Chapter Summaries

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.

Fang Yu returned from years of fighting, gathered the ingredients and alchemists needed to refine a Golden Core Formation Pill, and began the process. Meanwhile, Liu Ruyan learned that Elder Black Python might retaliate against her and the others after Feng Lin's group died on the Moonshadow Mountain mission, and she asked whether they should blame Jiang Yao.

• Fang Yu asked True Person Jade Liquid to help gather pill ingredients and trade his spirit materials for third-tier materials, and Jade Liquid supplied a set of supplementary ingredients.
• Fang Yu gathered Chen Tang and more than ten Second-Tier Alchemists at Cloud Mist Cave, then began refining the Golden Core Formation Pill with their help.
• Elder Tianyan questioned Liu Ruyan, Zhang Zhonghu, and Yang Zhan about why they had abandoned the Moonshadow Mountain mission.
• Tianyan told them that Feng Lin's group had taken the mission, been ambushed by Mo Long, and all been killed.
• Ding Yue explained that Elder Black Python had destroyed the Primordial Devil Sect's mountain gate and killed Old Devil Yuan, and would likely pursue Long Mo and then Liu Ruyan's group.
• Liu Ruyan asked whether they should place all the blame for the abandoned mission on Jiang Yao.

Fang Yu divined that remaining in the Ascension Immortal Sect brought great fortune while leaving meant great calamity, then refined Golden Core Formation Pills. A message from Zhang Zhonghu revealed that he and three others had been ordered to face the deadly third level of the Heart-Questioning Cave in three years, leaving Fang Yu to decide how to prepare.

• Elder Tianyan told Liu Ruyan, Zhang Zhonghu, and Yang Zhan that they had to form their cores quickly and survive the third level of the Heart-Questioning Cave to clear Black Python's suspicions.
• Fang Yu sensed a sudden premonition and divined great fortune if he stayed in the Ascension Immortal Sect but great calamity if he left.
• Fang Yu completed the Golden Core Formation Pills, producing one genuine pill and one inferior pill, and rewarded the assisting Alchemists.
• Fang Yu read Zhang Zhonghu's message explaining that Black Python had demanded the four disciples be handed over after Feng Lin's team was killed in an ambush.
• Zhang Zhonghu told Fang Yu that the sect master had ordered the four disciples into the third level of the Heart-Questioning Cave in three years and that he had deposited one Golden Core Formation Pill for Fang Yu.

Fang Yu recognized why his divination had revealed great fortune and misfortune, then entered seclusion to form a Five Elements Golden Core while two Nascent Soul experts secretly watched him. After a year of preparation, he succeeded, and his breakthrough’s five-colored light and shout drew attention across the sect.

• Fang Yu realized Feng Lin’s death at Long Mo’s hands had caused the misfortune, while the Heart-Questioning Cave held his great fortune.
• Fang Yu collected a Golden Core Formation Pill, arranged matters with True Person Jade Liquid, and began seclusion in his cave abode.
• Fang Yu sensed two Divine Senses entering his cave and suspected Elder Tianyan and Elder Black Python were investigating him.
• Fang Yu spent a year slowly absorbing a defective pill before taking two genuine Golden Core Formation Pills and beginning his breakthrough.
• Fang Yu drew in Spiritual Qi to condense a five-colored Five Elements Golden Core, dispersing the watchers’ Divine Senses.
• A five-colored beam rose above Cloud Mist Peak, and Fang Yu announced that he had succeeded in forming his core.

After forming his Golden Core, Fang Yu welcomed visitors, built relationships with lower-level cultivators, and began assembling a faction of his own. When he learned that Zhang Zhonghu and the others had reached Golden Core and the Heart-Questioning Cave was about to open, he set out determined to advance into the Ascension Immortal Sect’s inner circle.

• Fang Yu received Golden Core visitors and invited True Person Jade Liquid and Steward Jin into his cave abode, treating both warmly.
• Fang Yu sorted the congratulatory gifts, identified promising lower-level cultivators, and began winning their loyalty with guidance and Foundation Establishment Pills.
• Fang Yu received word that Zhang Zhonghu and the others had advanced to Golden Core and that the Heart-Questioning Cave was about to open.
• Fang Yu reviewed his Golden Core, treasures, skills, and Purple Mansion before flying toward the Heart-Questioning Cave.

Fang Yu entered the Heart-Questioning Cave to compete for a True Disciple position and faced illusions drawn from his memories. After destroying the vision of his ex-wife, he encountered an apparent Fairy Ruyan, leaving him caught in another test of the cave.

• Fang Yu arrived at the forbidden grounds, where Zhang Zhonghu, Liu Ruyan, and Yang Zhan were waiting among gathered Nascent Soul elders.
• Jiang Xiasheng told Fang Yu that reaching the cave’s third level would make him a True Disciple of Five Elements Peak and promised to preside over his ceremony.
• More than two hundred Golden Core disciples gathered before Fang Yu and the other three were summoned into the Heart-Questioning Cave.
• Fang Yu relived his ex-wife demanding a divorce, then shattered the illusion by striking her and found himself in a crystal-like cavern that absorbed his Divine Sense.
• Fang Yu met an apparent Fairy Ruyan, ignored her suspicions, and kissed her as the cavern’s surroundings shifted.

