Recaps

Donglai’s elders inspected the returning ships and travelers, uncovering strange insect eggs and imposing strict controls on imported goods. After Hengshou and Xiaoyu joined Fu Henghua at his Dao Palace on Five Elements Mountain, he asked them in a dream to have Dongfang Yunqi host a celebration banquet as the Ancient Wilds City plan advanced.

• Fu Danwei and the other elders inspected the returning ships, searched passengers and rooms, and verified Fu Henghua’s Spirit Souls and alms bowl.
• Hengyu True Person found alien-tainted insect eggs among the imported fruit, and Fu Danwei destroyed them and ordered all foreign plants and ship debris carefully checked.
• Fu Danwei questioned Hengshou and Xiaoyu about Fu Henghua and Fu Xuanhe, then sent the two to guard Fu Henghua at the Dao Palace on Five Elements Mountain.
• Fu Henghua appeared to Hengshou and Xiaoyu in a dream and told them to ask Dongfang Yunqi to host a celebration banquet for the returning group.

Fu Henghua used his influence over the demonic Dao to force Zhu Yu to hand over Yuan Yue’s head, while Zhu Yu secretly preserved his disciple’s soul. The chapter left Yuan Yue vowing revenge and Fu Henghua treating the head as a tool for Yuan Yue’s eventual cultivation.

• Meng Chen placed Fu Henghua’s collected Southern Continent classics in the Yuanpeng Library, unknowingly allowing eight Demonic Tomes to settle in the Grotto of Spirit Tribulations.
• At Dongfang Yunqi’s banquet, she agreed to help Hengshou and Yu Luan deliver Fu Henghua’s order to Zhu Yu to kill Yuan Yue.
• Hengshou suppressed a Demon Dao altar master and used Fu Henghua’s letter to compel Zhu Yu to appear and read the order.
• Zhu Yu delivered Yuan Yue’s head, while secretly preserving Yuan Yue’s true soul and promising to seek a reconstructed body for him.
• Yuan Yue vowed to obstruct Fu Henghua’s path to enlightenment, and Fu Henghua ordered Hengshou to store the head for Yuan Yue’s future cultivation.

Yue Jinghan and Fu Hongluan traveled to the Eastern Sea for the Third Sword Debate, where they revived Fu Baixiong from False Stillness and joined him on the journey. As the debate approached, Fu Danwei revealed he had become a Sword Saint, while Yu Xiaolei hurried to greet Yue Jinghan.

• Fu Hongluan led Yue Jinghan to Great Snow Mountain, where Fu Baixiong had cultivated in False Stillness and Li Yuan had stayed with him.
• Fu Hongluan used her Bewitching God Flower Arrow, aided by Yue Jinghan's Sword Qi, to awaken Fu Baixiong, and Li Yuan rekindled his vitality.
• Fu Baixiong and Li Yuan joined the others aboard the painted boat, and Fu Baixiong vowed to confront Jade Sage Pavilion over Fu Qinghan at the Sword Debate.
• On the way to Hundred Flowers Island, Fu Baixiong drove off three masked attackers threatening Fu Pingdao and Yan Shu, while Yue Jinghan cut away an injured youth's death aspect.
• Mu Shansheng learned Fu Henghua would not attend the debate, and Fu Danwei demonstrated that he had reached the Sword Saint level.
• After learning Yue Jinghan had arrived, Yu Xiaolei's companions teased him, and he fled to go greet her.

Yue Jinghan arrived at Hundred Flowers Island with Fu Hongluan and Yu Xiaolei, where Gu Tongxiang revealed that his master Geng Yuxiao had been murdered by the wife he had saved with a cultivation art from Fu Henghua. As the sword contest began, a young swordswoman named Li Wenxian revealed that she had learned a strange sword art from Fu Henghua in a dream, renewing fears about the dangerous things hidden in his dream teachings.

