Chapter Summaries

Zhang Zhonghu killed Wu Youtian and several others with a Spirit Artifact and a talisman treasure, then hid in the secret realm until it ended. After Wu Youtian’s master, Ding Yue, confronted him, Ding Yue made Zhang Zhonghu his new disciple and took him to the Seven Ingenious Workshop.

• Zhang Zhonghu used his Spirit Artifact and talisman treasure to kill Wu Youtian, Xu Junting, and their companions, then fled and hid in the secret realm.
• Fang Yu watched Zhang Zhonghu recover the Storage Bags and noted that killing Wu Youtian would bring trouble from Ding Yue, a Nascent Soul elder.
• Half a month later, Zhang Zhonghu left the secret realm and heard that Wu Youtian’s master had come to the square.
• Ding Yue confronted Zhang Zhonghu, who admitted killing Wu Youtian, then declared that Zhang Zhonghu would take his disciple’s place.
• Ding Yue brought Zhang Zhonghu to the Seven Ingenious Workshop, where Zhang Zhonghu asked whether his new master blamed him for killing Wu Youtian.

Ding Yue made Zhang Zhonghu a disciple of the Seven Ingenious Workshop branch, while Fang Yu recognized Zhang’s good fortune and considered the uses and risks of Soul Lamps. Months later, Zhang visited Fang Yu for help refining medicine and learning tea brewing.

• Ding Yue explained that Zhang Zhonghu’s Soul Lamp would mark him as a disciple and said he would protect Zhang from bullying by seniors.
• Fang Yu considered Soul Lamps a dangerous weakness and realized Zhang Zhonghu had become a child of fortune after joining Ding Yue’s branch.
• Several months later, Zhang Zhonghu visited Fang Yu after Fang had reached the seventh layer of Qi Refining.
• Zhang Zhonghu gave Fang Yu first-tier spirit medicines to refine, offering to split the resulting pills thirty-seventy.
• Zhang Zhonghu asked Fang Yu to teach him the Dao of tea so he could share tea with Ding Yue, and Fang Yu began explaining Sparrow Bud.

Fang Yu followed a crowd to a sermon by Wondrous Goodness Heavenly Maiden, whose teaching resonated with his Dao Foundation and revealed how to establish a Purple Mansion. He advanced into a Nirvana Pure Land, then Wondrous Goodness Heavenly Maiden recognized him as her fated one and left with him through the Great Void.

• Fang Yu traced his opportunity to Wondrous Goodness City and followed devotees to the offering platform of Medicine Tree Lapis Lazuli Bodhisattva.
• Wondrous Goodness Heavenly Maiden descended to the platform and dispensed healing medicinal fragrance to the crowd.
• Fang Yu burned away the fragrance’s power, then heard the Heavenly Maiden preach about the lights of ten thousand households.
• Fang Yu’s heart fire resonated with her teaching, revealing the Purple Mansion method and transforming his Dao Foundation into a Nirvana Pure Land.
• Wondrous Goodness Heavenly Maiden flew to Fang Yu, called him her fated one, and vanished with him when he broke through the Great Void.

Fang Yu learned to navigate the Great Void using the Five Directions Dao Markers and returned to the mortal world. He confronted Wondrous Goodness about the sutra that had helped him reach the Purple Mansion realm, then chose to repay their karmic bond with her.

• Wondrous Goodness taught Fang Yu that the five great Dao lineages marked the directions in the Great Void, and Fang Yu used Mount Longhu's marker to return to the mortal world.
• Fang Yu demanded to know who had passed Wondrous Goodness the Flame-Transformed Sweet Dew Sutra, and she said the Medicine Tree Lapis Lazuli Bodhisattva had ordered her to await him.
• Fang Yu realized that the Bodhisattva had likely foreseen his needs and that the sutra had tied him to Buddhist karma.
• Wondrous Goodness offered her body to settle their karmic bond and explained that her Qi Yang Embryo Dao Foundation could ensure a believer would have a son.
• Fang Yu accepted her offer and covered the mountaintop in clouds and mist as they came together.

Fang Yu learned to travel through the Great Void and discovered that a Phoenix Mountain Dao blessed land, containing the Cultivation Method for his Wings Fire Divine Ability, lay beneath Flaming Mountain. Meanwhile, Wondrous Goodness gave birth to a youth who named himself Pei Jiusi and declared his intention to enter the Taiyi Profound Gate.

• Fang Yu left Wondrous Goodness asleep, and she woke to find herself pregnant before a baby tore its way out of her belly and drained her body.
• The baby grew into a youth, called himself Pei Jiusi, and vanished into the Great Void after resolving to enter the Taiyi Profound Gate.
• Fang Yu explored his Purple Mansion and learned about its storage space, its potential as a hidden refuge, and the strengthened abilities it granted him.
• Fang Yu used the Great Void to return quickly to the border of Yanzhou and Jingzhou, then practiced short-distance movement while heading toward Flaming Mountain.
• Fang Yu divined that a Phoenix Mountain Dao blessed land was suppressed beneath Flaming Mountain and that it held the Cultivation Method for his Wings Fire Divine Ability.
• Fang Yu decided not to approach the Goldstone Sect alone and returned to the physical world to seek a secluded place.

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.