Recaps

Fu Henghua inspected the Eight-Gate Wind-Fire Formation, concealed the true nature of his cultivation method from Yang Dai, and learned of his companions’ discoveries. As Yuwen Chunqiu began condensing his Golden Core, Henghua sent out his Five-Qi Cloud Dragon Scripture, while a supplementary record recounted the history of the Tiger Soul demonic weapon.

• Fu Henghua inspected the gates and formations, advised Tianxuan Zi to purify the Tiger-Soul Devil Stele, and received three Dragon Palace Compendiums from Hengshou.
• Fu Henghua demonstrated his Five Elements and Eight Trigrams techniques to Yang Dai, who tested his claims before returning to repair the formation disc.
• Hong Changyi brought Hong Xuanji to Lotus Blessed Land, where Hong Xuanji sensed the Five Elements Dao and declared Fu Yuandao suited to his path.
• Wu Zhengxin brought Yuwen Chunqiu to Lotus Blessed Land, where Chunqiu studied its Dao qi and prepared to condense his Golden Core.
• Fu Henghua cast a divination, sent out the Five-Qi Cloud Dragon Scripture, and triggered tribulation clouds as Yuwen Chunqiu began condensing his Golden Core.
• The supplementary record recounted how the Queen of Penglai captured Tiger Soul, Saint Fu purified it with his blood, and the weapon was sealed in the imperial treasure vault.

Yuwen Chunqiu refined a First-Rank Golden Core by enduring the heavenly tribulation and using his Five-Dragon arts, while Fu Henghua studied his methods to advance his own plans for a Heavenly Book Golden Core. After the tribulation, Yang Dai invited Fu Henghua to visit the Crimson Abyss Daoist Sect, and Henghua left the offer open as he considered a future trip to Southern Continent.

• Yuwen Chunqiu summoned his Five-Headed Dragon-Seed Exalted Sovereign Aspect and fought the Thunder Qilin with Five-Element Divine Dragons as he stole Great Dao spiritual opportunities.
• Fu Henghua recorded Yuwen Chunqiu's pill-forming process and concluded that a Heavenly Book Golden Core would require a better method of stealing spiritual opportunities than the Jade Sage Pavilion's art.
• Yuwen Chunqiu used a Three-Blossom Treasure Lotus and a concealment art to repel the Five Directions Thunder Envoys, then hid to refine his pill for six days and nights.
• Yuwen Chunqiu formed a First-Rank Golden Core, forged his natal treasure into the Five-Dragon Wheel spirit artifact, and used it to break the heavenly tribulation.
• Yang Dai invited Fu Henghua to visit the Crimson Abyss Daoist Sect and offered access to its techniques; Henghua declined the proposed Taiyin art but left open the possibility of traveling to Southern Continent later.

Yuwen Chunqiu formed a first-grade core, and Fu Henghua held a banquet to celebrate while the demon leaders regrouped and planned another assault on the Eight-Gate Wind-Fire Formation. The celebration was interrupted by the arrival of Zhongli Zihan and the Purple Sovereign Pavilion’s heir, setting up a clash with Yang Dai as Fu Pengming reflected on Fu Ruiying’s heaven-grade Dao art.

• Yuwen Chunqiu thanked Hong Xuanji, Fu Henghua, and Yuan Dao for helping him form his core, then attended Fu Henghua’s celebration banquet.
• The Nine-Tailed Fox recruited Golden Horn and Silver Horn to join Blazing Flame’s remaining forces, using a formation diagram to persuade them to attack again and seek allies among other Demon Kings.
• At the banquet, Yang Dai said he would challenge the Purple Sovereign Pavilion’s remaining expert before facing the Jade Sage Pavilion, and Yuwen Chunqiu offered to have his Eldest Senior Brother defeat him.
• Fu Henghua sensed the arrival of rain, and the assembled cultivators recognized it as a sign of the Purple Sovereign Pavilion’s water-element immortal sword, Ten Thousand Rivers Returning.
• Zhongli Zihan arrived with Fu Pengming and praised Fu Henghua’s heaven-grade Dao art, while Fu Pengming recalled his own efforts to master Fu Ruiying’s Wind and Dust Purify the World.

Yang Dai faced Zhongli Zihan and the Sword of Returning Ten Thousand Rivers, but Fu Henghua stopped their clash before it could damage the Crimson Abyss ruins. After the banquet ended, the water-region factions moved to block the Fu Family’s planned Cloud Well, and a nighttime attack on the camp ended with a curse apparently making Fu Henghua’s head disappear.

