Recaps

Moon-Embracing True Person discovered the Sword Tomb Blessed Land and concluded that a Wings Fire destiny was needed to bring it into the present world. He used Wu Tong to test the conditions, then resolved to sacrifice firestone craftsmen until the blessed land descended.

• Moon-Embracing True Person followed the Flowing Flame True Fire Sword into the Great Void and discovered the Sword Tomb Blessed Land.
• Moon-Embracing True Person summoned Wu Tong, revealed he had long known about Wu Tong’s Wings Fire destiny and Rainbow Transformation Sword, and defeated him.
• Moon-Embracing True Person let Wu Tong’s rainbow light strike the blessed land, causing it to grow and reveal phantom flying swords.
• Wu Tong left the Rainbow Transformation chapter with Moon-Embracing True Person, who brought Wu Tong’s Purple Mansion secret land down into the present world.
• Moon-Embracing True Person concluded that he could bring down the Sword Tomb Blessed Land by exhausting the fates of Wings Fire firestone craftsmen.

Fang Yu tested Great Void Walking after leaving the Ascension Immortal Sect, finding that he could teleport easily over short distances but that the Great Scarlet Heaven's Great Void lacked directional waymarks. He returned near the sect and discovered its supposedly fourth-tier formation was actually a fifth-tier Spirit Transformation formation that sealed the void and formed a world of its own.

• Fang Yu decided not to return to the Goldstone Sect or pursue his second innate Divine Ability yet, choosing to cultivate Molten Edge Flow and build his strength first.
• After several months, Fang Yu traveled a hundred and eight thousand li from the Ascension Immortal Sect and entered the Great Void to test his ability.
• Fang Yu found the Great Scarlet Heaven's Great Void resembled the Black-Yellow Realm's but lacked waymarks, limiting safe travel to short distances.
• Fang Yu used his Divine Sense to map the nearby world and repeatedly teleported through the Great Void, even startling a sleeping tiger.
• Fang Yu followed a wisp of heartfire back near the Ascension Immortal Sect and recognized its formation as a fifth-tier Spirit Transformation grand formation that formed its own world.

Three years later, Fang Yu advanced to the Middle Stage of Qi Refining and applied to take the second-tier Alchemist assessment. The Debauched Sarira’s illusion collapsed into a vision of corpses, revealing that it was a White Bone Sarira containing a Divine Ability Fang Yu could not practice with his Wings Fire fate.

• Fang Yu refined four low-grade second-tier spirit pills, advanced to the Fourth Layer of Qi Refining, and asked Steward Jin to submit his second-tier Alchemist assessment task.
• Fang Yu opened the Debauched Sarira and discovered that its flying apsaras were rotting corpses in a mass grave; he vomited as the illusion faded and the Sarira became a piece of white bone.
• Fang Yu saw Buddhist scripture appear and learned that the object was a White Bone Sarira containing the White Bone Contemplation, a Divine Ability requiring a Maiden Earth fate and Buddhist affinity.
• Fang Yu tested the Sarira again and found that its illusion no longer stirred desire in him, then stored it in his Purple Mansion.
• Fang Yu concluded that his Wings Fire fate prevented him from practicing the Divine Ability and wondered who was scheming to deliver the Sarira to a fated person.

Fang Yu failed his Second-Tier Alchemist assessment after Sun Qiao'er deliberately rejected his successful results to settle a personal grudge. He used the White Bone Sarira's Divine Ability to make her infatuated with an ugly cultivator, and her dao companion later caught them together.

• Sun Qiao'er set Fang Yu a harder-than-usual assessment and privately decided not to pass him because she blamed him for taking the cave abode opposite hers.
• Fang Yu failed his first batch of Essence Condensation Pills but successfully refined the second and third batches.
• Sun Qiao'er refused to pass Fang Yu despite his success, and the sect notified him that he would have to wait three years to apply again.
• Fang Yu used the White Bone Sarira's Divine Ability on Sun Qiao'er, causing her to become infatuated with a crooked-mouthed cultivator and leave with him.
• Several days later, Sun Qiao'er's dao companion arrived at her cave abode, where angry shouts and the sounds of spells erupted.

