Arc 18Dragon Siege and Western Curses

Fu Henghua exposed the Fu Clan head’s deception and organized the defense against the East Sea Dragon King, whose defeat left the clan rebuilding. After hosting a cultivation gathering, Fu Henghua was abducted and pursued into the Western Sea, where he bound Xuanjian True Person and became trapped with other cultivators on a cursed island.

  • Fu Henghua restored Fu Xuanxing and Fang Dongyuan’s memories, exposed the Fu Family Head’s staged death, and discovered the East Sea Dragon King’s growth beneath the clan’s forbidden grounds.
  • Fu Henghua coordinated the Fu Clan and its guests, raised Star City, and crashed it into the Dragon King’s Wood City to advance against his defenses.
  • Fu Xuanxing struck down the Dragon King’s Divine Sense with the Crouching Dragon Jade Sword, while Fu Henghua’s preparations revived him after the reflected attack.
  • Fu Henghua repelled the arriving water demons, helped rebuild Heavenly Dipper Island with the Spirit Architecture Heartscape Technique, and secured compensation for Fu Xuanxing from the Fu Clan Master.
  • Fu Henghua taught Fu Xuanxing sword techniques and hosted a cultivation gathering whose guests studied his library before his unexplained disappearance.
  • Fu Henghua escaped an Immortal-Imprisoning Coffin, fled Xuanjian True Person and the Dragon-Slaying Blood Curse, and helped free the ruler of Water Tree Kingdom from the Ice Demon.
  • Fu Henghua subdued Xuanjian True Person with linked curses, investigated an Evil Sovereign relic, and left warnings that helped Fu Yaozhen and Fu Xuanxing escape its dangers.
  • Fu Henghua joined Yin Yanqing on Leopard-Tail Island, where mysterious deaths and dense fog trapped the cultivators near Seven Luminaries Manor as they investigated destroyed urns and an elixir said to revive the dead.
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Ch. 432The True and False Brocade Boxes

Fu Henghua investigated the schemes surrounding the Fu Clan’s succession while secretly helping Fu Xiangfeng reach the suppressed Totem Tree. At the gathering to judge two competing wills, Fu Tongjun revealed that Henghua was responsible for the Fu Clan head’s death and the missing memories, leaving the gathered family stunned.

  • Fu Henghua secretly stole a steward’s account book, while Fu Tongjun and Yin Yanqing located the four artifacts anchoring an array that concealed events in Heart-Nurturing Hall.
  • Fu Henghua learned that the Qiongtian Grand Rite aimed to create a new Tribulation Immortal guardian, then guided Fu Xiangfeng through the Heavenly Dipper seal toward the Totem Tree.
  • Fu Henghua prepared Fu Xuanxing with a life-preserving stew for his birthday and attended the opening of two rival brocade boxes, each containing a different supposed testament from the Fu Clan head.
  • Fu Henghua argued that both wills could be genuine but could not establish the clan head’s true intentions, halting the pavilion masters’ confrontation.
  • Fu Tongjun announced that Fu Henghua had killed the Fu Clan head and erased Fu Xuanxing and Fang Dongyuan’s memories, shocking the Fu Family members.

Ch. 433The Oriole Lurks Behind

Fu Tongjun accused Fu Henghua of concealing the circumstances of the Fu Family Head’s apparent death, and Fu Henghua’s Cloud Scroll revealed how he had hidden Fu Xuanxing’s memories and altered the scene. After the past was reconstructed, Heng Hua suggested the Family Head might not be dead and called on him to appear.

  • Fu Tongjun accused Fu Henghua of sealing away Fu Xuanxing and Fang Dongyuan’s memories to conceal that the Fu Family Head had died in front of Fu Xuanxing.
  • Fu Henghua revealed the Cloud Scroll, returned the two men’s memories, and allowed Fu Yunyao to use retrospection to reconstruct events in Heart-Nurturing Hall.
  • The reconstructed scenes showed Fu Henghua examining the corpse, attempting an incomplete resurrection technique, and altering the scene to obscure what had happened.
  • The memories revealed that Fu Xuanxing had awakened beside the corpse, panicked, and sought help, while Fu Henghua had deliberately hidden his expression from witnesses and photographs.
  • Fu Tongjun concluded that the Family Head had likely committed suicide to frame Fu Xuanxing, but Fu Henghua questioned whether the man was dead at all and called for him to appear.

Ch. 434Wood Dragon Imprisons Sparrow (Three-in-One, Ten-Thousand-Word Mega Chapter, Bidding Farewell to the Old Year and Welcoming the New)

Fu Henghua exposed the Fu Family Head’s fake death and used a rewritten Soul Book to impersonate him, while the real man remained hidden and confused. A sealed Immortal-Grade Jade Flower awakened as a dragon tied to the East Sea Dragon King, trapping everyone on Heavenly Dipper Island as Fu Henghua and his sisters prepared to respond.

