Chapter Summaries

Hengshou and Shu Tianci entered the Myriad Illusions Demon Cavern, where they faced dangerous creatures and learned that powerful undead might lurk deeper inside. In Yuanming’s mountain tomb, Fu Tongjun and Fu Liuhui fought corpse-transforming cultivators, while Hengshou and Shu Tianci continued toward a fork in the cavern.

• Hengshou and Shu Tianci bypassed the storm around the Demon Cavern and entered its tunnels, where Shu Tianci’s swordlight awakened poisonous bats that they defeated.
• Hengshou and Shu Tianci encountered a Flying Corpse, which Hengshou subdued, and found its final letter identifying it as a Purple Sovereign Pavilion cultivator who had died in the ancient battle.
• Fu Tongjun warned Fu Liuhui that Yuanming’s cultivators treated one another as enemies, and the sisters killed two ambushers who transformed into zombies after death.
• Hengshou and Shu Tianci fought through more cavern creatures, including zombies and Yin Vine Demons, then reached a fork as Shu Tianci worried about choosing the wrong passage.

Fu Tongjun and Fu Liuhui explored Yuanming Mountain Tomb and debated whether memories or the soul defined the self, while Fu Henghua forged twelve Ruyi Pearls for Hengshou. In the Myriad Illusions Demon Cavern, Hengshou used his own steel-hardening technique to defeat attackers and received the pearls, while the Wukong Incarnation adapted his method into a steel body.

• Fu Tongjun warned Fu Liuhui about the powerful undead in Yuanming Mountain Tomb, and the sisters discussed whether a zombie reborn from memories could truly be the same person as before.
• Fu Henghua forged twelve Ruyi Pearls from Ruyi Gold and sent them through the water toward Hengshou in the Myriad Illusions Demon Cavern.
• Hengshou and Shu Tianci killed three Bai Cang cultivators, found Azure Voidstone and spirit ores, and defeated four more attackers who tried to poison them.
• Hengshou received the twelve Ruyi Pearls and refined them into an All-Heavens Golden Bead Sword that could change form according to his wishes.
• The Wukong Incarnation recognized Hengshou's use of Point to Earth, Turn It to Steel, praised his advancement, and used the technique to form its own steel body.

Wukong and Hengshou explored the Demon Cavern, uncovering Yin Mother’s beast-synthesis research and encountering a sealed Heavenly Demon woman who revealed the Scarlet Departure Divine Palace’s connection to the Heavenly Evil Sword. Fu Henghua found the injured Yuwen Chunqiu near the palace, but his Wukong body fled after sensing a terrifying Demonic Hao nearby.

• Wukong killed a thousand-year-old Wood Flood Dragon and found records of Yin Mother’s experiments, including methods for creating composite demon beasts and beast talismans.
• Hengshou slaughtered snow tigers and hid the sealed chamber of a Heavenly Demon woman after deciding not to break its seal.
• Fu Henghua entered the chamber, overpowered the Heavenly Demon woman, and refined her memories into a book.
• Fu Henghua learned that the Heavenly Evil Sword’s blade was sealed in the Scarlet Departure Divine Palace beneath the Demon Cavern.
• Fu Henghua found the severely injured Yuwen Chunqiu near the palace, then fled when his Wukong body sensed a Demonic Hao.

Wukong rescued Yuwen Chunqiu from the Howl Demon’s corpse poison and discovered that the demon was the transformed body of a Corpse King sealed inside Nine-Dragon Mountain’s Demon Cavern. After Wukong and Yuwen reached the cavern’s outer grounds, Chang Yuezi attacked Wuma Fang and Tan Yufeng, and Yuwen tried to calm Wuma Fang.

