Chapter Summaries

Fu Henghua tested cultivation methods in Langhuan Hall, concealed his experiments from Fu Danwei, and helped Fu Xiangfeng choose a method after his breakthrough. As the family faced the likely loss of Coiling Dragon Island, Fu Danwei decided to send Henghua with Xiangfeng to Windgate Island, and both young men immediately objected.

• Fu Henghua's Jade Puppet simulation triggered lightning that set the area around Langhuan Hall ablaze, and he hid the experiment from the furious Fu Danwei.
• Fu Xiangfeng returned with a Spring-Returning Pill and revealed that he had formed Samadhi Fire after a fortuitous encounter.
• Fu Henghua examined Xiangfeng's cultivation and offered three methods, while warning that even Xiangfeng's phoenix-related opportunity would not let him form a Golden Core within ten years.
• Fu Danwei explained that Cypress Sovereign Hall would likely have to leave Coiling Dragon Island after his death, and Henghua insisted that he could help his grandfather extend his life by deducing a cultivation method.
• Fu Danwei decided that Xiangfeng should take Henghua to Windgate Island, but both brothers rejected the plan at once.

Fu Danwei and Fu Xiangfeng tried to persuade Fu Henghua to leave Langhuan Hall and improve his combat skills, while Henghua insisted that his books, animated literary treasures, and flower guests kept him content. The argument ended when Xiang Feng revealed that the Eastern Sea Sword Sect had brought the Wei Family news of Wei Xingyu’s death.

• Fu Danwei ordered Fu Henghua to travel with Fu Xiangfeng, but Henghua refused and argued that his technique research was vital to the Fu Family.
• Fu Xiangfeng admired Henghua’s rice-grain carving and sand-engraved cultivation mnemonic, then urged him to contribute to the clan and spend time with people.
• Fu Henghua introduced his animated writing tools as his friends and described the flowers at Langhuan Hall as his seasonal guests.
• Fu Danwei insisted that Henghua leave home to strengthen his combat skills, recalling his defeat by the Wei Family’s sword prodigy ten years earlier.
• Fu Henghua predicted that the Wei Family swordsman should be dead, and Fu Xiangfeng confirmed that the Eastern Sea Sword Sect had delivered funeral news to the Wei Family, most likely concerning Wei Xingyu.

Fu Henghua helped Fu Xiangfeng choose and personalize a cultivation art while revealing that Wei Xingyu’s death could give the Fu Family an opening against the Wei Family. After his relatives left, Henghua celebrated completing the first three layers of his own Creation's Epoch-Reunion Art, a Heavenly Book cultivation method inspired by Journey to the West.

• Fu Henghua told Fu Xiangfeng that he had calculated Wei Xingyu’s death and tailored the Spirit-Vortex Radiance Art to Xiangfeng’s meridians.
• Fu Danwei considered how the four allied families might exploit Wei Xingyu’s death and the Wei Family’s weakened ties to the Eastern Sea Sword Sect.
• Xiaoyu recalled that Henghua had secretly shaped Wei Xingyu’s rise and planted the hidden danger that likely led to his death.
• Henghua explained the Spirit-Vortex Radiance Art to Xiangfeng, who borrowed the personalized manual before leaving with Fu Danwei.
• Henghua returned to the art demonstration room and found that his Jade Puppet had survived the tribulation, confirming his cultivation-art deduction had succeeded.
• Henghua reflected on how he had revised the Journey to the West-inspired Creation's Epoch-Reunion Art to preserve its Heavenly Book quality while reducing the danger of heavenly tribulations.

Heng Hua reaffirmed his resolve to pursue his self-created Heavenly Book cultivation method, despite the Fu Family’s offer of a False Core and his lack of resources. After making a Gilded Jade Garment with Xiaoyu and Hengshou, he prepared to begin the Spirit Embryo Realm by avoiding heavenly tribulation on the night of the fifteenth.

