Recaps

Fu Henghua used the Celestial Profound Dao Platform to challenge Duan Sijing’s Golden Core-based Chess Immortal teachings, and their debate established a nine-rank Chess Immortal path. The Donglai Golden Ranking recognized the new lineage, while Fu Henghua left the discussion and used his reward to research his own cultivation.

• Zhou Xiao found Fu Henghua’s alias, Bodhi, on the Celestial Profound Dao Platform and considered Tianshu Zi’s plan to draw Fu Henghua toward the Grand Profound Dao Lineage.
• Fu Henghua criticized the traditional Chess Immortal methods in comments on Duan Sijing’s Heaven-and-Earth Exquisite Chess Formation Method, arguing that spirit and wisdom mattered more than Golden Core cultivation.
• Duan Sijing debated Fu Henghua about famous chess cultivators, while a third commenter joined and helped them develop an independent Chess Immortal system with nine ranks.
• Duan Sijing’s Chess Hermit incarnation cultivated the new path, prompting the Donglai Golden Ranking to create a Chess Immortal Ranking and recognize Duan Sijing as its first listed cultivator.
• Fu Henghua and the third commenter withdrew from the discussion, and the third commenter sent Fu Henghua one hundred Cloud Elixirs.
• Duan Sijing posted his chess works for free, while Fu Henghua used his reward to study creation and longevity methods and refine his own Mystic Womb realm.

Fu Henghua gained an insight into talisman registers while studying the Stone-to-Gold Art, then hurried back to research how the idea might advance his standing on the Celestial Profound Dao Platform. Meanwhile, Wu Zhengxin sent Chang Yuezi to the Fu Family to bring Henghua to Jade Sage Pavilion, and Chang Yuezi arrived at Heavenwind Island.

• Fu Henghua discussed his overnight Dao Platform research with Zhou Xiao, who explained how higher Spirit Platform ranks could earn an invitation to the Central Heaven Heroes' Gathering.
• Fu Xuanxing explained that Hengshou's Core Golden Register was a variation of the Stone-to-Gold Art, prompting Fu Henghua to consider whether talisman registers could work for other elements.
• Fu Henghua rushed to his room to investigate his inspiration, while Zhou Xiao worried that Yanlong's worldly culture was limiting Henghua and considered urging the Fu Family to send him away to study.
• Wu Zhengxin ordered Chang Yuezi to return to the Fu Family and bring Fu Henghua to Jade Sage Pavilion, while privately worrying about pressure from competing factions over the recruitment.
• Chang Yuezi reached Heavenwind Island and asked the Fu Family guards to report his arrival to the First Elder.

Fu Henghua returned east with his companions, cultivated his Mind Horse on Fiery Horse Island, and taught the White Dragon Horse the Chess Immortal method. At Heavenwind Island, he brought Yu Luan to Azure Parasol Island while Fu Yaozhen revealed that their long-absent brother had returned.

• Fu Henghua rested, then invited Yu Luan to accompany him to Heavenwind Island before copying texts at Firegate Island and sailing east with his companions.
• The White Dragon Horse ran wild among the horses on Fiery Horse Island, and Fu Henghua manifested nine fire dragons that merged into a red horse as he advanced his Mind Horse cultivation.
• Fu Henghua and his companions crossed the frozen Eastern Region, where the White Dragon Horse sensed the Soaring Serpent near Heavenly Serpent Island, but Fu Henghua stopped him from approaching the Cheng Family stronghold.
• The White Dragon Horse challenged Fu Henghua to chess, and Fu Henghua taught him the Chess Immortal method; the horse entered an enlightened state as the ship reached Heavenwind Island.
• Fu Henghua took Yu Luan to Azure Parasol Island, while Fu Yaozhen told Fu Liuhui and Fu Tongjun that their brother had returned and urged them to let Henghua handle what followed.

Fu Henghua showed Yu Luan the crafts and daily life of Cloudsound City, then explained his views on the Dao and the Mortal World. He sent a jade staff flying toward Chang Yuezi on Heavenwind Island, where Chang Yuezi had come to summon him to Jade Sage Pavilion.

