Chapter Summaries

Fang Hong learned that a wanted bandit named Hu Can might have a dangerous fate chart, then heard that Zhao Feixue had arrived at the market and suspected her of harming him. He left the market and used the Fate Mirror to find a favorable direction to wait for her.

• A pair of Yin-Yang Sect disciples recognized Fang Hong and decided to avoid provoking him at the Fish-Dragon Assembly, suggesting She Yutang might challenge him instead.
• At Yunchuan Studio, Fang Hong saw a wanted notice for Hu Can and two other bandit cultivators, and wondered whether the burly man he had passed was Hu Can.
• Steward Mu told Fang Hong that Zhao Feixue and other Ghost King Sect disciples were at the market, where a jealous dispute had drawn the attention of a Golden Core elder.
• Fang Hong declined to alert his father, left the market under the pretense of returning to the sect, and bought a second-tier invisibility talisman.
• Fang Hong circled Five Dragon Island in his Flying Chariot, and the Fate Mirror indicated that the southeast was auspicious.

A Ghost King Sect woman left the market to carry a message for the burly man in black, while Fang Hong concealed himself on a deserted island and waited for her. He ambushed her White Bone Escape-Heaven Shuttle with a Kui Water Yin Thunder, enveloping it in a thundercloud.

• The burly man in black told Seventh Sister to find Ren Jiuhun at the Li Fire Heavenly Palace and explain his circumstances, then promised to release her from her inner-demon oath.
• Second Brother reported finding five more female cultivators to serve as cultivation cauldrons, and the burly man invited Second Brother and Third Sister to gamble on another opportunity.
• Fang Hong used the Fate Mirror to choose a deserted island southeast of Five Dragon Island and waited for the Ghost King Sect woman to arrive.
• Fang Hong concealed himself with an invisibility talisman and prepared a Kui Water Yin Thunder when the White Bone Escape-Heaven Shuttle approached.
• Fang Hong struck the shuttle with the Yin Thunder, and a large thundercloud engulfed it.

Fang Hong defeated Zhao Feixue after she ambushed him, captured her, and used potions that let him question her. The next morning, he learned about her ties to Hu Can and gave her a new task collecting spiritual materials.

• Zhao Feixue escaped the Kui Water Yin Thunder, but Fang Hong used an Upper Clarity Sword Talisman and Tiger-Patterned Mystic Light Chains to capture her.
• Fang Hong forced Zhao Feixue to drink several potions and questioned her about why she had targeted him.
• Zhao Feixue admitted that she had ambushed Fang Hong to redirect trouble toward the Xun Household and take revenge for its pursuit of her after she fled an arranged marriage.
• After the storm passed, Zhao Feixue told Fang Hong that she had been capturing cultivation cauldrons for Hu Can and owed him ten years of service under a heart-demon oath.
• Fang Hong gave Zhao Feixue a Jade Slip listing spiritual materials to collect and told her to leave messages at Yunchuan Studio.

Fang Hong returned to the Yin-Yang Sect and discovered that his swordsmanship had advanced enough to break Su Yao’s Separation-and-Reunion Five-Cloud Gui. As the Fish-Dragon Assembly approached, Su Yao prepared a rare Azure-Snow Spirit Fish for them to eat.

• Fang Hong confirmed that Zhao Feixue remained completely obedient after the Seven Great Medicines took effect, then left her and returned to the Yin-Yang Sect.
• Su Yao attacked Fang Hong with the Separation-and-Reunion Five-Cloud Gui, but his flying sword shattered the cloud hand and dispersed the remaining clouds.
• Fang Hong and Su Yao reunited at the White Jade Pavilion, where he learned she could sustain the Dharma Treasure for about thirty breaths.
• Su Yao noticed Fang Hong’s improved cultivation, and he changed the subject by showing her the Azure-Snow Spirit Fish he had caught.
• Su Yao identified the fish’s medicinal benefits and used the Spirit Cuisine Technique to prepare it, removing its poisonous crystalline pearl.

She Yutang learned of Fang Hong and decided to test herself against him at the Fish-Dragon Assembly, while Fang Hong and Su Yao refined a rare spirit meal that greatly strengthened his body. The chapter ended with Su Yao accompanying Fang Hong upstairs, as the woman in her sea of consciousness lamented their lack of restraint.

• She Yutang received Feihuang's warning about Fang Hong, recognized it as a provocation, and ordered her maid to learn more about him.
• Fang Hong and Su Yao discussed the Fish-Dragon Assembly and the extraordinary effects of the Azure-Snow Spirit Fish.
• The Azure-Snow Spirit Fish's spiritual essence transformed Fang Hong's body, leaving him stronger and with pale golden skin.
• Su Yao explained that her secret technique refined spirit meals but left her with a permanent floral fragrance, and Fang Hong declined to learn it.
• Fang Hong took Su Yao upstairs, while the woman in Su Yao's sea of consciousness sighed at their lack of restraint.