Fang Yu mastered the White Bone Sarira in the Heart-Questioning Cave and collected treasures and an array inheritance while exploring the illusions. He revived Yang Zhan with his Phoenix Sets the Plains Ablaze Divine Ability and returned to his cavern.

• Fang Yu broke free of the Heart-Questioning Cave’s illusion, mastered the White Bone Sarira, and collected the ten-thousand-year stone stalactite milk.
• Fang Yu found Fairy Ruyan aging in an illusion, used golden light to send her into a new dream, and memorized a fifth-tier Dao of Arrays inheritance from the cave wall.
• Fang Yu saw Yang Zhan struggling to draw a sword from a stone platform and continued on without helping her.
• Fang Yu found Zhang Zhonghu asleep as a tree in an illusion, took a piece of vitality-filled dead wood, and left him to wake.
• Fang Yu found Yang Zhan dead, revived her with his Phoenix Sets the Plains Ablaze Divine Ability, and watched her pull the sword farther from the stone.
• Fang Yu returned to his cavern and sat down cross-legged.

Fang Yu emerged from the Heart-Questioning Cave and was recognized as a True Disciple, while Yang Zhan revealed a Spirit Treasure that Black Python tried to claim. The elders stopped Black Python, who released the sword and declared his grudge settled.

• Disciples emerged from the Heart-Questioning Cave, and a Golden Core spy was exposed and killed; Elder Tianyan feared Liu Ruyan had not survived.
• Liu Ruyan, Yang Zhan, Zhang Zhonghu, and Fang Yu emerged together, and Fang Yu offered Black Python several bottles of ten-thousand-year stalactite milk.
• Jiang Xiasheng told Fang Yu to keep the rare spiritual material and offered him access to the True Disciple Cultivation Method, while Fang Yu declined the True Disciple ceremony.
• Yang Zhan revealed a Spirit Treasure flying sword, and Black Python seized it as compensation for his disciple.
• Tianyan invoked the sect rules, forcing Black Python to return the sword and declare that the dispute was settled.

Fang Yu studied the Five Elements Peak’s true inheritance and four related cultivation arts, then decided to focus on cultivating rather than pursuing status or alliances. After reviewing sect news and sorting through congratulatory gifts, he settled on keeping a low profile as a True Disciple.

• Fang Yu read the complete Great Daoyan Five Elements Chaos True Explanation, securing a cultivation method that would serve him through Nascent Soul Late Stage Great Perfection.
• Fang Yu studied the inheritances of alchemy, arrays, artifact refinement, and spirit talismans over the following year, intending to master his Molten Edge Flow Divine Ability before returning to Qi Ingestion cultivation.
• Fang Yu reviewed sect briefings about Yan Wushuang, the Nine-Lock Lotus Platform Secret Realm, and Diting’s Heaven’s Chosen Ranking, and considered making contact with Diting in the future.
• Fang Yu returned to his cave abode and collected the many congratulatory gifts sent after his advancement to True Disciple.
• Fang Yu decided to cultivate quietly and avoid ceremonies, power struggles, and deliberately building relationships with other disciples and elders.

Fang Yu broke through the fourth-tier restriction around Azure Lotus Island, gathered its spirit medicines, and began draining its Spiritual Qi to study the fifth-tier grand array. He also revived a fire-adapted tree in his Purple Mansion and turned away Zhang Zhonghu, who was troubled by his friends’ sudden distance.

• Fang Yu used nine fire dragons to open a gap in Azure Lotus Island’s fourth-tier restriction and entered the island.
• Fang Yu gathered all the island’s third- and fourth-tier spirit medicines, then absorbed its Spiritual Qi into his Purple Mansion.
• Fang Yu planted Zhang Zhonghu’s dead wood in fire soil, where it grew a red shoot, roots, and new bark.
• Zhang Zhonghu told Fang Yu that Ruyan had become distant and refused to see him, and Fang Yu urged him to leave and focus on cultivation.
• Fang Yu returned to the island and began draining its Spirit Vein to weaken the fifth-tier grand array and study its operation.

Ten years later, Fang Yu reached the Middle Golden Core Stage and became a Fourth-Tier Alchemist. He located the Azure Lotus Secret Realm beneath Ascension Peak and began practicing fourth-tier array construction inside his Purple Mansion.

• Fang Yu advanced to the Middle Golden Core Stage and became a Fourth-Tier Alchemist, though he stopped refining fourth-tier pills because he wasted too many resources.
• Fang Yu found that Spiritual Qi seeped from the fifth-tier restriction at the center of the Azure Lotus Secret Realm, suggesting the island's Spiritual Qi originated there.
• Fang Yu placed his Purple Mansion in the Great Void and followed its connection to discover that the Azure Lotus Secret Realm lay within Ascension Peak.
• Fang Yu used the Yuanchen Pearl's Void Penetration ability to enter his own Purple Mansion and realized he could leave it in the Great Void to absorb black-and-yellow Qi.
• Fang Yu gathered fourth-tier materials and began refining array foundations in his Purple Mansion.