Chapter Summaries

Fang Shu returned to the Vast Sea Immortal Prefecture as a True Disciple of the Profound Teaching, shocking its cultivators and turning his former connections into objects of sudden attention. He stayed close to Azure Lion Immortal at the banquet while news of his status spread through the city, and Qi Yuexin declined to visit him.

• Azure Lion Immortal recognized Fang Shu, while White Dust True Immortal challenged his status until Bright Moon True Immortal intervened and suppressed him.
• The Vast Sea True Immortals welcomed Fang Shu and Azure Lion Immortal, and Fang Shu chose to sit beside his martial uncle at the banquet.
• Fang Shu brushed aside questions about how he became a Profound Teaching True Disciple as rumors of his return spread across the city.
• Snow Lotus Immortal Maiden summoned Qi Yuexin to meet Fang Shu, but Qi Yuexin chose to return to seclusion despite her senior sisters urging her to attend.
• Wu Tong, Tie Zhengnan, and Fang Shu's other old acquaintances faced a rush of visitors, while those who had let their ties to him fade regretted it.

At a Vast Sea banquet, Fang Shu revealed that he planned to sail overseas and subtly sought passage on the prefecture’s ships. Back at Azure Lion Immortal’s residence, he gave Wu Tong and Tie Zhengnan a rare medicinal rootlet, while Azure Lion refused Fang Shu’s own gift and urged him to secure a treasure ship rather than merely hitch a ride.

• Fang Shu told the Vast Sea True Immortals that he was heading out to sea after visiting the Central Province Ancestral Altar, then asked whether he could join the prefecture’s next fleet.
• After several days of feasting, Fang Shu left with Azure Lion Immortal and reunited with Wu Tong and Tie Zhengnan at Azure Lion’s residence.
• Fang Shu gave Wu Tong and Tie Zhengnan a rootlet of three-thousand-year-old Longevity Ginseng to help restore Tie Zhengnan’s health and their hopes of having children.
• Fang Shu offered Azure Lion Immortal a thousand-year-old yellow essence herb, but Azure Lion refused to accept it.
• Azure Lion secretly advised Fang Shu to collect gifts during his visit and try to obtain one of the prefecture’s treasure ships outright.

Bright Moon True Immortal consulted the Vast Sea Old Immortal about Fang Shu, while the Old Immortal and five other figures secretly plotted against him. Fang Shu detected that a Divine Immortal was behind the disturbance in his karmic ties and suspected the Vast Sea Old Immortal was nearing death.

• Bright Moon True Immortal reported Fang Shu’s arrival and request to the Vast Sea Old Immortal, who instructed him to accommodate Fang Shu and send an escort for his trip out to sea.
• The Vast Sea Old Immortal and five other figures debated how to respond to Fang Shu, then sent golden light to provoke White Dust True Immortal and the ancestors of the Iron Clan and Chang Family.
• White Dust True Immortal contacted the Iron Clan and Chang Family ancestors, and the three secretly met to plot against Fang Shu.
• Fang Shu noticed three karmic threads trembling, left a gathering at the Five Villages Abbey branch, and isolated himself in a meditation chamber to investigate.
• Fang Shu determined that an Old Immortal outside the Profound Teaching was behind the karmic disturbance and wondered if the Vast Sea Old Immortal was close to death.

Fang Shu considered the growing karma surrounding him in the Vast Sea Immortal Prefecture and prepared to leave. Bright Moon True Immortal gave him an eleven-tribulation Golden Core treasure ship and offered three troublesome cultivators as companions for his voyage, dead or alive.

• Fang Shu examined his increased greed and karmic chains, then cleansed his mind and decided to leave the prefecture without asking directly for an escort.
• Immortal cultivator Che joined Fang Shu’s plans to sail, while Bright Moon True Immortal invited Fang Shu to the prefecture’s inner hall.
• Bright Moon True Immortal offered Fang Shu three Golden Core treasure ships, and Fang Shu chose the eleven-tribulation ship and received its refining formula.
• Bright Moon True Immortal offered White Dust True Immortal and two cultivators from the Iron Clan and Chang Family as companions who could atone through service.
• Bright Moon True Immortal told Fang Shu the three companions could be taken dead or alive, and Fang Shu agreed to the arrangement.