Fang Hong and Su Yao attended the Yin-Yang Sect’s Fish-Dragon Assembly, where they encountered fellow disciples, a formidable outer disciple, and Fang Hong’s old acquaintance Yan Feihuang. The assembly’s True Disciple presiders began arriving, with Ying Yang appearing above the eastern stand.

• Fang Hong and Su Yao flew to North Island’s summit and joined the inner disciples in the northern stand as the Fish-Dragon Assembly began.
• Chai Hongzhou told Fang Hong that the sect’s Qi Refining population had fallen by nearly half after the war with Li Fire Heavenly Palace.
• Fang Hong greeted Chu Yuechai, whose cultivation had advanced to the ninth layer of Qi Refining, and she exchanged compliments with Su Yao.
• Fang Hong noticed She Yutang watching him and learned that the outer disciple was renowned for challenging inner disciples.
• Chai Hongzhou identified Yan Feihuang, whom Fang Hong recognized from their encounter over an Azure-Snow Spirit Fish at sea.
• Three True Disciples arrived from South Island, and Ying Yang, ranked fifth among the ten great True Disciples, appeared above the eastern stand.

The Fish-Dragon Assembly began under the supervision of Ying Yang, Zhang Jun, and Ning, and Wang Lichu defeated Chu Xiaoxiao in the first challenge. A black-armored body cultivator then challenged Su Yao, seeking the Red-Blooded Golden Flood Dragon scale that could help mature Su Yao’s Enlightenment Flowers.

• Ying Yang arrived with Zhang Jun and Ning, then appointed Zhang Jun to preside over the Fish-Dragon Assembly and announced the prize.
• Wang Lichu challenged Chu Xiaoxiao and defeated her with his magical artifacts, forcing Zhang Jun to intervene before the final blow.
• Fang Hong learned from Su Yao that the prize scale could hasten the maturation of Enlightenment Flowers.
• A black-armored outer disciple challenged Su Yao, and Su Yao took the combat platform.
• The black-armored woman charged at Su Yao and brought her Black Gold wrought-iron staff down toward her.

Su Yao defeated the Black-Armored Woman with poisonous flower pollen, while Yan Feihuang overwhelmed Fan Yunjing with puppet beasts. Fang Hong then faced Xun Yan and revealed sword intent as he cut apart the second-tier demon vines.

• Su Yao poisoned the Black-Armored Woman with a pollen mist, won the duel, and accepted her offering gift from Zhang Jun.
• Yan Feihuang challenged Fan Yunjing and defeated her with two Black Gold Fierce Tigers and a Black Gold Giant Falcon.
• Xun Yan challenged Fang Hong and attacked him with more than a dozen second-tier demon vines.
• Fang Hong cut apart the demon vines with golden sword light and revealed his sword intent, drawing She Yutang's excited attention.

Fang Hong defeated Xun Yan, then faced She Yutang in a fierce Dharma Combat match and overcame her hidden techniques with a talisman and a pollen attack. After Fang Hong won, Ying Yang suggested that Zhang Jun take more newly promoted disciples to Bloodrock Island, and Zhang Jun agreed.

• Fang Hong used his sword light to defeat Xun Yan, who thanked him for showing mercy and returned to the stands to treat his wound.
• She Yutang challenged Fang Hong, and he refused Ying Yang's offer to rest before their match.
• Fang Hong and She Yutang exchanged more than a hundred rapid attacks with their sword and saber intent before She Yutang split her blade ring in two.
• Fang Hong used an Immobilization Talisman, but She Yutang escaped with her Golden Cicada Sheds Its Shell spell and continued attacking him with twin blade rings.
• Fang Hong released a flower bud that filled the platform with poisonous pollen, incapacitating She Yutang, then defeated her and declared that she would not last three moves against him outside the sect.
• Ying Yang suggested that Zhang Jun take more newly promoted disciples to Bloodrock Island, and Zhang Jun agreed.

Fang Hong and Yan Feihuang were called to a deciding bout for the Fish-Dragon Assembly’s prize, but Yan conceded after Fang Hong revealed his second-tier high-grade Kui Water Yin Thunder. The young married woman in the Floating-Cloud Vermilion Tower angrily accused Fang Hong of cheating.

• Fang Hong discovered that She Yutang’s tribute was a raven-blue spirit-garment dudou and put it away to sell later.
• Fang Hong watched the remaining bouts, refining his insight into Sword Light Separation as Xiao Yuansha, Chu Yuechai, and Chai Hongzhou won while Gu Hongchen and Du Yueniang lost.
• Ying Yang, Zhang Jun, and Ji Jun disagreed over whether Fang Hong or Yan Feihuang deserved the assembly’s honor, then arranged another bout to decide who would receive the dragon scale.
• Yan Feihuang sent two second-tier Black Gold Puppets against Fang Hong and guarded himself against Pollen Miasma.
• Fang Hong displayed his Kui Water Yin Thunder, frightening Yan Feihuang into conceding and flying clear of the platform.
• The young married woman smashed her teacup in the Floating-Cloud Vermilion Tower and cried that Fang Hong was cheating.