• Yue Jinghan reached Hundred Flowers Island, where Fu Hongluan pressed Yu Xiaolei about proposing to her and Yue Jinghan rejected the idea of a fated bond between them.
• Yu Xiaolei used a Life-Restoring Pill to wake the injured Gu Tongxiang, who said his master Geng Yuxiao was dead.
• Fu Hongluan searched Gu Tongxiang's memories and learned that Geng Yuxiao's wife had murdered him and slaughtered the people on his island after he helped restore her cultivation.
• Yu Xiaolei explained the Hundred Flowers Island sword contest's new rules, while Yue Jinghan chose to remain neutral and accompany Li Yuan to the guest area.
• At the viewing platform, Mu Shengtian urged her descendants to marry, while Li Wenxian captured a Sword Blossom with swordsmanship that Fu Danwei recognized as unusual.
• Zhongli Zihan learned that Li Wenxian had received the Flowerside Netherworld Sword Art from Fu Henghua in a dream, and the spectators recalled the sinister techniques and visions found in his dream realm.

Fu Henghua’s disciples and associates competed for Sword Blossoms, helping the Dao-Sword Lineage take a commanding lead while Fu Henghua remained in seclusion. As Tao Ming arrived and asked for Fu Henghua, Hengshou and Xiaoyu brought a wooden box containing a sword-bearing leaf, whose power drew everyone on Hundred Flowers Island into a dream.

• Fu Qinghan used Fu Henghua’s Deathless Sword Art to force Sima Xin to retreat, then told Dragon Daoist that Fu Henghua was sleeping and passing on Dao arts through dreams.
• Hu Boyan demonstrated Fu Henghua’s First-Grade Lotus Sword to Green Calyx Immortal, while Creation-lineage disciples gathered to guard Sword Blossoms and plan for a coming sword formation battle.
• The dragon maiden Liang, Turtle Immortal, Fire Dragon Daoist, Heavenly Eagle Daoist, and other disciples displayed sword arts taught or inspired by Fu Henghua and won Sword Blossoms.
• Fu Danwei learned of Geng Yuxiao’s death and sent Fu Xiangfeng and Fu Yaozhen to pursue justice; over three days, the Dao-Sword Lineage seized sixty-three Sword Blossoms.
• Tao Ming arrived at the assembly and said Fu Henghua had promised in a dream to make a move; Hengshou and Xiaoyu then presented Fu Henghua’s sword-bearing leaf, causing everyone on the island to fall into a dream.

Fu Henghua used a dreambound sword sealed in an emerald leaf to make the cultivators on Hundred Flowers Island retrace their cultivation and awaken their own Dao Swords. He met the combined attack of the Tribulation Immortals and Sword Saints with the gathered power of those swords, and the contest ended in a draw that confirmed Donglai Dao Temple could welcome another Sword Saint.

• Fu Henghua invited the living beings on Hundred Flowers Island into his dream, where they witnessed his vast understanding of Creation and the Dao.
• Fu Henghua revealed that he could not attend the third sword contest in person, then used an emerald leaf to show them a sword strike sealed in time.
• His Sword Intent forced cultivators to relive their pasts, awakening personal Dao Swords in tens of thousands of them.
• Sui An and the other Tribulation Immortals and Sword Saints attacked Fu Henghua's image beneath the tree, but he rewound the dream to the instant he first struck.
• The awakened Dao Swords joined Fu Henghua's sword against the elders' combined attack, and everyone woke to find the leaf damaged but intact.
• The contest ended in a draw, and the onlookers recognized Fu Henghua's swordsmanship as comparable to a Sword Saint's.

Dongfang Yunqi learned that Fu Henghua’s Three Swords of Sun Return formed the basis of a complete cultivation system and agreed to establish a Sun-Return Treasury. A divination then revealed a looming calamity involving Dragon Souls, prompting Daoist Wukong to call for the Mysterious Bright Demon Palace’s fiends to be captured.

• Daoist Wukong demonstrated the Three Swords of Sun Return, and Dongfang Yunqi recognized their forms as cultivation, movement, and application methods.
• Dongfang Yunqi used her Taiyin Heavenly Book to replicate the technique as the Three Swords of Moon Return.
• The Yellow Matron Spirit Deity asked Dongfang Yunqi to establish a Sun-Return Treasury using Fu Henghua’s projected cultivation methods and Dharma treasure designs.
• Dongfang Yunqi warned that earthquakes and upheavals involving several Dragon Kings could threaten Fu Henghua’s work purifying Dragon Flame on Relict Continent.
• Daoist Wukong divined Dragon Soul Turmoil after Dragon Daoist sensed a powerful True Dragon, and he urged Dongfang Yunqi to notify the seniors and capture the Mysterious Bright Demon Palace’s fiends.