• Wukong used a pill made from Fu Henghua’s blood essence and the Five-Dragon Wheel Scripture to purge Yuwen Chunqiu’s corpse poison and restore him.
• Yuwen told Wukong how he and Chang Yuezi had encountered the Howl Demon near the Golden Court, and Wukong recognized that the demon was confined within the fourth peak of Nine-Dragon Mountain.
• Wukong and Yuwen found a jade skeleton’s testament explaining that a Corpse King had become a Howl Demon and had been sealed by Golden Talisman Path cultivators; Wukong collected the remains.
• Hengshou and Shu Tianci left the Demon Cavern after failing to find the correct passage, while Wukong vanished after making a face at Hengshou.
• Chang Yuezi detonated hundreds of thousands of Three Mysterious Talismans, blasted Wuma Fang and Tan Yufeng apart, and pursued Tan Yufeng as he fell into a cliff.
• Yuwen hurried to Wuma Fang and urged him to stay calm and consider settling the dispute with a False Core.

Wuma Fang reconciled with Yuwen Chunqiu while Shadow and Liang Yuchan forced Tan Yufeng to open the Golden Court’s Pilgrimage Gate. Wukong used the curses’ attack on Tan Yufeng to enter the Golden Court, but found Scarlet Departure Palace locked.

• Wuma Fang treated Yuwen Chunqiu’s wounds and learned that Wukong had helped him, while Yuwen Chunqiu said Tan Yufeng had been rescued by people from the Devil Palace.
• Shadow took Tan Yufeng to a cave, where Liang Yuchan exposed her lies, tortured her, and made her agree to help them enter the Golden Court.
• Shadow brought Tan Yufeng to the Pilgrimage Gate and ordered her to push it open.
• Wukong identified the curses covering the Golden Court’s gate and realized they were being redirected onto Tan Yufeng.
• Wukong used the brief flaw in the curses to enter the Golden Court, bowed toward Empress Xuan’s bedchamber, and reached the locked ruins of Scarlet Departure Palace.

Hengshou, Fu Xiangfeng, and Xiaoyu displayed their sword intents at the Myriad-Illusion Cave while Fu Tongjun and Fu Liuhui escaped a Howl Demon and reached the Pill God Palace. Fu Henghua opened the matching gate from Scarlet Departure Palace and alerted cultivators to the Howl Demon and the Myriad Illusions Demon Cavern, leaving Jade Sage Pavilion to arrange a response.

• Hengshou destroyed two icebergs threatening Good Fortune Trading House's station and claimed a plot of ice, then revealed sword intent alongside Fu Xiangfeng.
• Xiaoyu demonstrated her Flower-Pinching Sword Intent, dispelling both men's sword intents and surprising Fu Xiangfeng and Shu Tianci.
• Fu Tongjun and Fu Liuhui fled the Howl Demon through a hidden passage and found a sealed door in the Primeval Ruins.
• Fu Henghua opened the matching gate from Scarlet Departure Palace, allowing Fu Tongjun and Fu Liuhui to enter the Pill God Palace and escape the demon.
• Fu Henghua told Canglan Sword Immortal that a Howl Demon was in the Myriad Illusions Demon Cavern and described the Blood Demon Hall Master's corpse-raising scheme.
• Canglan Sword Immortal directed Jade Sage Pavilion to handle the threat, while Fu Henghua also reported signs of a Howl Demon in Yuanming's Mountain Tomb.

Fu Henghua and his sisters uncovered the history of the ancient Meteor Calamity and the divine-vein lineages in Scarlet Departure Palace, while the Fu Family completed a powerful meteor weapon. As Nascent Soul Grandmasters arrived to fight the Howl Demon, Shadow and Liang Yuchan fled into the caverns, where Liang transformed Tan Yufeng into a snake woman and planned to gather more victims before escaping to Yuji City.

• Fu Tongjun translated the palace reliefs, revealing that an ancient civilization used twelve palaces to shatter a falling celestial body, causing a meteor shower, a century of darkness, and the collapse of civilization.
• Fu Henghua linked the divine-vein descendants and the Mysterious Empress’s lineage to the ancient cultivation civilization, while records showed that the Cui Lineage lost its bloodline powers after developing gu arts.
• Fu Henghua and his sisters found signs that his father and Third Aunt had visited the palaces, and Fu Henghua realized his father had drawn on their history for the Meteor Project.
• Fu Danwei and Fu Ruiying refined the Meteor Heaven Staff at Jade Qilin Island and planned to make further treasures and upgrades for the Fu Family.
• Two Nascent Soul Grandmasters entered Myriad-Illusion Cave to confront the Howl Demon, so Fu Henghua and his sisters left the twin palaces and returned to the caverns.
• Shadow taught Liang Yuchan the Blood Refinement Art, and she transformed Tan Yufeng into an obedient snake woman, captured two more cultivators, and asked to return to Aurora City before Shadow directed her toward Yuji City.

