Recaps

Fu Henghua refined a False Core, declared a new Tenth-Layer Foundation Establishment realm, and taught others his methods. After Xue Kai exposed the path’s limits for ordinary cultivators, Fu Henghua accepted the criticism, shared the secret art, and passed Tao Hongfei a longevity method.

• Fu Henghua fled Aurora City with Hengshou and Xiaoyu as lightning struck, then refined a grain-sized False Core in Tao Hongfei’s peach orchard.
• Fu Henghua announced that he had opened Tenth-Layer Foundation Establishment and explained his Jade Cauldron External Elixir method for refining False Cores into higher-grade cores.
• Fu Henghua taught the method to the gathered cultivators, and Li Nanxing derived a False Core method for the Crimson Origin Sect.
• Xue Kai argued that ordinary cultivators lacked the time and aptitude to complete the refinements, prompting Fu Henghua to reconsider who could benefit from his path.
• Yu Yuyu suggested offering the secret art to False Core cultivators who needed it, and Fu Henghua agreed to share it while Ma Dongren and Xin Mao took note of its uses.
• Fu Henghua taught Tao Hongfei the Spring-Returning Method, explaining how the Jade Glow Rejuvenation Scripture followed the cycle of life, death, and rebirth.

Fu Henghua helped awaken the Fu Family’s Totem Spirit and advanced his Heaven-Penetrating Wisdomheart, then secretly reforged the Heavenly Evil Sword Qi with evil arts and used it to destroy the sword body in the Myriad Illusions Demon Cavern. The sword’s gray-robed owner salvaged the broken pieces and fell into dormancy, while Fu Henghua returned home after completing his plans in Bai Cang.

• Fu Henghua used the Hetu Luoshu to trace the Fu Family’s ancestral memories, bringing forth its Totem Spirit and raising his Wisdomheart to Origin Wisdom as the family’s bloodline talents improved.
• Fu Changqing’s wedding preparations began, and Fu Henghua stayed behind on Coiling Dragon Island while the Fu Family traveled to Sword Immortal Continent.
• With the island’s elders away, Fu Henghua deciphered and inscribed the Redwood Box’s evil arts onto the Heavenly Evil Sword Qi, then secretly copied four hundred more arts from the Fu Family’s Xun-Trigram Box.
• Fu Henghua returned to the Myriad Illusions Demon Cavern and sacrificed eight hundred years of lifespan to strike the Heavenly Evil Sword body with one thousand two hundred curses, shattering it and lifting its curse.
• A gray-robed man entered the forbidden ground, fused the sword’s two broken pieces back together, then escaped the Profound Palace and fell into dormancy in the Relict Continent.

Shu Tianci and Fu Xuanxing survived Myriad Illusion City’s punishing combat trial, then found that Fu Pengming had turned the restored Demon Cavern into a sprawling cultivation and entertainment enterprise. Fu Henghua toured Aurora City with Tao Hongfei before preparing to leave for the Mysterious Subtle Sect for ten years, where he was expected to focus on cultivation.

• Shu Tianci and Fu Xuanxing died in Myriad Illusion City’s free trial and were transported back to its entrance, where Fu Pengming urged them to seek treatment and promote the attraction.
• Fu Pengming explained how Fu Henghua and several experts had helped restore Myriad Illusion City, and he described plans to draw visitors with treasure hunts and combat training.
• Fu Xuanxing and Shu Tianci went to Tide-Note Studio, but Liu Yuying told them Fu Henghua had left with Tao Hongfei to tour Aurora City.
• Tao Hongfei showed Fu Henghua the city’s new businesses and attractions, including Hundred-Fruit Trees, a food street, luxury districts, and Fu Baimin’s Myriad Beasts Garden.
• Fu Henghua returned to Tide-Note Studio and prepared to leave for the Mysterious Subtle Sect with Zhou Xiao and Fu Xuanxing, while instructing Ma Dongren to continue helping cultivators choose Dao methods.