  • Fu Henghua used a locating spell to reveal that the apparent Fu Family Head was possessing Fu Hongyan, and he explained the elder’s plan to fake his death to evade a tribulation.
  • The Fu Family Head accepted the explanation that his children had misunderstood his plans, while Fu Henghua secretly used the Soul Book to make Fu Hongyan believe he was the family head.
  • A dragon-like growth erupted near the Fu Clan’s forbidden grounds, and Fu Henghua recognized its roots and vines as belonging to an Azure Dragon; the Yellow Matron Spirit Deity rescued Fu Hongyan and captured him in a Heaven-and-Earth Vat.
  • Fu Tongjun and Fu Henghua concluded that the Immortal-Grade Jade Flower had grown from a Divine Dragon’s Reverse Scale, and Fu Henghua identified the dragon as Cang, the East Sea Dragon King.
  • The Fu Clan and its guests discovered that communications and the Celestial Profound Dao Platform had been sealed, while the dragon’s roots trapped many clansmen in flower buds; Fu Henghua asked Fu Yaozhen and Fu Tongjun to help prepare a response.

Ch. 435Lying Low by Day, Emerging at Night

Fu Henghua organized the Fu Clan and their guests to defend Heavenly Dipper Island and prepare a single strike against the East Sea Dragon King's Immortal Jade Spirit Flower. The group planned to delay the Dragon King's transformation until night, then locate his natal spirit flower and have Fu Xuanxing attack it, while Henghua prepared a curse as a fallback.

  • The Heavenly Valor Pavilion Master and Heavenly Hero Pavilion Master used a formation to escape the Wood Dragon after Wind Resonance restored their mana, and they returned to the Celestial Chief Pavilion where Fu Henghua directed the survivors.
  • Fu Henghua and the Dharma Performers learned that the Dragon King had sealed Heavenly Dipper Island off from the outside, while the Thirty-Six Star Pavilions activated their forbidden arts and formed a protective domain.
  • Fu Henghua reasoned that the Dragon King might have evolved from algae and was still transforming as a plant Spirit Embryo, so the cultivators debated when he could be attacked and how to identify his natal spirit flower.
  • Fu Henghua proposed delaying the Dragon King until after the hour of You, then having Fu Xuanxing use the Crouching Dragon Jade Sword and Southern Bright Li Fire Sword Scabbard for one decisive strike.
  • Fu Henghua assigned the Fu Clan and their guests to harass the roots and seize five locations, then gathered the Dharma Performers to compose a Heavenly Dipper Grand Curse in case Fu Xuanxing's strike failed.

Ch. 436Feather Fan and Silk Headscarf (Six Thousand Words)

Fu Henghua coordinated the Fu Clan’s campaign to seize Heavenly Dipper Island’s five spiritual acupoints, contain the Dragon King, and prepare to contact the outside world. With the island covered by the Precious Lotus Glazed Canopy, the Dragon King attacked the newly formed Five-Element Spirit Veins, while Fu Henghua’s allies prepared for the coming night and a massive Scarlet Script spell.

  • Fu Hongxin and his brothers cleared a northern cliff, sent distress signals that the Dragon King’s roots blocked, and hurried away as a gigantic root destroyed the cliff and bloomed into a flower.
  • The Heavenly Valor Pavilion Master used a poison arrow to destroy a Dragon-Scale Wood root, then his group was driven from the spiritual acupoint by Blossom-and-Leaf Troops before the Heavenly Blessing Pavilion Master defeated them with a formation.
  • Madam Miaoyue helped the Heavenly Hero Pavilion Master destroy dragon-beast guards with layered Udumbara Flower Seals, while the Heavenly Weeping Pavilion Master sent yin soldiers against tree demons at another acupoint.
  • Fu Henghua’s forces secured the remaining spiritual acupoints, and An Jingcheng raised the Five Elements Mountain as Fu Yaozhen’s teams built five Talisman Pagodas and formed a barrier around the island.
  • The Dragon King sent Azure Dragon roots to attack the Five Elements Mountain and the new Five-Element Spirit Veins, while Fu Henghua allowed Hong Changyi and Fu Xuanxing to prepare a secret treasure for that night.
  • Fu Henghua and the spell theorists continued compiling a lengthy Scarlet Script text for a major spell that he planned to cast before dusk.