• Heng Hua resisted distracting thoughts about choosing an easier path and reaffirmed his commitment to cultivating his own method.
• Heng Hua discovered he had no money for jade and a coffin, so he planned to sell cultivation manuals and gather materials for his tribulation-avoiding preparations.
• Heng Hua considered having Xiaoyu and Hengshou disperse their cultivation to improve their methods, but they instead agreed to help him obtain supplies.
• Hengshou sold several manuals, and Xiaoyu secured gold thread from the Second Madam’s weaving room.
• Heng Hua, Xiaoyu, and Hengshou spent three days making a Gilded Jade Garment without contaminating it with living qi.
• Heng Hua chose the night of the fifteenth to cut down the old nanmu tree and prepare a coffin for his attempt to complete the Spirit Embryo Realm.

Fu Henghua discovered that Fu Beidou had sent Fu Heyi to prepare a lesser nanmu coffin for Fu Dan Wei instead of the Panlong Wood coffin he had chosen. Heng Hua seized Fu Heyi and continued upgrading the tree, determined to protect his grandfather and give him hope.

• Fu Henghua found Fu Heyi raising the Nanmu King to first-grade Treasure Wood with Three-Mystery Spiritwater for Fu Dan Wei's longevity coffin.
• Fu Heyi said Fu Beidou wanted the nanmu upgraded because Fu Dan Wei's chosen Panlong Wood was Coiling Dragon Island's fortune-suppressing Spirit Wood.
• Fu Henghua accused Fu Heyi and Fu Beidou of preparing Fu Dan Wei's funeral while denying him the coffin and burial garments he wanted.
• Fu Henghua ordered Xiaoyu to cast the Rippling Radiance Spell and Hengshou to attack, then used his knowledge of Fu Heyi's cultivation art to seal his acupoints and render him unconscious.
• Fu Henghua told Xiaoyu to conceal Fu Heyi's confinement, collected the formation flags and spiritwater, and prepared to fell the nanmu tree.
• Fu Henghua resolved to restore Fu Dan Wei's hope and, within a few years, lead the clansmen to the Wei Family's ancestral grounds to vent his grandfather's anger.

Heng Hua used the full moon and a buried wooden coffin to weather the tribulation while converting his cultivation to Creation's Epoch-Reunion Art, then emerged at the fourth step of the Spirit-Embryo Mind Method. He planned to pursue rapid cultivation at the Dragon-Transformation Pool so he could reach the ninth layer of Qi Refining and help his grandfather.

• Heng Hua and his attendants prepared a tribulation site beneath Sword Dragon Peak, sealed Fu Heyi, and buried Heng Hua in a Jade Garment inside a Spirit-Hiding Wooden Coffin.
• Heng Hua dispersed his cultivation and crushed his Dao foundation, then circulated Creation's Epoch-Reunion Art as his Evergreen mana transformed into creation true qi.
• Fu Danwei resisted a heart demon tempting him to possess a descendant, while Fu Xiangfeng converted to the Spirit-Vortex Radiance Art and advanced his cultivation.
• The buried immortal stone endured three lightning bolts, and Heng Hua's spirit ape emerged in his Mud Pellet Palace and formed a Dao seed.
• Heng Hua emerged from the mound at the fourth step of the Spirit-Embryo Mind Method and told Hengshou and Xiaoyu to conceal what had happened and return Fu Heyi to Langhuan Hall.
• Heng Hua decided to go to the Dragon-Transformation Pool to cultivate toward the ninth layer of Qi Refining before taking Xiaoyu and Hengshou to Turtle-Burial Reef.

Heng Hua entered the Dragon-Transformation Pool and repeatedly fought to evolve into a dragon, while Fu Danwei’s heart demon pushed him toward forbidden methods to extend his life. Elsewhere, Zhang Qiulan kept Fu Liuhui from leaving Coiling Dragon Island to seek revenge, and Fu Liuhui found Fu Danwei wavering outside Langhuan Hall before he turned back.