Jade Marvel Immortal Maiden and two Purple Sovereign Pavilion immortals found Mysterious Bright Demon Palace abandoned and trapped, while sword duels at Hundred Flowers Island were disrupted by a dragon uprising. Across Relict Continent, Earth Dragons attacked as Fu Henghua led the Five Elements Dao Palace into battle, with the Dragon Kings’ coordinated upheaval threatening the Immortal Dao on several fronts.

• Jade Marvel Immortal Maiden, Wang Yan, and Yan Chongxing entered Mysterious Bright Demon Palace, broke through its defenses, and discovered its halls were empty and filled with traps.
• Fu Tongjun used Sword Qi gu against Liu Mo and Xu Ziwen, while Yan Chongxing watched the sword duels through his mirror.
• The Dao-Sword Lineage was driven back by combined sword formations, and Fu Tiancang revealed that Fu Henghua’s formation books had helped the other lineages develop them.
• Fu Yaozhen and Qiu Danyu discussed their foreboding about the Celestial Maiden Sect before Hundred Flowers Island shook and people warned that the East Sea Dragon King was reviving.
• Earth Dragons attacked Relict Continent, and Bodhi Daoist assigned the wood spirits to contain the demons while Fu Henghua prepared to face the dragon flame.
• Fu Henghua raised the Cloud Scroll and led the Five Elements Dao Palace and its gathered heavenly forces out to fight the Earth Dragons.

The Dragon Kings and demonic path launched coordinated attacks across Donglai, while the Wukong Spirit Deity used Blood Demon arts to repel the assault at Five Elements Mountain. As the crisis spread, Fu Henghua pushed the rival sword lineages to unite, but he feared the Dragon Kings’ plan could overturn the Ten Thousand Isles.

• The Wukong Spirit Deity absorbed Earth Dragon vitality, became the Blood Demon Zhu Yan, and slaughtered much of the invading army before the South Sea Dragon King appeared.
• Patriarch Linghu and the Tree Kings summoned rain to suppress the fires, but the Cloud Dragon’s soul seized the Cloud Realm Formation and the Wind Dragon’s soul carried demonic cultivators toward the Nine Heavens.
• The Yellow Dragon King began forming an incarnation to break free, while the Red Dragon King ignited the Red Algae Waters and revealed that the Dragon Kings’ attacks were coordinated.
• Fu Henghua urged the sword cultivators at Hundred Flowers Island to join their sword formations, and the younger fighters combined their sword intents with the formations to devastate the water demons.
• Fu Henghua warned his allies that the Dragon Kings might overturn the Ten Thousand Isles, even as they mistook the crisis for another scheme of his.

Fu Henghua’s dream-realm cultivation was interrupted by the crises threatening Donglai, but Dongfang Yunqi and other allies took charge of several fronts while he continued to act from within the dream. As the immortal path fought the Dragon Kings and demons, Zhu Yu concluded that Fu Henghua had orchestrated the demonic path’s moves, leaving the true extent of Fu Henghua’s plans unresolved.

• Fu Henghua saw the fires and North Sea storm spreading across the Dragon Kings’ encirclement and prepared to leave his dream-realm cultivation, but Dongfang Yunqi persuaded him to stay while she and Xuantong High Person went to suppress the Yellow Dragon threat.
• Dongfang Yunqi froze the Yellow Dragon Waters and sent the Heaven-Piercing Tower Lord to help contain the Crimson Algae fire, where Fu Xuanhe arrived and offered the Algae Mother a choice between severing its Dragon King ties or becoming the new Red Dragon.
• Wu Huaiping and his companion inspected the North Sea Dragon King’s corpse, while Hengyuan True Person confronted the Yansheng Dragon King at Dragonreach and warned him to remain sealed.
• The sword cultivators and Tribulation Immortals exterminated the Eastern Sea Dragon Clan and erased the East Sea Dragon King’s imprint before turning their attention to the Wind Dragon True Soul and the demonic forces in the heavens.
• Fu Henghua’s voice reached Zhu Yu and demanded that the Blood Demon die even as Zhu Yu broke through to become a Devil Lord, prompting Zhu Yu to fear that Fu Henghua had manipulated the demonic path all along.

