Recaps

Countless cultivators gathered at Jade Void Mountain after Yunzi summoned them, while Prince Pingshan used their arrival to justify founding the Shang Dynasty. Once the dynasty’s karmic fortune gathered without incident, Fang Zelin, Yunzi, and He Quan set out for Jade Void Mountain, where the assembled disciples still did not know why they had been called.

• Immortals from many sects flew toward Jade Void Mountain, frightening demons into abandoning plans to seize the Immortal Sect Karmic Fortune and flee.
• Fang Zelin and Yunzi realized that Prince Pingshan planned to use the immortals’ arrival to legitimize the Shang Dynasty’s founding, and they agreed to go to Jade Void Mountain afterward.
• On the second day, the Shang Dynasty’s karmic fortune gathered without demons interfering, and Fang Zelin, Yunzi, and He Quan departed for Jade Void Mountain.
• Jade Void Mountain’s disciples arrived on flying swords as cultivators from the various sects discussed the gathering and asked what had prompted it.
• The gathered disciples learned that even the sect leaders in Jade Void Mountain’s main hall apparently did not know why they had been summoned.

Fang Zelin arrived at Jade Void Mountain with Yunzi and He Quan to address the great sects’ gathering, saying the matter was more important than raising his cultivation. Outside the hall, He Quan told the disciples that the plan concerned Immortal Sect Karmic Fortune and could change magical battles, while its details remained unknown.

• The gathered sect masters and disciples waited for Yunzi, then sensed her arrival with a profoundly powerful senior they suspected was Fang Zelin.
• Fang Zelin arrived at Jade Void Mountain with Yunzi and He Quan, and the sect masters welcomed him before returning with him to the great hall.
• Fang Zelin apologized for summoning the sects without explaining why and said the matter was more important than raising his cultivation.
• Jade Willow Mountain’s disciples asked He Quan how he had traveled with Fang Zelin, and he explained that Fang Zelin had saved him from a yaoguai ambush.
• He Quan told the disciples that the plan concerned Immortal Sect Karmic Fortune, could safeguard the immortal sects, and might change magical battles.

Fang Zelin gathered sect leaders to discuss increasing Immortal Sect Karmic Fortune by refining powerful Law Treasures, and they agreed to search their stored treasures for suitable materials. He tested an ancient meteorite and found it could be refined, then examined a mysterious bead tainted by baleful Qi.

• Fang Zelin told the assembled sect leaders that refining prehistoric Law Treasures might increase Immortal Sect Karmic Fortune, and described treasures such as the Jade Disc of Creation, Chaos Bell, and Innate Spirit Roots.
• The sect leaders agreed to try refining the treasures and offered their sects’ stored items, including a Dao bell that Fang Zelin chose as a possible material for the Chaos Bell.
• Fang Zelin examined an enormous meteorite that previous cultivators had been unable to refine, then used his pill fire and Law Power to make it begin melting before stopping the test.
• A sect leader presented a mystical bead that had emerged from a slain yao and explained that its baleful Qi made it dangerous to swallow.
• Fang Zelin sensed the bead’s deeply embedded baleful Qi and judged that removing it would be difficult.

Fang Zelin and the sect leaders organized Jade Void Mountain to prepare for refining powerful Law Treasures, assigning disciples to study treasures and test compatible formations. Tianxi arrived to draw Yao Qi from the Sea-Calming Divine Pearl and help feed the workers, while early formation tests ended in explosions.

• Fang Zelin sorted the treasures and had the sect leaders and disciples research their properties, formations, and refining requirements.
• Fang Zelin found that core fire could not reach the Yao Qi inside the Sea-Calming Divine Pearl, so he summoned Tianxi to help remove it.
• Fang Zelin arranged for spirit rice and pills to be brought from Yingping Peak so the workers could eat while their cultivation was interrupted.
• Zhenke asked Fang Zelin whether he had divined their chances of success, and he explained that treasures of such power could not be glimpsed through heavenly secrets.
• Tianxi arrived with the spirit rice and pills, sensed a hidden power of water inside the pearl, and agreed to draw out its Yao Qi and steam rice each day.
• The disciples tested ways to combine formations, but a trial formation exploded, leaving them sooty and unsure how to proceed.

