Chapter Summaries

Fang Hong studied the Three Fates Compendium and trained against Yan Suyue’s swordsmanship inside the Romantic Painting Album’s illusion. The next day, he traveled to the Five Dragon Island market to meet his fellow disciples and look for potion materials.

• Fang Hong continued studying the Three Fates Compendium, though it quickly exhausted him and seemed difficult to cultivate.
• Fang Hong entered the Romantic Painting Album’s illusion and fought Yan Suyue, learning to withstand three moves and devising ways to counter her swordsmanship.
• Fang Hong traveled by flying carriage to the Five Dragon Island market after learning Su Yao was too focused on cultivation to join him.
• Fang Hong entered the market with his inner disciple identification talisman and explored its crowded streets and stalls.

Fang Hong furnished the White Jade Tower, bought materials for a bathing pool, and learned about a scratch-card-like game sold by the Li Fire Heavenly Palace. After declining to buy any stones, he ran into Fang Mu, who had been sent by the Fang Household to gather information about him.

• Fang Hong bought furniture from Golden Sandalwood Pavilion, including a canopy bed, a hammock, and a beauty couch.
• Fang Hong bought spirit jade for a bathing pool and planned to add heating formations and teach Su Yao massage and foot-care techniques.
• Fang Hong watched cultivators refine Golden Glow Scarlet Jade for prizes and learned the stones were made by the Li Fire Heavenly Palace, but he left without buying any.
• Fang Mu found Fang Hong and explained that the Fang Household had sent him to gather information after Fang Hong was abducted by the Yin-Yang Sect.
• Fang Mu invited Fang Hong to his shop to discuss the matter.

Fang Hong met Steward Mu at Yunchuan Studio, gave him materials to sell, and asked the Fang Household to gather ingredients for the Seven Great Medicines. Meanwhile, a veiled woman learned that Fang Hong had arrived and began plotting to use him to bring trouble to the Xun Household.

• Steward Mu introduced Fang Hong as the new owner of Yunchuan Studio and told him about the lineage's efforts to investigate the Yin-Yang Sect's abductions.
• Fang Hong gave Steward Mu his storage bags to sell and a list of materials he needed for the Seven Great Medicines.
• Steward Mu gave Fang Hong cultivation supplies and a voice-transmission jade talisman, then agreed to search the Fang Household's markets and treasury for the requested materials.
• The elderly shopkeeper of Golden Sandalwood Pavilion told his veiled mistress that Fang Hong had appeared in the market and entered Fengle Tower.
• The woman warned that Fang Hong was protected by his powerful Fang Household father and dismissed the shopkeeper, then considered using the situation to bring trouble down on the Xun Household.

Fang Hong joined his fellow newly promoted inner disciples at Fengle Tower to discuss preparing for the Fish-Dragon Assembly and finding a Foundation Establishment patron. The gathering turned tense when Fang Hong sensed danger in the wine a maid poured for him.

• Fang Hong met with Chai Hongzhou and seven other newly promoted inner disciples, and they agreed to share intelligence and coordinate against veteran disciples at the Fish-Dragon Assembly.
• Gu Hongchen warned Fang Hong that the Xun Household planned to target him at the assembly, while Du Yueniang explained that the Xun patriarch had restrained the clan’s elders to avoid angering Fang Hong’s Golden Core father.
• Fang Hong used his Fate Mirror to inspect the group and found Chu Yuechai’s fate chart marked by several inauspicious balefuls.
• Xiao Yuansha proposed that the disciples team up for assignments at the Primordial Demon Hall, and Chai Hongzhou suggested seeking Foundation Establishment true disciples as patrons.
• A maid poured Fang Hong a cup of unusually fragrant wine, and the Fate Mirror’s candlelight flickered, prompting him to regard her with suspicion.

Fang Hong exposed a serving girl’s attempt to drug the banquet with Ultimate Bliss Powder and killed her when she tried to assassinate him. As sect enforcers prepared to take her remains for Soul Searching, her head exploded and demonic talismans vanished, prompting Chai Hongzhou to identify a Soul-Transferring Curse.