Fu Danwei joined the demonic cultivators’ tribulations, forcing the Wind Dragon True Soul to absorb even fiercer heavenly lightning while the Tribulation Immortals waited for an opening. On Hundred Flowers Island, Li Tang used Fu Henghua’s itch powder to make Yan Li confess her crimes, but Yan Li secretly waited for the growing tribulation to create a chance to strike.

• Bodhi Daoist sent Zhu Yu and Zhang Yue messages meant to sow suspicion and turn them against the Yin Mother.
• Yin Yulong’s Artificial Dragon Pearl helped the Wind Dragon True Soul withstand attacks as Mu Shansheng, Yu Danqing, the Myriad Forms Sword Sage, and others struck the dragon.
• Fu Danwei bound his tribulation fate to the demonic cultivators, strengthening the heavenly lightning and forcing the Wind Dragon True Soul to expend its strength absorbing it.
• On Hundred Flowers Island, the gathered Grandmasters watched as Mu Shengtian and the Fu Family juniors interrogated Yan Li, then Li Tang used Fu Henghua’s Seven-Insect Seven-Leaf Seven-Flower Itch Powder to make her confess to poisoning her husband and harvesting his disciples.
• After Li Tang stopped Gǔtong Township from killing Yan Li, the Grandmasters left to spar with swords, while Yan Li secretly waited for the tribulations to tie down the Tribulation Immortals before she acted.

Fu Henghua and Dongfang Yunqi realized someone had turned his plans against him and caused a disaster at Hundred Flowers Island. As Fu Henghua struggled to keep his dream and true soul stable, Dongfang Yunqi and Patriarch Deng rushed to help the injured.

• Wu Huaiping learned the Thunder-Subduing Hand from Fu Henghua and used it with other Grandmasters to calm the North Sea thunderstorm and expose the dragon corpse.
• Dongfang Yunqi confronted Fu Henghua about his influence on events, and he revealed his plans to unite sword cultivators, demonic cultivators, and aquatic clans after the Third Sword Contest.
• Fu Henghua suspected someone had seen his plans and altered them, then learned that Hundred Flowers Island was burning and that Fu Xuanxing and Fu Yaozhen were missing while many others were injured.
• Dongfang Yunqi steadied Fu Henghua's Spirit Soul and urged him not to wake, while Patriarch Deng set out with her for Hundred Flowers Island.

Dongfang Yunqi investigated Yan Li’s attack on Hundred Flowers Island and learned that Yan Li had used the Heavenly Staff and an immortal artifact to injure the cultivators. Dongfang Yunqi defeated Yan Li with a strike borrowed from her future Dao body, then returned with Yan Li, Gǔtong Township, and the artifact frozen in moonlight.

• Patriarch Deng and Dongfang Yunqi reached the shattered Hundred Flowers Island, where Fu Xiangfeng explained that a modified Heavenly Staff had destroyed it and injured cultivators.
• Dongfang Yunqi checked on Palace Mistress Shangguan and Mu Shengtian, then learned that Yan Li had vanished with Gǔtong Township and suspected the Golden Dawn Celestial Maiden was behind the plot.
• Patriarch Deng helped restore an island from the scattered rocks and learned that Yan Li’s sword might be a cursed weapon made to target Fu Xuanxing and Fu Yaozhen.
• Dongfang Yunqi caught up with Yan Li and Gǔtong Township, who revealed that a contract had forced him to serve Yan Li and give up his immortal pearl.
• Yan Li admitted using the Heavenly Staff to create an opening for her attacks, then challenged Dongfang Yunqi and tried to break her Heavenly Moon Dao Domain with the Heaven-Opening Divine Pearl.
• Dongfang Yunqi borrowed a strike from her future Dao body, froze Yan Li and the immortal artifact, and brought them and Gǔtong Township back to Hundred Flowers Island.