• Fu Henghua brought Yu Luan and the others to Cloudsound City, where he advised local artisans and chose clever gifts for the Young Mistress and Yu Luan.
• Fu Henghua showed Yu Luan a chessboard whose pieces transformed into tiny figures and animals, along with other ingenious ornaments.
• Chang Yuezi met Fu Yaozhen and her sisters on Heavenwind Island and said Jade Sage Pavilion had sent him to invite Fu Henghua there.
• Fu Henghua showed Yu Luan the city's Lantern Trees and gave her a book comparing the ways of the Beyond-the-World Immortal Sect and cultivation lineages.
• Fu Henghua explained how both approaches could seek the Dao while cultivating the human heart, then sent Lord Jin in a jade staff toward Chang Yuezi.

Fu Maiyuan returned to the Fu Family and used Fu Henghua’s jade staff to defeat Chang Yuezi, then learned that the Heavenmoon Spirit Fungus had been found and offered as dowry to marry the eldest member of the family. The others hurried back to Coiling Dragon Island to deal with the proposed marriage, while Fu Ruiying kept Henghua behind for other matters.

• A jade staff controlled by Lord Jin battered Chang Yuezi until Fu Maiyuan arrived and took it over.
• Fu Maiyuan defeated Chang Yuezi with the Dog-Beating Staff Technique, and Fu Ruiying sent Chang Yuezi away after learning he had come to invite Henghua to Jade Sage Pavilion.
• Fu Maiyuan explained that his master had sent him back to help the Fu Family, and Fu Ruiying said his return could aid their grandfather’s tribulation preparations.
• Fu Maiyuan reported that Cosmic Radiance Divine Water was sealed in a Demon Cavern of the Eastern Sea, prompting Fu Tongjun to consider a plan.
• Fu Xiazhai revealed that the Heavenmoon Spirit Fungus had been found and its holder wanted to marry the eldest member of the Fu Family as her dowry condition.
• Fu Ruiying sent the others back to Coiling Dragon Island to resolve the proposed marriage and kept Henghua behind.

Fu Henghua learned that Tan, a Jade Womb Profound Furnace cultivator who had severed ties with her family, was trying to marry Fu Danwei and become Coiling Dragon Island’s mistress. After Fu Danwei rejected the idea and Fu Henghua arranged plans for his relatives, he prepared to return to the island and see what Tan would do next.

• Fu Henghua dismissed Chang Yuezi’s return, while Chang Yuezi grew resentful of the Fu Family and planned to gain influence by helping its rival branch.
• Chang Yuezi visited Fu Beidou, and Fu Ruiying told Fu Henghua to ignore him as they studied the Wind-Supporting Immortal Canon.
• Fu Tongjun told Fu Henghua that Tan had injured her grandmother, been disowned, rejected work at Spirit Embroidery Workshop, and proposed marrying Fu Danwei in exchange for her Heavenmoon Spirit Fungus.
• Fu Henghua and Fu Tongjun discussed the uproar on Coiling Dragon Island, while Fu Danwei refused to consider Tan’s proposal or use her physique to extend his life.
• Fu Henghua said Fu Xuanxing would train with Fu Danwei and later accompany Fu Liuhui to search the Red Algae Waters for Darkgold Ginseng; he planned to return to Coiling Dragon Island himself.

Fu Henghua returned to Coiling Dragon Island, where Fu Danwei revealed that Fu Xuanxing’s sword and scabbard had once sealed a danger inside him. The elders’ hints connected Xuanxing’s origins to Henghua’s father, while Henghua turned to chess and wood-talisman experiments; the chapter ended with the revelation that his father’s lost scabbard had contributed to his death.

• Fu Henghua returned to Coiling Dragon Island and told the family to settle the Tan Family girl’s affairs without relying on her Heavenmoon Spirit Fungus.
• Fu Danwei recognized the Dragon-Subduing Sword and Southern Li sword scabbard on Fu Xuanxing, then recounted how he had used them to seal a danger inside Xuanxing when he was an infant.
• Fu Danwei gave Fu Xuanxing the sword and taught him a technique, while telling the two young men to ask their master about Xuanxing’s origins.
• Zhou Xiao and White Dragon Horse connected Xuanxing’s past to Henghua’s father, who had asked the Mysterious Subtle Sect to raise him and left him a book about the sword scabbard.
• Fu Henghua arranged a chess match between White Dragon Horse and Duan Sijing, then began preparing wood-talisman experiments.
• The narration explained that Song Chunqiu believed Xuanxing’s survival depended on Henghua’s father and Fu Danwei, and that Henghua’s father had suffered heaven’s backlash after losing the scabbard.