Fang Yu became a second-tier Alchemist and continued using True Person Jade Liquid’s supply channels while building his alchemy skills. Zhang Zhonghu visited with a second-tier alchemy inheritance and asked Fang Yu to refine Foundation Establishment Pills, leaving Fang Yu ready to attempt it.

• Fang Yu passed the assessment to become a second-tier Alchemist and learned that Sun Qiao’er had spent the past three years receiving male cultivators at her courtyard.
• Fang Yu reviewed the sect’s alchemy tasks, realized True Person Jade Liquid had profited from subcontracting his work, and sent him news of his promotion to secure a steady supply of spirit materials.
• Zhang Zhonghu emerged from seclusion at Qi Refining Ninth Layer Great Perfection and gave Fang Yu second-tier alchemy notes containing three Pill Formulas and detailed refining records.
• Zhang Zhonghu asked Fang Yu to refine extra Foundation Establishment Pills because his Low-Grade Spirit Root made one pill insufficient.
• Fang Yu hesitated over the precious Gold Jade Lingzhi, but Zhang Zhonghu provided the materials and assured him that even failure would be acceptable, so Fang Yu agreed to try.

Fang Yu refined a Foundation Establishment Pill for Zhang Zhonghu, who succeeded in Foundation Establishment and celebrated with a gathering of sect disciples. When Liu Ruyan arrived with a valuable array plate, Fang Yu realized her presence stirred desire in him and might help free him from the White Bone Contemplation.

• Fang Yu refined a Foundation Establishment Pill from Zhang Zhonghu's Gold Jade Lingzhi and gave him one of the four pills he made.
• Zhang Zhonghu succeeded in Foundation Establishment, became an inner disciple, and invited Fang Yu and their fellow disciples to celebrate.
• Fang Yu joined the gathering, where the disciples discussed Zhang Zhonghu's achievement and Wu Youtian's death in the secret realm.
• Liu Ruyan arrived from Star-Splayed Peak and presented Zhang Zhonghu with a third-tier Myriad Manifestations Return to One Array.
• Fang Yu learned Liu Ruyan was a Foundation Establishment Middle Stage array master and True Disciple contender, and resolved to get close to her because she stirred desire in him.

Fang Yu realized Fairy Ruyan could help him overcome the impotence caused by White Bone Contemplation, but he planned to wait until after entering the Nine-Lock Secret Realm and achieving Foundation Establishment before approaching her. Three years later, he prepared to enter the secret realm, and True Person Jade Liquid gave him an Exploding Blood Pill and promised its formula if Fang Yu returned alive.

• Fairy Ruyan's arrival at the gathering stirred Fang Yu's desire, though White Bone Contemplation still made every woman appear as white bones to him.
• Fang Yu used the White Bone Sarira to summon an image of Fairy Ruyan, but the illusion barely stirred his desire, so he resolved to pursue his original plan to enter the secret realm and seek Foundation Establishment.
• Three years later, Fang Yu told True Person Jade Liquid he had signed up for the Nine-Lock Secret Realm to search for a Gold Jade Lingzhi.
• True Person Jade Liquid gave Fang Yu an Exploding Blood Pill to help him survive the secret realm and promised to pass on its pill formula if Fang Yu returned.

Fang Yu entered the Nine-Lock Azure Terrace Secret Realm, where the Yuanchen Pearl connected it to his star map and granted him a way to return. After securing a Gold Jade Lingzhi and a quota for a Foundation Establishment Pill, he received True Person Jade Liquid’s alchemy inheritance and agreed to help refine pills.