Over decades, Jade Void Mountain’s disciples prepared to refine the Five Directions Flags while the Shang Dynasty grew stronger and its aging ruler searched for immortals. As Fang Zelin examined the only set of materials, he learned that the disciples’ final refining steps still required a difficult revision.

• The cultivators spent more than thirty years gathering materials, merging formations, and working out how to refine the Law Treasures.
• The Shang Dynasty stabilized and expanded, while Prince Pingshan sent officials to search for immortals in hopes of finding an elixir of longevity.
• Surrounding rulers sent spies and bribed the Shang Dynasty’s immortal-seeking officials to obtain any leads they found.
• Fang Zelin inspected the rare materials for the Five Directions Flags and worried that one mistake would waste the only set.
• Yunzi told Fang Zelin that the disciples had reached the final stage but were revising earlier steps to incorporate a drop of moonlight essence.

Fang Zelin dealt with the disturbance caused by immortal seekers and decided to move Yingping Peak, while he and the cultivators completed preparations to refine the Five Directions Flags. The chapter ended as Fang Zelin prepared to begin the refinement before a gathered crowd of disciples.

• Yunzi told Fang Zelin that crowds seeking immortals had been making noise at the foot of Jade Void Mountain, and Fang Zelin said they would eventually leave.
• A tiger demon and a deer demon came from Yingping Peak, explaining that seekers had disturbed their cultivation for years, so Fang Zelin invited them to help on his mountain.
• Fang Zelin and Yunzi discussed moving Yingping Peak to a larger location, and Yunzi happily accepted Fang Zelin's suggestion that they choose it together.
• More than eighteen years passed, and the new Shang Dynasty emperor continued the search for immortals because rival dynasties kept searching too.
• After years of preparation, Fang Zelin gathered with the disciples responsible for the refining stages and divination as he prepared to refine the Five Directions Flags.

Fang Zelin spent years refining the Five Directions Flags with the disciples of Jade Void Mountain assisting and checking each step. The completed Law Treasure descended with Immortal Sect Karmic Fortune, and Fang Zelin put it away as the sect prepared to continue refining other treasures.

• Fang Zelin began refining the Extreme Cold Cloud Ore, and the disciples calculated and monitored each stage from outside the chamber.
• After 1,268 days and one shichen, Fang Zelin finished smelting the ore and began preparing the Mysterious Maiden Cloth with Spiritual Power and Five Elements Sand.
• Fang Zelin continued the lengthy refinement while maintaining the ore and cloth, and the disciples outside checked the process and recovered their Spiritual Power between deductions.
• Eight years later, the Five Directions Flags appeared above Jade Void Mountain amid strange phenomena, and their arrival brought a great increase in Immortal Sect Karmic Fortune.
• Fang Zelin confirmed the Five Directions Flags were complete, and Yunzi helped restore his Spiritual Power before he called the flags down and put them away.

Fang Zelin used the Five Directions Flags to lift and conceal Jade Void Mountain, protecting the immortal sect and its newly appeared karmic fortune. The sect leaders agreed to gather their sects there and prepare to refine the Sea-Calming Divine Pearl next.

• Fang Zelin activated the Five Directions Flags, raising Jade Void Mountain and surrounding peaks into the clouds to hide the sect from outsiders and Devil Race spies.
• Villagers witnessed the peaks fly into the sky, while Fang Zelin confirmed the flags could protect the sect grounds and allow its legacy to continue.
• Immortal Sect Karmic Fortune appeared above the great hall, and Fang Zelin lamented how little remained; the others said successful Law Treasures could increase it.
• Fang Zelin proposed gathering the scattered sects at Jade Void Mountain, and the sect masters agreed that the flags would protect them while freeing other Law Treasures for defense.
• Fang Zelin asked the sect masters to choose disciples to nurture and control the Five Directions Flags, then the group chose the Sea-Calming Divine Pearl as their next Law Treasure to refine.
• After resting, the disciples began preparing to refine the Sea-Calming Divine Pearl, which could suppress the Aquatic Race and command the seas.

