Recaps

Zhou Tianchen helped Yu Tunzhou manifest the inner form of his Primordial Spirit, only to discover it was a black Kun Fish rather than the expected Heavenly Peng. Li Jingxuan and the old Daoist priest recognized the fish as a startling sign of the Supreme Yin and a possible path toward the Kunpeng Dharma Aspect.

• Zhou Tianchen explained the five cultivation realms and helped Yu Tunzhou manifest his Primordial Spirit’s inner form.
• A black fish emerged from Yu Tunzhou’s Niwan Palace, leaving Zhou Tianchen astonished that it was not a Heavenly Peng.
• Yu Tunzhou suggested the fish might be a Kun, and Zhou Tianchen connected its dark, icy power to the founding patriarch’s original visualization diagram.
• A breeze circled Yu Tunzhou and the fish, leading Zhou Tianchen to consider that Yu Tunzhou might have perceived a divine Kun Fish form that could one day transform into a Peng.
• Li Jingxuan identified the fish as the Fish of the Supreme Yin and bowed to Yu Tunzhou, while the old Daoist priest was also left stunned.

Zhou Tianchen explored Yu Tunzhou’s Primordial Spirit world and found its vast sky and sea had strengthened his Heavenly Peng divine intent. He warned Yu to conceal his unusual inner aspect, explained his cultivation progress, and urged him to pursue fortune in Luofu Grotto-Heaven, only to learn Yu cultivated the Spark Instruction.

• Zhou Tianchen explored Yu Tunzhou’s Primordial Spirit world and discovered its immense sky and sea had deepened his affinity with the Great Dao.
• Zhou Tianchen warned Yu Tunzhou not to reveal his inner aspect and told him to claim he cultivated the Heavenly Peng Bearing the Azure Diagram if questioned.
• Zhou Tianchen suspected the Founder had empowered Yu Tunzhou’s vast secondary aspect and considered whether a visit to Yu’s Primordial Spirit world could advance his own cultivation.
• Zhou Tianchen explained that Yu Tunzhou had reached Wisdom Born of Concentration and advised him to nurture his Primordial Spirit through Meditative Concentration.
• Zhou Tianchen urged Yu Tunzhou to focus on cultivating his Qi Ingestion Method and exploit the fortune of Luofu Grotto-Heaven, then learned Yu practiced the Spark Instruction.

Yu Tunzhou continued preparing for the first dispersal of fortune while making plans with Dingguang and seeking a fish basket from Chen Xuanye. In Northern Chen, Chen Xuanye learned that his household’s elders wanted him to ally with Yu Tunzhou and use the contest for the Dao to challenge Great Yan’s influence.

• Zhou Tianchen explained Wisdom Born of Concentration to Yu Tunzhou, gave him the Heavenly Peng Daoist Temple’s Qi Ingestion Method, and left without persuading him to abandon the Spark Instruction.
• Yu Tunzhou caught Dingguang when the little monk stumbled, then told him to prepare the fishing rod and promised to look for the missing fox later.
• Yu Tunzhou brought breakfast to Li Jingxuan, then took Dingguang to the river and went into town to retrieve a fish basket from Chen Xuanye.
• Chen Xuanye gave Yu Tunzhou a basket and worried about how far he had progressed in the Spark Instruction.
• Chen Xuanye told Granduncle Xuan that he could prove the Chen Household had not backed Yu Tunzhou by getting rid of him, but Granduncle Xuan urged him to truly ally with Yu Tunzhou.
• Granduncle Xuan asked whether Chen Xuanye would serve Great Yan or use Yu Tunzhou to kill Great Yan’s imperial son-in-law, leaving Chen Xuanye horrified by the prospect of rebellion.

Yu Tunzhou met Liu Zhizhou of Dongting and traded advice for soul-calming incense before sharing a sachet with Old Mo. Old Mo revealed the identity of Dongting’s ruler and the dragon lineages’ role in the Heavenly Peng Daoist Temple’s decline, leaving Yu Tunzhou aware of the responsibility tied to his inheritance and facing new martial training.