• Fang Yu entered the secret realm and discovered that the Yuanchen Pearl’s Void Penetration ability had connected it to the star map, allowing him to travel there freely afterward.
• Fang Yu collected a Gold Jade Lingzhi and other spiritual materials, driving off a second-tier Demon Beast with a trace of Golden Core presence.
• After thirty days, Fang Yu left the secret realm and handed in his harvest, earning the qualification to exchange for a Foundation Establishment Pill and contribution points.
• Fang Yu visited True Person Jade Liquid, who gave him a Jade Slip containing the Exploding Blood Pill Formula and a third-tier Dao of Alchemy inheritance.
• True Person Jade Liquid asked Fang Yu to assist with refining the large batch of Foundation Establishment Pills, and Fang Yu eagerly agreed.

Fang Yu helped True Person Jade Liquid refine Foundation Establishment Pills and earned an inferior pill as payment. After selling it to Liu Feng in a bidding contest with Zhou Qiang, he headed back to his cave abode, ready to explore the Azure Lotus Secret Realm.

• Fang Yu stayed to assist True Person Jade Liquid with refining Foundation Establishment Pills, hoping to gain access to his circle of Golden Core True Disciples.
• True Person Jade Liquid completed dozens of furnaces with a 100% success rate, though the quality and quantity of pills declined as he grew tired.
• True Person Jade Liquid gave each assistant an inferior Foundation Establishment Pill, and Fang Yu accepted his payment.
• Liu Feng asked Fang Yu to sell him the pill, but Zhou Qiang arrived with a competing offer, so Fang Yu let them bid against each other.
• Liu Feng won the pill by offering more than twice its original value, while Zhou Qiang left angry and Fang Yu worried he had offended them both.
• Fang Yu returned to his cave abode, planning to explore the Azure Lotus Secret Realm now that the pill-refining task was over.

Months later, Fang Yu entered the Azure Lotus Secret Realm and harvested spirit medicines from its outer regions while discovering that powerful formations sealed a mysterious lotus platform. In Azure Lotus Lake, he killed a Golden Core Dragonfish for its Inner Core and pursued another fleeing Dragonfish.

• Fang Yu disguised himself, entered the Azure Lotus Secret Realm, and evaded a Golden Core cultivator by stepping into the Great Void.
• From the Great Void, Fang Yu saw nine golden chains binding a cyan lotus platform and sensed that powerful formations protected it.
• Fang Yu harvested 108 stalks of Gold Jade Lingzhi and other precious second-tier spirit medicines from the secret realm's outer sections.
• Fang Yu entered the surrounding lake, named it Azure Lotus Lake, and was ambushed by a Golden Core Dragonfish.
• Fang Yu killed the Dragonfish with the Sun Startling Wheel, took its third-tier Inner Core, and stored its corpse.
• Fang Yu pursued a second Dragonfish as it fled underwater, and the water turned crimson during the attack.

Fang Yu continued studying the Azure Lotus Secret Realm’s fourth-tier restriction while hunting Dragonfish, then returned as Jiang Yao to establish his foundation. After succeeding, he revealed Sun Qiao’er’s past misdeeds to her and left for the inner sect, while Steward Jin worried about the gifts he had accepted from him.

• Fang Yu killed his thirteenth third-tier Dragonfish and continued studying the fourth-tier restriction that blocked his path to the island.
• Fang Yu returned to his courtyard as Jiang Yao, collected a Foundation Establishment Pill, notified his friends of his seclusion, and refined Dragonfish Inner Cores into pills.
• One year later, Jiang Yao established his foundation, drawing congratulations from cultivators on Hundred Herbs Peak.
• Jiang Yao dispelled a golden light from Sun Qiao’er, restoring her memories of her past conduct, and reassured her that she had never offended him.
• Steward Jin congratulated Jiang Yao, who then headed to the inner sect; Steward Jin privately debated whether he should return the gifts he had accepted.

