Recaps

Fang Shu survived the Floating Market’s schemes, joined Protector Bai’s plan to rescue a dragon rabbit, and refused to travel with her toward the Western Sea. He drifted alone across the Dead Sea after reuniting briefly with Bai Yangyang, who told him Master Huang was in Vast Sea Immortal City.

• Fang Shu traveled toward Floating Mountain, freed the Luomi River from a ghost-path immortal’s control, and cleansed the river after the giant toad sacrificed itself for the wronged souls.
• Fang Shu reached Floating Market and learned that Tian Jinmao had fallen into debt, then discovered the Five Viscera Temple’s influence there had weakened after prominent disciples took over its businesses.
• Fang Shu rejected Dai Kuan’s coercive Four Limbs Temple society, killed Dai Kuan, Tian Jinmao, and the other attackers, and escaped the chief steward’s thunder strike.
• White Protector recruited Fang Shu under the name Hu Muhuang and later gathered him, Brother Zhuang, Fairy Luo, and Old Sun to help rescue someone aboard the Dragon Maiden Flower Boat.
• Fang Shu and the group discovered that Protector Bai had concealed a dragon-blooded rabbit in a cage, and they accepted the risk of continuing the rescue after she provided the inheritance password and escape routes.
• Protector Bai led the group out through the ship while they fought its defenders, but Luo Fuyin was trapped, and Fang Shu fled west with Bai Yangyang toward the Vast Sea frontier.
• At the Dead Sea, Fang Shu refused to accompany Bai Yangyang and the Dragon Rabbit toward the Western Dragon Palace, accepted the Dragon-Whale Body-Nurturing Method, and began drifting across the sea alone.
• Bai Yangyang recognized Fang Shu as an old acquaintance and told him Master Huang was cultivating in Vast Sea Immortal City before a black wind separated them.

Fang Shu returned to the Five Viscera Temple, refined the Six Shas and Five Emperors True Qi, and prepared to enter Mount Lu’s secret realm. As attacks and betrayals unsettled the sects, he kept his strength guarded and readied his artifacts for the expedition.

• Fang Shu returned to Mount Lu after years among mortals, learned of the hidden realm, and investigated Little West Mountain, where he killed two robbers and recovered flood dragon bones to refine a Human-Yellow Nail.
• Fang Shu reunited with Immortal Long Gu, who ordered him to refine Astral Qi and retrieve spirit herbs, while Fang Lu revealed that Long Gu had been injured by her eldest disciple.
• Fang Shu turned Long Gu’s dangerous snake-scale Killing Intent into a Sha he controlled, completed his Six Balefuls, and discovered the Earth Origin Pill could damage spiritual roots.
• Fang Shu entered a Water-Fire Spirit Chamber, passed the sixth tribulation, mastered the Five Viscera Qi-Refining Method, and refined the five forms of astral energy into Five Emperors True Qi.
• Fang Shu completed his cultivation with seventy Toads of true qi and weighed whether to conceal his supreme-grade achievement before the secret-realm expedition.
• After attacks struck the temple’s promising disciples and a Foundation Establishment Earth Immortal defected, Fang Shu stayed cautious while the temple investigated suspected collaborators.
• Fang Shu received Foundation Establishment-grade immortal red lead from Fang Lu, completed preparations with his insect-filled banner and two bone nails, and waited for Mount Lu’s secret realm to open.

Fang Shu fought his way through the secret realm, gathered treasures, and entered the Blood Lake, where the Er Family’s blood sacrifice turned into a deadly struggle. After Fang Shu and Er Daiyuan survived the Underground Palace, the Blood Lotus Saint Child transformed Fang Shu’s spirit root and left Er Daiyuan with a dangerous new blood-path inheritance.

• Fang Shu entered Mount Lu Secret Realm, evaded its poisonous creatures, and killed Luan Tong'er after rescuing Mai Shenger from him.
• Fang Shu gathered spirit herbs and defeated Shen Yin with help from Fang Lu, Du Yu'er, and Xiao Lili before heading alone to the Blood Lake.
• Fang Shu cultivated near the Blood Lake as its waters receded, then entered the mist and descended into the Underground Palace.
• The Er Family revealed its plan to sacrifice cultivators to grow the Blood Lotus, and Fang Shu fought off attackers as the bloodwater consumed the plaza.
• Long Gu confronted the Er Family patriarch, who revealed his plan to turn his clansmen into Human Elixirs and use Long Gu to refine the Blood Lotus Saint Child.
• Fang Shu and Er Daiyuan killed Long Gu and the Er Family ancestor, becoming the only survivors and claiming their treasures.
• Fang Shu crushed the Blood Lotus Saint Child and absorbed some of its power while Er Daiyuan cultivated with it.
• Fang Shu's spirit root became medium-grade and innate, while Er Daiyuan gained a blood spiritual root, troubling blood-drinking urges, and the Wondrous Response Blood Mother True Scripture.

Fang Shu gained the secret realm’s inheritances, returned to the Five Viscera Temple, and prepared to establish his foundation. At Ancient Mount Lu, the five sect masters sacrificed themselves to complete the Beauty Palace Master’s spirit refinement, but Cloud Immortal killed him and swallowed Fang Shu and the gathered disciples.

• Fang Shu studied Er Daiyuan’s Blood Mother inheritance, fought beside Zong Qingxue and Jiao Lulu to subdue the Nine-Tribulation White Sword, then carved sword formulas into the Golden Mountain before leaving the secret realm.
• Fang Shu killed Hui Yi at the exit, handed the Withered Bone Abbey Hui Yi’s white-bone arm, and presented his gathered herbs to the Three Capitals, and he chose Peach Blossom Mistcloud as his reward.
• Fang Shu examined his secret-realm gains, exchanged merits for Foundation Establishment resources, and cultivated until his Hundred Toad True Qi reached one hundred and eight.
• The Five Viscera Temple master led the disciples to Ancient Mount Lu, where the five sect masters expounded the Dao for half a month and strengthened the gathered cultivators.
• The sect masters began refining people in the assembly, then revealed their sacrifices were meant to clear obstacles for spirit refinement and help one of them reach that realm.
• The disciples’ prayers stabilized the Beauty Palace Master’s azure Great Elixir and helped him complete spirit refinement, but Cloud Immortal arrived and attacked him.
• Cloud Immortal’s goose shattered the Beauty Palace Master’s defenses, and Cloud Immortal killed him after condemning his attempt to refine spirit before the proper time.
• The goose-headed half-human swooped down on the earthen mound and swallowed Fang Shu and the gathered Mount Lu disciples.