Recaps

After He Shoufeng left Mount Lu, Fang Shu discovered that He had woven the mountain’s fortune into a trap, using Old Mountain Lord’s medicinal herbs to bind hundreds of immortals. Unable to free Old Mountain Lord or warn everyone without risking He Shoufeng drawing the net shut, Fang Shu protected his closest friends and waited for the Golden Core Ceremony, when he could challenge the scheme at its source.

• He Shoufeng destroyed the herbs in the Immortal Garden, absorbed their spiritual vapors, and departed.
• Fang Shu restored Old Mountain Lord at Five Viscera Hall and helped him begin healing with Three Lights Divine Water.
• Fang Shu discovered that Old Mountain Lord’s connection to Mount Lu’s Spiritual Veins exposed him to corrupting Turbid Qi, while his regrown canopy revealed Hidden Merit bound to the medicinal herbs.
• Fang Shu traced the resulting chains across Mount Lu and realized He Shoufeng had tainted more than eight hundred Foundation Establishment Earth Immortals to drain their fortune and sacrifice them to open the secret realm.
• Fang Shu learned that Old Mountain Lord was too deeply bound to Mount Lu’s Hidden Merit to leave the mountain, so he placed a protective gu worm in him.
• Fang Shu warned Er Daiyuan, Fang Lu, and others, collected Old Mountain Lord’s herbs, protected his closest allies, and waited for the Golden Core Ceremony.

Fang Shu received a lay-disciple identity from the Profound Teaching and prepared for a Golden Core Ceremony arranged by He Shoufeng. As the ceremony began on the Five-Colored Altar, Fang Shu saw that the auspicious qi surrounding Mount Lu had formed chains imprisoning the entire mountain.

• Profound Teaching envoys arrived at Mount Lu and presented Fang Shu with a Virtue Jade Tablet naming him a lay disciple.
• Fang Shu questioned why he had received only lay-disciple status, then refined the tablet and accepted it as a step into the Profound Teaching.
• He Shoufeng arranged a Golden Core Ceremony for seven days later, and Fang Shu ascended Mount Lu while his close companions remained absent.
• Nearly nine hundred Foundation Establishment Earth Immortals gathered for the ceremony, where Fang Shu recognized the Five-Colored Altar used by the Five Sects years earlier.
• He Shoufeng began the ceremony at noon, and Fang Shu saw chains of auspicious qi imprisoning Ancient Mount Lu before He Shoufeng asked him to speak.

He Shoufeng opened the Mount Lu Secret Realm, but its gateway unleashed a blood cloud that devoured cultivators and threatened to swallow the mountain. Fang Shu raised the Immortal-Fixing Banner to shelter those who offered their power and fortune, while He Shoufeng killed the False Core cultivators who tried to flee; the blood cloud then formed a colossal body.

• The Mount Lu Secret Realm appeared above the ceremony, and He Shoufeng opened its gateway with a talisman.
• Cultivators rushing toward the gateway burst into blood mist as the gateway sucked in people, plants, and rocks from Ancient Mount Lu.
• Fang Shu planted the Immortal-Fixing Banner on the Five-Colored Grand Platform, allowing those who offered magical power and blood essence to resist the suction.
• He Shoufeng used the blood cloud to kill the False Core cultivators, while two reached Fang Shu's banner and gained a chance to survive.
• The gateway's hunger eased, and a thirty-thousand-meter body emerged from the churning blood cloud.

He Shoufeng and the Goose Divine Immortal each tried to use the other to gain a chance at Refining Spirit, while Fang Shu avoided being caught in Mount Lu’s net of fortune. The Goose Divine Immortal trapped He Shoufeng, but a calm figure wearing He Shoufeng’s form emerged from the blood mist and addressed Fang Shu.

