Chapter Summaries

Fang Hong died or separated from his original body and arrived at a transmigration office, where consultant Little Nine explained the process and had him draw a Fate Card. The card gave him an initial identity in a cultivation world, but the chapter ended before he learned what his fate configuration meant.

• Fang Hong found himself in a silent procession toward nine glowing gates and wondered whether he had died.
• Fang Hong entered a gate and met transmigration consultant Little Nine, who explained that he was a split-off unique trait while his original body continued living.
• Little Nine explained that the gates led to different spacetimes and that Fang Hong's destination leaned toward cultivation.
• Fang Hong randomly drew a Fate Card and scratched it to reveal that he was a sixteen-year-old born into a cultivation Aristocratic Clan with a Seventh-Rank Spiritual Vein and the fate configuration Heavenly Virtue Nobleman, Golden Carriage, Yang Blade, and Xianchi.

Fang Hong joined the Hetu Transmigrator Company and successfully possessed a young cultivator in Canghuan Heaven. As he prepared for his one-year probation, his fate card revealed a hidden talent called Fate Mirror.

• Fang Hong learned that his seventh-grade spiritual meridians gave him low cultivation aptitude and that his fate configuration combined auspicious stars with baleful influences.
• The beautiful consultant recommended he join a transmigrator company, and Fang Hong accepted an offer from the Hetu Transmigrator Company.
• Fang Hong transmigrated into the body of a fifth-layer Qi Refining cultivator, the son of Fang Jian, in Yunchuan Island's Fang Clan.
• Fang Hong merged the new body's memories and learned he was waiting to take the Shangqing Sect's entrance examination after his father secretly obtained the exam questions.
• Fang Hong checked his fate card and discovered that completing his probation would unlock travel to the Myriad Worlds Ancient Boat.
• Fang Hong's fate card revealed his hidden talent, Fate Mirror, which let him discern his fortune and misfortune and perceive spirits and baleful influences in others' fate configurations.

Fang Hong awakened to the Fate Mirror’s ability to reveal fortune and misfortune, then traveled with the Fang Household’s candidates to the Shangqing Sect entrance assessment. On the way, he discovered that Su Yao’s fate held the exceptionally auspicious Heavenly Yi Noble influence.

• Fang Hong examined the Fate Mirror and learned how its candlelight revealed omens for his actions and how it could reveal influences in another person’s fate.
• Xiao Ya helped Fang Hong dress and told him that Steward Mu and the other candidates were waiting downstairs for the trip to the Shangqing Sect assessment.
• Fang Hong met Steward Mu, Fang Qing, Fang Li, and Su Yao, the younger sister of his fiancée, Su Wan.
• Steward Mu summoned talisman snow lions to pull the group’s carriage toward the Shangqing Sect.
• Fang Hong checked the omen for the journey and saw the mirror’s flame flicker before blazing brightly.
• Fang Hong examined Su Yao’s fate and discovered the Heavenly Yi Noble, an auspicious influence associated with benefactors and turning adversity into good fortune.

Fang Hong and the Fang lineage’s young cultivators arrived at Tianyu Island for the Shangqing Sect entrance examination, where Fang Hong bribed the disciples handling registration. True disciple Gao Yi announced that candidates had one month to master the Jadechen Thunder-Attracting Art and use it to open Lingyun Pavilion’s formation.

• Fang Hong used the Fate Mirror on the journey and found that Fang Qing’s fate showed no stars, while Fang Li’s showed signs of calamity.
• Fang Mu brought Fang Hong, Fang Qing, Fang Li, and Su Yao to the examination site near Tianyu Island and introduced them to the registration disciples.
• Fang Hong gave a Shangqing Sect disciple a jade talisman containing two hundred low-grade spirit stones, then completed his registration and waited with the others.
• Gao Yi arrived above the square, identified himself as the examination overseer, and displayed the Jadechen Thunder-Attracting Art in lightning.
• Gao Yi told the candidates to master the first-tier spell within one month and use it to open the formation restrictions outside Lingyun Pavilion.

