Recaps

Lin Tongjiang explained to Jiang Wangxuan that Huaqi could grant cultivators fate along with Cultivation Methods, and that Jiang Wangxuan’s own borrowed fate had drawn Grand Yin’s attention. The brothers visited Venerable Tingming’s home, where they met Lu Xiaoyi and shared his vegetable congee.

• Lin Tongjiang taught Jiang Wangxuan about Huaqi’s lineage and the cultivation path of ingesting Qi.
• Lin Tongjiang explained that Huaqi bestowed method-suited fate, and that Jiang Wangxuan’s borrowed fate had caused Grand Yin to watch him closely.
• Lin Tongjiang said cultivators who used Huaqi’s fate to forge an Immortal Foundation had to return to Huaqi and fulfill their vow.
• Venerable Tingming came out of his stone house and invited Lin Tongjiang and Jiang Wangxuan to breakfast.
• Lu Xiaoyi served the brothers vegetable congee, and Jiang Wangxuan praised his cooking before Venerable Tingming called it cultivation.

Venerable Tingming explained how Huaqi’s investment in cultivators and the middleman’s role could lead to Buddhist Devils exploiting Children of Fate, while describing the lineage’s rules of mutual exchange. Jiang Wangxuan prepared to leave his name with Huaqi, and Lin Tongjiang weighed his own cultivation progress against the growing troubles at the grotto-heaven.

• Secretary-General Lin asked Venerable Tingming why the apprentices still cooked over a hearth, and Jiang Wangxuan compared Huaqi’s investment in cultivators to a private investor funding a promising company.
• Venerable Tingming explained that cultivators’ Immortal Foundation wonders recorded their individual fate, then described how a middleman could train apprentices loyal to himself and use them to devour an employer.
• Venerable Tingming warned that Buddhist Devils could eat or convert Children of Fate, and said Qinghuan would offer Jiang Wangxuan and Lin Tongjiang Divine Ability Cultivation Methods in exchange for restraint if they reached the Purple Mansion.
• Lin Tongjiang considered the delayed Alchemy Invocation Peak decision and realized his Flow Eastward Immortal Foundation had stirred after consuming Grand Yin moonlight.
• After Xiaoyi prepared the lamp oil and stone statue for Jiang Wangxuan’s secluded cultivation, Jiang asked whether the Buddhas and Devil Ancestors cared for Huaqi in its old age, and Xiaoyi joked about who would care for Master.

Jiang Wangxuan lit the oil lamp in Huaqi’s stone chamber and manifested the Immortal Foundation Autumn Moon Osmanthus, beginning to receive a vision tied to his cultivation path. The vision ended with an old man and Great True Person Donghuan discussing the dangers of Grand Yin and what their deceased master might have concealed.

• Jiang Wangxuan weighed whether to manifest Autumn Moon Osmanthus or Immortal Moon Township, while Big Fat Fish’s calculations narrowly favored Autumn Moon Osmanthus.
• Jiang Wangxuan lit the oil lamp, and moonlight formed an osmanthus tree, a nearly full moon, and a faceless stone statue before a winter cicada fell into an ink-wash vision.
• An old man fished and drank beside a river when his junior brother arrived, took the caught bass, and asked him to grill it.
• The old man addressed his junior as Great True Person Donghuan, and they discussed whether he could take charge of Grand Yin and how many Divine Abilities he might possess.
• Donghuan asked whether their peers feared his hidden abilities or their master’s secrets, and the old man said he believed their master had concealed something.

Jiang Wangxuan explored True Lord Donghuan’s Stream Dream Railing Notes, gaining Grand Yin cultivation methods and bringing Fahuan Hall back into his Rising Yang Mansion. He left with a crucial method for perfecting Full Moon and gave it to Big Fat Fish.

• True Lord Dongyuan and his junior brother discussed the heavens watching them, while Dongyuan revealed he had saved Grand Yin Mysterious Radiance for those who followed his path because their master had been tired.
• True Lord Donghuan searched the Zangke Dark Desert for thirty years, then confronted Shuoheng, who said Donghuan could never ascend to Grand Yin after mutilating Terminal Yin.
• Jiang Wangxuan entered a boundless space containing True Lord Donghuan’s Stream Dream Railing Notes and absorbed its talismans into his Rising Yang Mansion.
• Jiang Wangxuan found the Grand Yin ritual for Immortal Moon Township and studied the Five Lunar Phases, especially the method linking Full Moon’s perfection to Waning Moon’s decline.
• Jiang Wangxuan returned to the stone chamber with Fahuan Hall inside his Rising Yang Mansion, while Big Fat Fish repeatedly failed to enter the hall.
• Jiang Wangxuan gave Big Fat Fish the Heavenly Origin Returning Soul Full Moon One Method, a formula for Full Moon’s perfection and Waning Moon’s decline.

Jiang Wangxuan studied the Heavenly Origin Returning Soul Full Moon One Method and emerged from seclusion with a profound Grand Yin attainment, then reunited with Lu Xiaoyi and the others. At the Jixia Central Bank, Xiao Shumin discovered three warning lights in the Qian Spring Mechanical Hub’s receiving and dispatch room.

• Jiang Wangxuan understood how the method turned the Full Moon’s latent change toward the Waning Moon and could conceal his accumulated fate in the yin position.
• After three days of study, Jiang Wangxuan left the stone chamber, and Venerable Tingming recognized his unusual Grand Yin attainment.
• Jiang Wangxuan shared Lu Xiaoyi’s homemade sweet porridge with him while the others discussed their new rice cooker.
• Xiao Shumin checked the Qian Spring Mechanical Hub at the Jixia Central Bank and saw three red lights come on in the receiving and dispatch room.