• Fang Hong stopped the serving girl and, with Xiao Yuansha’s talisman, revealed that the wine contained Ultimate Bliss Powder.
• Xiao Yuansha questioned the girl, and Fang Hong agreed to let Chai Hongzhou use Soul Searching to identify who had arranged the poisoning.
• The serving girl burned her vitality to attack Fang Hong, but his talisman blocked her strike and he cut her down as she tried to flee.
• Two Yin-Yang Sect enforcers arrived, checked Fang Hong’s identity token, and prepared to take the girl’s remains to the Inspection Office.
• The serving girl’s head suddenly exploded, and Chai Hongzhou recognized the demonic talismans that vanished as a Soul-Transferring Curse.

After a Ghost King Sect cultivator attacked Fang Hong, he suspected the elderly proprietor of the Golden Sandalwood Pavilion had helped the enemy and ordered Steward Mu to investigate. Steward Mu subdued the proprietor and reported from a deserted island, where Fang Hong prepared to meet him.

• An inner sect disciple warned Fang Hong that a Ghost King Sect true disciple might be targeting him, and the gathering's guests used a True-Word Treasure Mirror to confirm none of them had leaked his whereabouts.
• Fang Hong used Touching the Mechanism and suspected the elderly proprietor of the Golden Sandalwood Pavilion was involved in the attack.
• Fang Hong returned to Yunchuan Studio and asked Steward Mu to watch the proprietor and subdue him if an opportunity arose, giving him a second-tier Immobilization Talisman.
• Steward Mu later used a jade talisman to report that he had subdued the proprietor on a deserted island three hundred li northwest of Five Dragon Island.
• Fang Hong checked the Fate Mirror, found no danger, and told Steward Mu to wait while he headed to the island.

Fang Hong captured and questioned the Golden Sandalwood Pavilion’s old shopkeeper, but the man’s soul exploded before he could reveal who had sent him. Back at the Yin-Yang Sect, Fang Hong prepared his home for Su Yao and hinted that his new bed had a hidden feature.

• Fang Hong and Steward Mu captured Shopkeeper Li, whom Fang Hong suspected of following him on behalf of a Ghost King Sect True Disciple.
• Fang Hong severed Shopkeeper Li’s limbs, but Steward Mu’s Soul Searching triggered a hidden mechanism that made the shopkeeper’s head explode.
• Fang Hong ordered Steward Mu to investigate the Ghost King Sect True Disciples from Black Demon Island’s six great aristocratic clans.
• A woman cultivating in the market learned that Old Li was dead and guessed that something had happened to him.
• Fang Hong returned to the Yin-Yang Sect, furnished his home, and prepared a bedroom with a bathing pool and lavish bed.
• Su Yao joined Fang Hong for grilled spirit meat, and he teased her about the bed’s hidden feature.

After recovering his cultivation, Fang Hong spent time refining his swordsmanship and growing closer to Su Yao. A visit from Su Wan drew them to Five Dragon Island, where Su Yao won several prizes from Golden Glow Scarlet Jade and uncovered a second-tier Dharma Treasure.

• Fang Hong restored his magical power to the sixth layer of Qi Refining, improved his swordsmanship, and continued practicing against Yan Suyue in the album's illusory space.
• Fang Hong and Su Yao shared an intimate massage and then walked together along the beach.
• Steward Mu sent word that Su Wan had arrived at the market and that the Fang Household's collected ingredients had been delivered to Yunchuan Studio.
• Fang Hong and Su Yao traveled to Five Dragon Island, where Su Yao bought Golden Glow Scarlet Jade and won spirit stones from several pieces.
• Fang Hong exchanged Su Yao's winnings for more jade, and Su Yao uncovered a stone marked with the words "Second-tier Dharma Treasure."

Fang Hong and Su Yao won the Separation-and-Reunion Five-Cloud Gui, a powerful second-tier Dharma Treasure, before reuniting with Su Wan. Fang Hong then learned about the Ghost King Sect’s true disciples and singled out Zhao Feixue for closer surveillance.