Fang Hong passed the Shangqing Sect’s entrance assessment by breaking through the restriction around Lingyun Pavilion, where he met True Disciple Gao Yi and reunited with Fang Qing. Fang Qing gave him a mysterious Romantic Painting Album, whose opening words stunned him.

• Su Yao mastered the Jadechen Thunder-Attracting Art and entered Lingyun Pavilion on the second day, prompting Fang Hong to resolve to seek a way to improve his aptitude.
• A Rogue Cultivator and then other applicants broke through the mountain restriction; Fang Qing reached the pavilion on the eighth day.
• On the tenth day, Fang Hong used four bolts of golden lightning to break the restriction and enter Lingyun Pavilion.
• Gao Yi warmly welcomed Fang Hong after learning that his father was Fang Jian and told him to find a room upstairs.
• Fang Qing visited Fang Hong, congratulated him on joining the sect, and presented him with a Romantic Painting Album.
• Fang Hong opened the album and was stunned by its opening words about the Great Dao being among skirts and hairpins.

Fang Hong received gifts from Su Wan through Su Yao and waited with the other new disciples to enter Tianyu Island. As Gao Yi prepared to take them there, Fang Qing revealed himself as an enemy and abducted the entire group, leaving Gao Yi struck down and Shangqing Sect pursuing him.

• Fang Hong learned that the erotic booklet Fang Qing gave him had been created by Rogue Person Xuanyin and featured Zhu Yan, a Golden Core elder of the Shangqing Sect.
• Su Yao invited Fang Hong to her room and gave him a second-tier sword talisman and letter from her sister, Su Wan, who congratulated him on entering the Shangqing Sect.
• After the month at Lingyun Pavilion ended, Gao Yi gathered the twenty-six successful candidates, including Fang Hong, Su Yao, and Fang Li, to take them to Tianyu Island.
• Fang Qing declared that the Yin-Yang Sect would take the new disciples, then trapped them all in demonic light and swept them into his sleeve.
• Gao Yi tried to stop Fang Qing but was struck into the sea, and Fang Qing shattered a sword attack from Tianyu Island before escaping.

Fang Hong and the other newly recruited cultivators discovered that the Yin-Yang Sect had abducted them and forced a curse on them before announcing a deadly entrance trial. Fang Hong arrived alone in a frozen secret realm and spotted a pair of scarlet eyes in the darkness.

• Fang Hong woke in a hall with Su Yao and learned that the Yin-Yang Sect had marked them with the heart-rotting Yin-Yang Blood Curse.
• Chai Hongzhou told Fang Hong that the Yin-Yang Sect had abducted more than two hundred cultivators from several sects and clans, and identified their captor as Rogue Person Xuanyin, Jin Huaiyuan.
• Two Yin-Yang Sect cultivators announced that the captives had to collect a hundred pieces of ice-soul mystic crystal to return, while warning that killing was allowed and revealing the secret realm's Ice Soul Spirit Fruits.
• The Yin-Yang Sect pair activated the teleportation array and sent the cultivators into the secret realm.
• Fang Hong arrived at a freezing cavern, used a talisman to protect himself from the cold, and saw scarlet eyes emerge in the darkness.

Fang Hong explored a frozen secret realm, collected ice-soul mystic crystals, and followed the Fate Mirror toward good fortune. He uncovered and killed a Ghost King Sect cultivator disguised as Fang Li, avenging the real Fang Li.

• Fang Hong immobilized and killed a giant wolf guarding the teleportation altar, then left the cavern.
• He gathered more than fifty ice-soul mystic crystals while fighting off wolves in the passage.
• The Fate Mirror led Fang Hong to a rich cluster of crystals, where an impostor posing as Fang Li approached him.
• Fang Hong recognized the impostor through the Fate Mirror and killed him with Su Wan's Upper Clarity Sword Talisman.
• He removed the human-skin ghost mask, identified the dead man as a Ghost King Sect cultivator, and resolved that he had avenged Fang Li.

