Recaps

Fu Henghua used his Wukong guise to recruit help against a Red Dragon painting spirit and visited Sword-Sealing Island, where Fu Liuhui took two spirit swords for Qilei. Meanwhile, Xiaoyu and Hengshou discovered Fu Henghua was cultivating through dreams and stood guard as he confronted an evil aura.

• Fu Tongjun and Fu Maiyuan encountered a Red Dragon in the Flame Waters, and Fu Henghua, disguised as Wukong, explained that the painting spirit had swallowed True Person Ye Long and asked them to find the Dragon Girl.
• Fu Tongjun went to search for the Dragon Girl while Fu Maiyuan headed to Sword-Sealing Island to notify Senior Du.
• Fu Liuhui entered the Sword Mound’s fourth level, fought off its Sword Intents, and accepted the Qilin and lightning swords to wield for Qilei.
• Fu Henghua’s Wukong guise told Fu Liuhui that the sword suited to him existed in dreams and in his heart, but not before his eyes.
• Xiaoyu and Hengshou completed their External Incarnations, entered Fu Henghua’s sealed room, and recognized that he was using dream arts to travel outside his body.
• Xiaoyu and Hengshou kept watch as Fu Henghua’s expression tightened under a surge of evil aura, and Hengshou said he was controlling a sinister object rather than being injured.

Fu Henghua subdued an escaped demonic Heart Sword in the Sword Mound and discovered it was an unfinished Evil Emperor Sword, which he renamed the Three-Treasure Ruyi Ring Sword. Meanwhile, Divination Demon learned that Fu Henghua must be kept from obtaining the Evil Emperor Sword and set out to find it first.

• A formless black Heart Sword escaped the Sword Mound’s fifth level and stirred evil thoughts, while ten spirit swords failed to defeat it.
• Fu Henghua used three golden rings and his Three Caverns Seal Method to bind the Heart Sword, then shaped it into a flying sword with Du Huaiyuan’s Demon-Sealing Seal.
• Fu Henghua identified the sword as an unfinished Evil Emperor Sword and decided to refine its evil nature, naming it the Three-Treasure Ruyi Ring Sword.
• At the Devil Palace, Divination Demon learned that the master of Seven Kills Hall had left to ambush Xuanjian True Person with the master of Blood Sea Hall.
• Divination Demon foresaw that Fu Henghua could become a demon if he gained two opportunities and resolved to find the Evil Emperor Sword before Fu Henghua could obtain it.

Fu Liuhui awakened her Divine Firmament Sword Intent and formed a Golden Thunder flying sword after Wukong taught her to cultivate a Dao sword within her body. As Xuanjian True Person fought two demonic hall masters near Sword-Sealing Island, Wukong gathered Fu Liuhui, Fu Xuanxing, Ji Yunshu, and others to slay a Red Dragon and rescue True Person Ye Long.

• Fu Liuhui comprehended her natal Divine Firmament Sword Intent in the Sword Mound, and Wukong taught her an Inner Sword-Embryo Cultivation Art instead of relying on a sword pellet.
• Fu Liuhui formed a sword furnace within her body and infused a silver sword pellet with her Sword Intent, creating a Golden Thunder flying sword.
• Eight hundred miles north of Sword-Sealing Island, Blood Demon Hall and Seven Kills Hall attacked Xuanjian True Person, who unleashed the Sun-Moon Heaven-Piercing Sword Canon as Du Huaiyuan sensed the battle.
• Wukong led Fu Liuhui and Fu Xuanxing out of the Sword Mound and invited them to help slay a Red Dragon, revealing that two other Fu Family members were also involved.
• White Dragon Horse and Ji Yunshu arrived and said they had been sent to help rescue True Person Ye Long.

The Nine Suns Sect and Red Dragon Sect fought over the Red Dragon while Ye Long weakened it from within and the Dragon Maiden prepared to sever its link to the Flame Waters. Elsewhere, Duan Sijing subdued Xuanjian True Person and sent him to the Sword Saint for help escaping his sword demon state.