After Jade Sage Pavilion failed to capture the Howl Demon, the trading houses began surveying the Myriad Illusions Demon Cavern and competing to control the operation. When the Aurora City Lord tried to force Fu Henghua to accept an unfair division of the caves, Fu Xuanxing arrived and challenged him.

• Song Kui and Zhuo Li failed to capture the Howl Demon, reinforced its seal, and warned the juniors to keep clear of it.
• The trading houses used spirit fish, mirrors, and puppet constructs to survey the Demon Cavern, while Fu Pengming proposed building a profitable trial ground from its stones.
• Fu Xiangfeng led a survey team into a cleared passage, where they encountered Aurora Press cultivators Qi Wensheng and Han Cuiying documenting two skeletons as a tragic romance.
• The Aurora Trading Company steward proposed dividing the caves among the trading houses, giving Aurora City control of the central territory and assigning Good Fortune Trading House a lesser role.
• Fu Henghua challenged the division and called for Qiankun Tower to oversee the central caves, but the Aurora City Lord tried to force him to back down.
• Fu Xuanxing arrived on a White Dragon Horse and struck at the iceberg with lightning and Separation Flame, challenging the Aurora City Lord to a contest of Dao arts.

Fu Henghua and Fu Xuanxing challenged Aurora Elder’s authority after their combined techniques shattered his domain, and Fu Henghua exposed Aurora Elder’s hidden pursuit of Mending Heaven, Bathing the Sun. As Aurora Elder and Fu Henghua began a fire-endurance contest, Chang Yuezi returned with his cultivation crippled, and Fu Henghua suspected someone had attacked him from the North Sea.

• Fu Xuanxing used Thunderfire Palace Refinement with the White Dragon Horse to clash with Aurora Elder’s domain, while Wuma Dan and Wuma Fang helped the others escape.
• Fu Henghua raised Five Elements Mountain, reconnected the Myriad Illusions Demon Cavern to the Donglai Relict Continent, and restored Fu Xuanxing’s mana.
• An unseen attacker moved Chang Yuezi to the North Sea, beat him down to the first layer of Foundation Establishment, and returned him beside Yuwen Chunqiu.
• Fu Henghua revealed that Aurora Elder sought Mending Heaven, Bathing the Sun to refine an artificial sun, then challenged him to compete in the Fire-Sitting Art.
• Aurora Elder and Fu Henghua endured a fire sea as Fu Henghua called for the others to add their flames, while Wuma Fang and Yuwen Chunqiu took Chang Yuezi back to Aurora City.
• Fu Henghua used the Divine Luo Heavenly Tome to study Chang Yuezi’s fate and suspected that the attacker had come from the North Sea.

Fu Henghua endured the Aurora Elder’s three fires with the Golden Chopsticks while secretly strengthening the Breath Soil and teaching Fu Qinghan. In Aurora City, Wuma Fang and Yuwen Chunqiu investigated Chang Yuezi’s sealed cultivation, while Fu Qinghan admitted to punishing him and revealed his Six Harmonies Evergreen Art.

• Fu Henghua and the Aurora Elder continued their Fire-Sitting Art contest as the three Spirit Flames burned away Five Elements Mountain, but the Golden Chopsticks kept Fu Henghua cool.
• Fu Xiangfeng learned from Fu Baimin that Fu Xuanxing had come to find Fu Changqing, and he suspected Xuanxing was their cousin because she had been in the Western Sea sixty years earlier.
• Wuma Fang and Yuwen Chunqiu discovered that Chang Yuezi’s cultivation had fallen to the first level of Foundation Establishment and that 108 acupoints and his meridians had been sealed.
• Fu Qinghan confessed to Fu Henghua that he had sealed Chang Yuezi’s cultivation, concealed his actions from divination, and used Eight Trigrams Palm to defeat him.
• Fu Hengua drew on the three fires to refine the Golden Sun Orb and strengthen the Breath Soil, then heard Fu Qinghan describe the Six Harmonies Evergreen Art he had created by combining the Evergreen Scripture with Jade Sage Pavilion’s Immortalization One-Qi Canon.