Fang Hong killed a Ghost King Sect cultivator and followed his Fate Mirror’s guidance to the Ice-Soul Treasure Tree, where he found three spirit fruits he could not pick. Su Yao arrived and explained that the fruits were not yet ripe.

• Fang Hong took the Ghost King Sect cultivator’s belongings, finished mining the Ice-Soul Mystic Crystals, and left the mountain.
• Two female cultivators from the Wonderful Sound Pavilion found Ice-Soul Mystic Crystals but were killed by concealed demon vines.
• Su Yao witnessed the attack, sensed the Ice-Soul Treasure Tree, and flew toward it.
• Fang Hong found the treasure tree and discovered that its three spirit fruits were intangible when he tried to pick them.
• Su Yao arrived, recognized Fang Hong, and told him the Ice Soul Spirit Fruits would be ready to pick in a few days.

Fang Hong waited beneath the Ice-Soul Treasure Tree for its spirit fruits to ripen, while Su Yao discussed her future in the Yin-Yang Sect with the remnant Nascent Soul in her sea of consciousness. After Fang Hong killed a cultivator who tried to attack him, Chai Hongzhou warned that the Xun Household would soon come seeking revenge.

• Su Yao warned Fang Hong that the three spirit fruits could grant an innate divine ability, then left to meditate nearby.
• Su Yao spoke with her master, a remnant Nascent Soul, who urged her to choose a Dao companion before the Yin-Yang Sect's trial ended.
• Fang Hong sensed an ambush, destroyed the attacker's demonic vines with sword light and lightning, then killed her with the Upper Clarity Sword Talisman.
• Chai Hongzhou arrived and told Fang Hong that the dead woman was an elder's granddaughter from the Xun Household on Black Demon Island, whose cultivators would soon arrive.

Fang Hong killed Yue Gang with the Upper Clarity Sword Talisman and used a Soul-Washing Pill to recover his Divine Sense while Chai Hongzhou gathered the fallen cultivators’ storage pouches. When Xun Li led thirteen Xun Household cultivators against him for revenge and the Ice-Soul Spirit Fruit, Fang Hong trapped their attacks behind a Jade Water Formation, but the formation came under a concentrated assault.

• Yue Gang charged Fang Hong for the Ice-Soul Treasure Tree’s spirit fruit, but Fang Hong killed him instantly with a silver sword light, and another cultivator fled.
• Fang Hong swallowed a Soul-Washing Pill, then had Chai Hongzhou collect Yue Gang’s and the Xun Household woman’s storage pouches and keep watch below the mountain.
• Xun Li persuaded twelve other Xun Household cultivators to attack Fang Hong, promising them rewards and threatening anyone who backed down.
• Su Yao watched from afar and wondered whether Fang Hong could hold out until the Ice-Soul Treasure Tree matured in two days.
• Fang Hong activated the Upper Clarity Sword Talisman, but Xun Li trapped its sword light with a dark green net before the others attacked from multiple sides.
• Fang Hong raised a Jade Water Formation around himself and the treasure tree, and the Xun Household cultivators struck the barrier with their spells and magic artifacts.

Fang Hong slaughtered the cultivators who attacked the Jade Water Formation, then claimed the Ice-Soul spirit fruits and gained a new talisman seed. He left the secret realm and reunited with Su Yao in the Dome Hall.

• Fang Hong used a Seven-Kill Armor-Piercing Talisman to kill the cultivators besieging the Jade Water Formation, including Xun Li.
• Chai Hongzhou brought Fang Hong twenty-five storage pouches and warned him about possible retaliation; Fang Hong gave him nine Ice-Soul Mystic Crystals so he could leave the secret realm.
• Two days later, Fang Hong ate the three Ice-Soul spirit fruits and formed a white talisman seed in his sea of qi.
• Fang Hong found a teleportation altar, placed a hundred Ice-Soul Mystic Crystals on it, and teleported to the Dome Hall.
• Fang Hong approached Su Yao, who asked whether he had succeeded, and he told her that he had.