The seniors on Seeking Dao Mountain wondered why Immortal Sect disciples had stopped visiting as Immortal Sect Karmic Fortune repeatedly surged. On Jade Void Mountain, Fang Zelin and the others completed the Law Treasures, leaving the disciples to nurture them while the sect leaders urged Fang Zelin to rest.

• The seniors noticed fewer Immortal Sect disciples entering Seeking Dao Mountain and saw Immortal Sect Karmic Fortune suddenly surge.
• The seniors assumed the disciples had found a way to gather Karmic Fortune, then waited for them to return and explain.
• Rosy light repeatedly appeared above Seeking Dao Mountain as Immortal Sect Karmic Fortune surged again and again, leaving the seniors amazed and eventually accustomed to it.
• Decades after the first Law Treasure was refined, Fang Zelin completed the remaining treasures, with only a few failures or disappointing results.
• Yunzi and the other sect leaders saw the disciples nurturing their Law Treasures and told the exhausted Fang Zelin to rest.

Fang Zelin welcomed Yingping Peak and four other peaks to the area protected by the Five Directions Flags, then arranged for the new peaks to support the sect’s crops and stores. He restored Yingping Peak’s springs and improved the mountain, leaving the medicine boy to try planting the ice lotus seeds.

• Fang Zelin watched sects relocate their peaks near Jade Void Mountain and saw the three demons bring Yingping Peak and four peaks from Wangqing Mountain.
• Fang Zelin flew to Yingping Peak with the demons and reunited with the medicine boy, whose earlier wariness prompted a brief argument with the tiger demon and deer demon.
• Fang Zelin assigned the South Peak to spirit rice, the North Peak to gourd vines, the West Peak to medicine fields, and the East Peak to brewing and storage.
• Tianxi, the white deer, the tiger demon, and the medicine boy each took on work to prepare the peaks for their assigned uses.
• Fang Zelin restored the springs on Yingping Peak, built several cabins, enlarged a pond, and planned to have the medicine boy plant the ice lotus seeds.

Fang Zelin gave the medicine boy ice lotus seeds to grow, agreeing to let him absorb a little Azure Wood Qi. Meanwhile, the Daoist Sect disciples finished refining their treasures and resumed cultivation, and the seniors in Seeking Dao Mountain learned that the powerful Law Treasures were behind the Immortal Sect Karmic Fortune’s rise, leaving them hopeful about the sects’ future.

• Fang Zelin asked the medicine boy to grow the ice lotus seeds, and the boy explained that they were alive but needed Azure Wood Qi to revive.
• Fang Zelin agreed to let the medicine boy absorb a little Azure Wood Qi, warning him not to be greedy.
• The Daoist Sect disciples handed off the completed treasures and began cultivating, entering Seeking Dao Mountain to discuss Daoist arts.
• The seniors in Seeking Dao Mountain questioned a Daoist Sect disciple about the growing Immortal Sect Karmic Fortune, and he described the Law Treasures the disciples had refined.
• The seniors realized the Law Treasures could let the disciples defeat powerful members of the Devil Race and felt renewed hope for the immortal sects.

Fang Zelin delayed attacking the Devil Race until the disciples had more cultivation and experience with their Law Treasures, while the sects continued settling their peaks. The medicine boy planted ice lotuses and gained two levels from Azure Wood Qi, but the tiger and deer demons received pills that could close the gap in their cultivation.

• The medicine boy prepared the pond with his Law Power, planted the ice lotus seeds, and revealed that Azure Wood Qi had helped him grow two ginseng leaves.
• Yunzi asked whether Fang Zelin planned to attack the Devil Race, and he said he would wait until the disciples were stronger and better able to wield their Law Treasures.
• The tiger and deer demons and Tianxi reported that they had finished preparing three peaks, and Fang Zelin rewarded each demon with a gourd of Essence-Enhancing Pills.
• The medicine boy realized the pills could let the demons catch up with his cultivation, while the tiger demon challenged him to spar after refining them.