Fang Yu became an inner disciple, chose a new Cultivation Method and a third-tier Dao of Arrays inheritance, and gathered knowledge to support his deductions. After Fairy Ruyan brought him a valuable array as a congratulatory gift, Zhang Zhonghu tried to recruit him into the Seven Ingenious Workshop faction, but Fang Yu said he wanted to join Five Elements Peak and cultivate several arts; Fairy Ruyan took particular interest in his plans for arrays.

• Fang Yu registered his Foundation Establishment and received a white jade inner disciple token and the benefits that came with it.
• Fang Yu exchanged for the Foundation Establishment Chapter of the Great Daoyan Five Elements Chaos True Explanation and selected a third-tier Dao of Arrays inheritance, whose contents reminded him of the Azure Lotus Secret Realm restrictions.
• Fang Yu copied the library's miscellaneous volumes, hoping their broad knowledge would improve his Spiritual Pivot Resonance Chapter deductions.
• Disciples brought Fang Yu gifts to congratulate him, and he accepted them while recording their names and keeping the relationships in reserve.
• Zhang Zhonghu and Fairy Ruyan visited Fang Yu; Fairy Ruyan gave him a low-grade second-tier Lesser Cloud and Rain Array, and they shared his Exquisite Jade tea.
• Zhang Zhonghu invited Fang Yu to join the Seven Ingenious Workshop faction, but Fang Yu said he wanted to join Five Elements Peak and study arrays, talismans, and artifact refining; Fairy Ruyan asked whether he planned to cultivate arrays too.

Fang Yu pursued a place in the Five Elements Peak lineage and accepted a chance to assist Jiang Xiasheng with refining a fourth-tier major pill. Jiang Xiasheng approved him, allowing Fang Yu to join Five Elements Peak as he prepared to choose a cave abode.

• Fang Yu told Fairy Ruyan he planned to study the Dao of Arrays alongside alchemy, and she gave him a Jade Slip of her first-tier array insights.
• After Zhang Zhonghu and Fairy Ruyan left, Fang Yu decided to seek Fairy Ruyan's guidance through Zhang Zhonghu.
• True Person Jade Liquid invited Fang Yu to his cave abode, where Fang Yu asked for help joining Five Elements Peak.
• True Person Jade Liquid offered to recommend Fang Yu to assist Jiang Xiasheng in refining a fourth-tier major pill, warning that the work could occupy him for ten years.
• Jiang Xiasheng approved Fang Yu's participation, and True Person Jade Liquid took him to choose a cave abode in the Five Elements Peak mountain range.

Fang Yu moved into Cloud Mist Cave on Five Elements Peak and arranged for Fairy Ruyan to set up a protective array. He then went to Jiangxia Cave Abode to study Jiang Xiasheng’s pill-refining lectures, where True Person Jade Liquid asked whether he knew Fairy Ruyan well.

• True Person Jade Liquid showed Fang Yu Cloud Mist Cave, explained how to register it, and told him to attend Jiang Xiasheng’s lectures after settling his affairs.
• Fang Yu packed his belongings, used Geng Metal Sword Instruction to move his spirit-vegetable plots into his Purple Mansion, and relocated to Cloud Mist Cave.
• Zhang Zhonghu and Fairy Ruyan visited Fang Yu, and he asked Fairy Ruyan to arrange a third-tier protective array in exchange for future pills.
• Fang Yu agreed on the array plan and materials with Fairy Ruyan, then saw her off.
• Fang Yu went to Jiangxia Cave Abode, received True Person Jade Liquid’s notes from Jiang Xiasheng’s earlier lectures, and explained why he had skipped holding a gathering.
• True Person Jade Liquid was surprised that Fang Yu had asked Fairy Ruyan to set up his array and asked whether they knew each other well.

Fang Yu returned to his cave abode with Fairy Ruyan, who began setting up a third-tier array and gradually instructed him in the Dao of Arrays. After reading his detailed notes, she came to respect his apparent skill and continued teaching him as they worked, while Fang Yu felt he had grown closer to her.