Fu Henghua and Aurora Elder endured a three-day Fire-Sitting Art contest while refining treasures, and Fu Henghua helped Aurora Elder strengthen his Golden Sun Orb. They declared a draw and agreed that Good Fortune Trading House, Aurora City, and the other trading houses would jointly explore Myriad Illusions Demon Cavern, while Zhang Yue abandoned his attempt to kill Fu Henghua.

• Fu Henghua recognized Fu Qinghan’s North Sea inheritance as Kang Zhang’s secret estate and urged him to visit Tide-Note Studio to mend his cultivation method.
• White Dragon Horse stopped Ji Yun from using the Fate-Weaving Art against Fu Henghua, seized Ji Yun’s Destiny Chess Piece, and compelled him to support Good Fortune Trading House and apologize to Duan Sijing and Fu Henghua.
• Fu Henghua and Aurora Elder continued their contest for three days as Wuma Dan and Fu Xuanxing sustained the fire, and Fu Henghua taught Wuma Dan the Heaven-Escaping Sword Art.
• Wuma Fang joined the fire, intensifying the blaze, and Fu Henghua gave Aurora Elder an artifact-refining formula that advanced his Golden Sun Orb into a spirit artifact.
• Fu Henghua and Aurora Elder emerged from the extinguished Fire Sea and announced that they would jointly oversee the exploration of Myriad Illusions Demon Cavern with the other trading houses.
• Zhang Yue arrived too late to attack, and Aurora Elder agreed to cooperate after realizing Fu Henghua carried an immortal artifact.

Fu Henghua examined Fu Qinghan’s cultivation and devised a way to improve his Evergreen Scripture without dispersing his cultivation. He transformed Fu Qinghan into a seed and planted him outside, leaving his new path to unfold.

• Fu Henghua learned that Fu Changqing’s ice coffin had reached Burial Thunder Island and considered sending Fu Xuanxing to investigate.
• Fu Henghua studied Fu Qinghan’s Jade Puppet, explained the Heavenly Dipper arts, and identified flaws in Qinghan’s cultivation method.
• Fu Henghua deduced an improved Evergreen Scripture, while Fu Qinghan resolved to leave Jade Sage Pavilion after passing its Gate-Breaking Trial.
• Fu Qinghan read the new scripture and agreed to try it without dispersing his cultivation.
• Fu Henghua enchanted a mulberry and gave it to Fu Qinghan, transforming him into a seed that Henghua planted outside.
• Fu Henghua told Yu Luan to return to Immortal Algae Palace and urge her young mistress to keep contacting him.

Dongfang Yunqi learned that the moon could preserve the Divine Vein imprints that caused her transformation, while Fu Henghua recalled his father’s teachings and comprehended the formation linking heaven, earth, and all living things. The chapter left Fu Henghua missing his family as he gazed at the moon.

• Dongfang Yunqi read Fu Henghua’s account of the Scarlet Departure Palace and asked him about the origins of the Divine Veins.
• Fu Henghua proposed that Divine Vein inheritances were preserved through the stars, then recalled how his father had taught him about the Celestial Lodging Formation.
• Fu Henghua entered a white space and comprehended the Unity-Aspects Great Realm as a fundamental gate into the Heavenly Dao Myriad-Aspects Grand Formation.
• Fu Henghua told Dongfang Yunqi that Divine Vein imprints could be entrusted to the moon, and she realized she could seal her Divine Vein and return to human form.
• Fu Henghua admitted that he missed home and remembered the moon over Coiling Dragon Island.

Fu Henghua reached the realm in which the Great Dao naturally formed itself, gaining new insight into the paths of formations, talismans, pills, and artifacts, though his attempt to summon his parents’ souls failed. He then took Xiaoyu and Hengshou into the Myriad Illusions Demon Cavern to test their combined strength against a Golden Core-realm Ghost Ba.