Fang Zelin and Yunzi established a task-and-reward system to help disciples improve their cultivation and prepare for the coming battle against the Devil Race. They built and opened the Spirit Suspension Hall, where disciples could take tasks for pills and sign up to learn pill refining or treasure forging.

• Fang Zelin agreed with Yunzi that disciples should earn pills by completing tasks, including nurturing Law Treasures, patrolling, gathering herbs and treasures, and learning pill refining.
• Fang Zelin and Yunzi drafted the task system, then summoned sect leaders and disciples to build the Spirit Suspension Hall.
• Fang Zelin brought his refined pills to the completed hall, and disciples gathered to discuss the rewards and tasks.
• Fang Zelin announced that completed tasks would earn pills and called for thirty disciples each to train in pill refining and treasure forging.
• The disciples welcomed the plans, eager for pills and Law Treasures that could strengthen them before they faced the Devil Race.

Fang Zelin taught disciples alchemy and artifact refinement as the mountain settled into a routine. Meanwhile, Devil Race powerhouses discussed the immortal sects, mocked Old Devil Yue for retreating from a sword-wielding junior, and concluded that the sects had hidden together to resist them.

• Fang Zelin welcomed eager disciples to the Alchemy Hall and Artifact Refinement Hall and began teaching them.
• Devil Race powerhouses examined a scout’s image of the Five Directions Flags and discussed the immortal sects’ recent activity.
• The gathered powerhouses argued that Old Devil Yue had been bluffed by the junior who stopped his attack, and they mocked him for retreating.
• Old Devil Yue vowed to find and kill the junior, but the others continued to ridicule him before turning to reclaiming the Immortal Sect Karmic Fortune.
• The Devil Race powerhouses saw that Jade Void Mountain and the other sects had disappeared and guessed that the sects had gathered under a concealed defensive Law Treasure.

Old Devil Yue and the Devil Race’s leaders concluded that the Immortal Sect had hidden itself to protect its Karmic Fortune, then sent a small group to search for it near Jade Void Mountain’s former location. The searchers’ Divine Abilities failed to locate the sect, leaving one Devil Cultivator to wonder whether Jade Void Mountain was absent or simply invisible to him.

• Old Devil Yue told the Devil Race’s leaders that he could not find the Immortal Sect despite visiting its hidden location himself.
• The Devil Race’s leaders reasoned that the Immortal Sect was concealing itself to preserve its Karmic Fortune and decided to search for it rather than slaughter mortals.
• The leaders selected a dozen Devil Cultivators skilled in concealment and sent them to investigate Jade Void Mountain’s former location.
• The Devil Cultivators split up near the broken mountain, and one tried to track the Immortal Sect with a stone but failed.
• Another Devil Cultivator used his sight-based Divine Ability to pierce the clouds, saw nothing, and wondered whether Jade Void Mountain was gone or hidden from his sight.

The Devil Race members failed to locate Jade Void Mountain with their Divine Abilities and debated whether to attack or search elsewhere. They chose to search across Great Shang without alerting the sect, while Jade Void Mountain remained hidden above the clouds.

• The Devil Cultivators used their Divine Abilities to search the clouds but found no trace of Jade Void Mountain.
• The regrouped Devil Cultivators confirmed that none of them had located the sect and grew wary that it might be concealed nearby.
• A Devil Race great power warned that a broad spell attack could alert the sect and destroy their advantage if Jade Void Mountain was elsewhere.
• The Devil Race members agreed to search throughout Great Shang, avoiding attacks on mortals and the immortal sect's disciples.
• After the Devil Race members departed, Jade Void Mountain was revealed to be hidden above the clouds, unseen by their Divine Abilities or naked eyes.