• The Goose Divine Immortal emerged from the secret realm, and He Shoufeng revealed that he had gathered blood food in hopes of serving it and gaining a path to Refining Spirit.
• The Goose Divine Immortal summoned He Shoufeng and demanded his body, but He Shoufeng escaped its grasp and admitted he had lured it out to seize an opportunity for himself.
• He Shoufeng urged Fang Shu to help kill the Goose Divine Immortal, but Fang Shu tried to leave and discovered that Mount Lu’s fortune did not bind him.
• Mount Lu’s fortune ensnared the Goose Divine Immortal, while He Shoufeng’s own net blocked his escape and left him vulnerable to its attack.
• The Goose Divine Immortal bit He Shoufeng and pinched a golden light from his brow, then its blood-goose body dispersed into the calm figure who asked Fang Shu whether he had enjoyed the show.

Fang Shu fought the Goose Divine Immortal after the fiend possessed He Shoufeng and trapped the Mount Lu range with its Fortune Net. He realized the Divine Immortal could not leave Ancient Mount Lu and began contracting the net despite being engulfed by blood mist, forcing the fiend to look for another way to stop him.

• The Goose Divine Immortal possessed He Shoufeng, revealed himself to Fang Shu, and ordered him to bring the Mount Lu disciples into the secret realm.
• Fang Shu resisted the order and tried to flee, but the Divine Immortal raised a Fortune Net around the Mount Lu range and blocked his escape.
• Fang Shu invoked his ties to the Vast Sea Immortal Prefecture, then challenged the Goose Divine Immortal when the appeal failed.
• The Goose Divine Immortal attacked Fang Shu with blood mist, and Fang Shu discovered that the fiend never left Ancient Mount Lu.
• Fang Shu taunted the Divine Immortal about being confined by Mount Lu's fortune, then seized its chains and began drawing the Fortune Net closed while the blood mist engulfed him.
• The Goose Divine Immortal panicked and turned his attention toward the remaining Mount Lu cultivators.

Fang Shu used the Fortune Net to force Goose Divine Immortal to negotiate, refusing to be swayed by the slaughter of Mount Lu immortals. Goose Divine Immortal offered him a place among the Profound Teaching’s true disciples and access to the Ancestral Altar, leaving Fang Shu tempted but wary.

• Goose Divine Immortal killed a Mount Lu immortal and slaughtered survivors at the mountain’s foot and waist to pressure Fang Shu into stopping.
• Goose Divine Immortal killed more than half the immortals on the mountaintop, but Fang Shu continued drawing in the Fortune Net despite their pleas and curses.
• Fang Shu agreed to pause if Goose Divine Immortal withdrew the blood mist, and Goose Divine Immortal complied so they could negotiate.
• Fang Shu demanded safe passage and a share of the Secret Realm’s opportunity to achieve Refining Spirit, then suggested other Refining Spirit immortals might come seeking it later.
• Goose Divine Immortal offered Fang Shu personal discipleship, Profound Teaching true disciple status, and a place at the Ancestral Altar, which tempted Fang Shu.

Fang Shu tricked Goose Divine Immortal into dispersing Mount Lu’s Fortune, then revealed his gu-insect formation and used the Immortal-Fixing Banner to unleash Ancient Evil Aura. Goose Divine Immortal’s Primordial Spirit was destroyed, leaving Fang Shu staring in shock at the outcome.

• Goose Divine Immortal issued Fang Shu a Divine Immortal Decree promising him true disciple status in the Profound Teaching, then placed it on Fang Shu’s Immortal-Fixing Banner and demanded that he disperse Mount Lu’s Fortune.
• Fang Shu gathered Mount Lu’s Fortune before dispersing its net, then Goose Divine Immortal attacked him to seize his soul.
• Fang Shu’s body scattered into gu insects as his true figure appeared above Goose Divine Immortal, and the insects formed a vast formation around Ancient Mount Lu.
• Goose Divine Immortal fought the formation with blood mist, but Fang Shu summoned Mount Lu’s Fortune to reinforce it.
• Goose Divine Immortal shattered the Immortal-Fixing Banner’s cloth, releasing Ancient Evil Aura that weakened the immortals across Mount Lu and overwhelmed him.
• Goose Divine Immortal’s Primordial Spirit fled but was consumed by the aura, while Fang Shu watched in astonishment.