• The Nine Suns Sect trapped the Red Dragon in golden nets, but Red Dragon Sect attacks freed it and sparked a battle between the two sects.
• Tong Liuming and the Red Dragon Sect Master left to fight elsewhere, while Fu Maiyuan and the others joined the struggle to capture the Red Dragon.
• Fu Xuanxing wounded the Red Dragon, and Wukong defeated the Red Dragon Sect disciples as Ye Long continued burning the dragon from within.
• Fu Tongjun brought the Dragon Maiden to the battlefield, and the Dragon Maiden entered the water to sever the Red Dragon's connection to the Flame Waters.
• Duan Sijing subdued Xuanjian True Person after he defeated Du Huaiyuan, then told Du Huaiyuan to take him to the Sword Saint for help.

Fu Henghua’s dream of Flame Waters ended with True Person Ye Long rescued and the Red Dragon sealed, while the Black Tortoise and Purple Eel discovered a possible way to revive their lord. Back on Coiling Dragon Island, Fu Henghua learned that his grandfather’s death omen had lifted and discovered that the Ginseng Immortal had left behind Darkgold Ginseng, then caught up with the injured immortal and invited him to recover on the island.

• True Person Ye Long escaped the Red Dragon, sealed it in a painting, and gave the dragon maiden a dragon-transformation painting after Wukong helped him overcome and seal away his fear.
• Fu Maiyuan and his companions continued toward the Red Algae Waters, while the Black Tortoise and Purple Eel found a Reverse Scale they believed could revive the Red Dragon.
• Fu Henghua woke from his dream, recreated the Heaven-and-Earth Five Creatures Diagram, and sent it to Tribulation Immortal Canglan, who wondered whether Wukong was Bodhi’s disciple or Fu Henghua himself.
• After three Auspicious Birds appeared, Fu Henghua divined that Fu Danwei’s death omen had vanished and rushed to Welcome Immortals Gate to investigate a visitor’s gift.
• Fu Henghua identified the purple ginseng left by the two-armed visitor as Darkgold Ginseng, caught up with the injured Ginseng Immortal in Yanlong, and invited him to Coiling Dragon Island for treatment.

Fu Henghua brought the injured Ginseng Immortal Zixuan to Coiling Dragon Island, where Fu Danwei agreed to help him recover and seek justice against the Jadeflame Trading House. That night, Henghua used his Wukong body to pursue the trading house independently, setting a treasure vault ablaze and heading toward the Lu Family stronghold.

• Fu Henghua offered Ginseng Immortal Zixuan healing, an oath, and Breath Soil, persuading him to return to Coiling Dragon Island.
• Fu Danwei learned that the Jadeflame Trading House had harmed Zixuan and promised to seek justice after attaining the Dao.
• Fu Henghua convinced Fu Danwei to use Zixuan's ginseng body as medicine while Zixuan recuperated on the island.
• Fu Henghua entered secluded cultivation and sent his Wukong body out so he could act without involving the Fu Family.
• Wukong discovered Lu Xin and Nanguo Yannian carrying Darkgold Ginseng, then lured water demons toward their ship.
• Wukong traveled to the Baiqiang Waters, burned a Jadeflame Trading House treasure vault, and headed for the Lu Family stronghold.

Fu Henghua disrupted the Lu Family and Jadeflame Trading House, using Heavenly Demon arts and swordsmanship to trigger cultivation deviations and attack the White Cloud Elder. He encountered Yu Yuyu, who had raided the trading house for Darkgold Ginseng, and proposed they make an even bigger scene together.