Fang Zelin learned that Devil Race mighty figures were searching for the hidden immortal sect near Jade Void Mountain, but the Five Directions Flags concealed the mountain gate from them. After discussing the risks with Yunzi, he decided to wait until the scattered enemies gathered, then ambush and kill them all.

• Disciples used a bronze mirror to show Fang Zelin Devil Race mighty figures searching near Jade Void Mountain, and he confirmed they had not found the sect because of the Five Directions Flags.
• Fang Zelin told the disciples to use the mirror to monitor the Devil Race and report any threat to the people.
• Yunzi proposed attacking the dozen or so Devil Race mighty figures, and Fang Zelin agreed to wait until they gathered so the sect could ambush them together.
• Yunzi left to inform Zhenke and the other fellow Daoists so they could prepare for the ambush.

Yunzi prepared the sect leaders and elite disciples to attack the Devil Race’s mighty figures once they gathered. Meanwhile, Old Devil Lin and Old Devil Wu’s growing unease proved widespread among the devils, and the chapter ended as they realized this place might be the source of their premonition.

• Yunzi instructed the disciples watching with the Law Treasure to monitor the devils and alert the sect leaders if reinforcements appeared.
• Yunzi gained the sect leaders’ agreement to strike the devil mighty figures and summoned elite disciples to prepare for battle.
• After searching Great Shang without finding the immortal sect, Old Devil Lin met Old Devil Wu and discovered that they both felt inexplicably restless.
• Old Devil Lin and Old Devil Wu went to join the other devils, and the watching disciples reported that the devils were gathering.
• Old Devil Lin and Old Devil Wu told the gathered devils about their unease, and several others revealed they felt the same worsening premonition.

The Devil Race gathered at the immortal sect’s suspected location, but its members grew increasingly uneasy despite finding no danger with their Divine Abilities. Fang Zelin led the Daoist Sect disciples in a surprise attack, and the chapter ended as they unleashed their Law Treasures against the Devil Cultivators.

• Old Devil Lin and the other Devil Cultivators discovered that everyone at the gathering felt the same growing dread, though none could find anything unusual nearby.
• The Devil Cultivators argued over whether to leave or stay, and the last member of their kind arrived, felt the danger even more strongly, and tried to depart.
• Fang Zelin saw that the final Devil Cultivator was about to join the gathering and ordered the disciples to choose targets and kill them in one strike.
• The Daoist Sect disciples appeared among golden light and clouds, revealing themselves to the startled Devil Cultivators.
• Fang Zelin asked whether the disciples had chosen their targets, and they began channeling Law Power before hurling their Law Treasures into the air.

Fang Zelin and the immortal sect disciples used powerful Law Treasures to overwhelm and capture the gathered Devil Cultivators. Before returning to Jade Void Mountain to suppress their captives, Fang Zelin left ten disciples behind to guard the site for a hundred years.

• Old Devil Lin and the other Devil Cultivators transformed and prepared to fight the cultivators waiting above the clouds.
• A disciple rang the Chaos Bell, scattering the Devil Cultivators’ devil Qi and disrupting their Law Techniques.
• The disciples used umbrellas, a Pill Furnace, and other Law Treasures to capture and attack the Devil Cultivators.
• As the Devil Cultivators fled, Old Devil Lin tried to send a severed finger as a warning, but Fang Zelin burned it away and the disciples captured Lin.
• Fang Zelin ordered ten disciples to guard the site for a hundred years, left the Demon-Slaying Gourd with them, and led the others back to Jade Void Mountain.

After returning to Jade Void Mountain, the cultivators refined their captured Devil Race mighty figures with Law Treasures, stripping away their cultivation and recovering Immortal Sect Karmic Fortune. Fang Zelin left the sect leaders to guard the prisoners while he returned to planting medicinal herbs.