• Fang Yu told True Person Jade Liquid that Zhang Zhonghu had helped him ask Fairy Ruyan to set up the array.
• Fairy Ruyan arrived alone with the materials, and Fang Yu apologized after asking why Zhang Zhonghu had not come with her.
• As Fairy Ruyan placed an array node, Fang Yu asked a beginner’s question and wrote down her explanation in his notebook.
• Fairy Ruyan read Fang Yu’s notes and, impressed by his understanding of arrays and alchemy, offered to correct his mistakes and omissions.
• Fairy Ruyan taught Fang Yu about array principles while continuing the setup, and Fang Yu listened and took notes.

Fang Yu strengthened his connection with Fairy Ruyan, then secluded himself to study arrays and improve his cultivation while preparing to assist Jiang Xiasheng in refining a fourth-tier pill. After three days of practicing the Foundation Establishment cultivation method, he reached Foundation Establishment Great Perfection and planned to conceal his rapid progress.

• Fang Yu thanked Fairy Ruyan for completing his third-tier cave array, and she gave him a Star-Splayed Compass to contact her and enter Star-Splayed Peak.
• Fang Yu inspected the Star-Splayed Compass, sealed it, and found that his White Bone Contemplation had improved after spending three months with Fairy Ruyan.
• Fang Yu spent more than two years attending Jiang Xiasheng's alchemy lectures and refining second-tier pills as practice.
• Jiang Xiasheng announced that his disciples would help open the furnace for a great fourth-tier pill, and True Person Jade Liquid assigned Fang Yu spirit materials to process.
• Fang Yu began cultivating the Great Daoyan Five Elements Chaos True Explanation: Foundation Establishment Chapter and reached Foundation Establishment Great Perfection in three days.

Fang Yu accompanied Jiang Xiasheng to the Warm Jade Pool, where Jiang spent ten years refining a high-grade pill while Fang Yu assisted and developed his Purple Mansion. The chapter ended as the pill began to form, giving Fang Yu a chance to observe Jiang’s technique firsthand.

• Fang Yu divined that the journey to the Warm Jade Pool was auspicious, then traveled there with Jiang Xiasheng and the others aboard a Four-Feather Great Warship.
• A Nascent Soul elder welcomed Jiang Xiasheng, and the group settled into temporary cave abodes before True Person Jade Liquid led them to the pool.
• Jiang Xiasheng assigned Fang Yu and the other assistants supplementary materials to refine while he worked at the Warm Jade Pool.
• During the long periods without tasks, Fang Yu shaped his Purple Mansion, planning its regions and considering how to bring in a Spirit Vein and spirit spring.
• Ten years passed, and the Warm Jade Pool’s Spiritual Qi surged as Jiang Xiasheng’s upper fourth-tier pill began to form, which Fang Yu observed with his Divine Thought.

Fang Yu absorbed the dense Spiritual Qi into his Purple Mansion, which began transforming into a fire-dominated world suited to his Wings Fire fate. When nine pills emerged from the Warm Jade Pool and triggered a Pill Lightning Tribulation, he fled to protect his cover and rescued True Person Jade Liquid from the fading lightning; a second bolt then descended on the pills.

• Fang Yu opened a passage to his Purple Mansion and absorbed the fifth-tier Spiritual Qi, causing its land and Spirit Vein to develop.
• Fang Yu realized that his Purple Mansion should be dominated by fire to strengthen his Wings Fire innate Divine Ability.
• Nine pills rose from the Warm Jade Pool as dark clouds gathered overhead, and Fang Yu recognized the Pill Lightning Tribulation.
• Fang Yu fled using blood escape, and True Person Jade Liquid followed after Jiang Yao's warning; the first lightning bolt destroyed one pill and engulfed the nearby Alchemists.
• Fang Yu escaped the lightning's reach and shielded True Person Jade Liquid, who reached him safely, while a second bolt struck toward the remaining pills.