• Zhongli Zihan arrived with Purple Sovereign Pavilion cultivators and the Sword of Returning Ten Thousand Rivers, and she clashed with Yang Dai’s flames until Fu Henghua made them stop.
• Yu Xiaolei’s Violet Lightning Flash attacked Zhongli Zihan’s sword, and Fu Henghua, Fu Xiangfeng, and Tianqi separated the two immortal swords before Yuwen Chunqiu ended the feast.
• Wu Zhengxin and Hengyu discussed the Cloud Well at the Crimson Abyss ruins, and the two pavilions agreed to prevent the Fu Family and Sword Immortal Continent from building new Cloud Wells.
• Fu Pengming told his brothers that he had secured three hundred orders for Eternal Spring Fragrant Balm through his dealings with Purple Sovereign Pavilion and Tianyang Waters cultivators.
• Several demon kings attacked the camp at night, destroyed the Eight-Gate Wind-Fire Formation, and forced Heng Hua and the others to prepare defenses.
• The Nine-Tailed Fox crushed a jade talisman to unleash a curse, and a flock of crows flew away with Fu Henghua’s head apparently gone.

Fu Henghua survived having his head stolen by the Frogman King's curse, regenerated a temporary head, and helped turn the battle against the Nine-Tailed Fox. After the Bodhi Daoist recovered his original head, Fu Henghua stayed behind to calm the Wood Essences and keep them from siding with the Demon Race.

• Hengshou chased the crows while Xiaoyu protected Fu Henghua's headless body and sent Fu Xiangfeng after the missing head.
• Fu Henghua explained that his soul remained in his body, sealed the concept of “no” to stop the Nine-Tailed Fox from completing a lethal phrase, and alerted his allies to the blood-sacrifice site that had broken the Eight Gates Formation.
• Yu Xiaolei and Dong Moyang fought the Nine-Tailed Fox as Fu Henghua regrew a crude head with the Creation Azure Lotus Art and burned away one of her tails with the Mysterious Fire Fan.
• Fu Henghua ordered Yuwen Chunqiu to repair the formation and sent Xiaoyu to aid Hengshou; the Bodhi Daoist then emerged from the Bodhi Tree and captured the black crow carrying Fu Henghua's original head.
• The Bodhi Daoist identified the Frogman King's Crow Gu and curses, directed Hengshou to burn the crow, and decided to go to the Divine Wood Tribe to keep the Wood Essences from joining the Demon Race.

Heng Hua and his allies fought the Demon Race’s assault on the Crimson Abyss Ruins while Bodhi Daoist investigated the Frogman King’s plans. Xiaoyu wielded the Thousand-Eyed Divine Statue to destroy demon forces and three giant elephants, while Fu Pengming seized the formation diagram and fled with it.

• Hengshou returned to the Crimson Abyss Ruins with Heng Hua’s head, and Bodhi Daoist found that the Frogman King had not reacted to his arrangements.
• Heng Hua learned through Wei Xiaoxuan that Tribulation Immortals were investigating the frog tribe, then guided them by leaving immortal dao marks.
• Heng Hua directed the Eight-Gate Formation against a million demon beasts and ordered the Earth Lord to seal the underground tunnels.
• Xiaoyu entered the Thousand-Eyed Divine Statue and used its lightning and weapons to defeat demon soldiers and kill three giant elephants.
• Fu Pengming stole the Eight-Gate Wind-Fire Formation diagram from the Nine-Tailed Fox and Sky Hound, then escaped underground despite their pursuit.

Fu Henghua restored the Eight Gates Formation, revived two young rabbit demons, and sent Yu Rong to avenge her clan by disrupting the demon kings’ battle. Yu Rong’s attack collapsed the Golden-Horned Tiger King’s domain and helped the grandmasters strike the Silver-Horned Tiger King, leaving the battlefield in chaos.