Ch. 437Grandmaster Dao Corpse

Hong Changyi and Fu Xuanxing prepared a phoenix-plume secret sword for Fu Henghua while the Dragon King’s forces besieged Heavenly Dipper Island. As the Fu Clan’s ancestral defenses faltered, a Grandmaster Dao Corpse and a mysterious Spirit Portrait helped them resist, while Fu Henghua questioned the sealed Totem Spirit about its ties to the clan.

  • Hong Changyi revealed that Hong Xuanji had forged a five-element artificial phoenix feather for Fu Henghua, and Fu Xuanxing sealed it inside a Star Profound sword using the Eight Trigrams Furnace Method.
  • The Dragon King sent Golden Core dragon beasts to attack the Talisman Pagodas, and Fu Henghua calmed the defenders and ordered them to follow the retreat plan while targeting the Dragon-Claw Immortal Jade.
  • Fu Henghua explained that the flower buds could serve as vessels for the Dragon King’s descent and urged the Fu Clan to deploy its Grandmaster Dao Corpses against the threat.
  • Fu Xiangfeng left the back mountain to help defend the island, and Lady Huang’s incarnation stayed behind to question the Totem Spirit about which side it would support.
  • The Fu Clan’s first shrine released a Grandmaster Dao Corpse that destroyed dragon beasts, but the second held a weakened corpse stripped of its spirit robe, and the third contained a Spirit Portrait that transformed into a fan-wielding ancestor and guided clansmen to safety.
  • Fu Henghua and Lady Huang learned that the Spirit Portrait’s maker had left the Fu Clan generations earlier, and Fu Henghua wondered whether the unknown master had gone to Relict Continent.

Ch. 438Star Pavilion Silver City

Fu Henghua and the Fu Clan prepared to face the East Sea Dragon King's fortified Ninefold Demon Towers, while the Dragon King reinforced his defenses and unleashed armies across the region. At dusk, Fu Henghua formed a Star City, shattered much of Heavenly Dipper Island to establish his position, and called everyone to gather for an attack.

  • The spirit painting attacked the Dragon King's roots but was destroyed by the nine azure dragons, and Heng Hua explained that the Dragon King planned to stall until dawn behind the Ninefold Demon Towers.
  • The Dragon King spawned more dragon beasts and attacked the five talisman towers, while Fu Henghua and An Jingcheng destroyed the towers and transferred the spirit acupoints' remaining power into Five Elements Mountain.
  • Fu Danwei sensed that Fu Yongbao and his descendants had vanished from his perception, then sent Qiu Yu to investigate the Fu Clan and deliver a birthday gift to Xuanxing.
  • Fu Henghua rose into the sky and used the Thirty-Six Star Pavilions to create a Star City facing the Azure Dragon Wood City.
  • Fu Henghua shattered most of Heavenly Dipper Island as he established the Star City's position, then ordered everyone to gather at the astral pavilion drill grounds in fifteen minutes and attack the Azure Dragon Demon Tower.

Ch. 439Meteor Falls Again

Fu Henghua prepared the Fu Clan for its assault on Azure Dragon Wood City, using a sinister talisman to preserve fallen fighters and exposing the Dragon King’s Wood Wraith deception. As the battle began, he and Fu Yaozhen and Fu Tongjun summoned a meteor barrage, then sent Heavenly Dipper Silver City crashing into Wood City.

  • Fu Hongxin distributed the clan’s limited supply of pills, while Zhu Yuxue explained group combat and Fu Henghua revealed that five cultivators would handle healing.
  • Fu Henghua showed the Golden Talisman Dao Master Corpse-Soul Yin Talismans meant to keep the Fu Clan alive, and the Dao Master warned him about their curse.
  • The Fu Clan discovered that several supposedly dead fighters returning to Heart-Nurturing Hall were Wood Wraiths; the Heavenly Leisure Pavilion Master burned them, and Fu Henghua guided their souls to the Soul-Guiding Platform.
  • Heavenly Dipper Star City’s cultivators blasted Azure Dragon Wood City with divine thunder, while Fu Henghua, Fu Yaozhen, and Fu Tongjun summoned meteors with their star staffs.
  • The Dragon King dismissed the meteor attack, so Fu Henghua’s spiritual projection ordered the Dharma Performers to restore the Ninefold Demon Towers as Fu Henghua and the two women detonated their staffs and sent Heavenly Dipper Silver City crashing into Wood City.

Ch. 440Tiangang Divine Powers

Fu Henghua and the Fu Clan held back the East Sea Dragon King’s Azure Dragon incarnations while the Dragon King reshaped the Great Triadic Barrier to thwart Henghua’s plan. Henghua deployed Heavenly Dipper arts to support the assault on the remaining Demon Towers, leaving the guest cultivators to cross the dangerous ruins toward them.

