came with obligations. Fang Shu left with a new lightning gift and a growing suspicion about his master’s advice, then reunited with Qi Yuexin at the Iron Clan’s grounds.

• The Azure Lion Immortal reassured Fang Shu that his confrontation with four True Immortal factions was justified and promised to speak with them and investigate his elder brother’s situation.
• The Azure Lion Immortal explained that Golden Core formation required rules and precepts, a pill head, and luck, and said only the Old Immortal could teach the Prefecture’s rules.
• The Azure Lion Immortal described how the Prefecture could provide Fang Shu with all three requirements if he earned the Old Immortal’s approval and upheld its precepts, prompting Fang Shu to suspect a deeper warning about Yellow Pelt.
• The Azure Lion Immortal gave Fang Shu an Azure Heavens Blue Nether Lightning bolt containing instructions for cultivating it, and Fang Shu decided to fly to the Iron Clan’s grounds.
• Fang Shu met Wu Tong and Tie Zhengnan at the Iron Clan and was surprised to find Qi Yuexin there, where she greeted him as her senior brother.

Fang Shu reunited with Qi Yuexin and his old Mount Lu acquaintances in Vast Sea Immortal City, learning that his friends had suffered under years of suppression while he was away. After helping Wu Tong and Tie Zhengnan prepare to leave the Iron Clan, he discovered Jin Yan had a mysterious gift for him.

• Fang Shu thanked Qi Yuexin for looking after Wu Tong and Tie Zhengnan, then told the couple they could visit Azure Lion Immortal to seek a chance to have children.
• Wu Tong and Tie Zhengnan decided to leave the Iron Clan for Azure Lion Immortal's island, while Fang Shu went with Qi Yuexin to a tavern.
• Fang Shu recognized the tavern's Bamboo Leaf Green Snake Wine and reunited with Jin Yan and other surviving Mount Lu acquaintances.
• Jin Yan and Qi Yuexin told Fang Shu that the Mount Lu group had endured suppression and survived with Qi Yuexin's protection; Fang Shu also learned the Tang Family mother and daughter were doing comparatively well.
• Fang Shu prepared to leave the tavern, and Jin Yan revealed a brocade box and said the Mount Lu group had something to present to him.

Fang Shu accepted four inheritance tokens from Mount Lu’s sects, returned to his immortal estate, freed the servants trapped there, and moved the island’s spirit vein into his secret realm. He then used the Heaven-Human Five Decays Curse-Killing Art against his enemies, and cries of agony began spreading through Vast Sea City.

• Fang Shu accepted the four sects’ tokens and suspected Mount Lu’s fortune had guided them to him.
• Fang Shu returned to his cave estate and learned that his strongmen and jade maidens had been trapped there for decades.
• Fang Shu removed the servants’ Gu insects, gave them authority to collect his unpaid stipends, and sent them away with a share of the proceeds.
• Fang Shu extracted the island’s spirit vein and placed it in his small secret realm, then prepared paper figures bearing the names of his enemies.
• Fang Shu chanted the Heaven-Human Five Decays Curse-Killing Art for seven days and sent the cursed figures out into Vast Sea City, where people began suffering in agony.

Liu Wuxing, Tie Zhenglian, and others connected to her were struck by a curse, while the White Dust True Immortal was contaminated through Ming Jianxi’s soul and blamed Green Lion. Green Lion and White Dust clashed over Fang Shu, but Fang Shu had vanished from his island, which appeared to have come from the Dead Sea.

• Liu Wuxing suddenly vomited blood as his cultivation and vitality rapidly withered, and another banquet guest suffered a similar curse.
• Tie Zhenglian died after accusing Hu Muhuang of killing her, and the curse then struck her mother and other people with close ties to her.
• The Iron Clan Patriarch burned the cursed clan members and accused the Azure Lion Immortal, while White Dust’s attempt to suppress the curse in Ming Jianxi’s soul caused it to contaminate him.
• White Dust accused Green Lion of using witchcraft and gu poison against him, and the two immortals fought as White Dust’s human-faced peacock attacked Fang Shu’s cave.
• True Immortals discovered that Fang Shu’s island was barren and that he had disappeared, then recognized the island as one excavated from the Dead Sea.

After Fang Shu vanished from the Immortal Prefecture, White Dust Immortal suffered a lasting demonic curse, and Vast Sea Divine Immortal sent an investigator to examine the affair. Fang Shu remained hidden in his secret realm, planning to escape when his ruined immortal mountain was discarded into the Vast Sea Desert.

• Immortal inspectors searched Fang Immortal Cave but found no trace of Hu Muhuang leaving the city, and White Dust Immortal blasted the island apart in frustration.
• The Immortal Prefecture linked the curse victims to their grudges against Fang Shu and his associates, prompting frightened residents to seek forgiveness while Azure Lion Immortal offered protection to Fang Shu's friends.
• White Dust Immortal sealed his mountain and reported the curse to Vast Sea Divine Immortal, who sent a figure to investigate and protect Fang Shu from being harmed.
• Fang Shu studied the art of suppression in his secret realm and realized his recent curse-killing had greatly improved his understanding.
• Fang Shu decided to remain hidden for at least three years and planned to escape when the city discarded his ruined, spirit-veinless immortal mountain into the Vast Sea Desert.