Fu Henghua left Bai Cang for Golden Fang after giving Tide-Note Studio’s staff cultivation arts and a secret talisman, while Xiaoyu decided to stop managing his and Hengshou’s daily affairs. On the voyage, Ji Mingfeng arrived with leads on the information Fu Henghua had asked him to investigate.

• Zhou Xiao and Hengshou reported that they had not found the Heavenly Evil Sword, and Fu Henghua explained that he had sent them to check the seal at Golden Court of Myriad-Illusion Island.
• Xiaoyu challenged Fu Henghua about the Immortal Culinary Scripture’s dangerous demonic origins, but he deflected her questions and prepared to leave Aurora City.
• Fu Henghua gave Ma Dongren and Liu Yuying exclusive Daoist arts and entrusted Liu Yuying with a secret talisman for producing Everlasting Spring fragrant balm.
• After the group departed for Golden Fang, Xiaoyu threw away her Spirit-Concentrating Sachet and told Hengshou that she would no longer manage their daily needs.
• Fu Henghua divined that the journey held no grave danger and calculated how far he still had to cultivate to advance his Foundation Establishment stage.
• Ji Mingfeng, Zhang Ruyi, and Hu Boyan met Fu Henghua near Plum Blossom Island, and Ji Mingfeng told him that his investigation had produced some leads.

Fu Henghua learned that the Mysterious Subtle Sect’s ruined jade residences might hold clues to more Cloud Scrolls, while showing Ji Mingfeng his star-chart spirit painting. He entered the Golden Fang with his companions and was transported to Mystic Gourd Immortal Isle, where Fu Xuanxing returned to the Mysterious Subtle Sect.

• Ji Mingfeng told Fu Henghua that Song Chunqiu had found a Cloud Scroll in the Mysterious Subtle Sect’s ruins and gave him intelligence contacts in the Golden Fang.
• Fu Henghua showed Ji Mingfeng hundreds of star-lord and celestial-general painting drafts, revealing his plan to create a chart of the stars.
• Ji Mingfeng asked Fu Henghua for Ten Isles soil for pigments, but Fu Henghua explained that the Fu Family had used its supply to forge artifact embryos.
• Ling Tianchou met a senior brother from the Crimson Abyss Daoist Sect, who had crossed the Hurricane Belt to investigate Donglai and search for fragments of the Eight Extremes Scripture.
• Fu Henghua and his companions entered the Golden Fang through Dutian True Person’s Immortal Gate, which stripped away their impurities.
• Fu Xuanxing named Mystic Gourd Immortal Isle, and the White Dragon Ship was transported there; he flew toward Jade Court Mountain and called out to his master.

Fu Henghua returned to Mystic Gourd Immortal Isle with Zhou Xiao, Xiaoyu, and Hengshou, and brought them to Jade Court Mountain to cultivate. Zhou Xiao learned his punishment and revealed that the sect hoped Fu Henghua would help complete the Yin-Yang Heavenly Book, though he first had to prove himself by deciphering ancient texts.

• Fu Henghua and his companions arrived at Mystic Gourd Immortal Isle, where Dong Moyang explained the isle's Spirit Veins and the cooperative outlook of the Three Great Waters.
• At Jade Court Mountain, Xiaoyu gained insight from the Jade Spring Spirit Vein and manifested her thousand-armed treasure-idol, while Fu Henghua encouraged Hengshou to keep training his body.
• Dong Moyang gave Fu Henghua, Xiaoyu, and Hengshou tokens to enter Jade Court Mountain, and Zhou Xiao went to the sect leader's hall to hear his punishment.
• Song Chunqiu stripped Zhou Xiao of his elder position and reduced his spirit-material allotment, but assigned him to guard the library rather than expelling him or crippling his cultivation.
• Song Chunqiu told Zhou Xiao that the sect had lost its dispute over another devilish treasure and had negotiated his return; Zhou Xiao proposed that Fu Henghua complete the Yin-Yang Heavenly Book.
• Song Chunqiu said the sect had brought Fu Henghua to help with the Heavenly Book, but several elders wanted proof of his ability, so Zhou Xiao would take him to decipher ancient, incomplete texts.