• Fu Henghua formed a Seven-Star Soul-Summoning Formation, but it failed to summon his parents’ souls from the deep waters.
• Fu Henghua comprehended how different cultivation paths expressed the Great Dao and connected Creation to the Heaven-Earth Furnace and Primordial Unity Golden Core.
• Fu Henghua’s Wood-Mother Incarnation transformed into a Bodhi Tree, and his Wukong Incarnation carried Xiaoyu and Hengshou into the Myriad Illusions Demon Cavern for combat practice.
• Xiaoyu purified the corpse qi, Hengshou fought the corpse demons with his halberd, and Fu Henghua supported them with green-clad strongmen and protective magic.
• The Ghost Ba attacked Hengshou, who struck back with twelve golden needles, while Fu Henghua declared that they would face the Golden Core-realm foe together.
• Fu Henghua, Xiaoyu, and Hengshou summoned their incarnations and began performing the Jade Cauldron Pill Art against the Ghost Ba.

Fu Henghua, Hengshou, and Xiaoyu used a shared False Core and coordinated their abilities to defeat the Ghost Ba. Afterward, Fu Henghua explained how they could maintain and use their combined attack technique as they continued through the cave.

• Fu Henghua formed a jade-pill False Core from his and the others’ power, letting Hengshou unleash a blade domain against the Ghost Ba.
• Xiaoyu and Hengshou took turns defending and fighting while Fu Henghua prepared the Heavenly Star Soul-Calming Curse and attacked with the Heavenly Evil Sword.
• The three wounded the Ghost Ba, severed his horn, and used their incarnations to keep the False Core supplied with mana as they wore him down.
• Hengshou tore off the Ghost Ba’s arms, and Fu Henghua trapped him with fire dragons before Hengshou destroyed his body, leaving a ghost core.
• Xiaoyu cleansed the group and restored their mana, then Fu Henghua set out their combat rotation and explained how their shared mana and abilities worked.

Fu Henghua examined Zhang Ruyi’s full-moon transformation and discovered it was an inherited blood curse rather than a shape-shifting spell. He offered a temporary curse to hide the full moon from her body in exchange for Spirit Essence Pigments, while Meng Chen unleashed ghost armies in Bai Cang.

• Fu Henghua collected a thousand-year-old weeping willow to refine into a Resurrection Branch and postponed refining a Qiankun Ring until he could seek advice at the Qiankun Tower.
• Fu Xuanxing watched Fu Henghua return to Tide-Note Studio and wondered whether the Fu Family elder on the North Sea was his mother.
• Aurora Elder recovered with Flowing-Moon Jade Frost tea and told Hu Boyan to bring Zhang Ruyi to Fu Henghua for help with her frog-transformation curse.
• Meng Chen summoned an army of vengeful ghosts and sent them to attack their killers across Bai Cang.
• Fu Henghua found that Zhang Ruyi suffered from a blood curse and offered to make her mistake each full moon for a lunar eclipse, asking for Spirit Essence Pigments in return.

Fu Henghua cursed Zhang Ruyi while demonic Grandmasters invaded the Myriad Illusions Demon Cavern, and a Fire Qilin attacked Aurora City. As the city’s cultivators fought the beast, a Tribulation Immortal summoned Fu Henghua to capture it for study.

• Ji Mingfeng gave Fu Henghua an improved pigment cultivation method and warned him about the Myriad Illusions Demon Cavern and recent ghostly trouble.
• Ji Mingfeng told Fu Henghua that Liang Yuchan was Yin Mother’s daughter and that Young Master Jiang had taken the false identity Fang.
• Yin Mother reunited with Liang Yuchan, gave her a sealed spirit pet, and ordered her to kill Liang Zheng and his wife and Fu Henghua.
• Fu Henghua cursed Zhang Ruyi as six demonic hall masters entered the Demon Cavern and nine allied Grandmasters moved to confront them.
• Liang Yuchan unleashed a Fire Qilin on Aurora City, where Wuma Dan, Wuma Fang, Ji Yun, and other cultivators fought to contain it.
• A Tribulation Immortal summoned Fu Henghua and ordered him to teach Fu Xuanxing a Beast-Subduing Golden Ring Method so they could capture the Qilin.