• Fu Henghua recovered and refined the formation diagram, restoring the Eight Gates Formation, then examined the Lunar Yin Altar and drew the souls of the rabbit demons from their corpses.
• Fu Henghua revived two young rabbits by using the altar’s remaining Lunar power, collected the other rabbit souls in a gemstone, and told Yu Rong how to dissolve their obsessions by taking revenge on the Golden-Horned Tiger King.
• Yu Rong entered the battlefield carrying the poison Fu Henghua had prepared, and Hengyu True Person guided her to the Golden-Horned Tiger King’s fight with Tianxuan Zi.
• Yu Rong called out for the Golden-Horned Tiger King three times, forcing him to answer, and then splashed poison onto him, collapsing his domain and disrupting the balance of the battlefield.
• Tianxuan Zi struck the poisoned Golden-Horned Tiger King, then joined Hong Xuanji in using the Star Pivot Dipper to hit the Silver-Horned Tiger King, triggering further domain explosions.

Fu Henghua and the grandmasters repelled the Demon Kings and discovered that the demons were using a blood-sacrifice art to try to create Tribulation Immortals. As the group prepared to defend the Scarlet Abyss Cloud Pillar, Li Ruxin studied Xiaoyu’s damaged Thousand-Eyed Divine Statue and gained Fu Henghua’s permission to take over a second Mechanism Dharma Form.

• Fu Henghua noticed his curse activate as the Nascent Soul domain destabilized, and the Golden-Horned and Silver-Horned Tiger Kings fled, leaving the other Demon Kings exposed.
• Tianxuan Zi and the other grandmasters unleashed their Dharma Forms, while Yu Xiaolei and Zhongli Zihan wounded the White Deer King; Liu Yang arrived and helped kill the Howling Moon Wolf King.
• After the Wolf King self-destructed, the grandmasters shielded the Eight Gates Formation from the blood moon’s explosion, and Hengyu determined that the Demon Kings’ deaths were feeding a Blood Spirit Profound Yin Pool Method blood sacrifice.
• Hengyu organized the defense of the Scarlet Abyss Cloud Pillar, while Fu Henghua retreated to treat the sinister force preventing his neck wound from healing.
• Xiaoyu, Hengshou, Fu Pengming, and the others began repairing the Thousand-Eyed Divine Statue, and Fu Pengming explained how its replaceable parts let it unleash power beyond a cultivator’s bodily limits.
• Li Ruxin offered raw ore in exchange for studying the statue, and Fu Henghua agreed to give her the blueprints and the other Mechanism Dharma Form under construction.

Li Ruxin used Fu Henghua’s Mirror Venerable to defeat the Azure Lion Commander’s remaining troops, prompting elders to study and refine their own artificial dharma aspects. Hengyu True Person then began shaping a different Mirror Venerable for Dong Moyang, using Dao arts and curse scripts instead of a mechanism puppet.

• Li Ruxin took the half-finished Mirror Venerable and its manual to Hengyu True Person and Tianxuan Zi, who completed the dharma aspect in two days.
• Li Ruxin used the Mirror Venerable’s sun-moon mirrors to absorb the Azure Lion Commander’s attacks and destroy the remaining lion demons, then drew the aspect into her body.
• Hong Xuanji and Wu Zhengxin discussed the dangers and potential of artificial dharma aspects, then secretly helped Hong Changyi and Yuwen Chunqiu refine their own versions.
• Hengyu True Person told Dong Moyang that the Mirror Venerable had inspired him to use an external dharma aspect to lower the requirements for casting heaven-grade Dao arts.
• Hengyu True Person formed a golden figurine for Dong Moyang from curse scripts and the Yin-Yang Mirror Method, explaining that a dharma aspect needed only to accord with the Dao.

Fu Henghua turned an artificial landscape of Jade Court Mountain into a healing refuge and discovered that it could summon the souls of those who died nearby. Hengyu took control of the miniature mountain and began preparing life-bound dolls for the cultivators in the Eight Gates Formation, while Fu Henghua returned to making more landscapes.

• Fu Henghua emerged from seclusion with his neck still injured and learned that the others had gone to study Dharma forms.
• Hong Xuanji’s five-colored Dharma form destroyed a swarm of Crimson Flame Bees, while other cultivators used their Dharma forms to defeat demon beasts from the east and south.
• Fu Henghua built Little Jade Court Mountain inside the Eight Gates Formation, creating a landscape that circulated Everlasting Spring True Qi and healed injuries.
• Fu Henghua sealed life-bound dolls inside Little Jade Court Mountain, demonstrating that it could summon a soul back after death under certain conditions.
• Hengyu took control of Little Jade Court Mountain and stored dolls for himself, Dong Moyang, and other cultivators, then told Fu Henghua that the landscape could revive only one person before collapsing.
• Fu Henghua agreed to make more miniature landscapes and returned to his tent with Xiaoyu and Hengshou to continue working.