Fu Henghua comforted Fu Liuhui over their father’s death and sent her and Fu Xuanxing toward the Crimson Algae Waters with White Dragon Horse to protect them. Later, he confided his lingering grief to Dongfang Yunqi through their mirrors, then prepared to do something momentous at the Dao Platform.

• Fu Henghua told Fu Liuhui to travel with Fu Xuanxing and focus on the possibility of reviving their father rather than dwelling on the past.
• Fu Henghua asked White Dragon Horse to catch up with Fu Liuhui and Fu Xuanxing and protect them on their journey to the Crimson Algae Waters.
• Fu Yaozhen told Fu Henghua that she had sent the Tan Family girl toward Chang Yuezi and Jade Sage Pavilion, while they discussed the threat gathering over the Eastern Sea.
• Fu Henghua and Dongfang Yunqi exchanged ideas about Heavenly Books and cultivation methods through their mirrors, developing new finger techniques together.
• Fu Henghua admitted to Dongfang Yunqi that he still grieved his father’s death and struggled with the thought that the past might have gone differently.
• As dawn approached, Fu Henghua told Dongfang Yunqi to prepare the Heavenly Profound Mirror because he was about to do something at the Dao Platform that would enter the cultivation world’s annals.

Dongfang Yunqi and other cultivators read Fu Henghua’s article proposing that Secret Mantra Registers could guide the evolution of all things, from plants and beasts to dragons and phoenixes. His final suggestion of an Immortal Register that could transform a mortal into an immortal left the readers stunned, with the method still only hinted at by a single ink stroke.

• Dongfang Yunqi subscribed to Fu Henghua’s article and read his principles of Creation and discussion of Golden Registers.
• Yan Yuyuan tried Fu Henghua’s Heavenly Moon Grass Wood Register, failed repeatedly, then succeeded in producing a sprout containing Taiyin Star Essence.
• Zhou Xiao, Tianshu Zi, Duan Sijing, and other cultivators read the article and discussed its ideas in the comments.
• Fu Henghua argued that Golden and Wood Registers could point toward registers for monsters, fire spirits, and other forms of life.
• Fu Henghua proposed that an Immortal Register might let a mortal ascend and transform into an immortal, leaving readers stunned.

Fu Henghua’s article on the Feather Immortal True Register convinced powerful cultivators to test its methods and stirred debate across the water regions. As the Dao Platform hid the article for reassessment and talisman materials vanished from the markets, Fu Henghua was relieved that the Fu Family had already bought supplies.

• Tianshu Zi and Yan Yuyuan tested the Feather Immortal True Register, sensed its power, and contacted fellow cultivators about Fu Henghua’s article.
• Fu Henghua explained to Zhou Xiao that the True Register was difficult to use in practice and that he had written it to attract senior cultivators’ attention.
• Hengyuan True Person tested the Register, triggered heavenly lightning, and asked Song Chunqiu to find out who had written the article.
• Sha Jinshang initially dismissed the article, but Fang Dongyuan’s favorable comment led him to read it and seek his master’s guidance.
• Elder Liu tested the Jade-Peach Wood Register, then ordered the Purple Sovereign Pavilion to buy talisman materials across the regions.
• The Jade Sage Pavilion and Mystic Jade Waters joined the research after other regions had already bought up most supplies, while Fu Henghua learned that the Fu Family’s earlier purchases could protect it from the shortage.

Fu Henghua began building a fireseed-producing Flame Valley on Red Phosphorus Islet and joined it with seven other islets to form a new industrial chain for the Fu Family. The Cheng and Bao Families noticed the island chain’s strategic position, while Bao Liushu sought a marriage connection with the Fu Family.

• Jade Sage Pavilion cultivators debated Fu Henghua’s Feather Immortal True Register, and the elders decided to investigate him and recruit him.
• Fu Henghua had two hundred thousand Flame Valley rocks delivered to Red Phosphorus Islet and used formations, an Eternal Firestone, and Three Yang Treasure Flame to produce and bury more than a thousand fireseeds.
• Fu Henghua explained that he planned to use the Nine Winds Return to Heaven Formation to age flint and eventually produce Eternal Firestones in quantity.
• Jin Xian'e moved Red Phosphorus Islet beside White Iron Islet, and the Fu Family united eight islets into a Northern Dipper chain for its craft workshops.
• Cheng Qing and Bao Family cultivators considered how the new island chain affected their routes and relations, and Bao Liushu asked the Fu Family about suitable young women.

