Recaps

Fang Shu entered the Crimson Dragon Treasure Pagoda, endured its trials, and escaped after reaching the consummation of Nine Tribulations. Back in Vast Sea, he confronted those who had harmed his friends, unleashed a curse on his enemies, and hid in his secret realm while the city searched for him.

• Fang Shu bought the Ancient Treasure Ink-Jade Pendant and a Ten-Calamity Storage Bag, then refined the pendant and discovered that it could slow nearby movement and spells.
• At Pei Yizhi’s Golden Core ceremony, Pei Yizhi rejected Ji Rong, entered the Scarlet City Secret Realm, and invited cultivators below Golden Core to follow him.
• Fang Shu defied White Dust True Immortal, entered the secret realm, killed Ming Jianxi in a trial chamber, and advanced through the pagoda’s inheritance chambers.
• After decades trapped inside, Fang Shu completed his ninth tribulation and refused Red Dragon Boy’s demand that he vow loyalty to Scarlet City.
• Fang Shu escaped the secret realm with a Scarlet True Flying Centipede, evaded Qing Gang, and returned to Vast Sea, where he reunited with Wu Tong and Tie Zhengnan.
• Fang Shu learned Tie Zhenglian had targeted Wu Tong and Tie Zhengnan at Ming Jianxi’s request, then confronted her and challenged White Dust before Azure Lion Immortal ended the dispute.
• Fang Shu reunited with Qi Yuexin and his Mount Lu acquaintances, freed his cave-estate servants, moved his island’s spirit vein into his secret realm, and cursed his enemies with paper figures.
• As the curse struck Fang Shu’s enemies and spread to White Dust, Fang Shu remained hidden in his secret realm and planned to escape when the city discarded his ruined island.

Fang Shu returned to Mount Lu, uncovered the Five Sects’ inheritance, and formed a Golden Core through the mountain’s fortune. After becoming Mount Lu’s lord, he freed the Old Mountain Lord and agreed to He Shoufeng’s plan to draw out the secret realm.

• Fang Shu emerged from his three-year seclusion, returned to Mount Lu, reunited with Du Yu'er, and learned of his descendants and the Er Family.
• Fang Shu investigated the ruined Old Mountain Lord’s home, absorbed the dragon qi in its underground lake, and reforged the True Immortal’s remains into the Immortal-Calming Insect Bone Banner.
• Fang Shu entered the Mount Lu Estate as Yuan Heng and followed the coffin trial into the Five Viscera Hall’s inheritance site, where he deciphered the five sects’ methods and uncovered a corrupted Elixir Code.
• Fang Shu comprehended the Great Method of Yin and Yang, Death and Life, Corpse Liberation and Linked Form, then formed a Golden Core through Mount Lu’s fortune and vowed to restore its mountain gate.
• He Shoufeng appointed Fang Shu mountain lord, and Fang Shu returned openly to Fang Valley, reunited with Yu Le, Fang Lu, Er Daiyuan, and his descendants, and confronted Er Daiyuan about her cultivation.
• Fang Shu discovered that the Old Mountain Lord’s medicine had harmed Fang Lu, killed Azure Spider after searching her soul, and secretly entered He Shoufeng’s medicinal garden.
• Fang Shu freed the Old Mountain Lord from the chains used to harvest him, while He Shoufeng explained that Mount Lu’s fortune had bound Fang Shu and proposed using it to draw out the secret realm.
• Fang Shu agreed to preside over Mount Lu’s fortune for the plan, while He Shoufeng advised against inviting True Immortals from the Vast Sea Immortal Prefecture.

Fang Shu defeated the Goose Divine Immortal’s spirit division, took control of Mount Lu, and founded Five Villages Abbey before leaving to pursue his own opportunities. He reached the Wu Family’s ancestral mausoleum with Wu Zhibai, where they uncovered a Mystic Script inheritance and the Scarlet True Flying Centipede came under strange suppression.

• Fang Shu survived He Shoufeng’s Golden Core Ceremony, used Mount Lu’s fortune and the Immortal-Fixing Banner to destroy the Goose Divine Immortal’s spirit division, and learned that the Mount Lu Secret Realm could shield cultivation from the Three Calamities.
• Fang Shu erased the Mount Lu immortals’ memories of the slaughter, took He Shoufeng’s remains and treasures, and reorganized the survivors under his rule.
• Fang Shu entrusted the Undying Divinity to Old Mountain Lord, founded Five Villages Abbey, established its precepts and defenses, and left Mount Lu to seek status in the Moral Profound Teaching.
• Vast Sea Divine Immortal recognized Mount Lu as an external branch lineage and permitted Fang Shu to pursue the Moral Profound Teaching, while White Dust True Immortal and the Iron and Chang family ancestors began plotting against him.
• Fang Shu sold He Shoufeng’s corpse and other stolen goods in Witch Valley, but Wu Zhibai pursued him and asked to borrow his Scarlet True Flying Centipede for her ancestor’s mausoleum.
• Fang Shu agreed to accompany Wu Zhibai into the Wu Family mausoleum, and he opened its bronze gate after visiting Mount Wu and observing the clan’s gu-refining methods.
• Fang Shu and Wu Zhibai found gu-rearing methods and a Mystic Script inheritance inside the mausoleum, while Fang Shu secretly recorded the script and discovered strange insect strands within the suppressed centipede.

Fang Shu entered the Moral Profound Teaching, claimed Cloud Mountain, and used its authority to protect his Mount Lu companions while uncovering the dangers tied to its fortune. After preparing for the Ancestral Altar voyage, he traveled to Vast Sea Immortal City, where his status brought a formal welcome and he reunited with his martial uncle.

• Fang Shu escaped the Witch-Ghost Dao with the Profound Womb Myriad Gu Nascent Soul Scripture, then began developing his own Gu-based path to Refining Spirit.
• Fang Shu met Jiao Lulu in the Moral Profound Teaching’s territory and helped her investigate and cleanse a plague infecting river creatures.
• Fang Shu traded with Chu Qingxuan for a Divine Immortal Artifact fragment, revealed his True Disciple decree, and arrested Yang Baikai for abusing his Inspection Hall authority.
• Fang Shu claimed Cloud Mountain and killed its resisting cultivators, then received an Ancestral Altar quota and appointment as Western Envoy.
• Fang Shu gathered his Mount Lu companions at Cloud Mountain, restored Deer Cart and Sheep Cart, and registered as a True Disciple before karmic chains ensnared his External Incarnation and Dao Register.
• Fang Shu arranged for Zong Qingxue to awaken her Nine Tribulations flying sword, then set out for the sea and learned about the ancient Chidao routes and Sea Markets.
• Fang Shu returned to Vast Sea Immortal City, displayed his Moral Profound Teaching status, and greeted a gaunt, bald old man as his martial uncle.