Fang Shu entered Ancient Mount Lu after destroying the Goose Divine Immortal’s divided spirit and recovered the True Transmission Edict. He realized the Goose Divine Immortal’s true body remained trapped in the Secret Realm, then received a technique and secrets through the edict.

• Fang Shu confirmed that the Goose Divine Immortal’s divided spirit had been destroyed, gathered the remaining Dragon Qi, and entered Ancient Mount Lu.
• Fang Shu sealed He Shoufeng’s intact corpse and inspected the damaged Immortal-Fixing Banner, deciding to repair and refine it further.
• Fang Shu recovered the True Transmission Edict and confirmed it could grant him a path to the Profound Teaching and an opportunity for Refining Spirit.
• Fang Shu inferred that the Goose Divine Immortal’s true body was still inside the open Mount Lu Secret Realm, trapped but not dead.
• The Goose Divine Immortal sent golden light into the edict, transmitting secrets and half a wondrous art that Fang Shu identified as the Wondrous Scripture of the Nascent Embryo's Divided Spirit Transformation.

Fang Shu used Goose Divine Immortal’s spirit-division scripture to assess the bird’s offer, then summoned it through a ritual. Goose Divine Immortal warned him that the modern Refining Spirit path concealed a great terror, and the chapter ended before it explained further.

• Fang Shu studied the upper portion of the Wonderful Scripture of Primordial Embryo Spirit Division and Form Transformation and stored it in his Dao Register as a reference for understanding his divine ability.
• Fang Shu concluded that Goose Divine Immortal had contacted him because Fang Shu had slain its spirit division, and decided to hear more while remaining protected by Dragon Qi.
• Fang Shu performed the ritual described in the Divine Immortal Decree, and Goose Divine Immortal appeared as a phantom above the incense candles.
• Goose Divine Immortal drew Fang Shu into an illusory scene to keep their conversation private, then said that pursuing Refining Spirit was like a moth flying into a flame.
• Goose Divine Immortal told Fang Shu that Refining Spirit immortals were not prey but that the path contained a great terror.

Goose Divine Immortal explained to Fang Shu that Refining Spirit Immortals faced three deadly calamities across a lifespan of nine thousand years, and that reincarnation could preserve their souls. He then revealed that a method existed to evade the calamities and challenged Fang Shu to guess it.

• Fang Shu asked Goose Divine Immortal what could threaten Refining Spirit Immortals, and Goose Divine Immortal identified heaven and earth themselves as the great terror.
• Goose Divine Immortal explained the Three Calamities of thunder, Yin Fire, and Jackdaw Wind, which struck at three-thousand-year intervals and could destroy both body and soul.
• Fang Shu asked what came after nine thousand years, and Goose Divine Immortal explained that many Divine Immortals reincarnated before a calamity to preserve their Primordial Spirits.
• Goose Divine Immortal revealed that a great opportunity was a method to evade the Three Calamities and asked Fang Shu to guess how an immortal might avoid them without reincarnating.

Fang Shu learned that the Mount Lu Secret Realm could let him cultivate Refining Spirit beyond the reach of Immortal Law and the Three Calamities. After he and the Goose Divine Immortal swore oaths, the immortal revealed that the realm held the Mount Lu Dao Lineage’s Refining Spirit inheritance, including the Void Refinement method Three Corpse Severing.

• Fang Shu asked whether concealment, transferring calamities, or transformation could evade the Three Calamities, and the Goose Divine Immortal pointed him toward the Mount Lu Secret Realm.
• The Goose Divine Immortal explained that cultivating Refining Spirit inside the ownerless secret realm could isolate Fang Shu from Immortal Law and its calamities.
• Fang Shu questioned why the Goose Divine Immortal shared the secret, and the immortal admitted he hoped Fang Shu would eventually help him obtain an inheritance within the realm.
• Fang Shu and the Goose Divine Immortal swore oaths not to obstruct Fang Shu’s cultivation or reveal the realm to other Refining Spirit Immortals.
• The Goose Divine Immortal revealed that the inheritance included the Mount Lu Dao Lineage’s Refining Spirit methods and the Void Refinement technique Three Corpse Severing.
• Fang Shu connected the inheritance to his Wondrous Scripture of Primordial Embryo Spirit Division and Transformation and realized the Goose Divine Immortal he had slain was an imperfect Evil Corpse created through Three Corpse Severing.