Fu Henghua used a Beast-Subduing Golden Hoop to help defeat a fire beast in Aurora City, but Yin Mother's scheme turned it into a Demon Hou that swallowed Liang Yuchan. Liu Yang restrained the beast and sent it away for study, while the Blood Demon Hall Master was lured into a trap and Zhang Yue was captured by Bai Hezi and the Heaven-Stealing Alliance.

• Heng Hua refined Canglan's Beast-Subduing Golden Ring Method with his Ruyi Golden Hoop arts while Wukong secretly watched Nascent Soul Grandmasters battle in the Myriad Illusions Demon Cavern.
• Wukong returned to Aurora City, wounded a Myriad Beasts Devil Palace cultivator, and bound the fire beast's three heads with golden hoops as the others attacked it with lightning.
• The fire beast devoured Yin-spirit serpents and transformed into a Demon Hou, then swallowed Liang Yuchan as Yin Mother's hidden yin pellet fused into it.
• Liu Yang returned to Aurora City, restrained the Demon Hou with the Elephant-Seizing Seal, and gave Wukong a sealed wooden box so Canglan could study the beast.
• The Blood Demon Hall Master entered the seal to subdue his past-life Howl Demon, but the Howl Demon attacked him as Bai Hezi revealed the trap.
• Bai Hezi and the seven chiefs of the Heaven-Stealing Alliance captured Zhang Yue after the Blood Demon Hall Master was struck down and the other Hall Masters fled.

Bai Hezi defeated the Devil Palace’s attack and helped capture the Howl Demon, while Immortal Thief and Yu Yuyu recovered a secret key from Zhang Yue. After Wukong returned to Fu Henghua, an ancient Evil Emperor Sword blade dragged his soul into Scarlet Departure Palace, where it attacked him and left his body unconscious.

• Zhang Yue abandoned his body and escaped into the Dao Realm, but Bai Hezi pursued him until the Six-Winged Golden Cicada rescued him and Yin Mother fled with his remaining Nascent Soul.
• Bai Hezi and the other Grandmasters suppressed the Devil Palace forces, and Tianxuan Zi and Yan Yuyuan secured the Howl Demon for Canglan’s research.
• Immortal Thief and Yu Yuyu revealed that they had come to reclaim the Yin-Yang Fish secret key from Zhang Yue, then departed with it.
• Wukong returned to Fu Henghua, who learned that the Liang Family wanted him to help Liang Yuchan reincarnate and refused to spare her soul.
• A black sword struck Fu Henghua’s consciousness and dragged his soul from his body; Dongfang Yunqi and the Fu Family sensed the danger and tried to protect him.
• Inside Scarlet Departure Palace, the ancient Evil Emperor Sword blade attacked Fu Henghua, destroyed Wukong’s incarnation, and forced him to flee deeper into the palace on Mind Horse.

Fu Henghua struggled to repair his shattered Heart Ape incarnation while the sentient Heavenly Evil Sword blade hunted him inside Scarlet Departure Palace. With Liu Yang and Fu Danwei’s aid, he used sunlight to hold off the blade, then escaped when five Heaven-Stealing Alliance thieves stumbled into the palace.

• Mind Horse gathered Fu Henghua’s spiritual blood as the damaged Heart Ape and Fu Henghua’s soul were stabilized at the cost of his physical vitality.
• Fu Henghua used his Wood Mother Incarnation’s soul threads to stitch Lord Jin’s shattered Heart Ape back together while the Heavenly Evil Sword blade laid traps around Scarlet Departure Palace.
• Bai Hezi and Liu Yang visited the unconscious Fu Henghua, explained that he faced several tribulations before the Golden Core Realm, and tried to awaken him with sunlight and a talisman from Fu Danwei.
• Fu Henghua fought the sword blade with demonic arts, then combined Liu Yang’s Six-Yang Dao Radiance and Fu Danwei’s talisman with sunlight to drive it back.
• Kang Zhang and four companions projected their Yin Spirits underwater, broke into Scarlet Departure Palace, and encountered Fu Henghua as he battled the blade.
• Fu Henghua fled through the thieves’ entrance and warned them that the monster behind him was formidable.