Fu Henghua and his companions toured Jade Court Mountain, where he discovered that the Mysterious Subtle Sect’s life-giving paradise had a death-filled counterpart. Hengyuan True Person revealed his demonic cultivation and tested Fu Henghua by casting him into the Flowing Sand River, leaving him to confront the secret Dao art beneath its sands.

• Dong Moyang brought Fu Henghua, Fu Xuanxing, Hengshou, and Xiaoyu to Verdant Light Pavilion, where Fu Henghua inspected its Cloud Scroll, protective formation, and numerous child-restraint ring nails.
• Dong Moyang showed the group Jade Court Mountain’s facilities and explained its disciples’ duties, while Fu Henghua learned that Everlasting Spring Paradise could heal plants and people.
• Hengyuan True Person appeared, sent Fu Xuanxing into the Twelvefold Towers for his graduation trial, and brought Fu Henghua’s group to the Flowing Sand River beneath Jade Court Mountain.
• Fu Henghua recognized that Hengyuan True Person had cultivated the Heavenly Demon True Method and realized the sect’s life-giving paradise was balanced by a river of death.
• Hengyuan True Person attacked Fu Henghua, who used his Rejuvenation Method to remain above the river and extinguish the True Person’s Spirit Flame.
• Hengyuan True Person forced Fu Henghua into the Flowing Sand River and told him to study the secret Dao art written beneath its sands.

Fu Henghua explored the Netherworld beneath Jade Court Mountain, discovered that its Death Curse was a Heaven Grade Dao Art, and met Hengyuan True Person’s Mo Beast incarnation. Meanwhile, Fu Xuanxing faced the Twelvefold Towers trial, Hengyuan warned Zhou Xiao that time was running out to restore the Grand Mystery Heavenly Scripture, and the Crimson Abyss Daoist Sect announced its return after winning a duel.

• Fu Henghua crawled ashore in the Netherworld, studied the Death Scripts above the shadow of Jade Court Mountain, and found he could not decipher them.
• Fu Xuanxing struggled through a scripture test on the third floor of the Twelvefold Towers, then chose the artifact trial on the fourth floor.
• Fu Henghua realized that the Netherworld’s creatures projected living beings from Jade Court Mountain and found Hengyuan True Person in the form of a giant Mo Beast.
• Hengyuan True Person told Zhou Xiao that he had only two hundred years to restore the Grand Mystery Heavenly Scripture before Hengyuan risked fusing immortal and demonic cultivation to invoke the Grand Mystery Dao Seal.
• A young cultivator defeated An Jingcheng with the Heaven-Severing Flame-Realm Art, and Hong Xuanji ordered Hong Changyi to announce the Crimson Abyss Daoist Sect’s return.

After Fu Henghua emerged from the Flowing Sand River with a new Yang-Shaking Curse, he returned to Jade Court Mountain and began investigating why the Mysterious Subtle Sect was treating him so generously. Zhou Xiao then brought him to study the sect’s Redwood Box, where Fu Henghua discovered a book that triggered a mysterious golden light.

• After five days beneath the Flowing Sand River, Fu Henghua came ashore and demonstrated his Yellow-grade Yang-Shaking Curse to Hengyuan True Person.
• Zhou Xiao led Fu Henghua and the others back to Jade Court Mountain, where Fu Henghua healed Fu Xuanxing and began borrowing books from the Book Repository.
• Fu Henghua wondered whether Hengyuan True Person was preparing him for a role in the Mysterious Subtle Sect’s future, while Hengyuan True Person and Song Chunqiu discussed letting him study materials outside the sect’s core methods.
• Fu Henghua asked Zhou Xiao to show him the sect’s Redwood Box, and Zhou Xiao agreed to supervise his access to its books.
• At the Book Repository, Jiang Xiaoli fled after burning books, and Hengyu chased him and Fu Xuanxing before Zhou Xiao brought Fu Henghua to the secret chamber containing the Redwood Box.
• Fu Henghua opened one of the Redwood Box’s books, and golden light appeared between its lines.