Fu Henghua forced the Red Dragon King to reveal clues about the Golden Dawn Celestial Maiden, the North Sea Water Essence, and the fate she had woven for Fu Xuanxing. Meanwhile, Fu Xuanxing and Fu Yaozhen confronted the Celestial Maiden in the Dragon Tomb and learned why she sought revenge; the chapter ended with Fu Henghua realizing his own birth may never have been part of her plan.

• Fu Henghua trapped the Red Dragon King in the Fire Sea and offered to preserve three descendants in exchange for the truth about Golden Dawn and Li Tian.
• The Red Dragon King confirmed that the North Sea Water Essence lay at the heart of Golden Dawn and Li Tian's conflict, then revealed Golden Dawn had observed Fu Henghua's fate because of his mother.
• Fu Xuanxing awoke in a dragon-derived secret realm and joined Fu Yaozhen on the way to Dragonhead Peak, where the Heart-Wounding Sword hung above them.
• Fu Yaozhen questioned the Golden Dawn Celestial Maiden, who confirmed that her sister had loved Li Tian, been rejected and injured in battle, and later returned to the Dao.
• The Golden Dawn Celestial Maiden revealed that Fu Yaozhen's aunt might know why she had chosen a female cultivator connected to Fu Xuanxing for her revised plan.
• The Red Dragon King told Fu Henghua that Golden Dawn had originally planned for Fu Xuanxing to be born to his father and a Dragonkin mother, but had chosen Henghua's mother to bear the Water Dragon Maiden instead.

Fu Yaozhen and Fu Xuanxing learned that the Golden Dawn Celestial Maiden had punished their family and planned to kill Fu Henghua, then fought her in the Wind Dragon Secret Realm. They escaped her sword strikes, and Fu Yaozhen proposed a bargain to the Dragon King.

• The Red Dragon King told Wukong's Spirit Soul that He Yunqing had traded the Sword of Returning Ten Thousand Rivers to the Purple Sovereign Pavilion and destroyed the Water Dragon essence by killing the man chosen for her.
• The Golden Dawn Celestial Maiden explained that He Yunqing had thwarted her plan to resurrect her sister, and admitted she had cursed He Yunqing's child and was now plotting to kill Fu Henghua by turning Donglai against him.
• Fu Xuanxing attacked the Celestial Maiden, while Fu Yaozhen confronted her over her revenge against their family and realized the Celestial Maiden intended to kill Fu Xuanxing and seize his body.
• Fu Yaozhen and Fu Xuanxing combined their powers to break the Celestial Maiden's incarnation, but her sword strikes wounded Fu Yaozhen and forced them to escape by earth magic.
• A thousand miles from Dragonhead Peak, Fu Yaozhen told the Dragon King she would become his mother and give birth to him again if he made a deal with her.

Fu Yaozhen persuaded the Wind Dragon King to reincarnate through her and help her oppose the Heavenly Maiden, on the condition that he take Fu Xuanxing out of the secret realm. Their agreement was interrupted when Fu Xuanxing went to fight alone beneath the mountain where Fu Yaozhen was fated to die.

• Fu Yaozhen explained that the Heavenly Maiden’s Sorrowful Love Sword threatened her, Fu Xuanxing, and the Wind Dragon King, and she persuaded the Wind Dragon King to reveal what had happened outside.
• The Wind Dragon King showed Fu Yaozhen how he had used his Dragon Pearl to aid the Cloud Dragon King, but Zhu Yan and Song Chunqiu had sealed her back into the Cloud Realm Grand Formation.
• Fu Yaozhen told the Wind Dragon King about Geng Yuxiao and Yan Li, then urged him to distrust the Heavenly Maiden’s promise and seek resurrection on his own terms.
• On the Relict Continent, Zhu Yan learned about the Cloud Dragon King’s cultivation from the Red Dragon King, while Wukong the Spirit Soul focused on resolving the Dragon Kings’ calamity.
• Fu Yaozhen offered to bear the Wind Dragon King’s reincarnation if he used his authority to help her and took Fu Xuanxing out of the secret realm.
• When sparks erupted beneath the mountain, Fu Yaozhen rushed to help Fu Xuanxing, and the Wind Dragon King followed in a fierce gale to protect her.