Fang Yu and True Person Jade Liquid survived the lightning tribulation as Jiang Xiasheng completed the Nine-Aperture Golden Core, a pill that could create a Spirit Transformation seed. When Nascent Soul cultivators moved to seize it, Peak Master Yunyangzi intervened, and Fang Yu and True Person Jade Liquid worried about what Jiang Xiasheng might do with the witnesses.

• True Person Jade Liquid recovered after Fang Yu saved him from the pill lightning and identified the pill as the Nine-Aperture Golden Core.
• Fang Yu recorded what he had learned about the pill while the final core endured the last bolt of heavenly lightning.
• Jiang Xiasheng used the Warm Jade Pool's spirit spring to nurture the Nine-Aperture Golden Core, and Fang Yu wondered how Jiang Xiasheng had absorbed the lightning.
• A giant hand manifestation descended, but a fourth-tier grand formation blocked it as Yunyangzi confronted Sima Batian with a Five-Colored Divine Mountain.
• True Person Jade Liquid realized Jiang Xiasheng could have protected them from the lightning and advised Fang Yu to claim they had survived by luck and knew nothing.
• Fang Yu agreed to keep quiet, privately considering how he would escape to the Azure Lotus Secret Realm if his identity were exposed.

After returning to the Ascension Immortal Sect, Fang Yu and True Person Jade Liquid learned that the sect had launched a campaign against the Primordial Devil Sect and agreed to work together on alchemy missions. Fang Yu resumed cultivating and began teaching alchemy, ending his first lesson as disciple Chen Tang asked a question.

• Fang Yu received a Five Elements Spirit Fruit and contribution points from Jiang Xiasheng, while True Person Jade Liquid warned him to keep the pill-refining events and the fruit secret.
• Fang Yu and True Person Jade Liquid returned to the sect and learned that the Ascension Immortal Sect had issued a sect annihilation mission against the Primordial Devil Sect after it plundered a Yellow Cloud Sect merchant ship.
• True Person Jade Liquid proposed that he and Fang Yu pursue pill-refining missions together, and Fang Yu agreed before returning to his cave abode.
• Fang Yu absorbed the accumulated Spiritual Qi in Cloud Mist Cave and raised his cultivation from the Foundation Establishment Third Layer to the Fourth Layer.
• A year later, Fang Yu taught Qi Refining disciples how to refine Foundation Establishment Pills, then called on Chen Tang to ask his question.

Fang Yu expanded his alchemy work by training Chen Tang, then agreed to join Zhang Zhonghu and Fairy Ruyan on the battlefield to gain combat experience. He remained wary after learning their plans involved hunting Golden Core cultivators, but knew he could escape into the Great Void if his life was threatened.

• Fang Yu gave Chen Tang some first-tier pill-refining work and reflected on how his growing group of alchemy disciples helped him earn contribution points.
• Fang Yu continued studying alchemy and restrictions until Zhang Zhonghu and Fairy Ruyan visited his cave abode.
• Fairy Ruyan explained that candidates for True Disciple had to prove their combat strength, while Zhang Zhonghu said they could compete by killing Golden Core disciples of the Heavenly Devil Sect.
• Zhang Zhonghu and Fairy Ruyan invited Fang Yu to train with them against the demonic sects, and Fang Yu agreed to join after settling matters with True Person Jade Liquid.
• Fang Yu grew alarmed when Zhang Zhonghu revealed they intended to target Golden Core cultivators, but remembered he could flee into the Great Void if necessary.

Fang Yu prepared for a battlefield expedition with Zhang Zhonghu and Fairy Ruyan, who lent him protective treasures and shared combat advice. At the meeting point, the blunt sword cultivator Yang Zhan objected to bringing him, but the group ultimately set out together.