Fang Shu left the Vast Sea Immortal Prefecture aboard a Golden Core treasure ship, piloted by the cultivator surnamed Che, while waiting for White Dust True Immortal to be sent after him. When a Vast Sea cargo ship approached, Fang Shu rammed it, and White Dust cried out in accusation.

• Fang Shu declined Bright Moon True Immortal's offer of an escort and asked that only White Dust True Immortal accompany him, without any other measures that might alert their enemies.
• Fang Shu returned to Azure Lion Immortal's residence, then left after more than half a month; Azure Lion Immortal found the three-thousand-year-old Solomon's seal Fang Shu had secretly left behind and hurried to the island's lightning pool.
• Fang Shu departed Vast Sea with the cultivator surnamed Che aboard his Golden Core treasure ship, and the two sailed across the desert toward the seaport.
• Fang Shu spotted a Vast Sea cargo ship and recognized it as the likely means of bringing White Dust True Immortal to him.
• Fang Shu ignored the cargo ship's disciples and rammed their vessel, crushing many of them; White Dust True Immortal shouted, "Hu Muhuang! How vicious you are!!"

Fang Shu confronted White Dust True Immortal, who attacked him with seven Golden Core Flying Swords and killed his own disciples to conceal his ambush. Fang Shu invoked a dark-red straw figure against White Dust True Immortal, whose peacock construct collapsed as he rapidly aged and withered.

• Fang Shu recognized White Dust True Immortal aboard the battered cargo ship and warned him about the fate of his disciples.
• White Dust True Immortal attacked Fang Shu's treasure ship with his seven-colored peacock and Seven Treasures Glazed Light.
• Fang Shu left the ship to evade White Dust True Immortal's attacks and warned him that attacking a Profound Teaching True Disciple would bring disaster.
• White Dust True Immortal killed every surviving disciple and soul aboard and around the cargo ship to prevent witnesses from escaping.
• Fang Shu retreated into his treasure ship, brought out a dark-red straw figure, and told White Dust True Immortal to be on his way.
• White Dust True Immortal's peacock collapsed into seven Flying Swords as he screamed and rapidly withered into an old man.

Fang Shu used the Nail-Head Straw Effigy to kill White Dust True Immortal and discovered that the treasure grew more powerful after devouring him. He gathered the spoils and began refining White Dust's seven Flying Swords for his Scarlet True Avatar.

• Fang Shu used the Nail-Head Straw Effigy and Nail-Head Arrows to suppress White Dust True Immortal, who abandoned his body and fled as his Great Elixir.
• Fang Shu gathered the dead Bai Household disciples' Qi and Blood to strengthen the effigy's connection to White Dust, then froze his Great Elixir and cleaved it in two with the Scarlet True Flying Centipede Avatar.
• The Nail-Head Straw Effigy devoured White Dust's Great Elixir, body, and some nearby remains before Fang Shu freed the remnant souls and examined the transformed treasure.
• Fang Shu realized the effigy could curse True Immortals more effectively but might be dangerous to its wielder, and he decided to keep using it.
• Fang Shu collected the wreckage and possessions, counted the spoils, and recognized White Dust's seven Flying Swords as valuable weapons for his Scarlet True Avatar.
• Fang Shu told the immortal cultivator surnamed Che to sort the remaining items and continue the journey, then took the seven swords into the cabin to refine them.

After killing White Dust True Immortal, Fang Shu faced a hidden karmic interference from Vast Sea Old Immortal, then traveled along the Chidao while refining seven swords taken from White Dust. He finished the Peacock Feather and demonstrated its power as the ship neared a Sea Market.

• Immortal cultivator Che counted the recovered goods and steered the Golden Core Treasure Ship away, while Bright Moon True Immortal reported Fang Shu’s battle with White Dust to his master.
• Vast Sea Old Immortal tangled the Karma Threads linked to the ship, Immortal cultivator Che, and Fang Shu, leaving Fang Shu’s karmic ties and divinations obscured.
• Fang Shu suspected the interference came from the person behind White Dust, set aside his questions, and continued refining the seven Flying Swords.
• Immortal cultivator Che guided the ship into the Chidao, and Fang Shu watched the ancient sea current before returning to his quiet chamber.
• Fang Shu completed the seven Flying Swords, named them the Peacock Feather, joined them with Scarlet Gold Divine Light, and demonstrated their ability to split the sea.