Fu Henghua developed the Feather Immortal True Register into a nine-talisman cultivation system and demonstrated its first talisman live on the Dao Platform. After revealing two talismans and a cultivation method, he left sect leaders and powerful cultivators debating his origins and the value of his work.

• Fu Henghua showed Fu Tiancang a Stargazing Platform blueprint, and Fu Tiancang began preparing the Northern Dipper Island Chain for its construction.
• Fu Henghua traveled toward Luogui Island with Jin Xian'e and Xiaoyu, but Zhou Xiao intercepted him and brought him to Langhuan Hall to continue his article on the Dao Platform.
• Fu Henghua explained that the Feather Immortal True Register could be divided into nine stages and wrote the Nine-Qi Starry-Heaven True Talisman, which Shangguan Xiaoyue tested to grant Qi Refining mana to two girls.
• The Heavenly Yi Sect and other powers debated whether Fu Henghua belonged to their sects as he wrote the Five-Elements Universal-Heaven True Talisman.
• Fu Henghua posted a cultivation method paired with the two talismans, prompting Dongfang Yunqi to recognize that he had revealed the Heavenly Talisman Scripture, and then went to sleep.

Fu Henghua watched cultivation masters debate and refine the Nine-Realm True Talismans, which could guide breakthroughs and benefit entire lineages. After a Tribulation Immortal revealed a method for embedding the talismans in Spirit Veins, Fu Henghua rushed to Luogui Island to test it.

• Dongfang Yunqi completed the Ninth Layer of Qi Refining derivation, and Twin-Dragon True Person presented a Nine-Luminaries Big Dipper True Talisman aligned with the ancient cultivation path.
• Purple Sage introduced three Purple Sovereign Pavilion True Talismans, prompting Taixuan cultivators to denounce them and Elder Tianjing to offer revised templates for the True Flame and Mystic Womb realms.
• Cultivators debated and improved the realm-specific True Talismans, including revising Fu Henghua’s Five-Elements Jun Heaven True Talisman into the Origin-Luo Jun Heaven True Talisman.
• Twin-Dragon True Person displayed a rudimentary Nine-Turn Golden Core True Talisman, and Fu Henghua copied it onto the Divine Luo Jade Tablet before it vanished.
• A Tribulation Immortal revealed a method for fusing the Nine-Realm True Talismans into Spirit Veins, prompting sects to act and Fu Henghua to hurry with Zhou Xiao to Luogui Island.

Fu Henghua allied the Fu Family with Luogui Island’s spirit tortoises, then advanced the island’s Spirit Vein and awakened new bloodline talents among the family’s descendants. After inscribing two true talismans, he saw Fu Pengming and Fu Baimin begin breaking through toward Foundation Establishment, while Zhou Xiao warned that the method could provoke a major conflict across Donglai.

• The Turtle Immortal explained the spirit tortoises’ terms, and Fu Henghua agreed to an alliance that bound the Fu Family and Turtle Clan to mutual aid.
• Fu Henghua upgraded Luogui Island’s Spirit Vein to Heavenly Longevity and used it to awaken six talents, including Sword Bone in Fu Beidou’s unborn descendant.
• Baxia entered the tortoise grave, passing his dragon pearl to Fu Pengming and his remaining magic power to Fu Henghua.
• Fu Henghua inscribed the Nine-Qi Starry-Heaven True Talisman and the Origin-Luo Jun Heaven True Talisman into the Spirit Vein, causing Fu Pengming and Fu Baimin to begin breaking through toward Foundation Establishment.
• Zhou Xiao warned Fu Henghua that the true-talisman method could drive the great lineages to compete for Immortal Ascension Isles and trigger a catastrophe across Donglai.

The great sects inscribed True Talismans into their spirit veins to create or strengthen Immortal Ascension Isles, while True Person Meng Chen threatened to force the inner Nine Waters into action. The Eastern Sea Sword Sect prepared to attack the Fu Family for its spirit veins, and Fu Danwei resolved to advance Coiling Dragon Island and prepare for the coming conflict.