• Yu Tunzhou met Liu Zhizhou, accepted two sachets for information, and advised her to change into a dress to get on better with Old Mo.
• Liu Zhizhou realized her concern about dressing as a man had clouded her judgment, then accused Yu Tunzhou of lechery when he asked her to treat him sincerely.
• Yu Tunzhou gave Old Mo a sachet and told him that Li Jingxuan had asked about him.
• Old Mo explained that the Lord of Dongting governed the water fortunes of rivers and lakes, and Yu Tunzhou wondered whether Liu Zhizhou was a dragon girl.
• Old Mo said the mortal dragon lineages had helped suppress the Heavenly Peng Daoist Temple and urged Yu Tunzhou to practice other hand-to-hand techniques.

Yu Tunzhou learned that Dragon Fish carried the town’s fortune and that the dead experts of the forty-nine Households formed the grotto-heaven’s Heavenly Dao. When Dingguang was dragged toward the river, Yu Tunzhou entered the water and discovered he could command it through the kun fish in his Primordial Spirit, drawing the attention of a dormant creature beneath the riverbed.

• Old Mo told Yu Tunzhou that the forty-nine Households buried their fallen experts beneath their ancestral homes, whose remaining Primordial Spirits formed the grotto-heaven’s Heavenly Dao.
• Old Mo explained that Dragon Fish had absorbed fortune from a dead being and served as a cultivation resource, then warned Yu Tunzhou that they could drag anglers underwater.
• Yu Tunzhou saw Dingguang’s fishing line pull taut and rushed into the river when Dingguang shouted that he had caught a fish.
• Yu Tunzhou visualized the kun fish in his Primordial Spirit and found that he could move through the water with ease as the Dragon Fish fled from him.
• The Dragon Fish dragging Dingguang fainted at Yu Tunzhou’s approach, and Yu Tunzhou wondered whether the water’s Qi movement was Profound Qi.
• A great creature beneath the riverbed opened its eyes and gazed toward Yu Tunzhou.

Yu Tunzhou discovered that his Primordial Spirit could suppress Dragon Fish and agreed to join Ao Xiyu, Xie Linchuan, and Cao Jianjia in hunting the enormous black Dragon Fish. As the group prepared to draw it out, Xie Linchuan wondered whether Heavenly Peng Daoist Temple’s fortune had brought the dragon clans together.

• Yu Tunzhou sensed danger in the river, escaped ashore with Dingguang, and saw a huge black Dragon Fish watching them before it vanished.
• Ao Xiyu proposed working with Yu Tunzhou to kill the black Dragon Fish, explaining that she knew its weakness and asking him to bring Xie Linchuan; they agreed to meet the next day.
• Yu Tunzhou discovered that visualizing Little Black made a Dragon Fish in his water vat panic and knock itself unconscious, then served Dingguang spicy fish and calculated that he could reach the eighth layer of Qi Ingestion before the month ended.
• Yu Tunzhou brought Xie Linchuan to meet Ao Xiyu and Cao Jianjia, where they discussed their roles and agreed to see the black Dragon Fish.
• Xie Linchuan recognized Ao Xiyu as a noble lady of the South Sea, and after Yu Tunzhou mentioned meeting another dragon clan member, he wondered whether Heavenly Peng Daoist Temple’s fortune was drawing them together.

Yu Tunzhou and the others encountered a powerful Dragon Fish and planned to kill it after training and preparing for ten days. Xie Linchuan discovered Yu Tunzhou was cultivating far faster than expected and warned him to conceal his strength, since other contestants might interfere or try to take their share.