Fu Xuanxing and Fu Yaozhen fought the Golden Dawn Celestial Maiden in the Wind Dragon Secret Realm, then agreed to help the Wind Dragon King be reborn through Fu Yaozhen. As the hundredth day arrived and the rebirth began, the Celestial Maiden approached, only to be met by a sword strike.

• Fu Xuanxing combined his Five Elements and Yin-Yang arts to battle the Golden Dawn Celestial Maiden, while Fu Yaozhen briefly restrained her with a curse before escaping with him.
• Fu Yaozhen explained her Destiny Curse Method to the Wind Dragon King, and the Celestial Maiden became absorbed in studying the Ten Thousand Curses Heavenly Book.
• Fu Xuanxing objected to Fu Yaozhen bearing the Wind Dragon King, but she revealed that their fusion had already begun and that she intended to give birth to him anew.
• Fu Danwei learned that Fu Henghua could not locate Fu Yaozhen and Fu Xuanxing, so he prepared the requested treasures and planned to seek Huo Immortal's help.
• Fu Yaozhen endured forty days of dragonification before sealing herself in a cave to complete the hundred-day rebirth, while Fu Xuanxing trained and guarded her.
• On the hundredth day, the Dragon-Sealing Stone burst apart as the Celestial Maiden arrived at the valley, and a sword light stabbed toward her face.

Fu Yaozhen gave birth to a human boy carrying a Celestial Dragon’s soul while Fu Xuanxing fought the celestial maiden to protect her. The chapter left Fu Yaozhen preparing for a final battle and revealed that Fu Xuanhe had also left his child on Coiling Dragon Island for Fu Henghua to raise.

• Fu Xuanxing used his swordsmanship and the Profound Furnace Lord of Fate to battle the celestial maiden and keep her from interrupting Fu Yaozhen’s delivery.
• Fu Yaozhen shed her dragon form, gave birth to a human boy with a Dragon Soul, and wrapped him before healing herself.
• Fu Xuanxing drove the celestial maiden away when Fu Yaozhen’s newborn stirred the secret realm and caused her to lose control of it.
• Fu Yaozhen told Fu Xuanxing to take the infant to safety and said she intended to fight the celestial maiden, but sealed away her new maternal attachment so it would not hinder her.
• Fu Yaozhen decided to leave the boy’s name to Grandfather or Fu Henghua, while Fu Xuanhe left his own child on Coiling Dragon Island for Fu Henghua to teach.

Fu Yaozhen sacrificed her life to establish the Jade Pool Dao God and strike down the Celestial Maiden, while Fu Xuanxing’s sword prevented the enemy from escaping. Fu Yaozhen’s final curse destroyed the Celestial Maiden’s Heavenly Eye, freeing those she had been suppressing across Donglai.

• Fu Yaozhen prepared blessed milk for her infant, then drugged Fu Xuanxing with Dragon-Sleeping Grass and left a letter beside him and the child.
• Fu Yaozhen summoned the Jade Pool Cloud Zither and fought the celestial maiden with the Sorrowful Love Sword as the Junian Immortal Realm threatened to overwhelm the Wind Dragon Secret Realm.
• Fu Yaozhen entered the Equal Heaven, sacrificed her lifespan to establish the Jade Pool Mother Goddess, and unleashed a vast zither-and-sword attack against the celestial maiden.
• The celestial maiden tried to escape, but Fu Xuanxing shattered the Profound Furnace Lord of Fate and struck her with a sword that forced her back into the secret realm.
• Fu Yaozhen returned, redirected the celestial maiden’s Emotion-Annihilating Strike, and died as her Heavenly Sword destroyed the enemy’s divine consciousness; her curse followed the celestial maiden into the river of time.
• A black hand destroyed the celestial maiden’s Heavenly Eye, ending her influence over Donglai and freeing the Spirit Seers, female cultivators, and her sect’s followers.