• The Five Elements Dao Master, Song Chunqiu, and the Jade Sage Pavilion elders inscribed True Talismans into their spirit veins, while the Two Forms Dao completed an Origin Core True Register and Purple Sovereign Pavilion began deducing a Soul-Formation True Talisman.
• True Person Meng Chen declared that he would trigger slaughtering tribulations unless the inner Nine Waters gained Immortal Ascension Isles within five hundred years, and Tribulation Immortal Canglan and the others argued over how far to push the other waters.
• The Eastern Sea Sword Sect leader prepared to lead three thousand disciples against the Fu Family, while his Martial Uncle ordered him to seize the Eastern Region families’ spirit veins so the sect could create an Immortal Ascension Isle.
• Fu Henghua spent eighty thousand Cloud Elixirs subscribing to Canglan’s collected writings, then proposed inscribing True Talismans on Coiling Dragon Island and sent Zhou Xiao to help arrange the work.
• Fu Danwei told Fu Henghua that he planned to advance Coiling Dragon Island the following Dragon Boat Festival and showed him a Soul-Formation technique, while preparing to face the Eastern Sea Sword Sect.

Fu Henghua examined young members of the Fu Family and chose cultivation paths for them, while he and his elders discussed a brewing dispute with the Eastern Sea Sword Sect. The chapter ended with Henghua challenging Peng Ming and Bai Min to comprehend a Xun Trigram in three days to earn instruction in a Heavenly Book.

• Fu Henghua merged the Spirit Veins of Coiling Dragon Island and Luogui Island, inscribed a Kan-Li Yin-Yang True Talisman, and returned to Langhuan Hall to rest.
• Fu Yifu brought Peng Ming and Bai Min to choose cultivation methods, while Fu Beidou introduced Fu Pingdao of Azure Horn and Fu Lizhu of Dark Yin for Henghua to assess.
• Fu Yifu and Fu Beidou told Henghua that Ai Yanchang had accused the Fu Family of abducting Tan Yufeng, and Henghua foresaw Xiang Zhongkong's exceptional future potential.
• Fu Henghua selected the Two Forms Divine-Wind Scripture for Fu Pingdao and recommended the Nine Netherworld Communion Scripture for Fu Lizhu, whose Netherwind compatibility reached eighty percent.
• Fu Baimin said he trusted Henghua's judgment, and Fu Pengming asked for a powerful immortal art; Henghua promised them a Heavenly Book if they comprehended his Xun Trigram within three days.

Fu Henghua helped Fu Pengming begin comprehending the Eight Trigrams, urged Fu Yifu to pursue Core Formation, and planned to revive the clan’s Eight Trigrams practice. After Fu Baimin failed to understand the Xun Trigram, Henghua took him to Luogui Island to seek another Heavenly Scripture.

• Fu Pengming practiced the Eight Trigrams Palm after Fu Henghua imprinted the Xun Trigram on him, while Henghua urged Fu Yifu to study the Eight Trigrams and seek Core Formation.
• Fu Pengming gained a small insight into the Heavenly Book by spending a year of his lifespan, and Fu Henghua told him to replenish it with Longevity Pine-Crane Pills.
• Fu Henghua learned that Fu Pengming’s Spirit Longevity Qi could extend another person’s life, then sent him and Fu Yifu to discuss starting an Eight Trigrams practice class with the clan elders.
• Fu Henghua found that Fu Baimin had failed to understand the Xun Trigram and took him to Luogui Island to consult Zhou Xiao about another Heavenly Scripture.

Fu Henghua traveled alone into the Eastern Sea to find Fu Maiyuan and Fu Tongjun, but discovered the Eastern Sea Sword Sect had set a trap. He captured and transformed several of its disciples into fish, then took spirit bamboo from Purple Bamboo Island and fashioned it into a carriage as he continued toward the encirclement.

• Fu Henghua arranged for Zhou Xiao to teach Fu Baimin and develop a Supreme Mystery Sect cultivation method suited to him.
• Fu Danwei sent Fu Henghua to support Fu Maiyuan and Fu Tongjun, and Henghua traveled alone to the Eastern Sea.
• Fu Henghua captured Huang Lingshan and learned that Ai Yanchang had brought three thousand disciples to use Fu Tongjun and another man as bait.
• Fu Henghua transformed Huang Lingshan into a yellow fish and entered Purple Bamboo Island, where he subdued its maze formation and received branches from a spirit bamboo.
• Fu Henghua made a bamboo basket and transformed Eastern Sea Sword Sect disciples into fish, then turned the basket into a carriage and forced the fish to lead him onward.