• Yu Tunzhou and Xie Linchuan narrowly escaped the Dragon Fish’s charge, and Ao Xiyu identified its formed false dragon scales as a serious obstacle.
• Ao Xiyu proposed that Yu Tunzhou lure the Dragon Fish into a trap, while Cao Jianjia used Fallen Blossoms to strike its vital point, and the group agreed to divide the spoils.
• Ao Xiyu suggested they wait until they reached the sixth layer of Qi Ingestion before attacking, and Xie Linchuan agreed to meet again in ten days.
• Yu Tunzhou learned that many contestants might fail to reach the seventh layer by the end of the month, while Xie Linchuan learned Yu Tunzhou had reached the third layer in a week and was nearing the fourth.
• Xie Linchuan urged Yu Tunzhou to reach the sixth layer and advised him to lure the Dragon Fish without revealing his strength, warning that others might try to steal their share.

Yu Tunzhou returned to the mountain after assessing his peers and decided to focus on cultivation and develop a decisive combat technique. Meanwhile, Li Jingxuan arrived as the Daoist School’s representative, and the chapter ended with Yu Tunzhou shaping a powerful whole-body strike inspired by Taijiquan and the great fish.

• Yu Tunzhou recognized that his peers were less formidable than he had feared, then delivered Dragon Fish to the town and refused Chen Xuanye’s unexpectedly warm invitation.
• The faction representatives challenged Old Mo after Yu Tunzhou carried three Dragon Fish back up the mountain, but Old Mo denied responsibility.
• Yu Tunzhou saw Li Jingxuan leave to visit the factions, then began practicing boxing and resolved to cultivate and master a practical combat move.
• Li Jingxuan introduced himself to the faction representatives as the Supreme Purity Lineage’s new stationed representative, prompting Liu Zhizhou and Luo Shiwu to discuss his status as an immortal seed.
• Yu Tunzhou studied whole-body force and planned a powerful, Qi-infused Taijiquan lean that could decide a fight in one blow.

Yu Tunzhou refined his Taiji Mountain-Leaning Strike by training his Inner Qi and studying how force shifted between motion and stillness. After watching a leaf turn naturally in a creek, he mastered a smoother version of the strike and resolved to break through to the sixth level before an event four days away.

• Yu Tunzhou trained for five days, breaking through two levels of Spark Instruction and practicing his Mountain-Leaning Strike against trees.
• Dingguang tried to fend off wild chickens raiding the vegetable garden, but fled when the hens overwhelmed him.
• Yu Tunzhou unleashed a powerful strike that nearly toppled a tree, frightening the chickens into fleeing, where a tiny white creature killed their leader.
• Yu Tunzhou reflected on the strike's weakness and wondered how to make its force flow smoothly between attack and recovery.
• While washing bowls by a creek, Yu Tunzhou watched a leaf turn with the current, found the missing principle, and mastered the improved strike.
• Yu Tunzhou decided to devote himself to reaching the sixth level before four days had passed.

Yu Tunzhou broke through to the sixth layer of the Spark Instruction and pushed his Refining the True cycles to twelve, leaving him with minor internal injuries. That night, he joined Ao Xiyu and Xie Linchuan’s plan to lure the Dragon Fish into a trap, but the beast stopped short of the shallows.

• Yu Tunzhou broke through to the sixth layer of the Spark Instruction and endured twelve Refining the True cycles, though the effort damaged his meridians and caused internal shock.
• Ao Xiyu told Yu Tunzhou, Xie Linchuan, and Cao Jianjia that she and Xie Linchuan would prepare a trap at an abandoned stone bridge upstream.
• Yu Tunzhou met Ao Xiyu and Xie Linchuan at the river that night and learned they planned to restrain the Dragon Fish with an imitation Dragon-Capturing Net while Cao Jianjia struck its vital point.
• Ao Xiyu explained that her impure dragon bloodline could not intimidate the Dragon Fish, whose creator had possessed a superior bloodline.
• Yu Tunzhou entered the shallows and used Little Black to draw the river’s water fortune and Qi toward himself.
• Ao Xiyu spotted the Dragon Fish approaching, but it stopped ten meters from the shallows and refused to come closer.

Yu Tunzhou and his allies killed the giant Dragon Fish, but four rival martial artists arrived to claim the spoils. As both sides prepared to fight, Yu Tunzhou surprised them by crippling Ji Pan, leaving three opponents standing.