• Fu Henghua used the Heavenly Demon Thought-Cutting Sword to drive Lu Pinghe into a murderous cultivation deviation and caused further chaos across the White Cloud Waters.
• Fu Henghua attacked the White Cloud Elder, broke through his defenses by burning his protective treasures, and fought past the guardian masters before pursuing a gray shadow.
• Fu Henghua found Yu Yuyu, who revealed a sack of treasures stolen from Jadeflame Trading House and offered him a jade box containing Darkgold Ginseng.
• Fu Henghua refused the ginseng because his family already had one, then advised Yu Yuyu to return it and help the Ginseng Immortal seek compensation from the trading house.
• Yu Yuyu admitted he had considered causing a stir under the name of the Heaven-Stealing Alliance, and Fu Henghua proposed they make an even bigger scene against the Lu Family.

Fu Henghua and Yu Yuyu worsened Jadeflame Trading House’s crisis by stealing eight million Three-Mystery Detonation Talismans from its transport ships while rumors triggered a run on its banks. The Lu Family received a ransom demand for a Spirit Vein and faced pressure from rival trading houses, leaving Old Man White Cloud seeking help from Wuma Spirit Palace and considering support from Xuanyu.

• Rumors of trouble at Jadeflame Trading House’s vaults caused cultivators across Baiqiang Waters to rush its banks and withdraw their deposits.
• Fu Henghua and Yu Yuyu intercepted twelve Jadeflame Trading House transport ships and stole eight million Three-Mystery Detonation Talismans, prompting rival trading houses to exploit the crisis.
• Fu Henghua sent a letter to White Cloud Island demanding a Lower-Grade First-Rank Spirit Vein in exchange for the stolen goods.
• Old Man White Cloud learned the Lu Family’s other deposited treasures were at risk and suspected Golden Core Cultivators were involved in the attacks.
• The Lu Family received an offer of Detonation Talismans from Nanyang Trading Company, and Old Man White Cloud considered seeking support from Xuanyu.

Fu Henghua and Yu Yuyu explored Autumn Moon Cloud City, where Bai Cang’s pursuit of pleasure and money blurred the line between cultivators and mortals. A map written in Evil Emperor Golden Script pointed to Mount Bagong, and while Yu Yuyu went to investigate it, Heng Hua prepared a trap for the Lu Family’s ransom exchange at Whirlwind Islet.

• Fu Henghua and Yu Yuyu toured Autumn Moon Cloud City and discussed Bai Cang’s worldly customs and the risks they posed to cultivators’ Dao hearts.
• Fu Henghua read news about a rumored Heaven-Stealing Secret Cache and learned from Yu Yuyu that the Three Heroes had already divided the ancient treasures of the destroyed Heaven-Stealing Alliance.
• Yu Yuyu assembled three maps written in Evil Emperor Golden Script, and Fu Henghua saw a strange cultivator hide something near Mount Bagong in a vision on them.
• Yu Yuyu handed Fu Henghua his storage pouch and left to investigate Mount Bagong while Heng Hua went to prepare for the Lu Family’s ransom exchange.
• Fu Henghua buried intercepted Detonation Talismans around Whirlwind Islet and waited for the Lu Family to arrive at the agreed hour.

Fu Henghua disguised himself as Zhu Yu of the Demon Palace and used Heavenly Demon arts to confront Wuma Dan on Willow Mountain Islet. Old Man Baiyun fled with Wuma Dan after recognizing the disguise, while Yu Yuyu secured the bronze jar.

• Wuma Dan and Old Man Baiyun sailed to Willow Mountain Islet to trade for the stolen treasures and the bronze jar containing a Spirit Vein.
• Heng Hua sensed a formidable opponent, transformed his power into Heavenly Demon mana, and told Yu Yuyu to seize the bronze jar while he handled Wuma Dan.
• Old Man Baiyun met Heng Hua beneath the weeping willow, and Heng Hua summoned a Wood Dragon to take the bronze jar as Wuma Dan attacked with his Scarlet Origin Pure Yang Sword Pearl.
• Heng Hua fought Wuma Dan with Heavenly Demon illusions and the Heavenly Evil Sword while Yu Yuyu stole the bronze jar and battled Old Man Baiyun.
• Old Man Baiyun recognized Heng Hua's disguised face as Zhu Yu of the Demon Palace and used a Myriad-Mile Divine Movement Talisman to escape with Wuma Dan.