Fu Henghua created miniature palaces from peach pits, prompting senior cultivators to reflect on his unconventional research and its purpose in preparing Dragonreach Waters to fight powerful threats. He continued experimenting in Relict Continent, strengthening his Great Dao of Creation and advancing Bodhi Daoist as he prepared to approach the Divine Wood Clan.

• Fu Henghua transformed peach pits into elaborate miniature palaces, and cultivators examined their inscriptions and chose places to stay.
• The Golden Talisman Dao Master and Tianxuan Zi recognized that the palaces could resemble Mountain Ferry vessels and discussed how Fu Henghua combined different arts to strengthen Foundation Establishment cultivators.
• Hengyu True Person explained that Fu Henghua’s creations were practical preparations for the dangers beneath Dragonreach Waters, and advised Hong Xuanji and Wu Zhengxin to let him develop while keeping his heart upright.
• Hengyu True Person inferred that Fu Henghua’s many arts would contribute to the Myriad Gods Chart, while Fu Henghua’s actual plan was to use recorded mountains and rivers to impose Land God Domains across the land.
• Fu Henghua returned to his tent and began another research project, while his experiments advanced his Great Dao of Creation and Bodhi Daoist’s cultivation.
• Zhou Xiao praised Bodhi Daoist’s growing vitality and urged him to prepare more plant cultivation methods for their planned visit to the Divine Wood Clan.

Bodhi Daoist and Zhou Xiao traveled to the Desolate Ancient Forest Sea to seek the Divine Wood Tribe, while Bodhi pondered how the Death-Nether Heavenly Scripture’s absolute stillness could destroy other Heavenly Books. They found the forest unnaturally silent and discovered that its ancient tree spirits were dying around a dead zone, where Zhou Xiao recognized the ash as resembling the death sand of the Flowing Sand River.

• Zhou Xiao used his black-and-white banners to disguise himself and discussed the Dao of movement and stillness with Bodhi Daoist.
• Bodhi Daoist considered how the Death-Nether Heavenly Scripture embodied absolute death and could counter other Heavenly Books.
• Bodhi Daoist and Zhou Xiao entered the Desolate Ancient Forest Sea and noticed that it had no birds, animals, insects, or other signs of life.
• Zhou Xiao called for the Tree King, but their voices vanished as they traveled deeper into the forest.
• Bodhi Daoist recognized a curse of absolute stillness affecting the sleeping or dying tree spirits and suspected their Tree King had reached a realm comparable to Patriarch Xuanwei.
• Bodhi Daoist and Zhou Xiao reached a dead zone containing a stump and gray ash, which Zhou Xiao recognized as resembling the death sand beneath Jade Court Mountain.

Zhou Xiao and the Bodhi Daoist uncovered Patriarch Xuanwei’s history in the Desolate Ancient Forest Sea and revived it by balancing its life and death qi. The Bodhi Daoist became the forest sea’s new master, while Zhou Xiao inherited the patriarch’s knowledge and a strengthened Yin-Yang Banner; the Bodhi Daoist then began considering the Wood Spirits’ future amid the war between humans and demons.

• Zhou Xiao recognized the dead zone as an Art of Eternal Silence and, with the Bodhi Daoist, used the Numinous Insight Art to uncover Patriarch Xuanwei’s memories in the tree stump.
• Patriarch Xuanwei’s imprint revealed that his incarnation had died after a cultivation deviation involving the Heavenly Book and warned them to destroy a bark fragment bearing a Death Dao Secret Art; the Bodhi Daoist found evidence that a demonic cultivator had taken it.
• Zhou Xiao sat on the stump to balance the forest sea’s life and death qi, while the Bodhi Daoist asked Fu Henghua for help and received the title of Lord of the Desolate Ancient Forest Sea.
• The Bodhi Daoist awakened the forest sea and led its Wood Spirits in lending their power; Zhou Xiao then used the Yin-Yang Banner to dissolve the death energy and receive Patriarch Xuanwei’s inheritance.
• The Bodhi Daoist became the forest sea’s master, gained the Tree King’s inheritance, and told Pine Elder, Linden Elder, and Catalpa Elder that he would plan for the Wood Spirits as the human-demon war spread.