• Heng Hua entered the Dragon-Transformation Pool and began the three-day Fish Leaping Through the Dragon Gate trial, hoping to obtain True Dragon Aura to restore his cultivation.
• Heng Hua evolved from a fish fry into a dragonfish and then a Fish Dragon, but dragon beasts repeatedly killed him and forced him to start over.
• Fu Danwei watched Heng Hua’s struggle as Youying stirred his heart demon, and he considered using a forbidden blood-sacrifice art to prolong his life.
• Zhang Qiulan told Fu Xiangfeng that she would keep Fu Liuhui from leaving the island to seek revenge and ordered him to spend time with Fu Danwei.
• Fu Liuhui found Fu Danwei outside the closed Langhuan Hall, and he abandoned his search for forbidden arts after seeing her resemblance to Heng Hua.

Heng Hua repeatedly used the Dragon-Transformation Pool to strengthen his cultivation, but his setbacks stirred the unstable Heart Ape and drove him to seek the True Dragon Aura. After leaving the pool, he calmed himself, considered his next steps toward Turtle-Burial Reef, and prepared to ask Fu Xiangfeng for help moving Fu Heyi.

• Heng Hua made ten attempts in the Dragon-Transformation Pool; although he never obtained the True Dragon Aura, he advanced to the sixth step of the Spirit-Embryo Mind Method.
• Fu Danwei secretly increased the pool’s challenges to teach Heng Hua aquatic combat, then suppressed a shadowy figure that urged him to possess one of his grandsons for another five hundred years of life.
• Heng Hua returned to Langhuan Hall, learned that Fu Liuhui had visited, and discovered that his Heart Ape could act as a second mind and wield a Dragon Aura staff.
• Heng Hua decided to reach the ninth layer of Qi Refining and head to Turtle-Burial Reef, while considering how to keep Fu Danwei from discovering that he had dispersed and rebuilt his cultivation.
• Heng Hua checked the sleeping Fu Heyi, scattered earth beside his bed after reciting an incantation, and went downstairs to meet Fu Xiangfeng.

Fu Henghua discovered that Fu Danwei had secretly increased the difficulty of his Dragon-Transformation Pool trial, so he used his own improved Dragon Transformation art to find a route through the Dragon Gate. He entered the gate and became a Jade Dragon, while Fu Danwei rushed to witness the transformation and wondered whether Henghua would obtain the hidden inheritance.

• Fu Xiangfeng admitted that Fu Danwei had made Henghua’s Dragon-Transformation trial harder, and Henghua realized his grandfather had likely saved the spent merit points for his inheritance.
• Hengua arranged to leave the island with Xiangfeng and gave him the Ninefold Heavenly Wind Sword Art to study.
• Henghua used his repaired Grand Mystery Jade Dragon Formula to enter the Dragon-Transformation Pool, where his koi rapidly defeated other creatures and repeatedly charged the Dragon Gate.
• Henghua sensed the Dragon Gate’s hidden route, endured the lightning and Divine Fire that burned his tail, and entered the gate as a True Dragon.
• Fu Danwei saw Henghua meditating beneath the Dragon Gate as a Jade Dragon swam through the clouds and hurried to the pool, suspecting Henghua might receive the Dragon Transformation opportunity.

Heng Hua learned the Dragon Gate’s inheritance and used its True Dragon Aura to return to the Ninth Layer of Qi Refining, then suppressed his Heart Ape until he could reach a suitable place for Foundation Establishment. As he prepared to secretly leave the island with Fu Heyi, Fu Liuhui’s actions revealed she had noticed the plan and might be helping him.

• Heng Hua witnessed High Person Xuan Yu receive a Dragon Transformation Secret Method from a Supreme Mystery Sect Daoist and learned the Spirit-Sensing Communion Art before leaving the Dragon Gate’s inheritance untouched.
• Fu Danwei told Heng Hua to keep the inheritance secret and refine the True Dragon Aura, which restored Heng Hua to the Ninth Layer of Qi Refining.
• Heng Hua suppressed the rampaging Heart Ape with his Eight Trigrams Furnace and returned to the Eighth Layer until he could reach Turtle-Burial Reef for Foundation Establishment.
• Heng Hua found signs that someone had disturbed the ash in Fu Heyi’s guest room, arranged for Hengshou to hide Fu Heyi on a ship, and planned to leave the island the next day.
• Fu Liuhui found Heng Hua’s letter, told Xiaoyu that Fu Heyi and Huang Qiong had left, and sent Xiaoyu back to report to Heng Hua.
• Heng Hua realized Fu Liuhui had likely taken Huang Qiong’s spirit plaque deliberately and decided he would need to help her before leaving.