Heng Hua and Yu Yuyu took the Spirit Vein and Detonation Talismans from Jadeflame Trading House while leaving its deposited treasures behind, and Jadeflame turned reports of a Demon Palace Lord sighting into a profitable business. At the Mysterious Bright Demon Palace, Zhang Yue learned that the hidden young lord had borrowed the fate of a distant Fang relative, but his current whereabouts remained unknown.

• Heng Hua and Yu Yuyu split the Detonation Talismans and Spirit Vein, copied the stolen scriptures, and left the deposited treasures untouched.
• Heng Hua returned home, where Xiaoyu had refined his Bamboo Basket of a Thousand Sea Treasures, and learned that Jade Rabbit had been burned by the Ginseng Immortal's Nanquan Divine Fire.
• Jadeflame Trading House spread news of the Demon Palace Lord's appearance and sold emergency supplies at inflated prices, helping recover its losses.
• Zhang Yue secured the Yin Fish portion of the Taiji Jade Disc and resolved to keep Fu Henghua from obtaining the Evil Emperor Sword.
• The Ice Demon revealed that the hidden young lord had taken the surname Fang by borrowing the fate of a mortal Fang Family relative connected to Fu Henghua's family.
• Zhang Yue identified the young lord's distant connection to Fu Henghua's maternal line, but the Ice Demon admitted he did not know where the young lord was now.

Zhang Yue and Qiu Wenshu investigated the young prince’s abandoned residence and learned that he had fled before the Ice Demon could find him, possibly hiding in a Central Yanlong Region sect. In the Red Algae Waters, Fu Xuanxing met Fang Dongyuan and Sha Jinshang, who warned him that a Dragon Calamity was about to begin.

• Zhang Yue used a dust projection at the Fang Residence to see Fu Henghua arrive years earlier and discover a deed left by the missing young prince.
• Zhang Mingzheng revealed that he had tried to seize Fu Henghua after reading one of his cultivation arts, but his subordinate was killed and the young prince had escaped just before the Ice Demon searched the residence.
• Zhang Yue and Qiu Wenshu reasoned that the young prince might have hidden his identity with the Fu Family’s help and entered a sect in the Central Yanlong Region, then left to search for the master of Wujian Hall.
• Fang Dongyuan mastered the Five-Star Heavenly Origin Finger Formula and set out with Sha Jinshang to take sect training tasks in the Red Algae Waters.
• Fu Xuanxing encountered Fang Dongyuan and Sha Jinshang while lost at sea, and Sha Jinshang explained that the moving Dragonblood Algae would disorient travelers who stayed on the water.
• Fang Dongyuan grew wary when Fu Xuanxing said he sought Darkgold Ginseng for an ill elder, and a voice called Fu Xuanxing back, warning that a Dragon Calamity was imminent.

Fu Henghua managed the quarrelsome pill refiners while the Eastern Sea sword contest approached its final battle, where Fu Danwei descended into Fu Xiangfeng to help hold a sword formation. As Duan Sijing challenged the Eastern Sea Sword Sect’s Tribulation Immortal, Fu Henghua entered its scripture tower and unexpectedly encountered Chang Yuezi.

• Fang Dongyuan and Fu Yaozhen’s group encountered the Algae Mother, while the Reverse Scale devoured Dragonblood Algae and revived into a young dragon that they attacked.
• A divided spirit of Xuanjian True Person emerged from a jade talisman after discovering that the Heavenly Evil Sword Qi was gone.
• Xue Kai, Ge Liu, Yu Yuyu, Chi Jianzi, and Xuanyu argued over how to refine Fu Henghua’s grandfather’s pill, delaying the start of the process for several days.
• Fu Danwei descended into Fu Xiangfeng’s body through the God-Descent Technique to help with the final battle of the Eastern Sea sword contest.
• Duan Sijing challenged the Eastern Sea Sword Sect’s Tribulation Immortal and trapped him with the Heaven-and-Earth Precious Chessboard.
• Fu Henghua used the Dream-Return Immortal Art to reach the Eastern Sea Sword Sect’s scripture tower, where he found Chang Yuezi.