  • Yan Lin and the others arranged three Demon Towers into a Great Triadic Barrier as Star City and Wood City collapsed into three floating islands.
  • The Fu Clan pavilion masters joined forces to suppress six Azure Dragon incarnations, while Fu Yunrou unleashed her secret treasures and divine lightning against one of them.
  • A Fu Clan senior used the Six Jia Wonder Gates and the Heavenly Dipper Star Pavilions to strengthen the dragon-suppressing formations, but the Dragon King’s Triple Profound Light Realm prevented Henghua from breaking through all three gates at once.
  • The senior took Fu Clan juniors to attack one remaining Demon Tower, leaving the other two to the guest cultivators, and Henghua summoned Star-Deity Dao Soldiers to help them advance.
  • Henghua used Mastery of the Five Thunders to retrieve a sword lost in the magnetic ruins and used Revival from Death to restore cultivators killed by the Dragon King’s Wind-Dragon and Thunder-Dragon Soldiers.

Ch. 441Spirit of Azure Wood

An Jingcheng and Fang Dongyuan’s group crossed the floating islands and attacked the Azure Dragon Demon Tower while Fu Henghua coordinated a battle of wits against the Dragon King. The Dragon King’s revived wood roots and transformed beasts kept the fighting fierce, but the Totem Spirit joined the Fu Clan’s defense, leaving Heng Hua to question the Dragon King about the Spirit’s origins.

  • An Jingcheng used Heng Hua’s Call the Wind, Summon the Rain to clear a route through the mist, and the cultivators crossed nine floating islands to reach the Azure Dragon Demon Tower.
  • An Jingcheng and Fu Henghua’s forces fought the Dragon King’s arrow towers and Dragon-Horn Dao Soldiers as Fang Dongyuan’s group began dismantling the defenses.
  • The Dragon King tried to exploit Fu Henghua’s divided attention and considered Fu Henghua, Fu Xuanxing, and several others potential threats, while Fu Henghua monitored the Dragon King’s moves through the Constellation Chess Game.
  • Eastwood Sword Immortal used a Heavenly Sword Golden Wheel talisman to destroy an Azure Dragon Wood Root, but the Dragon King transformed its remains into a Heavenly Dipper Tree that Fu Tongjun and her gu insects attacked.
  • The Dragon King revived other Azure Dragon Wood Roots and sent dragon beasts against the Fu Clan, while the Totem Spirit absorbed escaping wood qi to protect the Thirty-Six Star Pavilions.
  • Fu Henghua asked the Dragon King whether the Totem Spirit had been created by a previous civilization with an inborn command to protect its clan, surprising the Dragon King.

Ch. 442Demonic Saint Emperor

Fu Henghua transformed into a Heavenly Demon and defeated the Azure Dragon King in a possible future, while Fu Yaozhen watched the vision unfold. In the present, Fu Henghua created an uncontrolled totem figurine and sent it toward Yin Yanqing as Fu Xuanxing prepared to enter the forbidden ground.

  • Fu Henghua invoked the Heavenly Demon Scripture and challenged the Dragon King to face the heavenly tribulation together.
  • Fu Yaozhen watched a possible future in which Fu Henghua defeated the Dragon King and planned to gather Donglai's living beings inside his divine diagram.
  • Fu Henghua questioned the Dragon King about totem spirits and considered how their creation might reveal the Dao of life.
  • Fu Xuanxing returned with the Crouching Dragon Jade Sword, and Fu Yaozhen directed him to join Fang Dongyuan and enter the forbidden ground.
  • Fu Henghua fashioned an unrestrained Star God totem from Breath Soil and sent it toward Yin Yanqing using First Heavenly Dipper Art, Revolve Creation.

Ch. 443The Dragon King's Divine Extinction

Yin Yanqing and the cultivators fought the Azure Dragon Wood roots while Fu Henghua’s allies broke through the defenses to send Fu Xuanxing into the forbidden ground. Fu Xuanxing struck down the East Sea Dragon King, then survived the Dragon King’s reflected attack as Fu Henghua’s preparations destroyed his final Divine Sense.