Fang Shu received the incomplete second half of the Primordial Embryo Spirit-Splitting Transformation Scripture and a strand of the Goose Divine Immortal’s undying divinity, then erased the past day from the memories of the Mount Lu immortals. With the secret realm gone and the survivors sent away, he turned to examine the wealth He Shoufeng had left behind.

• Fang Shu persuaded the Goose Divine Immortal to let him erase the Mount Lu immortals’ memories, and the Goose Divine Immortal gave him the remaining half of the spirit-splitting scripture.
• The Goose Divine Immortal dissolved and left behind a strand of undying divinity shaped like a platinum goose feather before the Mount Lu Secret Realm vanished.
• Fang Shu found he could restrain the undying divinity only with Dragon Qi, so he set it aside and used his Dao Register and Dragon Qi to study the scripture.
• Fang Shu sent Divine Silk into the souls of the three hundred Mount Lu immortals and erased their memories of the past day without injuring them.
• Fang Shu sent the unconscious immortals away with Curse Frog Mantou and brought out He Shoufeng’s Storage Bag to inspect its contents.

Fang Shu looted He Shoufeng’s Storage Bag, claimed a blood-fed Nail-Head Straw Effigy, and realized how dangerous it would have been to confront the Goose Divine Immortal directly. After bringing his family and allies out of a small secret realm, he reunited with his relieved Second Uncle Yu Le.

• Fang Shu opened He Shoufeng’s Storage Bag and found twelve thousand top-grade spirit stones, numerous supplies, and a golden core ancient treasure called the Nail-Head Straw Effigy.
• Fang Shu refined the effigy and fed it the blood mist left by the slaughtered immortals, strengthening its curse-killing power.
• Fang Shu deduced that He Shoufeng had planned to use the immortals’ blood qi to curse the Goose Divine Immortal, but had underestimated the Divine Immortal’s strength.
• Fang Shu collected He Shoufeng’s corpse, intending to use its remains as golden core materials and to make a puppet.
• Curse Frog Mantou brought Fang Shu the altar to his small secret realm, and Fang Shu opened its gateway and called everyone outside.
• More than a hundred people emerged, and Second Uncle Yu Le hurried to Fang Shu, relieved to find him safe.

After the secret realm returned the survivors to Mount Lu, Fang Shu recruited willing outsiders and declared that he would unite the sect under new rules. He killed the Floating Mountain Lord for betraying his fellow sect members, then ordered everyone to confess past crimes as the shaken immortals bowed before him.

• Fang Shu told the awakened immortals that a strange secret-realm opening had scattered everyone, and he allowed the outsiders to leave or stay at Mount Lu.
• More than half of the remaining outsiders accepted Fang Shu's offer to join the Mount Lu Immortal Sect, while he refused to admit their relatives directly.
• Fang Shu abolished the distinction between the Five Sects and Five Halls, announced strict new rules, and let those unwilling to obey depart.
• The Old Mountain Lord declined to judge the kneeling Floating Mountain Lord, but Fang Shu revealed the beast's betrayal and killed him when he tried to flee.
• Fang Shu ordered the remaining immortals to report their past crimes, and they began bowing as his stern aura held them in place.

Fang Shu learned from Old Mountain Lord that Undying Divinity could entangle its bearer in incense, luck, and karma, so it should not be refined into anything tied to Fang Shu himself. He offered the divinity to Old Mountain Lord instead, and the elder eagerly accepted it as Fang Shu sent it into his body.