Chang Yuezi infiltrated the Eastern Sea Sword Sect to steal its scriptures, Yellowview Pill Fruits, and Spirit Vein power, while Fu Henghua manipulated his perceptions and fate. After Chang Yuezi burned the Yellowview Spirit Tree and attacked the Spirit Veins, Henghua tried to redirect the destruction and salvage some of the tree’s branches and fruits.

• Chang Yuezi ambushed the Eastern Sea Sword Sect’s library, but Fu Henghua knocked him unconscious, experimented on him, and used a Heavenly Demon Illusory Realm to make him copy scriptures without noticing Henghua.
• Chang Yuezi put the Clear Wind Sword Master and Bright Moon Sword Master to sleep with Drunken Dragon Incense and stole Yellowview Pill Fruits from the forbidden ground.
• Fu Henghua secretly took one fruit and drained small amounts of power from the Spirit Veins, while Chang Yuezi stripped the Yellowview Spirit Tree of its fruits, branches, and leaves.
• Fu Henghua discovered that Duan Sijing had also made Chang Yuezi a chess piece, then placed Chang Yuezi’s fate piece on his own Divine Luo Stellar Chessboard.
• Under the chess cultivators’ influence, Chang Yuezi burned the Yellowview Spirit Tree and attacked the Spirit Veins, alarming Sui An; Fu Henghua then tried to make him seize the Spirit Veins while salvaging branches and fruits.

Fu Danwei broke the Eastern Sea Sword Sect’s formation and taught its disciples his Dao Sword and Dharma Sword principles through a child’s Heaven-Escaping Sword Art. After Ai Yanchang suppressed the disciples who learned from him, Fu Danwei accepted a challenge to debate the Sword Dao in sixty years and promised that Heng Hua would attend.

• Duan Sijing trapped Sui An with the Heaven-and-Earth Chessboard and its arts of qin, calligraphy, and painting, while Sui An sensed Fu Danwei’s sword intent rising over the Eastern Sea.
• Fu Danwei used the Nine Winds Return to Heaven Immortal Formation to break Ai Yanchang and his wife’s sword formation, then taught those present his understanding of the Dao Sword and Dharma Sword.
• Xiang Zhongkong and other Eastern Sea Sword Sect disciples comprehended Fu Danwei’s teachings, formed sword hearts, and began practicing a sword art Fu Danwei said Heng Hua had devised as a child.
• Ai Yanchang denounced the disciples’ new path, forced Xiang Zhongkong and the others beneath the water, and challenged the Fu Family to debate swordsmanship in sixty years.
• Fu Danwei accepted the challenge and promised that Heng Hua would come too, leaving Wukong horrified at the prospect of facing a swordsmanship Grandmaster.

Fu Henghua uncovered the aftermath of the Eastern Sea Sword Sect’s defeat, gathered spirit veins and treasures, and assigned Hengshou and Xiaoyu new cultivation research. Meanwhile, the sect’s fortune collapsed, Chang Yuezi returned to the Mystic Jade Waters with his spoils, and Wu Zhengxin agreed to protect him from the consequences.