  • Yin Yanqing’s group failed to destroy the regenerating Azure Dragon Wood roots until Fu Liuhui and Qilei helped the cultivators unleash a massive thunder attack.
  • Fu Xuange gathered the cultivators’ strength through the Myriad Immortals Formation and used Crimson Cometfall to rip the Azure Dragon Wood root from the ground, while Fu Xiangfeng and Tianqi broke through the realm’s barriers.
  • Fu Henghua summoned Star Gods to attack the dragon-beast guards, and Fu Xiangfeng used Wind-Borrowing Cloud-Rising to carry Fu Xuanxing past the Dragon King’s Near at Hand, Ends of Earth formation.
  • Fu Henghua, Fu Xiangfeng, Fu Xuange, Fu Liuhui, Fu Yaozhen, and Fu Tongjun formed a blood-linked array that summoned the Wind Sovereign’s eye and sent Fu Xuanxing to the Heavenly Dipper Star Realm’s core.
  • Fu Xuanxing drew the empowered Crouching Dragon Jade Sword and killed the East Sea Dragon King with the sword strike that had slain him before.
  • The Dragon King’s Dead Mirror Art reflected Fu Xuanxing’s sword strike, but Fu Henghua’s Starfall Pendant and Golden Jade Eight-Treasure Stew enabled a chained reflection that killed the Dragon King’s remaining Divine Sense and revived Fu Xuanxing.

Ch. 444A Brief Respite After the Battle

Fu Henghua and the cultivators stopped the Azure Dragon King’s revival, but the Dragon King’s remaining traps unleashed new threats across Heavenly Dipper Island. As the Fu Clan struggled with a Dragon Aberration and the failing star realm, reinforcements from Yanlong and the East Sea Dragon Palace arrived.

  • Fu Henghua clarified that they had dispersed a strand of the Dragon King’s Divine Sense, then treated Fu Xuanxing and planned to help him master the Li Tian Sword Master’s Sword Dao.
  • A Mystic Thunder Golden Wood and a wind-spirit Mushroom King emerged from the destroyed Azure Dragon Wood roots, and the cultivators agreed to share their materials.
  • Fu Henghua realized the Dragon King had prepared three tribulation traps and learned that the Dragon King had sacrificed ten thousand years of cultivation to power his Dead Mirror Art.
  • Six wooden roots fused into a Dragon Aberration after destroying the Thirty-Six Star Pavilions, while the Heavenly Dipper Star Realm began to collapse and the Fu Clan’s resurrection support failed.
  • The Heavenly Leisure Pavilion Master spent his final scroll to help restrain the Dragon Aberration, and Hong Changyi delivered Fu Henghua a small sword-shaped secret treasure.
  • Hong Changyi warned that water demons from Yanlong and remnants of the East Sea Dragon Palace had arrived, apparently intending to welcome the Dragon King back.

Ch. 445Thousand Peaks Linking Heaven

Heng Hua destroyed the water-demon army at Heavenly Dipper Island, where the Wood God revived the dead Fu Clan members and then split into three new branches. The chapter ended with Heng Hua confronting the Fu Family Head’s scheme and arranging to meet him that night.

  • Heng Hua used Thousand Peaks Linking Heaven to annihilate nearly all the water demons and took the young dragon away.
  • The Wood God revived the dead Fu Clan members by restoring their bodies and housing their souls, then began to wither from the effort.
  • Heng Hua revealed that the Fu Family Head had cut off the Wood God’s sustenance and used a banyan root to make three new branches.
  • The new branches flew to Heng Hua, a Fu Clan branch elder, and another destination, while Heng Hua realized the Wood God had prepared a way to escape the main clan.
  • Heng Hua told the Fu Clan that Senior Fu had helped stop the Dragon King’s tenth wooden root, and the Fu Family Head left after accepting Heng Hua’s invitation to talk that night.

Ch. 446Spiritual Platform Seeks the Dao

After the battle with the Fu Clan, Fu Henghua helped restore Heavenly Dipper Island and devised the Spirit Architecture Heartscape Technique, a new cultivation method that let cultivators manifest structures and blueprints through their domains. The chapter ended with Fu Henghua creating an introductory Heavenly Book for the Spirit Architecture lineage just as the Fu Clan Head approached.

  • Fu Henghua returned with the depleted Eight-Faced Narrow Sword, and the Central Heaven cultivators offered to recharge it together using Five Elements Mountain.
  • Fu Yongbao revealed that he had disguised himself as An Jingcheng, then joined the others in discussing Fu Henghua's Five Elements Mountain Method.
  • Fu Tongjun diagnosed Fu Xuanxing's condition and discovered that his sword scabbard was absorbing the powers of the Dragon Kings, while Fu Yaozhen and Fu Tongjun agreed to keep the secret from Fu Henghua.
  • Fu Henghua acknowledged that he had put Fu Xuanxing at risk, promised to apologize, and agreed to remain on Heavenly Dipper Island while the Fu Clan rebuilt it.
  • Fu Henghua and Yin Yanqing developed the Spirit Architecture Heartscape Technique, which Fu Henghua shared across the island; Fu Nishang used its blueprints to manifest Firecloud Pavilion, and the pavilion masters used the method to restore the Astral Pavilions.
  • Fu Henghua created the Imperial Court Spirit Terrace Scripture as an introductory Heavenly Book for Spirit Architects, tossed its miniature pavilion into the water, and watched the approaching Fu Clan Head.