Fu Liuhui discovered Fu Henghua’s concealed Yuanjun Sword on the Colorful-Luan Spirit Ship and left with it after confirming Fu Heyi was safe. At Langhuan Hall, Zhang Qiulan prepared Fu Henghua for his trip off the island, and Fu Xiangfeng finally led him away.

• Fu Liuhui found Fu Heyi unconscious aboard the Colorful-Luan Spirit Ship and chose not to take him along.
• Fu Liuhui noticed the sword case and note Fu Henghua had left, then took the Yuanjun Sword and departed.
• Fu Liuhui’s earlier efforts to conceal Fu Heyi’s disappearance and prepare Huang Qiong’s escape were revealed.
• Zhang Qiulan and Fu Xiangfeng visited Langhuan Hall, where Fu Henghua prepared supplies for his journey.
• Zhang Qiulan bound Fu Henghua’s hair, gave him fitted protective clothes, and offered lengthy travel advice.
• Fu Xiangfeng pulled Fu Henghua away when Zhang Qiulan began asking about the friend he planned to visit.

Fu Heng Hua left Coiling Dragon Island aboard a Colorful-Luan Spirit Ship with Fu Xiangfeng and Xiaoyu, carrying a precious gift from Fu Danwei while secretly keeping Fu Heyi hidden. As the ship encountered unusually numerous water demons, Fu Danwei struggled against Youying’s illusions, and Fu Liuhui traveled separately on the Jade Dragonfly Vessel.

• Deng Lan arrived at the dock with Fu Danwei’s instructions and a wooden box for Fu Heng Hua, while Fu Xiangfeng agreed to travel on the slow Colorful-Luan Spirit Ship.
• Fu Heng Hua received the precious gift, boarded with Fu Xiangfeng, Xiaoyu, and Hengshou, and secretly confirmed that Fu Heyi remained hidden and asleep in the side-chamber boat.
• Fu Xiangfeng noticed that Fu Liuhui’s Jade Dragonfly Vessel had left the island, while Fu Liuhui decided to travel separately with Huang Qiong to seek revenge and sword-forging materials.
• Fu Danwei learned that Fu Heng Hua and the others had departed, resisted Youying’s temptation to seize a grandson’s body, and questioned whether the apparition truly was his inner demon.
• Fu Heng Hua enjoyed the open sea and demonstrated powerful Wind Resonance, then sensed many water demons outside the island; Fu Xiangfeng sent his treasured sword into the water to attack them.

Fu Heng Hua tested his Dao arts against demon fish while traveling with Fu Xiangfeng toward an emerging Immovable Reef, then flew out to confront the water demons gathering there. Xiaoyu froze the first attackers, but a powerful demon struck from beneath the ice.

• Fu Xiangfeng practiced the Heavenly Wind Nine-Turn Sword Canon, and Fu Heng Hua judged his sword qi while preparing to test himself against water demons.
• Fu Heng Hua used Thousand-Coiled Silk and a crude Heaven-and-Earth Net to kill demon fish, then demonstrated Dao arts from several attributes as Fu Xiangfeng noted his slow execution.
• Fu Heng Hua and Fu Xiangfeng spotted an Immovable Reef rising near the sunken Yufeng Dao site and suspected it held nurtured spirit-artifact fragments.
• Fu Heng Hua flew toward the gathered water demons while Fu Xiangfeng went to seek treasure at the reef.
• Xiaoyu joined Fu Heng Hua and froze the fish demons with the Dark Profundity Ice-Sealing Art, but a mass of black shadow burst from beneath the ice and attacked them.