• Ao Xiyu, Xie Linchuan, and Cao Jianjia trapped the giant Dragon Fish in a net while Yu Tunzhou dodged its charge, and Cao Jianjia killed it with a strike to its vital point.
• Zhang Buyu, Yue Hongyi, Chang Jian, and Ji Pan appeared and proposed dividing the fish’s spoils, while Ao Xiyu and Cao Jianjia revealed that Liu Qingshi and Zhang Qinghe had joined their side.
• Yue Hongyi assessed the group’s injuries and argued that her four companions could defeat them, prompting both sides to prepare for a fight.
• Xie Linchuan shouted a warning that drew Zhang Buyu and Chang Jian’s attention, giving Yu Tunzhou the opening to attack Ji Pan with a Taiji Iron Mountain Lean.
• Yu Tunzhou shattered Ji Pan’s arms and knocked him unconscious, then told Xie Linchuan that only three opponents remained.

Yu Tunzhou’s surprise attack defeated Ji Pan, shifting the balance in the struggle over the giant Dragon Fish. Zhang Buyu agreed to join Xie Linchuan’s group, then helped trap Chang Jian as Yu Tunzhou prepared to attack him.

• Yu Tunzhou knocked Ji Pan unconscious with a surprise attack, breaking both his arms and stunning the others.
• Zhang Buyu and Yue Hongyi recognized Yu Tunzhou as a serious threat, while Xie Linchuan urged them to retreat.
• Chang Jian warned Zhang Buyu that Xie Linchuan’s group could not be allowed to monopolize the Dragon Fish, and Zhang Buyu demanded a share or threatened to expose them in town.
• After consulting Ao Xiyu and the others, Xie Linchuan accepted Zhang Buyu and Yue Hongyi into the group because the Dragon Fish was too large for them to consume alone.
• Yu Tunzhou prepared a second attack as Zhang Buyu and Yue Hongyi blocked Chang Jian’s escape, and Zhang Buyu declared that one fewer ally was better than one more.

Yu Tunzhou outmaneuvered Chang Jian and defeated him with a second strike, then joined the others in negotiating how to divide the Dragon Fish. After Yue Hongyi and Zhang Buyu left with their share, Ao Xiyu revealed that the fish’s false dragon scales held its true value.

• Chang Jian dodged Yu Tunzhou’s first charge and tried to counterattack, but Yu Tunzhou used a second Taiji Iron Mountain Lean to knock him unconscious.
• Yue Hongyi realized Yu Tunzhou had baited Chang Jian into the counterattack, while the others reconsidered their assumptions about his hidden strength.
• Xie Linchuan proposed dividing the Dragon Fish, and Ao Xiyu and Yue Hongyi arranged for Old Mo to guarantee that Zhang Buyu and Yue Hongyi would not alert others on their way back to town.
• Old Mo took Chang Jian and Ji Pan away and warned everyone not to kill during the struggle for the Dao.
• Ao Xiyu gave Yue Hongyi and Zhang Buyu a large piece of Dragon Fish, then revealed that its false dragon scales—not its meat—contained its most precious fortune.

Ao Xiyu extracted Water Fortune Dragon Qi from the giant Dragon Fish scales and explained how to use and trade it. As Yu Tunzhou guided the group up the mountain with the remaining fish, they asked about the Daoist temple and learned that Junior Brother Li had visited.

• Ao Xiyu extracted the Water Fortune Dragon Qi from the giant Dragon Fish scales and divided it among the group, including a share for Liu Qingshi.
• Ao Xiyu warned everyone to use the Qi sparingly and said they could barter away what they could not refine.
• The group borrowed Cao Jianjia's sword to cut up the Dragon Fish meat, and Yu Tunzhou took the remainder rather than let it go to waste.
• Yu Tunzhou led the others up the mountain with portions of the fish, while Liu Qingshi arranged to visit the two seniors there with his help.
• Ao Xiyu asked whether anyone else had visited the Daoist temple, and Yu Tunzhou said Junior Brother Li had come by.
• Liu Qingshi urged Yu Tunzhou to show Junior Brother Li more respect, while Xie Linchuan reflected on Yu Tunzhou's refusal to curry favor with powerful people.