The Bodhi Daoist revealed that he had become the second-generation Tree King and persuaded the visiting wood spirits to cooperate with humanity against the Demon Race. He established the Bodhi Dao Platform, secured the Tree Kings’ support, and planned to merge it with the Celestial Profound Dao Platform, while Zhou Xiao warned him about the Tribulation Immortals.

• The green mulberry tree spirit, Jin Chen, the apricot immortal, and Peach Immortal arrived at the Desolate Ancient Forest Sea to congratulate its Tree King, while Su Tie went after the vine demon Hundred-Leaf Shame.
• The Bodhi Daoist revealed that he was not the Divine Wood Ancestor but the new master of the forest sea, and his Bodhi Tree’s presence awakened an Azure Phoenix from the green mulberry tree spirit.
• Su Tie fought Fu Bozhao and Fu Bolao after misunderstanding Fu Bozhao’s attempt to restore the locust tree spirit’s vitality, and the elders escorted them all into the forest sea.
• The Bodhi Daoist and Zhou Xiao proposed cooperation between the wood spirits and humanity, and Fu Bozhao described Fu Danwei’s friendship with the Ginseng King to show the Fu Family’s good faith.
• The Bodhi Daoist sent Bodhi Leaves to the Tree Kings, who used them to enter the newly established Bodhi Dao Platform and discuss cooperation; he then sent the Fu brothers to the Jade Radiance Mountains with two leaves.
• Zhou Xiao warned the Bodhi Daoist that the Tribulation Immortals might oppose his plan, but Bodhi intended to merge his platform with the Celestial Profound Dao Platform and rely on sympathetic Tribulation Immortals.

Fu Danwei learned that the Bodhi Dharma Realm had united the human cultivators and tree kings for a coordinated campaign against the demon clans, then contacted Fu Henghua to urge him to visit the Jade Radiance Mountains. Fearing his grandfather would stop his Heavenly Book research, Fu Henghua fled with Xiaoyu and Hengshou, leaving Fu Xuanxing to expose the deception.

• Fu Danwei explored the Bodhi Dharma Realm, spoke with Sun Zhuoyun about his grandsons, and learned that the cultivators would use the realm to coordinate attacks on the demon clans’ blood pools and escape routes.
• The Tower Reaching Heaven master assigned the cultivators their targets, including operations against the nine blood pools and the demon clans fleeing toward the mortal world.
• Fu Danwei used a wooden talisman to speak with Fu Henghua, expressed concern for him, and pressed him to visit his grandparents at the Jade Radiance Mountains.
• Fu Henghua declined to go, fearing his grandfather would force him to abandon the Heavenly Book, then decided to flee with Xiaoyu and Hengshou toward Five Elements Mountain and Yanlong.
• Before leaving, Fu Henghua gave Hong Changyi and Fu Baimin talismans to use against the Nine-Tailed Fox and claimed he had a secret task with Fu Xuanxing and Fu Yaozhen.
• Fu Xuanxing arrived at the Eight Gates Formation after Fu Henghua had departed, and Fu Yaozhen realized that Fu Henghua had fled after his grandfather had startled him.

Fu Yaozhen foresaw danger to her brother and learned that the Five Peaks Heavy Mountain Sword could help Yang Dai defeat Zhongli Zihan, while Fu Henghua returned to Golden Fang after copying Fu Danwei’s research. Song Chunqiu sent Henghua to join Heavenly Yi Sect cultivators and meet their chief senior disciple, Dan Quanzi.

• Fu Yaozhen awakened her Mystic Sight, glimpsed danger involving her brother and the Crimson Abyss Daoist Sect, and accepted Fang Dongyuan’s golden talisman.
• Fu Yaozhen told Yang Dai that the Five Peaks Heavy Mountain Sword was hidden beneath a formation disk and could help him defeat Zhongli Zihan.
• Fu Henghua left Five Elements Mountain for Coiling Dragon Island, discussed sending Fu Family members to study at the Crimson Abyss Daoist Sect, and secretly copied Fu Danwei’s research.
• Fu Henghua returned to Golden Fang with Xiaoyu and Hengshou, where Song Chunqiu arranged for him to join Heavenly Yi Sect cultivators and meet Dan Quanzi.