• Fu Henghua found four dead Wei Family cultivators, while Wei Zhixuan fled and was killed by a fire talisman; Ling Tianchou pursued the black-robed man who had led him to the Wei Family.
• Fu Henghua confronted Ling Tianchou in Wukong’s form, wounded him with Heavenly Evil Sword Qi, then woke from the dream and transferred the spirit vein origins into his Breath Soil.
• Fu Henghua gave Hengshou the Golden Hoops to study the Ruyi Gold Register and instructed Xiaoyu to research the Yellow Radiance Elixir Origin Wood Register and cultivate Yellowview Pill Trees.
• Sui An struggled to contain the damaged Sea of Divine Waves and Jade Radiance as Duan Sijing warned that the Eastern Sea Sword Sect had lost five hundred years of fortune.
• Chang Yuezi returned to the Mystic Jade Waters with spirit vein fragments, Yellowview Pill materials, and sword formulas, and Wu Zhengxin accepted the spirit vein for the sect while arranging help with his other gains.

Jade Sage Pavilion discussed its failed efforts to recruit Fu Henghua and cultivate Chang Yuezi, while Fu Xuanxing’s Dragon Aura erupted during the Red Dragon’s defeat and was temporarily sealed. The chapter ended with Fu Ruiying preparing for his Soul Formation tribulation and ordering Heavenwind Island’s defenses strengthened against the Fu Family’s looming calamity.

• Wu Zhengxin and the acting pavilion master concluded that Chang Yuezi’s Wisdomheart had been constrained by Jade Sage Pavilion’s narrow cultivation methods, while Fu Henghua and Bodhi remained beyond their reach.
• Zhang Yue led the Devil Palace in searching the three great waters for the missing little prince.
• Fu Xuanxing killed the Red Dragon with help from his companions, but the Yellow Dragon King’s Dragon Aura awakened within him and threatened to turn him into a vessel.
• Fu Tongjun, Fu Yaozhen, Fang Dongyuan, Fu Maiyuan, and Sha Jinshang worked to suppress Fu Xuanxing’s Dragon Aura, while Fu Danwei and Song Chunqiu aided them from afar.
• Fu Henghua studied the mysterious Eastern Sea fighters’ Dao arts and recognized a connection to the Crimson Abyss Daoist Sect and the Eight Extremes Heavenly Tome.
• Fu Ruiying and a black-robed Fu family member discussed the clan’s extermination calamity and the Crimson Abyss Daoist Sect’s return; Fu Ruiying ordered defenses prepared before his Soul Formation tribulation on the third day of the third month next year.

Fu Yaozhen foresaw a safe future for the Fu Family, while Fu Henghua discovered Fu Xuanxing’s dragon horns could provide an ingredient for an Eight-Sight Soul-Restoring Pill. The family began gathering the pill’s ingredients, hoping it would help Fu Danwei through his coming Soul Formation attempt.

• Fu Yaozhen used Spirit Sight to see a future in which Fu Danwei achieved Soul Formation and the Fu Family remained safe.
• Fu Henghua exposed a demonic scripture brought back by Fu Zaojun and gave her the Four-Sight Sword Wheel Scripture to cultivate.
• Fu Henghua examined Fu Xuanxing’s dragon horns and said they could be used to make an Eight-Sight Soul-Restoring Pill; Xue Kai took Fu Xuanxing away to operate on him.
• Fu Henghua copied the pill prescription and assigned Fu Tongjun and Fu Liuhui to obtain ingredients while he prepared to produce the remaining ones.
• Fu Henghua asked Fu Yaozhen to use Spirit Sight to watch over Fu Danwei’s upcoming Soul Formation attempt.

Fu Henghua joined Tribulation Immortal Canglan’s project to classify all things and compile a comprehensive gazetteer, taking charge of the dragon section while continuing his research on the Nine-Leaf Jade-Soul Fungus. When assistants from several sects arrived, he was surprised to see Chang Yuezi among them, while Chang Yuezi grew wary of Yuwen Chunqiu’s interest in Bodhi.