Fang Hong and Su Yao entered the Yin-Yang Sect’s final recruitment assessment, where candidates had to pair up and practice the Dragon-Phoenix Guidance method. They chose each other and began studying the method in a sealed stone chamber.

• Su Yao told Fang Hong that cultivators in the hall were talking about his strength in the secret realm, and they shared a laugh.
• The Yin-Yang Sect representatives announced that the 103 remaining candidates had to form male-female pairs and practice Dragon-Phoenix Guidance, with the first five pairs entering the inner sect and the last ten people becoming Furnace Disciples.
• A cultivator asked about Furnace Disciples and another asked whether candidates could fight over partners; the woman explained the rules and offered loans of Yin-Yang Talisman Coins to those without partners.
• Fang Hong noticed that a Wonderful Sound Pavilion cultivator seemed linked to a great calamity, while Su Yao grew jealous of his attention to her.
• Fang Hong took Su Yao’s hand, proposed that they face the assessment together, and led her to a stone chamber.
• Fang Hong sealed the chamber, examined the Dragon-Phoenix Guidance Jade Slip, and handed it to Su Yao.

Fang Hong and Su Yao used an Enlightenment Flower to comprehend and cultivate the Dragon-Phoenix Guidance, growing closer and advancing their cultivation. After leaving seclusion, they discussed telling Su Wan the truth and dissolving Fang Hong’s engagement.

• Su Yao revealed her potted Enlightenment Flower, and she and Fang Hong used it to study the Dragon-Phoenix Guidance.
• Fang Hong prepared a jade bed, and he and Su Yao began practicing the dual-cultivation art together.
• Su Yao realized that the art required emotional connection as well as harmony of magical power, body, and spirit, so they tried again.
• After seven days in seclusion, Fang Hong reached the Qi Refining Sixth Layer and Su Yao reached the Qi Refining Seventh Layer.
• Su Yao asked what Fang Hong would tell her sister, and he said he would be honest and dissolve the engagement; Su Yao agreed to follow his lead.

Fang Hong and Su Yao became inner disciples of the Yin-Yang Sect and registered at the Yin-Yang Palace, where they chose a cave abode on the northern island. As they flew there together, Su Yao explained that the bronze mirror screened for Extraterrestrial Wraiths, mysterious entities that had once brought great harm to their world.

• Fang Hong and Su Yao proved they had mastered Dragon-Phoenix Guidance, received inner disciple plaques, and learned they were the second pair in their batch to succeed.
• Fang Hong and Su Yao learned about the sect’s two islands and visited the Yin-Yang Palace to register with Zhang Jun.
• Zhang Jun recorded their details, took their soul imprints, and assigned them cave abode A-6 on the northern island.
• Fang Hong and Su Yao received enchanted robes and copies of the Donglai Gazetteer, then flew together toward their new cave abode.
• Fang Hong asked about the bronze mirror, and Su Yao explained that it detected Extraterrestrial Wraiths, which could possess cultivators and had once harmed their world.

Fang Hong settled into his North Island cave abode with Su Yao, while privately reflecting on the danger of being discovered as a transmigrator. Chai Hongzhou visited with Beauty's Tongue tea and raised the approaching Fish-Dragon Assembly, leaving Fang Hong to consider the challenges inner sect disciples would face.

• Fang Hong realized that the Shangqing Sect's bodily inspection had likely been the misfortune foretold by the Fate Mirror and suspected Fang Qing had helped conceal his identity as a transmigrator.
• Fang Hong and Su Yao explored their empty cave abode on North Island, discovered its upper-grade first-tier spiritual spring, and decided to postpone visiting the market while they consolidated their cultivation.
• After six or seven days, Chai Hongzhou visited Fang Hong and presented Beauty's Tongue tea, a specialty of his Dao companion's Xiao Household.
• Fang Hong brewed the tea with his Ice-Soul Mystic Light, and Chai Hongzhou told him that he had also entered the inner sect as the fifth pair from the Dragon-Phoenix Hall.
• Chai Hongzhou asked Fang Hong about the Fish-Dragon Assembly, where human cauldron and outer sect disciples could challenge inner sect disciples for their positions.