Fu Danwei worried that Fu Henghua’s pursuit of a self-created Heavenly Book would bring him deadly tribulations and planned to send him to Purple Sovereign Pavilion after crippling his cultivation. Meanwhile, Bodhi Daoist and Canglan Zi studied how demonic power routes formed Beast Registers, and Canglan Zi invited Meng Chen to help create a new Heavenly Book.

• Fu Danwei and Liu Yang exchanged their locations, and Fu Danwei urged Liu Yang to find Sister Mu before she encountered the Frogman King.
• Fu Danwei told Bai Hezi that Fu Henghua’s Heavenly Book research could subject him to at least twenty heavenly tribulations, so he intended to cripple Fu Henghua’s cultivation and send him to Purple Sovereign Pavilion.
• Bai Hezi refused to release Kang Zhang, Wang Dan, and the others without conditions, while Kang Zhang secretly considered using Fu Henghua to revive the Heaven-Stealing Alliance.
• Canglan Zi asked Bodhi Daoist to connect him with Meng Chen, then proposed that the Bodhi Dharma Realm govern Relict Continent alongside the Celestial Profound Dao Platform.
• Bodhi Daoist shared Fu Henghua’s demon-power diagrams with Canglan Zi, and they tested how changing a Beast Register’s power route raised a sparrow’s cultivation and transformed it into a Vermilion Bird.
• After Meng Chen arrived, Canglan Zi invited him to join a new project: creating a Heavenly Book.

Fu Henghua found encouragement in Canglan Zi’s pursuit of a Heavenly Book, and the two agreed to develop a transformation scripture based on the Eight-Nine Mysterious Technique. Meanwhile, Meng Chen’s group inspected the Crimson Abyss Ruins and discovered how its formation protected and restored its fighters.

• Canglan Zi told Bodhi Daoist that earlier failures should not stop cultivators from pursuing Heavenly Books, giving Fu Henghua hope that he was not alone.
• Canglan Zi shared his Myriad Transformations Heavenly Scripture draft, and he and Bodhi compared its transformation stages with the Eight-Nine Mysterious Technique.
• Canglan Zi chose the Eight-Nine Mysterious Technique as the foundation for a new transformation Heavenly Book and invited Bodhi to join the project.
• Canglan Zi told Bodhi that the Lord of the Heaven-Piercing Tower suspected Wukong was one of Bodhi’s incarnations.
• Meng Chen led the cultivators to the Crimson Abyss Ruins, where they saw dharma images fighting demons and wounded fighters returning to battle after being revived and healed.

The Eight Gates Formation held against the demon army while Meng Chen discovered that Fu Henghua had disappeared. Fu Baimin and Hong Changyi used Fu Henghua’s talismans to refine the Nine-Tailed Fox, and Meng Chen joined the battle by wiping out the demons outside the formation.

• The Fu brothers used Fu Henghua’s jade-shell catapults to suppress demon power, while Meng Chen praised the Eight Gates Formation’s defenses and learned that Fu Henghua was missing.
• Hengyuan True Person destroyed the blood pool and sent Liu Xuanyi to Dawnmoon Peak, while Meng Chen learned that the formation’s cultivators had life-substituting dolls containing artificial False Cores.
• Fu Baimin told Hong Changyi that they could begin their plan against the Nine-Tailed Fox, and Meng Gu subdued the Spirit Rhinoceros with her mental-attack Dharma Form.
• Hong Changyi and Fu Baimin trapped the Nine-Tailed Fox in Fu Henghua’s Nine-Dragon Divine Fire Hood, whose flames and curses burned away her flesh and blood.
• The Nine-Tailed Fox devoured a tiger cub and tried to escape by transforming into it, but the nine dragons struck her with lightning and wind that erased her remaining spirit.
• Meng Chen recognized Fu Henghua’s Three-Calamity Heaven-Punishing Grand Curse, then summoned sword rain that slaughtered the demon beasts outside the formation.

Meng Chen and the others cleared the demon battlefield and discovered a tribulation-resistant fox-fur treasure, while Fu Danwei joined Xuantong to raid the evil cultivators’ stronghold and uncover ancient artifact-refining ruins. Fu Yaozhen and Yang Dai entered the ruins seeking the broken Five Peaks Heavy Mountain Sword blade, and she led them toward the Evil King Palace to meet Nameless, the Western Hero.