Fu Henghua joined Fu Maiyuan and Fu Tongjun to recover the Cosmic Radiance Divine Water stolen by an Eastern Sea Sword Sect impostor. After retrieving it, they fought through the sect’s pursuers, and the chapter ended with Fu Henghua using two captured sword cultivators to force another enemy into Fu Tongjun’s poisonous mist.

• Fu Maiyuan and Fu Tongjun verified Fu Henghua’s identity, then told him an impostor had stolen the Cosmic Radiance Divine Water.
• Fu Henghua traced the thief to a southern island, where Fu Maiyuan captured him and recovered the divine water.
• Fu Tongjun discovered that Fu Henghua had turned dozens of Eastern Sea Sword Sect disciples into fish and helped keep them subdued with Gu Snakes.
• Fu Maiyuan and Fu Henghua prepared to return by the southern sea entrance, discussing Dragon Tongue techniques and a new finger formula.
• Eastern Sea Sword Sect cultivators attacked; Fu Maiyuan summoned dragons while Fu Tongjun and Fu Henghua captured two sword cultivators and used them to disrupt the attackers.
• Fu Henghua threw the hostages into Fu Tongjun’s poisonous mist, prompting a sword cultivator to charge out and challenge them to fight one-on-one.

Fu Henghua and his siblings defeated an Eastern Sea Sword Sect ambush, turning the captured cultivators into fish and storing them in his bamboo basket. When Ling Yuezi arrived and threatened them, Fu Henghua challenged him to lift the basket, which rested on a Black Tortoise’s shell.

• Fu Henghua, Fu Tongjun, and Fu Maiyuan fought off the sword cultivators, and Fu Henghua defeated Dou Wendong and the other attackers with his sword arts.
• Fu Henghua used Thousand-Coiled Silk and the bamboo basket to capture the sword cultivators, transforming them into fish with Form-Shifting Pills.
• Fu Henghua recognized the approaching Ling Yuezi as a Mystic Womb Perfection cultivator and used the captured fish to deter him from attacking.
• Fu Maiyuan began activating Dan Xuanzi’s Golden Core Dao intent while Fu Henghua and Fu Tongjun recorded Ling Yuezi’s threats and argued over the captives’ fate.
• Fu Henghua challenged Ling Yuezi to lift the bamboo basket and summoned a Black Tortoise to bear it on its shell.

Fu Henghua trapped Ling Yuezi, escaped Ai Yanchang’s attack, and challenged the Eastern Sea Sword Sect to answer for its disciples’ actions. At Demon-Subduing Cliff, Fang Bitian arrived to confront him but was defeated by Fu Beidou’s starry sword formation.

• Fu Henghua and Fu Maiyuan trapped Ling Yuezi in the bamboo basket, transformed him into an Ao Fish, and fled toward Demon-Subduing Cliff with Fu Tongjun.
• Ai Yanchang attacked the siblings, but Fu Tongjun’s Golden Cicada Escape Technique helped them evade the sword strike, and Fu Maiyuan’s purple lotus stopped the lingering Sword Qi.
• Fu Henghua set up a camp at Demon-Subduing Cliff and sent Huang Lingshan, disguised as a yellow fish, to deliver a letter accusing the Eastern Sea Sword Sect’s disciples of banditry and challenging Ai Yanchang to meet him.
• Ai Yanchang read Fu Henghua’s letter, which also disputed the sect’s claims about Tan Yufeng, and sent Fang Bitian to bring Fu Henghua back.
• Fu Beidou arrived at Demon-Subduing Cliff and used his starry sword formation to defeat Fang Bitian and seal his Niwan Palace.

Fu Henghua prepared Demon-Subduing Cliff for the coming sword duel while devising a plan to weaken the Eastern Sea Sword Sect by teaching its captured disciples. Dan Xuanzi arrived and helped bind the transformed cultivators to the pond, then offered Henghua a Daoist art in exchange for the Great Void Spellbreaking Method.

• Fu Beidou sealed Fang Bitian's powers, took his spirit sword, and suppressed him beneath Demon-Subduing Cliff until after the sword duel.
• The Bao, Yin, Cheng, and Fu families fortified Demon-Subduing Cliff, while Fu Henghua and Fu Tongjun taught the imprisoned fish and turtles cultivation and sword arts as part of a plan to sow divisions within the Eastern Sea Sword Sect.
• Fu Henghua gave Fu Maiyuan and Fu Xiangfeng jade slips of Eastern Sea Sword Sect techniques and explained how he had restored and studied the sect's sword formulas.
• Dan Xuanzi arrived wearing a mask and revealed that the sword duel would help him establish an immortal estate and eventually suppress a Nine-Yin Poison Spring.
• Dan Xuanzi transformed the pond into an array that kept the captured cultivators in fish and turtle form as long as they remained in the water, and offered to teach Fu Henghua the art in exchange for the Great Void Spellbreaking Method.