• Old Mountain Lord recognized the Undying Divinity and explained that it came from a Refining Spirit Immortal and could be used to strengthen artifacts or aid cultivation.
• Fang Shu told Old Mountain Lord about the Mount Lu Secret Realm while keeping some secrets hidden, and Old Mountain Lord warned him to keep its undying qi secret.
• Old Mountain Lord explained that refining divinity could entangle someone in incense, luck, and the karma of living beings, while Fang Shu realized he had borrowed Mount Lu's luck without absorbing it.
• Old Mountain Lord revealed that he had lived for more than a thousand years after taking human form and advised Fang Shu to refine the divinity into something that was not tied to his own life.
• Fang Shu offered Old Mountain Lord the Undying Divinity and asked him to look after him, and Old Mountain Lord eagerly agreed and kowtowed.
• Fang Shu sent the wisp of Undying Divinity into Old Mountain Lord's body.

Fang Shu helped Old Mountain Lord absorb Mount Lu’s fortune and root himself in a secret realm, then meditated for three months amid the resulting transformation. After the mountain community rebuilt its grounds, Old Mountain Lord proposed naming their sect Five Villages Abbey, and Fang Shu accepted, leaving him to wonder how to bring his elderly second uncle into the new abbey.

• Fang Shu infused Old Mountain Lord with Mount Lu’s fortune, and Old Mountain Lord rooted himself in Fang Shu’s secret realm, stabilizing and expanding it.
• Fang Shu meditated for three months beneath Old Mountain Lord while Er Daiyuan and the others climbed the mountain, glimpsed him, and left without disturbing him.
• Old Mountain Lord told Fang Shu that the mountain gate had been repaired and asked him to choose a name for their sect.
• Old Mountain Lord proposed Five Villages Abbey, and Fang Shu eagerly accepted the name despite Old Mountain Lord’s suspicions that it carried some hidden significance.
• The Lingzhi Sprite offered Fang Shu a fortune-nourished lingzhi doll to eat, and Fang Shu asked whether his elderly second uncle could come serve as an attendant.

Fang Shu emerged from seclusion, named his divine ability Yin-Yang Self-Manifestation, and reorganized Mount Lu as Five Villages Abbey. After setting new leadership and more lenient precepts, he visited Er Daiyuan, who had been considering resigning from her new post.

• Fang Shu left Old Mountain Lord’s secret realm through its barrier using his divine ability and named the technique Yin-Yang Self-Manifestation.
• Fang Shu summoned the immortals at the mountain gate, shared memories of his past, and announced that he would teach the Dao in seven days.
• Fang Shu renamed Five Viscera Temple as Five Villages Abbey and appointed Fang Lu, Er Daiyuan, and a False Core immortal to the Three Capitals.
• Fang Shu replaced the medicine-slave rule with new disciple policies, established the Five Villages Abbey Precepts, and departed.
• Er Daiyuan returned to her dwelling, where Fang Shu appeared and entered; she blushed and leaned weakly against the doorpost.

Fang Shu settled Mount Lu’s affairs, helped Er Daiyuan prepare to leave for the Vast Sea Immortal Prefecture, and resolved to visit the Western Altar of the Profound Teaching to investigate the vanished immortals. After lecturing at Mount Lu, he refined the Immortal-Fixing Banner into a Ten-Tribulation True Immortal Artifact and departed, leaving the mountain protected by a great formation.

• Er Daiyuan told Fang Shu she wanted to pursue the immortal Dao and leave the abbey; Fang Shu arranged for her to serve in Vast Sea Immortal City and gave her a spiritual lightning spell.
• Fang Shu gave his second uncle the Lingzhi Sprite and distributed talismans and other items to his friends before learning that Deer Cart Earth Immortal and others might have been sent to the Profound Teaching.
• Fang Shu decided to visit the Western Altar of the Profound Teaching before returning to the Vast Sea Immortal Prefecture, and gave Fang Lu an insect formed from his Golden Core qi.
• Fang Shu lectured Mount Lu’s immortals for three days on cultivation methods and the tribulations of Refining Qi, Foundation Establishment, and Golden Core.
• Fang Shu used Mount Lu’s fortune and disciples to refine the Immortal-Fixing Banner into a Ten-Tribulation True Immortal Artifact and established the Nine-Palace Gu Immortal-Locking Formation as the mountain’s defense.
• Fang Shu left Mount Lu through Clouds' Depths, leaving Old Mountain Lord and the disciples behind.