• Meng Chen and Golden Talisman Dao Master examined the Nine-Tailed Fox’s fur and learned it came from Fu Henghua’s Heaven-Mending Garment research into materials that could resist tribulation.
• The Heaven-Piercing Tower Lord told Meng Chen that Fu Henghua had returned to the mortal realm, prompting Fu Danwei to angrily plan to drag him back from the Mysterious Subtle Sect.
• Fu Danwei met Xuantong High Person, and the two joined forces to attack the evil cultivators’ stronghold, killing their defenders and discovering ruins from an ancient artifact-refining civilization.
• Fu Danwei and Xuantong recognized that the ruins might be connected to the civilization that created the prototype of the Donglai Golden Ranking, then encountered Qin Lin, who also claimed the ruins.
• Fu Yaozhen and Yang Dai entered the underground ruins to find the broken Five Peaks Heavy Mountain Sword blade, and Fu Yaozhen destroyed the time-corroded guardian statues with her East Wind zither tune.
• Fu Yaozhen led Yang Dai toward the Evil King Palace, saying they could still meet Nameless, the Western Hero.

Yang Dai and Fu Yaozhen met the Western Hero in the ruins, recovered the cursed Five Peaks Heavy Mountain sword case, and learned his theories about Donglai’s ancient cultivation civilizations. After the ruins vanished, the story shifted to Fu Henghua, who clashed with Pursue Antiquity people urging him to abandon Heavenly Book cultivation, while Dongfang Yunqi received an invitation from Yin Yanqing.

• Yang Dai and Fu Yaozhen found the Western Hero in the sword-storage chamber, where he exposed Yang Dai to a cursed blade before guiding him to the broken blade of Five Peaks Heavy Mountain.
• The Western Hero explained Donglai’s ancient civilizations and shared Fu Henghua’s conjecture that civilization itself might accumulate spiritual power through repeated destruction and renewal.
• The Western Hero led Yang Dai and Fu Yaozhen to Fu Danwei’s group, and they found the Evil King Palace ruined and the Frogman King missing before the underground ruins shifted out of space-time.
• Fu Henghua confronted three yellow-robed Curse Spirits who urged him to abandon his cultivation and inherit his father’s study of arrays, then fought them alongside Dan Quanzi and the others.
• Yin Yanqing visited Dongfang Yunqi on behalf of an ancestral alliance and left her a Pursue Antiquity Token after inviting her to explore Yunbo Island.
• Fu Henghua kept the Pursue Antiquity Dao-Transmission Token left behind by the three Curse Spirits and learned from Dan Quanzi that the Pursue Antiquity people were taboo among the Taixuan sects.

Fu Henghua exchanged cultivation insights and plans for communications networks while hiding at the Heavenly Yi Sect, where Tianshu Zi examined his unfinished Heavenly Scripture and helped him study star-fate arts. Meanwhile, the Fu family negotiated over cloud wells, Yang Dai claimed the Five Peaks Heavy Mountain Sword, and the Zhu Guren prepared a lightning-tower network as Yuan Yue escaped with a fragment of the Heavenly Book.

• Fu Henghua warned Dongfang Yunqi to sell demonic beast materials and stock up on medicines, then learned that Fu Tongjun had gathered the five venomous Gu and was refining the five human poisons.
• Fu Danwei proposed that the Fu Lineage develop Windcall Communications in exchange for abandoning plans to build a cloud well at the Crimson Abyss Ruins, and Song Chunqiu agreed to negotiate with the two pavilions.
• Fu Henghua showed Tianshu Zi his Creation Jade Scripture and studied the Heavenly Yi Sect's Grand Profound Star-Setting Fate-Reversal Art; Tianshu Zi helped restore the Star Gods on his chart and gave him star pigments.
• The Five Peaks Heavy Mountain Sword emerged from the Crimson Abyss Ruins, and Yang Dai challenged Zhongli Zihan to fight at Purple Sovereign Pavilion in three days.
• The Zhu Guren decided to deploy Thunder Swift Towers in Bai Cang, while Yin Xianzheng reported that Fu Henghua was cultivating a Heavenly Book and the group agreed to leave him to his path.
• Yuan Yue escaped from the Central Unmoving Continent with a fragment of the Heavenly Book and began considering how to use it.

Fu Henghua and Dan Quanzi watched Yang Dai defeat Zhongli Zihan and recognized that Yang Dai was using the victories to gather mountain-and-river fortune and temper his Golden Core. Henghua arranged a countermeasure for Dan Quanzi, then left the Heavenly Yi Sect for Jade Court Mountain with Tianshu Zi, who gave him a scroll to help him develop a Golden Core draft.