• The shopkeeper confirmed Fang Hong and Su Yao had won a prize and used a teleportation altar to obtain a randomly selected Dharma Treasure from the Li Fire Heavenly Palace.
• The altar produced the Separation-and-Reunion Five-Cloud Gui, which Su Yao tested and found could form protective cloud walls, carry her through the air, and trap enemies.
• Fang Hong and Su Yao went to Yunchuan Studio’s rear courtyard, where Su Yao reunited with her sister Su Wan, and Fang Hong tactfully left them to talk.
• Steward Mu showed Fang Hong portraits of four Ghost King Sect true disciples from the Gao, Tan, Zhao, and Xun households and warned that their appearances might be false.
• Fang Hong identified Zhao Feixue as the disciple he wanted watched after learning she had fled a marriage alliance with the Xun Household.
• Steward Mu gave Fang Hong a talisman-sealed jade box containing a defensive treasure sent by the grand elder after the incident at Fengle Tower.

Su Wan urged Su Yao to stay alert in the Yin-Yang Sect and gave her pills, while the sisters discussed Su Yao taking over Su Wan’s betrothal to Fang Hong. Fang Hong received powerful Thunder Pellets and advice from his father, then agreed with Su Wan to dissolve their betrothal, leaving him to wonder about her complicated feelings.

• Su Wan warned Su Yao about the dangers of the demonic sects and gave her thirty Nurturing Origin Pills to support her and Fang Hong’s cultivation.
• Su Yao agreed to take over Su Wan’s betrothal to Fang Hong, though she remained reluctant to return to Yunchuan Island and face Aunt Fang.
• Fang Hong examined three Kui Water Yin Thunder Pellets and read Fang Jian’s advice to stay composed in fortune and adversity and never let enemies gain ground.
• Steward Mu gave Fang Hong the collected supplies, which amounted to less than a third of the items on his list.
• Su Wan told Fang Hong to treat Su Yao well and proposed dissolving their betrothal; Fang Hong agreed, while Su Wan admitted she felt empty at losing him.

Fang Hong prepared to complete the [Sloth] potion’s ingredients and encountered Chu Yuechai at the Myriad Treasures Hall. She invited him to join a lucrative Primordial Demon Hall duty, leaving him to consider the risks despite his reluctance to leave the sect.

• Su Yao began cultivating in seclusion and told Fang Hong that she wanted to limit Dragon-Phoenix Guidance to once every seven days.
• Fang Hong checked the ingredients for the seven great medicines, found that three materials for the [Sloth] potion were available in the Myriad Treasures Hall, and went to buy them.
• Chu Yuechai approached Fang Hong and invited him to visit her cave abode to discuss a Primordial Demon Hall duty worth twenty thousand talisman coins.
• Fang Hong refused Chu Yuechai’s request for instruction in Dragon-Phoenix Guidance but offered to lend her talisman coins.
• Chu Yuechai urged Fang Hong to reconsider joining the duty, arguing that he could not rely on his Lineage to fund his cultivation forever.

Fang Hong prepared and drank the first-tier [Sloth] potion, which rapidly improved his spiritual meridians from seventh grade to third grade and increased his cultivation speed. He hid the remaining potion and arranged an evening gathering with Chai Hongzhou to discuss the outer disciples’ experts.

• Fang Hong made a hand-cranked reaction vessel, prepared thirteen doses of [Sloth], and drank the first bottle.
• A powerful fluctuation briefly disrupted spiritual nexuses across North Island, and Fang Hong’s spiritual meridians improved to sixth grade.
• Fang Hong drank five bottles over the night, advancing his spiritual meridians to third grade before the first-tier potion stopped working.
• Fang Hong stored the eight remaining bottles and swallowed a spirit pill while cultivating Netherworld Heavy Water magical power.
• Chai Hongzhou sent Fang Hong a note proposing a gathering, and Fang Hong scheduled it for that evening in the garden outside the White Jade Tower.

Fang Hong gathered his fellow disciples to discuss the coming Fish-Dragon Assembly and learned that several formidable outer disciples were preparing to challenge their ranks. The gathering ended with Fan Jingyun agreeing to obtain rare parasitic phantom orchids for Fang Hong in exchange for defensive talismans.