Fu Yaozhen died after defeating the Heavenly Maiden, but Jun Heaven’s power let her leave final words and watch a sunrise with Fu Xuanxing before her body vanished. Her family gathered only two of her seven scattered soul fragments, leaving Fu Henghua to seek a way to restore her while the True Immortals reconsidered their plans and Fu Huainan sensed a mysterious arrival.

• Fu Yaozhen wore her unfinished bridal robes, watched the sunrise with Fu Xuanxing, and died as her body dispersed into golden light.
• The Wind Dragon Secret Realm sank into the sea, and Fu Xuanxing escaped with an infant and one soul pearl while six more soul fragments fled.
• Fu Danwei’s Soul-Summoning Formation captured one fragment and sent it to a temple’s divine statue, while another fell into Donglai’s waters and four escaped.
• Fu Henghua and Dongfang Yunqi discussed Fu Yaozhen’s damaged soul and the long effort required to gather her scattered spirits.
• The True Immortals discussed the failed Southern Li Resurrection Plan and whether to intervene in the mortal world now that the Heavenly Maiden was gravely wounded.
• Fu Huainan spoke with Feng Yu and Qiu Jun, then sensed a streak of light fall near a distant hill and hurried to investigate.

Fu Henghua’s spirit fragments arranged support for Fu Yaozhen’s rebirth and prepared for his coming tribulation, while Fu Xuanxing returned to Coiling Dragon Island with the Wind Dragon child and tried to resume his life. Ten years later, news that Fang Dongyuan had betrayed his master and rejoined the demonic path sent Fu Danwei rushing to Tianyang Waters.

• Fu Xuanxing left the Dao Palace with Fu Yaozhen’s soul pearl and the infant after learning that incense offerings could preserve her soul and that a scattered soul pearl might hasten her recovery.
• At Yanlong Seal, Heng Hua taunted the Yansheng Dragon King, described his preparations for transcending tribulation, and transferred Duan Sijing to Phoenix Parasol Island to visit Fu Yaozhen’s divine shrine.
• Heng Hua arranged for ghost spirits to carry out the Life Lord’s blessings for Fu Yaozhen, while his actions stirred a powerful divine consequence that he planned to repay when he proved the Dao.
• Fu Xuanxing returned to Coiling Dragon Island, where Fu Liuhui agreed to move so he could stay at Hongwen Pavilion and raise the Wind Dragon child; ten years later, he brought the child to visit Fang Dongyuan.
• Fu Danwei read a message saying Fang Dongyuan was Demon Emperor Jiang’s grandson, had tried to murder Liu Xuanyi, and had rejoined the demonic path, then immediately set out for Tianyang Waters.

Fu Danwei learned that Fang Dongyuan was Jiang Deyuan, Demon Emperor Jiang’s grandson, and concluded that the Purple Sovereign Pavilion was using the scandal to resolve old grudges and reshape its Dao lineage. As Fu Xuanxing fled with Fang Dongyuan toward Yuanpeng Mountain, Liu Xuanyi began his tribulation ahead of the other planned participants.

• Fu Luoxing told Fu Danwei that Fu Xuanxing had rescued Fang Dongyuan after a clash at the Purple Sovereign Pavilion, while Yi King confronted Wang Yan and defended Fang’s past contributions to the sect.
• Wang Yan accused Fang Dongyuan of concealing his identity and harming Liu Xuanyi, but Fu Danwei argued that Liu Xuanyi knew Fang’s origins and urged a proper investigation.
• The Heaven-Piercing Tower Master prompted Wang Yan to pursue Fang Dongyuan, and Fu Danwei returned to Coiling Dragon Island with his great-grandsons.
• Fu Danwei explained to Fu Yifu and Fu Pengming that the Purple Sovereign Pavilion planned to settle karmic debts and give Fang Dongyuan and Zhongli Zihan a chance to rebuild their cultivation.
• Zhongli Zihan, Hong Changyi, and others cornered Fu Xuanxing and Fang Dongyuan, who escaped and changed course for Yuanpeng Mountain.
• Fu Danwei sensed three Grandmasters preparing to attain the Dao, then realized Liu Xuanyi had begun his tribulation first.