Fu Henghua studied an evil cultivation art before staying at the scripture repository to read with Hengyu, while Fu Xuanxing and his companions explored Golden Fang and helped raise islands. News that Shan Li of Crimson Abyss Daoist Sect had returned and was challenging Golden Core Cultivators sent Dong Moyang and the others rushing toward Central Heaven Temple.

• Fu Henghua read the Evil Sovereign’s Dissimilar Body Liberation Method, and Zhou Xiao sealed the evil book in a stone chest.
• Hengyu took Fu Henghua back to the scripture repository, where Fu Henghua earned his approval by discussing spells, teaching Jiang Xiaoli, and translating ancient manuscripts.
• Fu Xuanxing led Dong Moyang, Hengshou, and Xiaoyu to the Spirit Plant Garden, where they met Zhang Xiyue among her giant magical plants.
• Fu Xuanxing and his companions joined Zhang Xiyue in touring Golden Fang and helped cultivators raise islands in exchange for meals and hospitality.
• Dong Moyang heard that Shan Li of Crimson Abyss Daoist Sect had returned to challenge Golden Core Cultivators, then set out with the others for Central Heaven Temple.

Yang Dai defeated Fu Xianyu with the Heaven-Burning Dao Art, while Fu Henghua learned that the Red Abyss successor might be seeking the Heavenly Book’s Xun Trigram. On Sword Immortal Continent, Fu Xuanxing and the others joined rival sword pavilions for an upcoming competition, and Fu Henghua’s Wukong Incarnation arrived to establish a new one.

• Yang Dai burned through Fu Xianyu’s Seven-Treasure Divine Lotus, then announced he would return to Sword Immortal Continent in half a month.
• Fu Henghua learned from Fu Ruiying to watch Yang Dai and prevent him from taking the Xun Trigram, then reasoned that Yang Dai might be refining his flames into his natal immortal mountain.
• Hengyu explained that Heaven Grade Dao Arts controlled the principles of Heaven and Earth, and Fu Henghua reflected on the potential of his own Five Elements Mountain Method and Eight Trigrams Furnace Method.
• Lord Guan tested Fu Xuanxing’s swordsmanship on Sword Immortal Continent, then the group visited Jin Xian’e, who recruited them to support Cloud Soaring Sword Pavilion in the pavilion competition.
• Fu Changqing recruited Fu Xuanxing and Hengshou for Radiant Light Sword Pavilion, while Xiaoyu and Zhang Xiyue joined Cloud Soaring Sword Pavilion; Dong Moyang refused to establish his own pavilion.
• Fu Henghua’s Wukong Incarnation arrived disguised as the Wukong Youth and sought permission to establish a new sword pavilion for the Three Stars Cave lineage.

Fu Henghua, appearing as the Wukong Incarnation, concealed the Heavenly Evil Sword Qi and honed his Heaven-Cleaving Formless Sword on Sword Immortal Continent. After claiming a place on Chechi Mountain, he began defeating rival sword cultivators and considered recruiting Ji Guangchun to guard his future sword pavilion.

• Fu Henghua sealed the Heavenly Evil Sword Qi inside three golden rings, arrived at Immortal Ascension Isle as Wukong, and registered for a sword pavilion duel.
• Fu Henghua studied Mu Shansheng's sword intent for three days and advanced his Heaven-Cleaving Formless Sword to the Golden Core Realm level.
• Duan Xun assigned Fu Henghua a site on Chechi Mountain, where he learned he would need to win eighteen Sword Pool Tokens to claim the sword pavilion.
• Ji Guangchun attacked Fu Henghua, but Fu Henghua defeated him with formless sword qi, took his token, and offered him a place as the pavilion's steward.
• Fu Henghua defeated two more sword cultivators and took their tokens, while Ji Guangchun watched his swordsmanship and began forming a plan.

Yang Dai learned that Sword Immortal Continent was holding a Sword Pavilion ranking contest and sent Ling Tianchou to compete while investigating the missing Redwood Boxes. Meanwhile, Mu Shansheng prepared for the Eastern Sea Sword Duel, and Fu Henghua pursued falling treasures to support his cultivation as Ji Guangchun studied the Yuanwind Sword Dao.