Fang Shu tested his newly acquired Peacock Feather before a sea demon carriage pursued his Golden Core Treasure Ship toward Shattered Star Sea Market. After the hostile sea immortals rammed his ship, Fang Shu answered by unleashing the seven Flying Swords at their leader.

• Fang Shu tested the Peacock Feather, then returned to cultivation while his ship sailed toward the nearest Sea Market.
• A slit-pupiled Immortal cultivator in a carriage recognized the Vast Sea Immortal Prefecture markings and ordered his party to pursue Fang Shu's ship and seize its goods.
• The carriage chased Fang Shu despite his attempts to escape, and the Immortal cultivator surnamed Che warned him that the pursuers were sea demons.
• Fang Shu ordered Che to turn the ship around and ram the carriage head-on.
• The Golden Core Treasure Ship and the carriage collided, damaging both vessels and leaving the black-scaled snakes dead or badly wounded.
• Fang Shu sent the Peacock Feather's seven Flying Swords slashing toward the slit-pupiled Immortal cultivator.

Fang Shu pursued True Dragon Zigong to Shattered Star Sea Market and killed him just as the market’s elder offered him protection. He ended the chapter holding Zigong’s shrunken head and asking Senior Shattered Star whether he still intended to intervene.

• Fang Shu’s seven-colored Peacock Feather pierced Zigong’s eye, but Zigong shed his tail and fled while Fang Shu’s main body restrained the severed tail aboard the treasure ship.
• Fang Shu’s avatar pursued Zigong, wearing down the dragon’s life-saving scale as they raced toward Shattered Star Sea Market.
• Zigong reached the market and called for Old Shattered Star to save him, prompting the white-haired elder to emerge and ask Fang Shu to stop.
• Fang Shu attacked before the elder could intervene, cleaved through Zigong’s remaining black Qi, and decapitated the fleeing dragon.
• Fang Shu suppressed and shrank Zigong’s head, then asked Senior Shattered Star whether he still intended to interfere.

Fang Shu killed True Dragon Zigong despite True Immortal Shattered Star’s efforts to protect him, then escaped aboard a Golden Core Treasure Ship. After Shattered Star brought Zigong’s remnant soul back to the Sea Market, Fang Shu cursed it from afar and destroyed it completely.

• Fang Shu severed True Dragon Zigong’s head, and True Immortal Shattered Star attacked to retrieve it and restore the dragon.
• Fang Shu fled Shattered Star’s formation, destroyed Zigong’s body, and trapped the dragon’s remnant soul in its bony head.
• A Golden Core Treasure Ship struck the formation as Fang Shu attacked from within, allowing Fang Shu to escape aboard it.
• Shattered Star recognized the ship as belonging to the Vast Sea and returned to the Sea Market with Zigong’s remnant soul instead of pursuing Fang Shu.
• Fang Shu cursed Zigong’s remnant soul from the ship, scattered it completely, and remarked that dragon sons and grandsons tasted delicious.

Fang Shu refined a little of True Dragon Zigong’s Essence Blood, then questioned Zigong’s captured attendants about the Western Sea. He learned that the Vast Sea Immortal Prefecture profited from trafficking people and human organs for demon banquets, and left the treasure ship after killing every demon he had interrogated.

• Fang Shu tested True Dragon Zigong’s Essence Blood, gained Core Qi rapidly, and sealed the blood and soul remnants for later use as pill ingredients.
• Fang Shu stored Zigong’s scaled tail, then demanded that the demon women and the turtle Immortal cultivator tell him about their master.
• Fang Shu killed a demon woman who tried to evade his questions and used Gu worms and soul searches to interrogate Zigong’s attendants.
• Fang Shu learned that the Vast Sea Immortal Prefecture shipped people and human organs overseas, while its authorities and the ruling Refining Spirit Immortal allowed the trade to continue.
• Fang Shu thanked the turtle Immortal cultivator, then killed him and the demon women on the deck.