Fang Hong agreed to help Chai Hongzhou organize an association of newly promoted inner disciples, then went with Su Yao to choose cultivation arts and secret manuals. They swore an oath not to reveal their selections, and an unseen gaze fell upon them as the oath took effect.

• Chai Hongzhou proposed that the five pairs of newly promoted inner disciples form an association to share resources and prepare for the Fish-Dragon Assembly, and Fang Hong agreed to lend his name and support.
• Fang Hong chose the Black Water True Explanation, while Su Yao chose the Lihuo Treasure Scroll.
• Su Yao selected the Lesser Heavens Cloud-Ban True Method, and Fang Hong chose the Precious Spring Pill Record after the Fate Mirror reacted to it.
• The female cultivator on duty instructed Fang Hong and Su Yao to swear not to copy or disclose the arts they learned, and they completed the great heart-demon oath.
• Fang Hong recalled that breaking the oath could let heart demons invade a cultivator’s sea of consciousness and cause cultivation deviation.

Fang Hong studied the Yin-Yang Sect’s Black Water True Explanation and Precious Spring Pill Record, then discovered a hidden ink mark that revealed a report from a man whose fate-chart matched his own. After leaving the meditation chamber, he was summoned by the Teaching Hall Master, who invited him to inspect a painting.

• Fang Hong memorized the Qi Refining portion of the Black Water True Explanation and read the Precious Spring Pill Record.
• Fang Hong noticed the Fate Mirror’s omen in an annotation and entered the ink mark with a wisp of divine sense.
• Fang Hong encountered a white-clad middle-aged man whose fate-chart matched his own and received a report titled Summary Report on the Results of the "Seven Great Medicines."
• Fang Hong left the meditation chamber and met Su Yao in the Teaching Hall.
• The cold-faced senior sister told Fang Hong that the Hall Master wanted to see him, so he went to the main hall.
• The Teaching Hall Master welcomed Fang Hong and asked him to look at his newly painted Romantic Painting Album.

Fang Hong learned from Rogue Person Xuanyin why Canghuan Heaven hunted transmigrators and how Xuanyin had concealed his identity. Xuanyin gave him the Kunxu Company's Three Fates Compendium, and the Fate Mirror reacted as Fang Hong began reading it.

• Rogue Person Xuanyin gave Fang Hong a Romantic Painting Album containing an illusion divine ability imprint.
• Xuanyin revealed that he was a transmigrator and explained how a past war had led Canghuan Heaven's sects to hunt transmigrators.
• Xuanyin told Fang Hong that he had concealed the spiritual signature on Fang Hong's fate card and advised him to obtain transmigration insurance after probation.
• Xuanyin gave Fang Hong a secret art developed by the Kunxu Company, the Three Fates Compendium, which could perceive, strip, and transfer fate-chart divine balefuls.
• Fang Hong began reading the manuscript, and the Fate Mirror trembled as its candlelight blazed.

Fang Hong studied the Black Water True Explanation and restored his cultivation after converting his magical power. He examined the Kunxu Company’s report on the Seven Great Medicines and decided to prioritize the [Sloth] formulation, which could improve spiritual meridians and cultivation aptitude.

• Fang Hong took Rogue Person Xuanyin’s fate-analysis book and agreed to find him a disciple with a particular fate chart.
• Fang Hong learned that Rogue Person Xuanyin had infiltrated the Shangqing Sect and abducted newly admitted disciples, then accepted his offer to become his disciple after reaching Foundation Establishment.
• Fang Hong and Su Yao studied their inheritances with the Dao Enlightenment Flower, and Fang Hong converted his magical power into netherworld heavy water, temporarily dropping to the fourth level of Qi Refining.
• Fang Hong used spiritual pills and cultivation with Su Yao to restore his cultivation to the fifth level of Qi Refining.
• Fang Hong reread the Kunxu Company report on the Seven Great Medicines and resolved to prepare the [Sloth] formulation first.