• Yang Dai learned of the Sword Pavilion contest and ordered Ling Tianchou to occupy a pavilion, find him a Golden Core Sword Immortal to challenge, and investigate the Yun, Lei, and Yu lineages.
• Yang Dai told Ling Tianchou that the Golden Rain inheritance might be connected to the Golden Dawn Celestial Maiden and Jadecloud Mountain, while he deferred questioning Yun Lie's disciples until Earthflame Island faced its calamity.
• Mu Shansheng discussed the coming Eastern Sea Sword Duel and said he might use the Heavenly Sword, then selected Chechi Mountain and the Radiant Light Sword Pavilion as locations for the next treasure drops.
• Fu Henghua cultivated through his Bodhi incarnation and planned to gather treasures to accelerate his progress toward the third level of the Mystic Womb.
• The Wukong Incarnation defeated a thunder-sword cultivator and obtained three Nine-Qi Kan-Li Pills, which Fu Henghua refined to save a year of cultivation.
• Fu Henghua left to pursue another treasure drop while Ji Guangchun continued studying the twelfth Yuanwind Sword, Wind-Chariot, Cloud-Steeds.

Fu Henghua watched Fu Changqing and Lu Fengyang fight the Purple Void Sword Pavilion, then continued roaming Sword Immortal Continent to gather treasures. When Ling Tianchou arrived at Chechi Mountain, Fu Henghua saw a chance to pursue the Li Trigram and struck him down from hiding.

• Wukong Incarnation flew to the Radiant Light Sword Pavilion, where Fu Changqing and Lu Fengyang fought Huang Xiaorang while Fu Xuanxing, Hengshou, and Shu Tianci faced Purple Void Pavilion cultivators.
• Fu Henghua observed Fu Changqing and Lu Fengyang’s harmonized sun-and-moon sword techniques and concluded they were using a dual cultivation art.
• Fu Henghua told Hengshou to give a newly appeared flying sword to Fu Xuanxing, who could improve it with his immortal sword sheath.
• Hengshou broke through the enemy formation with Fu Xuanxing’s help, and Shu Tianci planted the sword banner to win the round for Radiant Light Sword Pavilion.
• Fu Henghua left to gather treasures, then returned to Chechi Mountain and found Ling Tianchou challenging Ji Guangchun while Fu Henghua sought the Li Trigram.
• After studying Ling Tianchou’s methods, Fu Henghua used the Formless Sword to strike him from behind, draining his mana and dropping him to the ground.

Fu Henghua explored the memories of Ling Tianchou and his guards, uncovering the Ling Clan’s plans and clues that Fu Family members might have survived in the Southern Continent. A reply from the First Elder led Fu Pingdao to discover a hidden graveyard of Ling Clan members on Windgate Island, suggesting the First Elder had prepared for the clan’s surviving descendants.

• Fu Henghua used the Heavenly Demon Secret Art to probe Ling Tianchou’s memories, learned that the Crimson Abyss Daoist Sect had integrated the Li Trigram into its Dao arts, and failed to penetrate its defenses.
• Fu Henghua searched the memories of Ling Tianchou’s guards, learned that they planned to deliver the Fu Family’s Xun Trigram to the Crimson Abyss Daoist Sect, and planted concealed Creation Demon Seeds in all three men.
• Fu Henghua saw Fu Tian’er in a guard’s memories and suspected that Fu Tian’er and perhaps Fu Xuanhe had faked their deaths and gone to the Southern Continent.
• Fu Henghua warned the First Elder about the Ling Clan’s designs and hinted that he had seen Fu Tian’er and Fu Xuanhe alive; the First Elder replied that he could handle the Ling Clan and directed him to Windgate Island if needed.
• Fu Henghua asked Fu Pingdao to investigate Windgate Island, where Fu Pingdao found a hidden cave filled with graves of Ling Clan members.
• Fu Henghua concluded that the First Elder had anticipated the Ling Clan might have surviving descendants and had prepared the graves to give them a favor and distance the Fu Family from the clan’s destruction.