Ch. 448Master of the Fu Clan (Auspicious New Year!)

Fu Henghua confronted the Fu Clan Master, negotiated compensation for Fu Xuanxing, and acquired ancient Fu Clan texts. After Qiu Yu brought Fu Xuanxing’s recovered treasures, Heng Hua returned to developing the Spirit Architect path, whose growing influence caught Yin Yanqing’s attention.

  • Fu Henghua confronted the Fu Clan Master about involving Fu Xuanxing, recognized a mysterious Fate Track, and agreed to let the matter end if the Fu Clan Master returned to his true body.
  • Fu Henghua demanded compensation for Fu Xuanxing and ancient texts, and the Fu Clan Master handed over a totem technique scroll and the Myriad Wood Azure Leaf Register.
  • Qiu Yu gave Fu Henghua the treasures he had taken from the Fu Clan treasury, including the Dark Mysterious True Water Fu Xuanxing needed, and invited him on a treasure-hunting expedition.
  • Fu Henghua declined Qiu Yu’s invitation and discussed his Spirit Architecture Heartscape Technique and new opportunities for Spirit Architects and Cinnabar-and-Blue painters on the Dao Platform.
  • Yin Yanqing watched Dao Virtue qi gather around Fu Henghua and wondered whether he might be the future figure destined to achieve Civilization Dao-Proof.

Ch. 449Yuanpeng Library

After recovering from the Dragon King's attack, Fu Xuanxing began training in the Southern Li Sword Formula while Heng Hua organized the Fu Family members' stay in the Grotto of Spirit Tribulations. Heng Hua also planned a library and a gathering there, then watched Tribulation Immortals battle using manifested Dao Palaces and wondered when he could join them.

  • Heng Hua told the recovering Fu Xuanxing that the Dragon King's divine consciousness had been destroyed and gave him a ring of treasures as compensation for using his death to counterattack.
  • Heng Hua taught Fu Xuanxing the Southern Li Thirteen-Sword Formula in the Grotto of Spirit Tribulations, and Fu Xuanxing practiced it successfully despite his injuries.
  • Fu Xuange showed Heng Hua and Fu Xuanxing a Starwood core for a weapon, and Heng Hua sent Fu Xuange and Fu Tongjun to rescue Mei Zhongtian from a tribulation in Yuanming.
  • Heng Hua arranged for the Fu Family members to cultivate in the grotto and assigned Xiaoyu and Hengshou to prepare a library, while he planned a Double Ninth Festival banquet.
  • Heng Hua received images of Tribulation Immortals battling with manifested Dao Palaces and watched the Heaven-Piercing Purple-Qi Tower face a host of rival inner scenes.

Ch. 450Double-Nine Gathering

Fu Henghua hosted the Double-Nine Gathering at the Grotto of Spirit Tribulations, drawing young cultivators from across Donglai to share food, books, and immortal inheritances. As the guests explored his library and entered the grotto, Huang Yu arrived carrying a hidden consciousness that recognized Fu Henghua as a threat, prompting Henghua to summon Fu Pengming to study the Heavenly Book Dao.

  • Fu Henghua sent invitations across the three great waters, and the guests discussed the East Sea Dragon Palace conflict, the absent invitees, and who would attend from their regions.
  • Young cultivators from Central Heaven, the Golden Direction Water Region, and the Mystic Jade Waters arrived at Yuanpeng Mountain, where Fu Henghua welcomed them and revealed a crab mountain created through the Creation Art.
  • Fu Henghua led the guests through Yuanpeng Curio Hall, where they found his vast library of Dao texts and began studying its collections before entering the immortal cave.
  • Fu Danyu discovered that Fu Henghua's Stellar Manual contained unusually complete early cultivation methods, secretly hid it, and resolved to take it back to the Fu Clan.
  • Fu Henghua directed Huang Yu to a passage suited to his cultivation, while the hidden consciousness in Huang Yu's mind warned that Fu Henghua's Heavenly Book embryos could destroy it.
  • Fu Henghua ordered Fu Pengming to come cultivate at the Grotto of Spirit Tribulations until he researched the Heavenly Book Dao art, and arranged for Fu Danwei to have Fu Yifu take over Pengming's business.

Ch. 451Henghua's Disappearance

Fu Henghua’s Spirit Tribulation Symposium spread his influence across Donglai as cultivators gained knowledge and advanced their cultivation. After more than a decade, Fu Liuhui discovered that Henghua had vanished from his quarters and the Grotto of Spirit Tribulations, prompting her to summon the Fu family.