• The cultivators and disciples poured Law Power into the Law Treasures to suppress and refine the captured Devil Race mighty figures.
• Two Devil Race mighty figures were struck by five-colored light that passed through their defenses and stripped away three hundred years of cultivation with each sweep.
• Fang Zelin and the sect leaders watched Immortal Sect Karmic Fortune flow out of the Law Treasures and return to the immortal sects.
• Fang Zelin estimated that refining the captured demons would restore a little more than one-fiftieth of the sects' current Immortal Sect Karmic Fortune.
• Fang Zelin asked the sect leaders to guard the Law Treasures and left for Yingping Peak to plant medicinal herbs.

The immortal sect disciples weakened and imprisoned the Devil Race mighty figures in the Law Treasure, while Fang Zelin and the sect leaders considered the threat still remaining in the Devil Race lands. Yunzi praised Fang Zelin for restoring the immortal sects, then joined him to discuss the Dao of water.

• Yunzi ordered the disciples to stop draining the Devil Race mighty figures and keep them imprisoned instead of killing them, so the Devil Race lands would not be alerted.
• The disciples sealed the weakened devils inside the Law Treasure and put them to sleep, while the captives feared their clansmen would face the same power.
• The sect leaders told Fang Zelin that the devils’ cultivation had been stripped away, and he urged the disciples to make time to cultivate because the number of enemies was unknown.
• Yunzi praised Fang Zelin for reclaiming the Immortal Sect Karmic Fortune and strengthening the immortal sects, and recalled how the Law Treasure had changed their prospects against the Devil Race.
• Fang Zelin and Yunzi sat together beside a stream and exchanged insights about the Dao of water.

The Devil Race, unable to recover the Immortal Sect Karmic Fortune, sent cultivators to investigate the immortal sect and attack the Human Race with help from the Demon Race. A Dinggui Mountain disciple reported the threat to Senior Fang, leaving the immortal sect aware of the coming attack.

• The Devil Cultivators checked the life lamps of the missing scouts and found them all intact.
• The Devil Cultivators suspected the scouts might have kept the Immortal Sect Karmic Fortune and agreed to send juniors to investigate for signs of a battle.
• The Devil Cultivators also ordered an attack on the Human Race, and countless Devil Cultivators set out for the human dynasty with members of the Demon Race.
• A Dinggui Mountain disciple arrived at Yingping Peak and told Senior Fang that the Devil Race was forcing the Demon Race to join an attack on the mortal dynasty.

After learning that demons and Devil Cultivators had conquered nearly every dynasty, Fang Zelin and the sect leaders sent fifth- and sixth-generation disciples to aid the Shang Dynasty and Great Yu. The two armies were still struggling at Pingshan Ridge, with their commanders desperate for help from the missing immortals.

• Fang Zelin and Yunzi learned that demons and Devil Cultivators had infiltrated the mortal world and seized all but the Shang Dynasty and Great Yu.
• A Dinggui Mountain disciple explained that patrol and mirror-monitoring lapses had delayed the discovery, and Fang Zelin ordered the negligent disciples to receive punishment from their sect leaders.
• Fang Zelin and the sect leaders agreed to send fifth- and sixth-generation disciples down the mountain to fight the demons and devils, and the disciples hurried toward the battlefield.
• At Pingshan Ridge, the Shang Dynasty and Great Yu commanders discussed their repeated defeats and their inability to find any immortals who could help them.

An old Daoist and his young disciple faced the prospect of the army’s defeat by a demon host, and the master explained why he would not flee: his Daoist teachings demanded that he uphold justice. At dawn, the demons advanced on the city, bringing the army to what appeared to be a decisive battle.

• The old Daoist told the commanders that he and his disciple could not defeat the many powerful demons or the Devil Cultivator leading them.
• The young attendant asked why his master had come to fight, and the old Daoist explained that fleeing would betray the booklet’s teaching to uphold justice and protect the righteous path.
• The old Daoist offered to help his disciple escape, but the boy refused to abandon the master who had cared for him and accepted the booklet to study.
• At dawn, enemy-attack drums roused the army, and the old Daoist and his disciple joined the commanders and soldiers on the city wall.
• A horn sounded, and the demon-controlled enemy troops advanced toward the city.