Fu Xuanxing fought off Zhongli Zihan, Hong Changyi, and their allies while Fang Dongyuan discovered a hidden Heavenly Book in Fu Henghua’s library and forged a new immortal-and-demonic cultivation path. After the conflict, Fang Dongyuan took the name Jiang Deyuan and prepared to return to the Mysterious Bright Demon Palace, while the struggle reshaped the balance among Donglai’s sects.

• Fu Xuanxing confronted Zhongli Zihan and Hong Changyi’s group outside Cuiyun Island, then used his Heaven-Earth Furnace domain to fight them through the day and night.
• Fang Dongyuan sought Meng Chen in the Profound Seclusion Grotto-Heaven, received instructions to remain in Fu Henghua’s library, and uncovered secret manuals leading to a stone grotto of Demon God carvings.
• Fang Dongyuan’s Primal Chaos Pearl transformed into the Rama Pearl as he created the Rama Heart Sutra, a Heavenly Book combining immortal and demonic methods.
• Fang Dongyuan emerged to find Fu Xuanxing badly wounded and the others defeated; he healed both sides, declared himself Jiang Deyuan, and agreed to return to the Mysterious Bright Demon Palace.
• Liu Xuanyi sent Jiang Deyuan his whisk and released him from the Beyond-the-World Immortal Sect, while Fu Xuanxing detained Hong Changyi to question him about the incident.
• True Person Dai and Wu Huaiping discussed Purple Sovereign Pavilion’s gains and Jade Sage Pavilion’s succession plans as Tianjing Zi and Fu Danwei considered the wider forces behind the events.

Jiang Deyuan returned to the Mysterious Bright Demon Palace to claim his family inheritance and found guidance in a letter from Fu Henghua’s father. After the Demon Emperor’s legacy converged upon him, he took command of the Devil Palace and announced that he would lead its demons by doing good.

• Jiang Deyuan told Hong Changyi he would return to the Devil Palace alone, then received products from Marvelous Life Studio to help guide devil cultivators.
• Jiang Deyuan entered the palace through a secret passage and found a letter from Fu Henghua’s father advising him either to flee or reclaim the palace without compromising his principles.
• Jiang Deyuan used the Demon-Enslaving Arcane Words to control a guard and stop three Magic Beasts outside the Emperor Hall.
• Jiang Deyuan sat on the imperial throne, drew the Devil Palace’s power into himself, and received the Seven-Star Demon Emperor’s reunited origin and inheritance.
• Zhu Yu, Zhang Yue, Yin Mother, and the other demons gathered before Jiang Deyuan, who declared himself lord of all demons and ordered them to help others and do one good deed each day.

Jiang Deyuan imposed reforms on the Mysterious Bright Demon Palace, then began building a trading company to redirect its demons toward lawful work. As Fu Henghua's attainment of the Dao filled the Inner Nine Waters with signs, a mummified corpse wearing his Heaven-Mending Garment appeared at Yuanpeng Mountain.

• Jiang Deyuan prohibited human sacrifices and cruel demonic practices, subdued Qiu Wenshu, and offered the hall masters artificial blood and trade as alternatives to harming living beings.
• Jiang Deyuan discovered that Yin Mother had transformed Yin Yulong and her brothers into Magic Beasts, and learned that Yin Yulong had helped injure Liu Xuanyi and expose his identity.
• Jiang Deyuan urged Yin Yulong to leave the demonic path, while Yin Yulong said she would settle her business there before thanking Fu Henghua in person.
• Jiang Deyuan established the Mystic Radiance Trading Company in Bai Cang, with Meng Chen's support and Fu Pengming's advice, and its demon-run shops gradually attracted customers.
• Rosy clouds and three hundred and sixty-five Spirit-Energy Treasure Vortices appeared across the Inner Nine Waters as Fu Henghua's attainment of the Dao began.
• Meng Chen and the gathered cultivators saw Fu Henghua's mummified corpse, clad in the Heaven-Mending Garment with the Cloud Scroll across its knees, emerge at Yuanpeng Mountain.