• Chai Hongzhou reported that Chu Yuechai had returned alone from a deadly sect assignment, while her Dao companion Yue Ming had perished.
• Chai Hongzhou shared information on thirty-four late Qi Refining outer disciples, and Fang Hong took particular note of Yan Feihuang, She Yutang, and Xun Yan.
• Fang Hong realized the Xun Household might use the Fish-Dragon Assembly to retaliate against him, while the other inner disciples faced likely challenges from ambitious outer disciples.
• Fang Hong urged everyone to improve their combat skills and prepare decisive trump cards before the Fish-Dragon Assembly.
• At the exchange gathering, Fan Jingyun offered to obtain three to five hundred-year-old parasitic phantom orchids for Fang Hong in return for two second-tier defensive talismans.

After ten months of cultivation in the Yin-Yang Sect, Fang Hong reached the Qi Refining Seventh Layer and used his Fate Card to travel to the Myriad Worlds Ancient Boat. There he met Zhou Xueying of the Hetu Company and learned that many Transmigrators had faced deadly danger and that some Canghuan Realm powers hunted them.

• Fang Hong and Su Yao made progress in cultivation, reaching the Qi Refining Seventh and Eighth Layers respectively, while Fang Hong also prepared the [Lust] potion and hit a bottleneck in swordsmanship.
• Fang Hong discovered that his Fate Card had activated permission to travel to the Myriad Worlds Ancient Boat and carry treasures there for trade.
• Fang Hong used the Fate Card to arrive in a vast hall filled with nine great cauldrons and met Zhou Xueying, the Hetu Company's assistant.
• Zhou Xueying told Fang Hong that several Canghuan Realm sects and powers were hostile to Transmigrators and that many of the company's recruits might not have survived their first transmigration.
• Zhou Xueying explained that Transmigrators could awaken hidden talents in life-or-death crises, and she thought Fang Hong had survived through his heavenly virtue nobleman fate.

Fang Hong learned how Transmigrator companies operated and heard Zhou Xueying’s difficult history in the Canghuan Realm. Before returning to the public area of the Myriad Worlds Ancient Boat, he received insurance and equipment from the Hetu Company.

• Zhou Xueying explained that Transmigrator companies earned Chaos Talisman Coins by gathering primal essence through Fate Cards, and that changing worlds was difficult and expensive.
• Zhou Xueying recounted how she survived her probationary period, lost several Fate Cards, and eventually reached Foundation Establishment after more than three hundred years in the Canghuan Realm.
• Zhou Xueying described how the Hetu Company’s colleagues were scattered across distant sea regions and how she had become the company boss’s assistant.
• Zhou Xueying used a five-colored altar to obtain Reincarnation Dew, Concealment Incense, and Second-Tier Azure Sky Divine Armor for Fang Hong.
• Zhou Xueying warned Fang Hong that local cultivators regarded the armor as equipment belonging to Extraterrestrial Wraiths, then sent him to explore the Myriad Worlds Ancient Boat’s public area while she returned to her cauldron.

Fang Hong explored the Myriad Worlds Ancient Boat’s trading system, sold eight [Sloth] potions, and spent nearly all his earnings on cultivation supplies and a massage oil. Meanwhile, Zhou Xueying reported to an Azure Dragon that Fang Hong likely had no hidden talent, but the dragon ordered Yu Feifei to investigate his true body.

• Fang Hong used Reincarnation Dew and Concealment Incense, then left the great hall and discovered the Ancient Boat’s private trading chambers.
• Fang Hong browsed the Divine Court marketplace, studied the Black Tiger Mysterious Altar Heavenly Lord armor, and found materials for the seven great medicines.
• Fang Hong used the Fate Mirror to check the danger of selling his [Sloth] potions and sold all eight to the Azure Firmament Divine Court for eight thousand Chaos Talisman Coins.
• Fang Hong spent his coins on spiritual materials, a Divine Ability talisman seal, a Dharma Treasure, and Hundred Flowers Spirit-Calming Meridian-Nourishing Essential Oil.
• Zhou Xueying told the Azure Dragon that Fang Hong probably lacked a hidden talent, and the Azure Dragon ordered Yu Feifei to investigate his true body.