Ling Tianchou and his guards survived an attack and received help from Fu Xiangfeng, while Fu Henghua arranged further ties between the Ling Clan and the Fu Family. Fu Henghua then opened a hidden Sword Pavilion, overcame its Three Powers Sword Formation, and began mastering its treasures.

• Ling Tianchou used a protective talisman to shield himself and his unconscious guards from the young man in white, and Fu Xiangfeng arrived to drive the attacker away.
• Fu Xiangfeng took Ling Tianchou and the guards to Cloud Soaring Sword Pavilion, where Xiaoyu healed them and detected traces of a secret art in their sealed meridians.
• Fu Henghua learned that the three had reached the pavilion and arranged for Fu Liuhui to guide Ling Tianchou toward Windgate Island while considering the Grand Elder’s plans for the Ling Clan.
• Fu Henghua gathered all eighteen tokens on Chechi Mountain, revealing the hidden Sword Pavilion, and entered it with Ji Guangchun.
• The Pavilion’s three Sword Qi formed a Three Powers Sword Formation around Fu Henghua, but his Three-Cavern Golden Rings devoured them in moments.

Fu Henghua refined the Three-Cavern Golden Rings into a spirit-artifact flying sword at the Three Treasures Sword Pavilion, while Fu Liuhui provoked Ling Tianchou and connected Fu Xiangfeng with Yang Dai. The chapter ended with Yang Dai preparing to seek open revenge for his junior brother and challenge for a Sword Pavilion in three days.

• Fu Henghua used the Sword Pool to refine the Three-Cavern Golden Rings into a spirit artifact and developed three Three Purity Formless Sword Arts.
• Fu Liuhui attacked Ling Tianchou after learning his connection to the Ling Clan and told him to visit Windgate Island about something from his family.
• Fu Liuhui revealed that her confrontation was meant to steer Fu Xiangfeng toward friendship with Yang Dai of the Crimson Abyss Daoist Sect.
• Yang Dai thanked Fu Xiangfeng for saving his junior brother and discussed Ling Tianchou's retaliation against the Wei Family with him.
• Yang Dai told Ling Tianchou to return to Yanlong and take revenge without slaughtering innocents, then announced he would contend for a Sword Pavilion in three days.

He Xianyin contacted Fu Henghua, warned him that Yu Zhitong and his adopted son Yu Xiaolei were preparing to target him, and invited him to visit Sword Immortal Continent. The warning proved timely when Yu Xiaolei arrived to challenge the master of Three Treasures Sword Pavilion, but Fu Henghua refused to fight after recognizing his immortal sword.

• Fu Liuhui and Xiaoyu discussed Fu Xiangfeng’s decision to join Yang Dai, while He Xianyin approached them to ask about Fu Henghua.
• Xiaoyu told He Xianyin that Fu Henghua was well, and Fu Henghua sent her a respectful letter bearing his mother’s Azure-Glow Seal.
• He Xianyin withheld the map of Jade Rosy Cloud Mountain, invited Fu Henghua to visit, and warned that Yu Zhitong and Yu Xiaolei intended to settle a feud with him.
• He Xianyin learned that Yu Xiaolei had gone to challenge the master of Three Treasures Sword Pavilion, prompting Xiaoyu to worry that he might encounter Fu Henghua.
• Yu Xiaolei arrived at Three Treasures Sword Pavilion to ask about the Three Powers Sword Formation, but Fu Henghua recognized the Violet Lightning Flash and shut the door, refusing to fight.

Fu Henghua resisted Yu Xiaolei’s assault on the Three Treasures Sword Pavilion until its doors were destroyed, while Yu Zhitong and the gathered cultivators discussed their past grudges and Fu Henghua’s supposed swordsmanship. Fu Henghua agreed to duel Yu Xiaolei without an immortal sword and vanished with the pavilion as he raised a formation.