• Fu Henghua and Dan Quanzi used the Celestial Star-Ring Mirror Art to watch Yang Dai fight Zhongli Zihan, while Liu Xuanyi warned Fang Dongyuan to master the Primal Unity Dao Art and suppress his inherited demonic seed.
• Yang Dai used the Five Peaks Heavy Mountain Sword to raise land and reefs from the water, but Zhongli Zihan countered with Nine Dragons Flood Surge and a series of tsunamis.
• Yang Dai split the waves with Force-Splitting Lan River, overwhelmed Zhongli Zihan, and appeared to absorb the gathered mountain-and-river fortune to temper a Third-Turn Golden Core.
• Fu Henghua secretly gave Dan Quanzi a method and two Five-Element Mountain Talismans to use against Yang Dai in the Golden Direction Water Region, hoping to improve Fu Hengdong's chances.
• Fu Henghua left the Heavenly Yi Sect for Jade Court Mountain with Tianshu Zi, who gave him a scroll and advised him to produce a Golden Core draft to persuade his grandfather.
• Five-Element True Person and a young lady of the Fufeng Clan visited Dao Saint relic sites, found a clay figurine buried beneath the Heavenly Yi Sect's elm trees, and returned from their journey without revealing what they had learned.

Bodhi Daoist visited Canglan Zi’s Immortal Ascension Isle, where he reunited the Green Mulberry Tree King with his five consorts and explored the Tribulation Immortal’s elaborate food mountains. At a banquet celebrating the completed Heavenly Compendium of Natural Wonders, Canglan Zi and Bodhi launched a project to create the Eight-Nine Mysterious Technique as a Heavenly Book, and the gathered cultivators developed its eighty-one transformations and several related scriptures.

• Bodhi Daoist met Yan Yuyuan and the Green Mulberry Tree King in Azure Luan form, then traveled with them to Canglan Zi’s Immortal Ascension Isle.
• Canglan Zi showed them his wine, fruit, meat, spice, tea, and vegetable mountains, where the Green Mulberry Tree King reunited with his five Mulberry Consorts.
• At the banquet, Bodhi accepted Three Luminaries Divine Water from Wu Zhengxin, and the guests celebrated the completion of the Heavenly Compendium of Natural Wonders.
• Yang Dai arrived to challenge the Mystic Jade Waters’ young talents, and Canglan Zi sent the younger cultivators to compete at the unfinished spirit beast garden.
• Canglan Zi and Bodhi announced the Heavenly Evolution Tree Project and proposed creating a Myriad Beasts Garden, then revealed their plan to forge the Eight-Nine Mysterious Technique into a Heavenly Book.
• The cultivators debated and established its eighty-one transformations, inspiring more than twenty immortal scriptures and producing five complete scriptures over three days.

Yang Dai defeated Xuanyu’s cultivators, then entered three years of seclusion at the North Sea to refine the Red Peak Register, a Heavenly Book joining mountain and fire Dao arts. Meanwhile, Hengyuan True Person offered Dong Moyang and two others a perilous chance to rebuild their Golden Cores, while Heng Hua studied the Taixuan method and began planning his own Creation Golden Core.

• Yang Dai defeated Zhang Qing with his Heaven-Burning Flame Realm, and Bodhi Daoist identified the Nascent Soul-grade dragon pearl that had protected Zhang Qing.
• Yang Dai revealed an emerging immortal mountain Dharma Form, announced that he would fight Dong Moyang again in three years, and withdrew with Ling Tianchou and two others to the North Sea.
• Yang Dai entered seclusion to comprehend the Crimson Abyss Dao Art, prompting elders of the Crimson Abyss Daoist Sect to debate how to merge mountain and fire methods into the Red Peak Register and other Heavenly Book paths.
• Heng Hua urged Dong Moyang to return to Fangxian Continent and cultivate, while news of Yang Dai’s seclusion unsettled the sects of the Golden Direction Water Region.
• Hengyuan True Person sent Zhou Xiao to summon Dong Moyang, Li Ruxin, and Dan Quanzi, intending to guide them through rebuilding their cultivation for a Heavenly Book.
• Heng Hua explained that the three would need to shatter their existing foundations and form new Dao Seeds and Golden Cores, then studied Hengyuan’s Taixuan method to begin drafting his Creation Golden Core.