Fang Shu killed True Dragon Zigong’s attendants, claimed the turtle Immortal cultivator’s shell for Che, and took five black-scaled serpents after freeing them. He traveled to the Western Sea Dragon Palace disguised as a dragon-blooded demon, and arrived before its vast crystal mountain.

• Fang Shu killed the demon attendants and turtle Immortal cultivator, then gave the turtle’s shell to Che and kept the turtle core for medicine.
• Fang Shu released the black-scaled serpents from their chains, checked them for hidden measures, and took them along.
• Fang Shu and Che traveled through the Chidao for more than two months toward the Western Sea Dragon Palace.
• Fang Shu disguised himself as a dragon-blooded True Immortal, fashioned a chariot drawn by three black serpents, and set out with Che.
• Fang Shu reached the Dragon Palace Sea Market and saw the immense crystal mountain of the Western Sea Dragon Palace.

Fang Shu visited the Rumor Pavilion in the Dragon Palace Sea Market to learn about Western Sea events, his enemies, and a Dragon Rabbit he was seeking. He learned the Dragon Rabbit was not in the pavilion’s records, but that only seventy-one Dragon Rabbit descendants had arrived in the Western Sea within the past century.

• Fang Shu and Che Luanshan entered the Dragon Palace’s Sea Market, where Che Luanshan explained that the true Dragon Palace stretched across the surrounding sea.
• Fang Shu bought a bulletin from the Rumor Pavilion and learned that news of his fight with True Dragon Zigong had spread through the Western Sea.
• The pavilion told Fang Shu that the Sea-Garrisoning Divine Immortal’s dragon descendants had issued a wanted notice, while conflict between the Sea-Garrisoning Dragon Prefecture and the Vast Sea Immortal Prefecture had escalated.
• Fang Shu paid for information about an alchemist sheltered in the Dragon Palace who had a blood feud with the Dragon Clan.
• The pavilion found no record of the Dragon Rabbit in Fang Shu’s portrait but said only seventy-one Dragon Rabbit descendants had reached the Western Sea in the past century.
• After Fang Shu left, a scholar-like Immortal cultivator in the Rumor Pavilion studied the portrait of the Dragon Rabbit whom Fang Shu and Bai Yangyang had rescued.

Fang Shu found the red-nosed old Daoist, a blood-and-flesh alchemist with a grudge against the Western Sea Dragon Clan, and persuaded him to refine the remains of True Dragon Zigong into a Great Elixir. The pill began to show extraordinary signs, and Fang Shu sensed it would greatly accelerate his cultivation.

• Fang Shu traveled through the Dragon Palace Sea Market to a remote district and found the alchemist’s courtyard.
• The red-nosed old Daoist first dismissed Fang Shu, but changed his attitude after seeing the True Dragon Essence Blood and learning Fang Shu was a mainland Immortal cultivator.
• Fang Shu revealed True Dragon Zigong’s severed tail and remnant soul, then recounted how he had killed the dragon and its attendants.
• The old Daoist celebrated Zigong’s death and agreed to refine the dragon remains into a Great Elixir, asking Fang Shu to help tend the fire.
• Fang Shu followed the old Daoist into the pill room, where rosy light and dragon roars emerged within days as the elixir formed.

Fang Shu learned that the Dragon Lord Banquet would grant distinguished guests entry to the Western Sea Dragon Palace’s Dragon Abyss, where True Dragons and treasures could be found. After verifying the information, he refined two Dragon-Meat Great Elixirs, gaining more than a century of cultivation and becoming eager to attend the banquet.

• The red-nosed Daoist refined two Dragon-Meat Great Elixirs for Fang Shu and explained that he wanted Fang Shu to hunt four-legged snakes in the Dragon Abyss.
• The Daoist told Fang Shu about the Dragon Lord Banquet, its connection to the Dragon Abyss, and the opportunity to meet Dragon descendants and hunt Dragon beasts.
• Fang Shu questioned the Daoist about the banquet, then sent Che Luanshan and himself to verify the details around the Western Sea Dragon Palace.
• After confirming the Daoist’s account, Fang Shu returned to an inn and had his External Incarnation refine the two Great Elixirs while his original body absorbed the resulting Core Qi.
• Fang Shu gained more than a century of cultivation, strengthened his External Incarnation’s Dragon aspect, and looked forward to the Dragon Lord Banquet.