• Fu Henghua used his Three-Cavern Golden Rings and Three Pure Qi to hold off Yu Xiaolei’s Violet Lightning, strengthening the pavilion door while drawing mana from his true body.
• He Xianyin and the others arrived, and Yu Zhitong revealed his grudge against past Mysterious Embryo Realm opponents and his plan to let Yu Xiaolei challenge Fu Henghua’s next generation.
• Yu Zhitong learned that Fu Xuanxing carried the Southern Bright Li Fire Sword Scabbard and the Crouching Dragon Jade Sword, then questioned whether Fu Henghua knew sword formations.
• Yu Xiaolei’s assault finally blew open the pavilion doors, and Fu Henghua demanded one hundred thousand Bright Moon Pearls in compensation.
• Yu Xiaolei put away his immortal sword and prepared to fight with the Palm Sword Art, while Fu Henghua raised a formation that made him, the Three-Cavern Golden Rings, and the Three Treasures Sword Pavilion disappear.

Fu Henghua fought Yu Xiaolei inside the Formless Sword Domain and turned Fu Xuanxing’s Thunderfire Palace Refinement against him to end the duel. Afterward, Fu Henghua learned why Yu Xiaolei regarded him as a rival and decided to help Fu Xuanxing find a powerful immortal sword.

• Daoist Wukong trapped Yu Xiaolei in a Formless Sword Formation, where Yu Xiaolei studied the unfamiliar sword arts and identified Fu Henghua’s concealed skill.
• Yu Xiaolei criticized the stiff Grand Purity Sword moves and weak Jade Purity Sword Aura, while Fu Henghua used the Upper Purity Sword Aura to counter his attacks.
• Fu Xuanxing summoned Thunderfire Palace Refinement to absorb the Separation Flame Sword, and Fu Henghua drew its sword intent into the formation and channeled Yu Xiaolei’s lightning into the Golden Palace.
• Fu Henghua released his trapped hand and used the Three-Cavern Golden Rings to knock Yu Xiaolei out of the formation, then sealed the Sword Pavilion gateway and went to recover.
• Hengshou’s note revealed Yu Zhitong and Yu Xiaolei’s grudge against Fu Henghua’s family, prompting Fu Henghua to decide to help Fu Xuanxing find the Southern Bright Li Fire Sword.

Yu Zhitong arranged for Yu Xiaolei to challenge Fu Xuanxing, who accepted the duel and matched his sword technique. Meanwhile, cultivators discussed whether Bodhi Daoist was a tree spirit, unaware that Fu Henghua’s Wood-Mother Incarnation was the Bodhi communicating through the Celestial Profound Dao Platform.

• Yu Zhitong stopped Yu Xiaolei from returning to the sword formation and explained that he needed to stay alert to outside factors during a duel.
• Fu Xuanxing accepted Yu Xiaolei’s challenge, and the two briefly clashed before Yu Xiaolei agreed to wait for a future duel.
• Yu Zhitong and the Sword Immortals left to watch Yang Dai contest the Sword Pavilion, while Ji Guangchun stayed with Fu Henghua at the Sword Pool.
• Mu Shansheng and the other Grandmasters discussed Wukong’s Formless Sword and speculated that Bodhi Daoist had attained the Dao as a tree.
• Fu Henghua’s Wood-Mother Incarnation continued helping Canglan classify plants, while Canglan privately wondered whether Bodhi Tree leaves could be eaten.

Fu Henghua and the Bodhi group advanced their study of plant kinship and planned the Heavenly Evolution Tree, while Canglan Zi proved that algae could produce a peach sapling. Sha Jinshang showed Fu Henghua a replay of Yang Dai’s sword duel and discussed developing his black-and-white recording technique into a Daoist art.

• Fu Henghua organized Sha Jinshang’s plant manuscripts into an evolutionary tree, and Canglan Zi successfully cultivated an ordinary peach from green algae.
• Canglan Zi approved Yan Yuyuan’s plan to grow the Heavenly Evolution Tree from algae and sent Meng Chen to collect water from the four seas and nine regions.
• The cultivators completed the Five-Creature and Metal-and-Stone spheres of the Heavenly Compendium of Natural Wonders, leaving the vegetation section unfinished.
• Sha Jinshang told Fu Henghua that he was on Sword Immortal Continent to study a Crimson Abyss successor’s Heaven-rank arts and showed him a recording of Yang Dai’s sword duel.
• Sha Jinshang demonstrated how his black-and-white image could replay Yang Dai gathering flames after his duel, and Fu Henghua suggested he study the Way of Color on Plum Blossom Island.