Yu Tunzhou brought Dragon Fish meat to Li Jingxuan, while Zhang Buyu learned that he had missed its most valuable part and was reprimanded for assuming his knowledge was complete. As the town's households considered emerging alliances, the old monk ended the night wondering why the Buddha had chosen the Muscle-Tendon Changing Classic to carry the Buddhist School through the Great Dharma-Ending Tribulation.

• Yu Tunzhou brought Dragon Fish meat to Li Jingxuan and said the group would no longer have to worry about meals.
• Zhang Buyu learned that Chang Jian and another man had lost their places at the end-of-month communal feast after a town guardian broke the rules.
• Zhang Buyu realized that Ao Xiyu had removed the Dragon Fish's valuable false scales, and his martial uncle told him to stand in the courtyard and reflect on his overconfidence.
• The town's guardians watched the battle's consequences and considered whether the Xie Household, the South Sea, Evergreen Mountain, and the Nanhua Sect would form an alliance.
• Yu Tunzhou told Dingguang that Zhang Buyu had found their weakness: Yu Tunzhou was not yet strong enough.
• The old monk reflected on the young man's renewed vigor, then wondered why the Buddha had chosen the Muscle-Tendon Changing Classic to carry the Buddhist School through the Great Dharma-Ending Tribulation.

Master Xuanku explained that the Luofu Dao Contention was a struggle not only among the factions’ disciples but also against the martial Dao’s imprisoned founder for control of martial providence. After hearing this, Yu Tunzhou cultivated with water-providence Dragon Qi and stirred new life in the world of his Primordial Spirit.

• Master Xuanku joined Yu Tunzhou, Li Jingxuan, and Dingguang for a meal and offered to answer one of Yu Tunzhou’s questions.
• Master Xuanku explained that the martial Dao founder beneath the grotto-heaven used voice transmissions and promises of providence to make disciples fight and kill one another.
• Master Xuanku revealed that disciples could also win martial providence by earning its favor through their temperament, Dao heart, self-transcendence, or innate talent, and that the factions sought to remove the founder’s providence from the grotto-heaven.
• Yu Tunzhou understood that the Luofu Dao Contention involved contending with the founder over the Great Dao, not merely competing against other disciples.
• Yu Tunzhou sniffed the water-providence Dragon Qi and felt it accelerate his cultivation, clarify his Primordial Spirit, and awaken waves in its formerly lifeless ocean.

Yu Tunzhou cultivated with Water Fortune Dragon Qi through the night, advancing from the early Sixth Layer to the Seventh Layer of Qi Ingestion and strengthening his Primordial Spirit. At sunrise, he saw golden streams of Martial Fortune winding through the morning clouds.

• Yu Tunzhou absorbed Water Fortune Dragon Qi until his Spark Instruction briefly exhausted the nearby pure Qi, then moved to the mountaintop to cultivate in the open air.
• As the Dragon Qi nourished his Primordial Spirit, Little Black grew more lively and seemed increasingly intelligent.
• Yu Tunzhou reflected on his ambition to pursue the Dao through martial arts and challenge the peerless expert from a thousand years ago, but told himself to first surpass his peers in town.
• The vortex around Yu Tunzhou expanded to four chi, and he realized his Qi Ingestion cultivation had advanced to the Seventh Layer while his Primordial Spirit perception nearly doubled in range.
• At dawn, Yu Tunzhou saw golden streams of Qi among the clouds and recognized them as Martial Fortune.

Yu Tunzhou reflected on the town’s martial fortune and continued preparing for the coming contest. After Chen Xuanye warned him that several disciples had been ambushed, Yu Tunzhou planned a safer route back to the mountain.