Heng Hua and Xiaoyu defeated a crab demon and discovered that a Star-Parasitic Demon Barnacle had controlled it as a living puppet. Heng Hua rushed to help Xiang Feng, who was ambushed at the Immovable Reef, as the attackers’ puppet fighters surrounded him.

• Heng Hua and Xiaoyu used fog and rapidly growing moss to trap the crab demon, while Xiang Feng destroyed its detached claws and flying swords.
• Heng Hua pulled a Star-Parasitic Demon Barnacle from the crab demon and found human cultivation runes showing that cultivators had turned the crab into a living puppet.
• Heng Hua realized Xiang Feng was in danger, sent Xiaoyu and Hengshou to deal with the surrounding threat, and rushed toward the vortex’s center.
• Heng Hua summoned the Heart Ape to break the Three Powers Sword Formation and knocked three blue-robed puppets into the water.
• Heng Hua trapped the puppets inside a golden bell while Xiang Feng fought an old man who had ambushed him over the Phoenix opportunity.

Heng Hua and Fu Xiangfeng defeated Mo Xu and his puppets, while puppet master Yan Qianyu escaped after losing his insect and companion. Yan Qianyu then attacked Fu Liuhui, who killed him with Sword Qi and Golden Thunder Sword Qi, beginning her journey with her vow against killing broken.

• Heng Hua and Fu Xiangfeng fought Mo Xu, with Xiaoyu and Hengshou assisting them against his attacks.
• Heng Hua burned the blue-robed puppets with the Mysterious Fire Vermilion-Plume Fan and destroyed Yan Qianyu's puppet insects through Thousand-Coiled Silk.
• Xiang Feng and Hengshou overwhelmed Mo Xu, and Xiang Feng beheaded him.
• Yan Qianyu learned that Mo Xu had died, then encountered Fu Liuhui and attacked her with a mantis puppet and puppet threads.
• Fu Liuhui pierced Yan Qianyu's heart with Sword Qi and destroyed him with Golden Thunder Sword Qi.
• Fu Liuhui reflected on breaking her vow against killing and told the Yuanjun Sword that she would draw it later in her journey.

Heng Hua learned that the Wind-Calming Pearl could aid Fu Xiangfeng and explained why Fu Danwei needed an Essence-Urging Elixir as well as a cultivation method to attempt a breakthrough. Meanwhile, Yan Qianyu joined the Profound Heart Altar’s demon cultivators near Coiling Dragon Island and urged them to destroy the Fu Family rather than try to corrupt Fu Danwei.

• Fu Xiangfeng burned the water demons and puppets, recovered two pieces of Water-Spirit Jade, and gave Heng Hua the materials and the crab demon’s claw.
• Fu Xiangfeng described his two killing precepts, while Heng Hua reflected that Xiangfeng’s softheartedness had helped Mo Xu set a deadly trap for him.
• Heng Hua identified the pearl from the destroyed Immovable Reef as a Wind-Calming Pearl, and Fu Xiangfeng kept it for his journey to Windgate Island.
• Heng Hua told Fu Xiangfeng that Fu Danwei needed an Essence-Urging Elixir to briefly restore his strength before attempting a breakthrough, which carried the risk of costing him his remaining life.
• Yan Qianyu replaced his puppet body and met eight Profound Heart Altar demon cultivators, urging them to destroy Coiling Dragon Island and kill Fu Danwei and the Fu Family.

Heng Hua explained that he needed the Wind-Supporting Scripture’s lost Soul-Formation chapter and rare medicines to help Fu Danwei, then helped treat Liu Xu’s fire poison. The chapter ended with Heng Hua asking the Divine Moon Sect disciples about three spiritual materials he needed.