  • Huang Yu returned to Yuanpeng Library, where Fu Henghua recognized his Book of Changing Heaven and the Eight Extremes path and gave him books to study.
  • Fu Henghua kept Fu Pengming in seclusion, making him write and calculate hexagrams until he refined a Dao seed.
  • Fu Tongjun learned that Dongfang Yunqi had sent away a mortal imitation of herself and that she and Fu Henghua had avoided meeting because she could not bear his pity.
  • Lu Zhenzhen reached Foundation Establishment, Yun Mengyin formed her core, and other guests gained cultivation insights from the library and symposium.
  • Fu Henghua’s annual gatherings became renowned, and he established a select circle of young cultivators across the three great waters.
  • Xiaoyu told Shu Tianci that Fu Henghua was missing, and Fu Liuhui confirmed through their bloodline connection that he was not on Cuiyun Island and called for the Fu family.

Ch. 452Escape Journey

Fu Henghua was abducted and imprisoned in the Western Sea, where he escaped his captors only to be confronted by Xuanjian True Person, who demanded the Heavenly Evil Sword Qi. After Xuanjian wounded him, Henghua fled toward the South Sea while his family and allies searched for him.

  • Fu Tongjun and the others searched Fu Henghua’s room, found no signs of a struggle, and feared a powerful enemy had taken him for his abilities as a Dharma Performer.
  • Fu Yaozhen learned that Fu Henghua had vanished and used her Mystic Sight to investigate, while Hengshou went to Five Elements Mountain to seek answers from the Wukong Incarnation.
  • Fu Henghua awoke inside an Immortal-Imprisoning Coffin with his mana sealed and suspected that Qiu Yu or Yu Yuyu had arranged his abduction.
  • Fu Henghua broke free when a blind sword cultivator opened the coffin and recognized the attacker as Xuanjian True Person, who demanded the Heavenly Evil Sword Qi.
  • Fu Henghua fled across the Western Sea using secret treasures, but Xuanjian struck him down, severed his arm, and shattered one of his life-replacing spirit jades.
  • Fu Henghua treated his wound and redirected his escape toward the South Sea, puzzling Xuanjian True Person, who had expected him to flee toward the Yellow Dragon Mountain Range.

Ch. 453Ice Demon's Calamity

Fu Henghua struggled to escape Xuanjian True Person while the Azure Dragon King's delayed blood curse made the Western Sea hostile to him. Their flight led them to Water Tree Kingdom, where they joined forces against the Ice Demon, and Fu Henghua left Xuanjian True Person unconscious as the kingdom's ruler survived.

  • Fu Henghua discovered that the Azure Dragon King's Dragon-Slaying Blood Curse had activated in the Western Sea and forced its Dragon Clan and dependents to attack him.
  • Fu Henghua fled toward Water Tree Kingdom while Xuanjian True Person pursued him, and the two clashed as Xuanjian True Person revealed his Foundation Establishment cultivation and Heavenly Evil Sword Body.
  • Fu Henghua and Xuanjian True Person reached Water Tree Kingdom and found the Ice Demon freezing the kingdom and suppressing its ruler.
  • Fu Henghua and Xuanjian True Person destroyed the four ice steles, allowing the ruler of Water Tree Kingdom to break free and counterattack the Ice Demon.
  • The Ice Demon struck Fu Henghua and Xuanjian True Person with soul-targeting spells, but Fu Henghua escaped and used the Three-Treasure Ruyi Ring Sword to knock Xuanjian True Person unconscious.
  • The ruler of Water Tree Kingdom survived and called for aid, while Fu Henghua hoped Senior Qiu would soon find him.

Ch. 454New Year's First Dawn, May All Things Be Auspicious

Fu Henghua captured Xuanjian True Person, used a curse to bind their lives, and persuaded him to accompany him to an Evil Sovereign relic. After discovering the relic’s connection to a stolen human head and abandoning the golden gate when Xuanjian warned it would kill them, Henghua revealed that their real target was the Frogman King.

  • Xuanjian True Person woke in a cave restrained by Henghua, who had used a Golden Hoop Method to suppress his damaged soul.
  • The Ice Demon fled Water Tree Kingdom, and Fu Yaozhen and Fu Xuanxing learned that a human head containing memories had been stolen from the kingdom.
  • Henghua read the head’s memories and discovered an Evil Sovereign domain, then bound Xuanjian True Person with a curse that made him take Henghua’s place in death.
  • Henghua promised to help resolve the flaw in Xuanjian True Person’s eyes and brought him to the relic, where they found white-bone pagodas and a golden gate.
  • Xuanjian True Person warned Henghua that entering the golden gate would kill them, so Henghua abandoned the attempt and called out the Frogman King hiding among the frogs.
  • Henghua trapped the Frogman King with the Five Elements Mountain Method and urged Xuanjian True Person to kill him, offering to end their grudges.