Yang Dai continued gathering flames after winning another Sword Pavilion, while Fu Henghua encountered Yin Yulong and the demonic cultivator Yuan Yue at neighboring pavilions. After recognizing Yuan Yue’s demonic nature, Fu Henghua withdrew to calculate the heavenly secrets, and He Xianyin prepared a test for him involving the ruins of Jade Rosy Cloud Mountain.

• Fang Dongyuan and Fu Xiangfeng discussed Yang Dai’s plan to gather battlefield flames, and Fang Dongyuan warned his sect that opponents could counter with water.
• Yang Dai invited Sword Immortal Continent’s cultivators to challenge him, then returned to his immortal mountain to suppress the growing Fire Sea.
• Fu Henghua met Yin Yulong and Yuan Yue at the Jade Kirin Sword Pavilion and sparred with Yin Yulong, identifying her as a sword Dharma Performer.
• Fu Henghua sensed that Yuan Yue carried the power of Heavenly Demons, declined to fight him, and returned to the Three Treasures Sword Pavilion to calculate the heavenly secrets.
• He Xianyin sealed diagrams of Jade Rosy Cloud Mountain’s defenses in a box and sent four maidservants to deliver them to He Yunqing for Fu Henghua.

Fu Henghua deciphered the animal-hide map He Xianyin sent him and suspected it marked the Golden Dawn Celestial Maiden’s Jade Rosy Cloud Mountain abode. Meanwhile, Yuan Yue infiltrated Jade Sound Immortal Pavilion to investigate the map, but learned that He Xianyin had sent the secret casket to Fu Henghua and feared approaching him.

• Lingchao, Ying Xia, Wenxi, and Chen Yun delivered He Xianyin’s secret casket to Xiaoyu, who carried it to Fu Henghua.
• Fu Henghua opened the casket, found an animal-hide map written in Golden Dawn Immortal Script, and began deciphering it.
• Hengshou returned with spirit pills and herbs, while Xiaoyu and Hengshou planned to house their Yin Spirit incarnations in the Thousand-Eye Dharma Form and the Twelve Golden Beads.
• Lingchao and the other maidservants collected spring water at Cloud Spring Mountain, where Yuan Yue secretly met his informant among them.
• Yuan Yue learned that He Xianyin had sent the casket to Fu Henghua, but he decided not to approach him because his master had warned him of Fu Henghua’s power.

Fu Henghua broke through to the Yin Assembly and was summoned to watch Sun Zhuoyun fight Yang Dai, whose Heaven Grade Dao Art overwhelmed Sun’s Cloud-Sea Heaven-Covering Sword. After the duel, Fu proposed devising a way to counter the flame realm, and the elders turned to Hengyu to create a Heaven Grade Dao Art for Dong Moyang.

• Fu Henghua completed his forty-six million six hundred and fifty-six thousandth Lesser Celestial Circuit, advanced into the Yin Assembly, and resonated with Jade Court Mountain’s Everlasting Spring Paradise.
• Song Chunqiu summoned Fu Henghua to the Golden Palace, where the elders watched Sun Zhuoyun duel Yang Dai in a mirror.
• Yang Dai unleashed his Heaven-Burning Flame Realm, and Sun Zhuoyun answered with the Cloud-Sea Heaven-Covering Sword, which nearly extinguished the flames but exhausted Sun’s sword essence.
• Sun Zhuoyun’s follow-up attack failed to break Yang Dai’s lingering flame realm, so Sun conceded the duel.
• The elders discussed sending Dong Moyang to fight Yang Dai, and Fu Henghua suggested devising a Heaven Grade Dao Art to counter the flame realm.
• The elders looked to Hengyu to create the technique, leaving him dumbfounded by their expectations.