• Zhang Zhonghu lent Fang Yu the Copper Mountain Seal and taught him battlefield tactics, while Fairy Ruyan gave him a Stabilizing Mind Disc.
• Fang Yu met Yang Zhan, a Foundation Establishment Great Perfection sword cultivator, at a remote peak with Zhang Zhonghu and Fairy Ruyan.
• Yang Zhan demanded that Fang Yu be sent home, but Zhang Zhonghu defended him and Fairy Ruyan persuaded Yang Zhan to let him join.
• Yang Zhan teased Fairy Ruyan about liking Fang Yu, prompting Fairy Ruyan to deny it angrily.
• Yang Zhan flew off toward the battlefield, and Fang Yu, Zhang Zhonghu, and Fairy Ruyan followed her.

Fang Yu traveled with Fairy Ruyan, Zhang Zhonghu, and Yang Zhan into Primordial Devil Sect territory, hoping to prove himself and advance his plans to become a True Disciple. After reaching a Liu Household stronghold, he opened a gap in its array, and Yang Zhan launched a deadly attack.

• Fang Yu reflected on how Yang Zhan had noticed his attempt to influence the group and resolved to handle his plans more carefully.
• Fairy Ruyan used the Void-Escaping Sundial to carry the group toward Primordial Devil Sect territory, while Yang Zhan and Zhang Zhonghu argued about the Golden Core expert Long Mo.
• Half a month later, Fairy Ruyan led the group to attack the Liu Household, a Foundation Establishment clan protected by a third-tier array.
• Fang Yu identified the Five Elements Reversal Array and used Geng Metal Sword Qi to disrupt its nodes and open a gap.
• Yang Zhan rushed through the gap and killed the leading Foundation Establishment cultivator as the Liu Household members fell to his attacks.

Fang Yu and his companions divided the resources from a Foundation Establishment Lineage before traveling to Black Mountain City. Fairy Ruyan broke the city’s array with a stronger formation, and Yang Zhan and Zhang Zhonghu pursued its Golden Core Early Stage city lord as the city fell.

• Yang Zhan slaughtered the cultivators of the Foundation Establishment Lineage after Fang Yu opened a gap in its array, and the four companions looted its holdings.
• Fairy Ruyan arranged for the four to divide their spoils equally, with bids resolving disputes over items they both wanted.
• Fairy Ruyan announced that they would go to Black Mountain City and attempt to persuade it to surrender before resorting to force.
• After arriving months later, Fang Yu identified the city’s Eight Gates Golden Lock Array and warned that they should not rush inside.
• Fairy Ruyan used a supreme-grade Spirit Stone to power a third-tier high-grade blazing flame array, which broke Black Mountain City’s defenses and engulfed the city.
• Yang Zhan and Zhang Zhonghu pursued the fleeing Golden Core Early Stage city lord while Fang Yu watched.

Fang Yu warned Fairy Ruyan's group that Moonshadow Mountain might be a trap, and they abandoned the raid and returned to the Ascension Immortal Sect. Back at his cave abode, he prepared to refine a Golden Core Formation Pill and pursue advancement to the Golden Core realm and True Disciple status.

• Fairy Ruyan and her companions divided the spoils from Black Mountain City, and Fang Yu traded resources for Supreme-Grade Spirit Stones from Fairy Ruyan and Yang Zhan.
• The group carried out raids for more than three years, with Fang Yu improving his array skills and accumulating spiritual materials as they killed six Golden Core cultivators.
• Fang Yu sensed that Moonshadow Mountain was inauspicious and warned Fairy Ruyan that the Primordial Devil Sect might have prepared an ambush there.
• Fairy Ruyan, Zhang Zhonghu, and Fang Yu agreed to abandon the Moonshadow Mountain mission and return to the Ascension Immortal Sect, despite Yang Zhan's wish to keep fighting.
• After the group returned, Fang Yu went back to his cave abode and planned to refine a Golden Core Formation Pill before entering seclusion and applying to become a True Disciple of Five Elements Peak.