• Heng Hua told Xiang Feng that the Wei Family’s Nine-Wind Qi-Refining Method could help him understand the Wind-Supporting Scripture and that medicines to restore Fu Danwei’s primordial essence were also necessary.
• Nie Xing and Liu Xu arrived at the Fu Family spirit ship seeking detoxifying pills for Liu Xu, who had been poisoned by a lionfish demon.
• Heng Hua identified the poison as Peacock Fire and warned that Darkmoon Detoxifying Powder could leave harmful residue, so he prescribed two Jade-Glaze Fire-Quelling Pills.
• Xiang Feng helped Liu Xu circulate his qi and expelled the poisoned blood, which he burned away with Samadhi True Fire.
• Nie Xing offered Bright Moon Pearls in thanks, and Xiang Feng accepted only enough to cover the pills before Heng Hua asked about Darkgold Ginseng, Heavenly Moon Grass, and Eternal Firestone.

Heng Hua explained that the Fu Family needed three rare, thousand-year-old ingredients to prepare a pill that could help Fu Danwei break through to Soul Formation, while he had already prepared the Cosmic Splendor Jade Dew. As Xiang Feng opened a vessel market near Immovable Reef, Qingxi recognized the Fu Family’s Coiling Dragon Seal and considered the favors his master owed them.

• Liu Xu identified Darkgold Ginseng and Heavenly Moon Grass, but neither he nor Nie Xing knew where to find Eternal Firestone.
• Heng Hua took the Bright Moon Pearls Xiang Feng had received, checked them for a hidden poison, and returned them to Xiaoyu.
• Heng Hua told Xiang Feng that the Essence-Urging Elixir required three millennium-old ingredients and that the family would need to invite several renowned alchemists to help refine it for Fu Danwei.
• Heng Hua explained that he had spent years collecting dew, rain, frost, and snow from twenty-four flowers to prepare Cosmic Splendor Jade Dew.
• Xiang Feng formed a Coiling Dragon image with the spirit vessel’s lanterns and proposed holding a vessel market to gather information about the rare ingredients.
• Qingxi recognized the Fu Family’s Coiling Dragon Seal and told Lu Xin that his master had once received the Fu Family’s help, though Jadeflame Trading House had chosen the Wei Family and Cheng Family as agents.

Heng Hua appraised goods and mediated trades at the Fu Family’s boat market while memorizing metallurgy techniques. As the market drew cultivators to the Immovable Reef, Wei Lingzheng led four men toward it and ordered an attack on the Fu Family members and rogue cultivators there.

• Heng Hua left his room after Xiang Feng’s repeated calls and helped manage the boat market, where Xiaoyu kept records and Hengshou stood watch.
• Heng Hua appraised Xin Mao’s Silverbell Demon Carp skeleton and Mei Zhongtian’s Gold Essence, setting a fair exchange price and recognizing Mei Zhongtian’s skill at refining metals.
• Heng Hua noticed concealed cultivators approaching from the south, while Xiang Feng flew out to investigate.
• Wei Lingzheng saw the Fu Family’s Coiling Dragon Seal and learned that cultivators had gathered for a boat market on the reef.
• Wei Lingzheng agreed with Wei Lingming’s guess that the Fu Family presence was a group of sixth-generation disciples, then ordered his party to attack them and the rogue cultivators.

Fu Henghua used the Heart Ape to secretly disable Wei Lingzheng and four Wei Family disciples while Fu Xiangfeng fought them. He then recognized Mei Zhongtian’s rare Gold Essences, advised him on their value and use, and gave him a metallurgy book, beginning a relationship that would later produce the Fu Family’s famed Gold-Parting Flying Radiance Sword.

• Fu Xiangfeng battled Wei Lingzheng as Heng Hua sent the Heart Ape to support him from hiding.
• The Heart Ape struck Wei Lingming and three other Wei Family disciples, then sealed Wei Lingzheng’s mana at his Life Gate acupoint and sent him into the water.
• Heng Hua examined Mei Zhongtian’s composite Gold Essences, identified them, and explained their uses and approximate prices.
• Heng Hua selected three Gold Essences for making Puppet Gold and gave Mei Zhongtian a copy of Immortal Metallurgy.
• Mei Zhongtian accepted the book and materials, while Heng Hua recorded their transaction in the account book.