Ch. 455The Resplendent Seven Luminaries

Fu Yaozhen and Fu Xuanxing joined the kingdom lords in exploring Seven Luminaries City, where they discovered Fu Henghua’s warnings and learned that a true dragon lurked beyond the Golden Gate. They escaped the collapsing ruin and reached Yellow Banner Village, while Fu Henghua and Profound Sword were rescued at sea by Yin Yanqing and headed toward Leopard-Tail Island.

  • Fu Yaozhen and Fu Xuanxing entered the bone-tower ruins with the Water Tree Kingdom Lord and the lords of Heavenly Purity and White Wave, where their guide suddenly turned to ashes.
  • Fu Xuanxing found Fu Henghua’s warning on a Millennium Incense fragment, and Fu Yaozhen used Mystic Sight to learn that Fu Henghua and Profound Sword had killed the Frogman King.
  • The group found Fu Henghua’s further warnings about the Ten Thousand Eyes Convergence Formation and the Golden Gate, but the Heavenly Purity Kingdom Lord and Duan Yue continued toward the gate.
  • Fu Yaozhen recognized Fu Henghua’s blood curse on the Golden Gate, and Fu Xuanxing sensed that a true dragon was inside as black mist and animated bone towers trapped the retreating cultivators.
  • Fu Yaozhen led Fu Xuanxing and the Water Tree Kingdom Lord’s group through a vortex to the Western Sea, where they emerged near Yellow Banner Village.
  • Fu Henghua and Profound Sword were rescued from the sea by Yin Yanqing, and Fu Henghua agreed to visit Leopard-Tail Island to investigate an ancient ruin.

Ch. 456Seven Luminaries Manor

Fu Henghua arrived at Leopard-Tail Island with Xuanjian True Person and joined Yin Yanqing and Zhang Xiangying to investigate Seven Luminaries Manor and its ancient ruins. When they entered the manor’s main hall, the Qiankun Pavilion Master, the Five-Thunder Divine Lord, and Heaven-Yin Boy appeared, leaving Heng Hua stunned by the gathering of Nascent Soul Grandmasters.

  • Xuanjian True Person tried several methods to break Fu Henghua’s linked Three Realms Five Elements curse system, but each attempt failed.
  • Fu Henghua told Yin Yanqing a fabricated story about how Xuanjian True Person had rescued him, while privately saying he was helping stabilize Xuanjian’s Dao heart.
  • The group disembarked on Leopard-Tail Island, where Xuanjian True Person recognized a ruined statue of the Sun Radiance Star God and Zhang Xiangying explained the site’s ancient history.
  • Zhang Xiangying said that outsiders had arrived at Seven-Night Manor, and she led Yin Yanqing, Fu Henghua, and Xuanjian True Person there to investigate.
  • After learning that someone had died in the manor’s main hall, the group entered and was met by a jade tower attack that Xuanjian True Person deflected.
  • The Qiankun Pavilion Master and the Five-Thunder Divine Lord emerged from the hall, followed by Heaven-Yin Boy.

Ch. 457Yellow Banner, Leopard Tail

Fu Henghua investigated the deaths at Seven Luminaries Manor and found that an unknown curse and a strange fog trapped the group on Leopard-Tail Island. Meanwhile, Fu Yaozhen and Fu Xuanxing were stranded in Yellow Banner Village with several dangerous factions, and the chapter ended with the Western Hero suspecting Fu Henghua’s father had once sought to revive a dead friend on the island.

  • Wang Dan arrived at Seven Luminaries Manor, and the Western Hero examined a subordinate who had mysteriously choked to death before Uncle Liu burned alive despite everyone’s attempts to save him.
  • Fu Henghua and Ouyang Ziming discovered that three of the manor’s nine sealed chambers had been opened and their ash-filled urns destroyed, while the group suspected an unknown curse was at work.
  • The party found that dense fog trapped them on Leopard-Tail Island and that their combined flames could not destroy Seven Luminaries Manor, so they camped outside.
  • The Western Hero told Fu Henghua that Yellow Banner Village had once been swallowed by a tsunami and that a survivor might connect the village to Seven Luminaries Manor.
  • Fu Yaozhen woke in Yellow Banner Village and learned that the Five Poisons Sect Master, Qiu, and Ao Dezheng’s Celestial Maiden Sect were also on the island.
  • Five-Thunder Divine Lord revealed that he sought an elixir said to revive the dead, and the Western Hero realized Fu Henghua’s father might have come to the island to revive a deceased friend.
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