• Yu Tunzhou recalled Old Mo’s words and suspected the town’s households were competing to claim the martial fortune flowing through the grotto-heaven.
• Yu Tunzhou resumed cultivating on the mountain and introduced Liu Qingshi to the two sages, learning about Liu Qingshi’s Sunset Glow Palace lineage.
• Chen Xuanye warned Yu Tunzhou that Liu Qingshi, Zhang Qinghe, and Yue Hongyi had faced attacks, then offered him a jade pendant bearing the Spark Instruction’s True Intention.
• Yu Tunzhou delivered fish to the households and noticed hostility from their disciples, but felt safer while representing Old Mo.
• Xie Linchuan advised Yu Tunzhou to leave late at night, while Yu Tunzhou proposed taking a route from the Heavenly Peng Daoist Temple that looped back up the mountain.

Yu Tunzhou told Xie Linchuan that he had rebuilt his Qi Ingestion Method’s True Intention, then asked Zhou Tianchen about cultivation and absorbing water-fortune Profound Qi. When six pursuers waited outside the Heavenly Peng Daoist Temple, Yu Tunzhou escaped into the Flying Vulture Palace’s abandoned ancestral home, where Jiang Yungu spotted a flutter of clothing disappearing around a corner.

• Yu Tunzhou told Xie Linchuan that he had rebuilt his Spark Instruction’s True Intention and completed his visualization diagram, surprising Xie Linchuan and Zhang Qingtong.
• Yu Tunzhou visited Zhou Tianchen and asked whether he could gather water-fortune Profound Qi after reaching the seventh layer of his Qi Ingestion Method.
• Zhou Tianchen explained that Profound Qi was difficult for ordinary martial artists to gather, then urged Yu Tunzhou to absorb as much water-fortune Qi as he could because Little Black might be a Northern Sea Kun.
• Yu Tunzhou said he would not clash head-on with the six people waiting outside and planned to use his knowledge of the town to reach the river.
• Yu Tunzhou leaped from the temple wall into the Flying Vulture Palace’s abandoned ancestral home, and Jiang Yungu and the others rushed in after him.
• Jiang Yungu searched the abandoned home and saw Yu Tunzhou’s clothing vanish around a corner.

Yu Tunzhou lured Jiang Yungu and the others through the alleys, then used surprise attacks to knock them unconscious one by one. He found the last pursuer blocking the alley and seemed confused when the man taunted him for running.

• Xie Linchuan and Cao Jianjia learned Jiang Yungu had attacked Zhang Qinghe and set out by a southern route, while Zhang Qingtong chose not to call them back.
• Jiang Yungu chased Yu Tunzhou through the alleys, but Yu Tunzhou used his Primordial Spirit perception and a broken brick to knock him unconscious.
• Yu Tunzhou struck down a young woman who stopped to check on Jiang Yungu, then charged into another pursuer and knocked him into a wall.
• Yu Tunzhou lured the thick-browed youth after him and knocked him unconscious, then threw a brick at Xi Luoyi when she arrived.
• Yu Tunzhou found the last pursuer blocking the alley, who called for reinforcements and mocked him for no longer running; Yu Tunzhou asked, "Run? Me?"

Yu Tunzhou defeated Xue Huaiyi and broke the legs of the unconscious youths, deciding that he had to fight to protect what he wanted. In the town, an old man warned Qin Shaoyou to take Yu Tunzhou seriously, and Qin agreed.

• Zhou Tianchen and Zhang Qingtong watched Yu Tunzhou's victory with approval.
• Xue Huaiyi realized Yu Tunzhou had defeated Jiang Yungu, but his fear and confusion left him open to attack.
• Yu Tunzhou dodged Xue Huaiyi's punch and slammed his head against a wall, knocking him unconscious.
• Yu Tunzhou broke Xue Huaiyi's legs, then set out to do the same to the other five youths so none could claim unfair treatment.
• An old man praised Yu Tunzhou's tactics and warned Tanhua Qin Shaoyou to take him seriously.
• Qin Shaoyou laughed and said he would never look down on his fellow countryman Yu Tunzhou.

Yu Tunzhou defeated the group that ambushed him, including Jiang Yungu and Yan Xiaoxiao, and Cao Jianjia and Xie Linchuan found him afterward. Chen Xuanye learned of Yu Tunzhou’s victory and planned to lure him into a trap.