• Fu Henghua contacted Great Clairvoyant Yan Yuyuan, received research materials on fungi and herbs, and found Tribulation Immortal Canglan’s invitation to join the Natural History Atlas project.
• Tribulation Immortal Canglan gathered cultivators in a temporary cloud sea, explained the project’s stages, and organized them to classify materials into metal and stone, flora, and animals.
• After ten days of classification, Tribulation Immortal Canglan divided the cultivators into research groups and assigned Fu Henghua to compile records of things that became dragons.
• Fang Dongyuan declined Elder Liu’s offer to join the project, while Chang Yuezi accepted Wu Zhengxin’s selection and went to the cloud sea with Yuwen Chunqiu and Yun Mengyin.
• Tribulation Immortal Canglan told the researchers to choose assistants, and Fu Henghua saw Chang Yuezi among the arriving disciples as Yuwen Chunqiu considered working with Bodhi and Chang Yuezi objected.

Fu Henghua selected Yuwen Chunqiu, Sha Jinshang, and Dong Moyang as assistants and began compiling a Dragon Codex while teaching them cultivation techniques. On the third day of the third month, he watched the Grand Elder’s Soul Formation Tribulation through an incarnation as his own Two Modes Darkgold Ginseng Pill began its Pill Tribulation.

• Fu Henghua chose Yuwen Chunqiu, Sha Jinshang, and Dong Moyang to help organize the Dragon Codex and taught each of them techniques suited to their cultivation.
• Fu Henghua asked Tribulation Immortal Canglan to recruit True Person Ye Long, but Duan Sijing refused to release his assistant.
• Tribulation Immortal Canglan examined Fu Henghua’s Dragon Codex and advised that dragon-blooded beasts belonged closer to the wild dragons in its classification.
• Fu Henghua sent Hengshou to Heavenwind Island to observe Fu Ruiying’s Soul Formation Tribulation while his own body watched the pill refining.
• Fu Ruiying endured the wind, fire, and lightning waves of the Soul Formation Tribulation with his Taiji Bagua Diagram.
• The Two Modes Darkgold Ginseng Pill stirred up celestial phenomena and summoned a nine-times-nine Pill Tribulation.

Fu Henghua explained how Golden Cores accorded with heaven and earth as Fu Ruiying passed his Soul Formation Tribulation and became a Nascent Soul Grandmaster. Fu Danwei recovered through the Two Modes Darkgold Ginseng Pill and entered seclusion, planning to undergo his own tribulation in two months.

• Fu Henghua taught Xiaoyu and Hengshou how Golden Cores reflected the changing qi of heaven and earth and advised them on when and how to form theirs.
• The Two Modes Darkgold Ginseng Pill emerged from its tribulation, and Fu Henghua realized it could help his own future core formation.
• Fu Ruiying endured the later waves of his Soul Formation Tribulation, shattered his Golden Core, and formed a Nascent Soul as the Great Five Elements Escape became his life-bound divine power.
• Fu Henghua realized that Fu Ruiying had returned the Great Dao's numinous opportunity to heaven and earth, allowing him to reach the Nascent Soul Realm but leaving him unable to cultivate autonomously as before.
• Fu Danwei swallowed the completed Two Modes Darkgold Ginseng Pill, restored his body to its peak, and entered seclusion to trigger his Soul Formation Tribulation in two months.

Fu Danwei overcame the True-Water, Radiant Wind, and Ignorance Flame tribulations and began his Soul Formation Tribulation. Bai Hezi returned Cui Hongjuan to the Fu Family, where her reunion with Fu Xuanxing raised questions about his origins.

• Fu Danwei endured the True-Water Tribulation, and his Water-Suppressing Talisman absorbed and refined the Heavenly One True Water.
• Fu Danwei used Coiling Dragon Island’s protective formation to repel the Radiant Wind Tribulation, then faced the Ignorance Flame Tribulation.
• Bai Hezi appeared and brought back Cui Hongjuan, whose curse and mental illness remained incurable; she mistook Fu Xuanxing for her son and embraced him.
• Fu Yaozhen explained that Cui Hongjuan had nursed Fu Xuanxing as a child, prompting the family to wonder whether his mother was the missing Fu Changqing.
• Fu Danwei cut away the Ignorance Flame with his Dao Sword, attained the Pure Causeless Body, and began his Soul Formation Tribulation.