After Fang Shu formed a Golden Core and founded Five Villages Abbey on Mount Lu, news of his plans to approach the Moral Profound Teaching unsettled Vast Sea Immortal Prefecture. Vast Sea Divine Immortal protected Fang Shu’s new lineage and punished those who had mistreated him, while Han Zihe was left regretting their poor relationship.

• Er Daiyuan told Jin Yan the Earth Immortal and the other Mount Lu immortals that Fang Shu had formed a Golden Core, founded Five Villages Abbey, and intended to seek status in the Moral Profound Teaching; they resolved to return to Mount Lu.
• Vast Sea Immortal Prefecture’s True Immortals debated whether to punish Fang Shu, as Azure Lion Immortal defended him and explained his history and Mount Lu’s inheritance.
• The Grand Elder rejected calls to destroy Five Villages Abbey and referred the matter to Vast Sea Divine Immortal, who confined White Dust, Fu Qing, Tie Mu, and Chang Qing to the city for one hundred years.
• Vast Sea Divine Immortal recognized Mount Lu as an external branch lineage, forbade the Prefecture from interfering there, and allowed Fang Shu to pursue the Moral Profound Teaching.
• Han Zihe heard that Fang Shu had formed a Golden Core and regretted that his past discourtesy had cost him the chance to build a closer bond with his fellow disciple.

White Dust True Immortal and the Iron and Chang family ancestors plotted to undermine Fang Shu and Mount Lu’s visitors, while Fang Shu traveled to the Hundred Thousand Mountains to explore the Witch-Ghost Dao. The chapter ended with Fang Shu reaching Witch Valley.

• White Dust True Immortal heard the Iron and Chang family ancestors propose hiring Golden Core cultivators to trouble Fang Shu, then suggested turning Mount Lu’s visitors into targets of hostility by treating them with exaggerated deference and punishing their missteps.
• The Iron and Chang family ancestors secretly agreed that they would draw White Dust True Immortal into their scheme gradually, then went to seek Immortal Fuqing.
• Fang Shu left Vast Sea Immortal City to cultivate and deal with his spoils, traveling toward the Witch-Ghost Dao in the Hundred Thousand Mountains.
• Fang Shu concealed his cultivation as False Core and entered the mountains riding his Scarlet True Flying Centipede, whose aura blended naturally with the region.
• Fang Shu reached a vast basin filled with dark buildings and Killing Intent, recognized it as Witch Valley, and exclaimed its name.

Fang Shu disguised himself while selling stolen goods in Witch Valley, then destroyed the traces of his transactions and left with twenty-eight thousand Top-grade Spirit Stones. A barefoot Witch-Ghost Dao woman tracked the Scarlet True Flying Centipede’s signal and pursued him after he had already left the valley.

• Fang Shu entered Witch Valley, disguised himself as a local cultivator, and sold batches of stolen goods to established shops.
• A shopkeeper shared information about Fang Shu with other proprietors, while a barefoot Witch-Ghost Dao woman sensed the Scarlet True Flying Centipede through her ancestral gu artifact and began searching for him.
• Fang Shu sold He Shoufeng’s corpse for five thousand Top-grade Spirit Stones and arranged a false lead about an auction before leaving the valley.
• Fang Shu destroyed the items he had displayed and erased the traces of his Scarlet Gold Divine Light, then flew toward the Profound Teaching with twenty-eight thousand Top-grade Spirit Stones.
• The barefoot woman realized Fang Shu had left, used her essence blood to activate the gu artifact, and pursued him beyond the Witch-Ghost Dao’s array.

Fang Shu was pursued by Wu Zhibai, who wanted to borrow his Scarlet True Flying Centipede for her ancestral legacy. After hearing her explanation, Fang Shu lured her into a mist-sealed hollow and revealed his True Core cultivation as he attacked her.