Fu Henghua returned to Coiling Dragon Island after the sword sect and the cultivation families agreed to settle their conflict through sword battles and formations. While nurturing the Heavenmoon Spirit Fungus with Cosmic Radiance Divine Water, he realized that understanding the nature of living things could improve transformation arts and proposed a Natural History Atlas.

• Ai Yanchang led seven Golden Core Cultivators in a Cangyuan Formation attack on Demon-Subduing Cliff, but Dan Xuanzi and the Four Symbols, Eight Sceneries Formation dissolved their Sword Qi.
• Fu Beidou negotiated twelve sword battles and twelve sword formations to decide the conflict, while Dan Xuanzi sent Fu Henghua home with the Cosmic Radiance Divine Water.
• Fu Henghua returned to Hundred Herbs Garden with Fu Maiyuan and Fu Tongjun, discovered that Fu Tongjun carried a Myriad Gu Yin Coffin, and helped cultivate the Heavenmoon Spirit Fungus.
• Following Duan Sijing's advice, Fu Maiyuan sprinkled Cosmic Radiance Divine Water on the fungus, which matured as Fu Henghua exchanged cultivation notes with Great Clairvoyant about plant classification.
• Fu Henghua connected knowledge of a creature's essential nature to the difficulty of transformation arts and proposed compiling a Natural History Atlas with his fellow cultivators.

Fu Henghua published an article about investigating things and extending knowledge, then discussed how creatures evolve with Tribulation Immortal Canglan. He began sketching an evolutionary chart grounded in both his past knowledge and the cultivation world's understanding.

• Fang Dongyuan and other readers found Bodhi's short article, Embryonic Transformation and the Origin of Change, puzzling because it focused on investigation and classification rather than talisman cultivation.
• Fu Henghua spoke with Tribulation Immortal Canglan, who shared examples of aquatic creatures evolving into Black Tortoises, Soaring Serpents, or Divine Dragons.
• Fu Henghua asked why creatures could evolve across the domains of the five creatures, and Canglan explained that the paths of evolution intermingled as beings pursued their own natures.
• Canglan described Sagehood as wisdom, Divine Dragons as life, and Black Tortoises as yin and yang, but admitted he knew little about plants, Phoenixes, or Qilins.
• Fu Henghua reconsidered his plan to copy classifications from his previous life and began drawing an evolutionary chart with the Four Auspicious Beasts at the four directions and Sagehood at the center.

Fu Danwei prepared to refine pills with the Heavenmoon Spirit Fungus while considering the Darkgold Ginseng held by Jadeflame Trading House and his old friend’s danger. As Fu Tongjun and Fu Maiyuan traveled to the Flame Waters and Fu Liuhui explored Sword-Sealing Island’s Sword Mound, Fu Henghua received guidance from Tribulation Immortal Canglan to seek a dragon painter there.

• Fu Danwei explained that he had refused Jadeflame Trading House partly because Liu Yang wanted the Fu Family to support his Nanyang Trading Company, while Lu Xin kept the Darkgold Ginseng as leverage.
• Fu Danwei sent Fu Tongjun and Fu Maiyuan to the Red Algae Waters to help Fu Xuanxing and Fu Liuhui search for Darkgold Ginseng, asking them to greet his old friend and not force him.
• Fu Yinggu and Zhang Qiulan collected Tou Ling'er's letter incense from Fu Henghua, who warned them to keep the eccentric alchemist away from Langhuan Hall.
• Fu Henghua sent his Heaven-and-Earth Five Creatures Diagram to Tribulation Immortal Canglan, who advised him to seek guidance from a dragon painter in the Flame Waters.
• Fu Tongjun and Fu Maiyuan entered the Flame Waters and sensed that its fire poison had sunk beneath the water as they hurried toward Sword-Sealing Island.
• Fu Liuhui descended into Sword-Sealing Island's Sword Mound and discovered a wind sword wielding the Innate Sword Art, while Qilei followed spirit-beast phantoms deeper inside.