Fu Danwei survived his Soul Formation tribulations and formed a Nascent Soul, aided by allies who protected the Eastern Region and kept the Yansheng Dragon King from interfering. The Fu Family then advanced three islands into a dragon-phoenix configuration, while Fu Henghua anticipated their next step: creating the family’s Hetu Luoshu totem.

• Fu Danwei used the Nine Winds Return to Heaven formation to withstand the Thunder Pool projection, then broke it with a sword strike that drew on the Yansheng Dragon King’s waters.
• Fu Danwei suppressed the yin-fire tribulation with the Phoenix Radiance Jade Ruler and forged the Nine Winds Return to Heaven supernatural art during the wind tribulation, completing Soul Formation.
• Fu Danwei learned that Liu Yang, Shangguan Xiaoyue, Sun Zhuoyun, Duan Sijing, the Zhu Family, Meng Chen, and Canglan had helped protect him, and he promised to support Liu Yang’s trading firm.
• Fu Danwei and Fu Ruiying began upgrading the islands, while Fu Beidou led the creation of Jade Qilin Island; Phoenix Parasol Island and Coiling Dragon Island also advanced their Spirit Veins over the following days.
• Fu Henghua explained that the Fu Family planned to use its four islands to form the Hetu Luoshu totem, which required another Golden Core Cultivator.
• Fu Danwei reclaimed his Dao spiritual opportunity after reaching the second stage of the Nascent Soul Realm and estimated that he could attempt the Heavenly Longevity Tribulation in two hundred years.

Fu Henghua celebrated Fu Danwei’s Soul Formation, discussed spreading newspapers across the Eastern Yanlong Region, and offered Dongfang Yunqi a Foundation Establishment method. The chapter ended with Dongfang Yunqi deciding to test the method herself despite her damaged body.

• Fu Henghua recounted Fu Danwei’s tribulation and discussed how the Three Heroes’ good deeds encouraged others to uphold righteousness with Dongfang Yunqi.
• Fu Henghua offered Dongfang Yunqi treasures from Fu Danwei’s treasury in thanks for her family’s goodwill toward the Immortal Algae Palace.
• Dongfang Yunqi showed Fu Henghua how Cloud City’s newspapers used a Mother-Child Returning-Spirit Formation, and Fu Henghua proposed lowering costs and extending its range across the Eastern Region.
• Fu Henghua sent his newspaper plan to Fu Yinggu and Zhang Qiulan, who discussed putting the proposal into practice and setting out to handle their work.
• Dongfang Yunqi gave Fu Henghua her revised Foundation Establishment method and resolved to try it herself, saying Yu Luan would inform him next month if she failed.

Fu Henghua lectured on his Golden-Wood core-union method and attended a farewell banquet, where Fu Tongjun’s scheme got him drunk and made him reveal his opinions about his family. He fled before Fu Danwei could confront him, while Fu Danwei decided to give him a chance to take charge of family affairs.

• Fu Yaozhen used a candle divination, and Fu Henghua concluded that he needed to accelerate his research into the Wood Register and the Eight-Sight Soul-Restoring Pill.
• Fang Dongyuan warned Fu Xuanhe that Fu Yaozhen had repeatedly interfered with fate and might face Heavenly Retribution.
• Fu Henghua lectured on his Golden-Wood Core-Union Jade Tripod Scripture on Luogui Island, where Fu Liuhui spotted Ji Mingfeng among the audience.
• At the farewell banquet, Fu Tongjun and the Jade Rabbit drugged the drinks, and a drunken Fu Henghua fought Fu Tongjun and insulted several relatives while she recorded him.
• Fu Henghua escaped with Xiaoyu and Hengshou, while Fu Danwei chose not to pursue him and considered giving him responsibility over family affairs.