• Cao Jianjia and Xie Linchuan rushed north after hearing the screams, expecting to find Yu Tunzhou in danger.
• Yu Tunzhou met them unharmed and said he had defeated everyone who had tried to stop him.
• Yu Tunzhou led Cao Jianjia and Xie Linchuan to the unconscious Jiang Yungu and Yan Xiaoxiao, whose legs he had crippled.
• Xie Linchuan warned Yu Tunzhou not to make too many enemies during the contest, and Cao Jianjia broke one of Jiang Yungu’s arms.
• Chen Xuanye learned Yu Tunzhou had defeated Jiang Yungu and decided to wait for him to come looking for him and fall into a trap.

Yu Tunzhou encountered Mo Shougui, who warned him that powerful factions could force him out of the grotto-heaven and urged him to accept an offer of protection work. Yu Tunzhou refused, and his defiant declaration awakened the divine intent of a Kunpeng within him.

• Yu Tunzhou sensed savage impulses rising from Little Black in his Primordial Spirit, then watched them subside before meeting Mo Shougui at a crossroads.
• Mo Shougui tried to recruit Yu Tunzhou to protect someone’s disciples and warned that the town’s powers might expel him from the grotto-heaven.
• Yu Tunzhou refused to join the town’s disputes and reminded Mo Shougui that he had broken twelve legs to deter his enemies.
• Mo Shougui warned that the two resident sages were about to leave and questioned how Yu Tunzhou would survive beyond the town.
• Yu Tunzhou declared, “Heaven and earth are no greater than my eyes,” and the savage impulse vanished as the divine intent of a Kunpeng awakened within him.
• Zhou Tianchen noticed the founding patriarch’s spirit raging through the Heavenly Peng Daoist Temple, while a man in the deepest part of town recognized the Kunpeng’s cry and recalled an old exchange about heaven and earth.

Mo Shougui sensed a change in the world’s martial fortune and questioned whether the divination’s great peak might be someone other than the martial ancestor. Back at the mountain, Yu Tunzhou discovered that Little Black could absorb water-fortune Qi dynamics, then used the Heavenly Peng Essence-Devouring Instruction to adapt a cultivation method for him.

• Mo Shougui cast a divination and saw the same reading of ten thousand peaks bowing to a great peak, but wondered whether its subject was someone other than the martial ancestor.
• Yu Tunzhou returned to the mountain after his victory over Jiang Yungu and learned from Dingguang that Master would leave at the beginning of next month, when Martial Uncle Xuanzang would take over.
• Yu Tunzhou went to the river to cultivate and discovered that Little Black was absorbing water-fortune Qi dynamics and producing water-fortune beads.
• Yu Tunzhou took out the Heavenly Peng Essence-Devouring Instruction and asked the golden text to adapt it for Little Black’s constitution and cultivation.
• The golden text began rewriting the instruction and wrapped around Little Black while Yu Tunzhou told him to bear with it.

Little Black awakened the ancient Kun Fish bloodline and helped Yu Tunzhou break through to the eighth layer as he vowed to reach the ninth within seven days. Meanwhile, Lu Huaiqing returned to Luofu Grotto-Heaven, where the Jiang clan elder learned that he had died and angrily demanded to know who would guard the Northern Frontier.

• Little Black's awakened bloodline let her devour nearby water-fortune Profound Qi, produce sixteen beads, and help Yu Tunzhou break through to the eighth layer.
• Yu Tunzhou fed Little Black ten water-fortune beads and resolved to reach at least the ninth layer within seven days.
• Old Mo met the scholar-like newcomer, who revealed himself as Lu Huaiqing and announced his return after ninety years.
• The Jiang clan elder questioned Jiang Yungu about his defeat, and Jiang Yungu recognized that Yu Tunzhou had overcome him by suppressing his Primordial Spirit perception.
• Lu Huaiqing appeared before Jiang Yungu and the Jiang clan elder, who realized he had died and cried out that the Northern Frontier needed him.