Fang Hong returned to the Canghuan Realm and tested the Azure Sky Divine Armor and its Divine Ability Talisman Seal, gaining a powerful but conspicuous new weapon. After considering Zhao Feixue and his plans for her, he went to find Su Yao to test a meridian-nourishing oil.

• Fang Hong returned to the Canghuan Realm after spending less than an hour aboard the Myriad Worlds Ancient Boat, which equaled fifteen days there.
• Fang Hong refined the Black Tiger Mystic Altar Heavenly Lord divine armor and found that it gave him strength comparable to an early-stage foundation establishment cultivator.
• Fang Hong merged the Divine Ability Talisman Seal into the armor and learned to use the Tiger-Rope Demon-Binding Seal to bind an opponent and suppress their abilities.
• Fang Hong examined the Primordial Golden Dipper and resolved to use the divine armor cautiously because it consumed resources and could attract sect attention.
• Fang Hong considered using the [Lust] potion on Zhao Feixue, who had tried to ensnare him with Ultimate Bliss Powder.
• Fang Hong left his meditation chamber to find Su Yao and test the Hundred Flowers Spirit-Soothing Meridian-Nourishing Essential Oil.

Fang Hong left Su Yao and went to a deserted island to test his swordsmanship by luring demonic beasts with Beast-Luring Incense. After easily killing waves of first-tier creatures, he encountered a second-tier monstrous fish and cut it in two.

• Fang Hong told Su Yao he would go to sea to practice his swordsmanship and visit Five Dragon Island, while she stayed behind to refine a magical artifact.
• Fang Hong reached a deserted island, set up the Jade Water Formation, and lit Beast-Luring Incense to attract demonic beasts.
• Fang Hong used his flying sword to kill the white sea fish, a swarm of fish and shrimp demons, and several sea eagles.
• A second-tier monstrous fish appeared and swallowed the sea eagles, so Fang Hong donned the Azure Sky Divine Armor and attacked it.
• Fang Hong's hundred-zhang sword light cleaved the monstrous fish in two.

Fang Hong used the Azure Sky Divine Armor to sharpen his swordsmanship against sea beasts, then encountered and killed a powerful Flood Dragon Ape. He took its body, considering it a suitable beast for the medicine Wrath to imitate.

• Fang Hong trained his swordsmanship against first-tier demonic beasts and killed three second-tier beasts with the Azure Sky Divine Armor, discovering he could not defeat one without it.
• A powerful beast emerged from white mist and tore through the Jade Water Formation; Fang Hong identified it as a Flood Dragon Ape.
• The Flood Dragon Ape attacked Fang Hong with lightning and mist that suppressed Divine Sense, but he bound it with the Tiger-Rope Demon-Binding Seal.
• Fang Hong used the Primordial Golden Dipper to swallow the ape’s lightning attacks, then killed it with a sword strike through its eye socket.
• Fang Hong examined the Flood Dragon Ape and took its body, deciding it could be a good choice for Wrath’s beast transformation.

Fang Hong intercepted a sea eagle that had stolen an Azure-Snow Spirit Fish from two Yin-Yang Sect cultivators and took the fish for himself. After meeting the pursuing pair, he recognized the young man's exceptionally auspicious fate chart and continued toward Five Dragon Island.

• A young Yin-Yang Sect disciple and his senior sister caught an Azure-Snow Spirit Fish while fishing near Five Dragon Island, but an azure-winged sea eagle swooped down and stole it.
• The pair pursued the eagle in their greenwood bird boat, accelerating it with their magical power.
• Fang Hong spotted the chase, redirected his carriage toward the eagle, and killed it with a golden sword light.
• Fang Hong froze and kept the Azure-Snow Spirit Fish, then briefly spoke with the young disciple and his senior sister as they caught up.
• Fang Hong recognized the young disciple's fate chart as exceptionally auspicious, with the paired deities ten-spirit day and moon virtue noble.