• Fang Shu tried to evade the Purple Spiritual Light pursuing him, but it followed him into the wilderness, so he stopped and confronted its rider, Wu Zhibai.
• Wu Zhibai revealed her identity, swore she meant no harm, and offered Fang Shu help forming his Golden Core in exchange for hearing her request.
• Fang Shu recognized Wu Zhibai from their shared visit to Scarlet City Immortal Prefecture, and she explained that she needed his Scarlet True Flying Centipede for her Wu Family’s ancestral estate.
• Wu Zhibai asked Fang Shu to swear to accompany her and offered a Lifespan Gu Worm, but Fang Shu demanded that she exchange herself for the insect.
• Fang Shu attacked Wu Zhibai with blades formed from the mist and revealed that he was a True Core immortal cultivator.

Fang Shu subdued Wu Zhibai, safely searched her memories, and learned the location and history of her ancestor’s Mausoleums. He agreed to lend her the Scarlet True Flying Centipede and persuaded her to let him accompany her, hoping to learn more about the ancestor’s incarnation techniques.

• Wu Zhibai tried to flee Fang Shu but was trapped by his barrier and swarms of gu insects.
• Fang Shu reassured Wu Zhibai and searched her memories without harming her, learning she had come to borrow the Scarlet True Flying Centipede to enter her ancestor’s Mausoleum.
• Fang Shu agreed to lend Wu Zhibai the centipede and revealed his youthful appearance, prompting her to recognize him as a direct disciple of the Vast Sea Immortal Prefecture.
• Fang Shu asked to accompany Wu Zhibai into the Mausoleum, and she agreed after he offered to help her pursue the opportunity to form a Golden Core.
• Wu Zhibai explained that her ancestor had many identities and left behind at least seventy-two Mausoleums, stirring Fang Shu’s interest in her Spirit-Dividing Possession Technique.

Fang Shu and Wu Zhibai entered the Wu Family’s ancestral mountain under the pretext of a visit and infiltrated the rear mountain to open one of the Mausoleum’s decoy tombs. The gate opened with Fang Shu’s Scarlet Gold Divine Light, but an ancient aura poured out and shook the mountain as they went inside.

• Fang Shu and Wu Zhibai swore to share cultivation methods and divide treasures before traveling to the Wu Family’s Mount Wu.
• Wu Zhibai introduced Fang Shu to Wu Qi as a visiting cultivator, then explained that her clan had once hoped she would become Wu Qi’s Dao companion.
• Fang Shu declined to use a Dao-companion pretext and spent nearly half a month openly visiting the clan and observing its gu-refining techniques.
• Wu Zhibai summoned Fang Shu on an auspicious night, and he bypassed the rear mountain’s formation so they could reach the underground Mausoleum.
• Wu Zhibai explained the danger of breaching the bronze-colored gate, but Fang Shu used Scarlet Gold Divine Light to open it.
• An ancient aura surged from the opened gate and shook the rear mountain, so Fang Shu and Wu Zhibai hurried inside.

The Wu Family’s white-bearded elder discovered that Fang Shu and Wu Zhibai had opened the Ancestral Mausoleum and tried to break through its gate. Inside, Wu Zhibai began refining a golden-core inheritance while Fang Shu uncovered strange insects hidden within the gate.

• The white-bearded elder divined that the ancestral vein had changed, learned that Wu Zhibai and Fang Shu were near the mausoleum, and rushed underground to investigate.
• The elder found the Bronze Stone Gate open only by a narrow cut, failed to force it apart, and summoned Wu Family members to supply blood that widened the opening.
• Fang Shu and Wu Zhibai hurried deeper into the mausoleum, where they found gu-rearing methods and a tangible Mystic Script inheritance inside an inner coffin.
• Wu Zhibai began refining the Mystic Script, while Fang Shu secretly recorded it in his Dao Register and explored the mausoleum.
• Fang Shu noticed the Scarlet True Flying Centipede was being suppressed near the Bronze Stone Gate, cut into its rear, and found insect strands that vanished when exposed to spiritual energy.