Chapter Summaries

Fu Danwei and Mu Shansheng opposed Fu Changqing’s marriage to Lu Fuyang, but agreed to let it proceed if the Sword Saint followed the Yanlong Clan’s Three Letters and Six Rites. The Sword Saint learned that the first proposal rite required an unusually demanding set of gifts.

• Fu Henghua treated Ma Dongren while Chi Junwang sought his medical guidance, and Xue Kai stayed to help with the wounded and discuss future dragon blood experiments.
• Fu Danwei and Mu Shansheng rejected the marriage proposal, while Mu Shansheng privately asked Fu Henghua to help persuade his grandfather.
• Fu Henghua gave Mu Shansheng several sword arts he had deduced and promised to speak on his behalf, then enlisted Fu Yaozhen to consult Mu Shengtian.
• Fu Danwei agreed to consider the marriage if the Sword Saint completed the Yanlong Clan’s Three Letters and Six Rites, and Fu Henghua explained the customs.
• Fu Danwei set the proposal rite’s requirements: the Sword Saint had to provide a pair of live, unblemished geese, soil from three regions and ten continents, and water from nine enclosures and four seas.

Fu Henghua and Xue Kai studied Dragon King True Blood and concluded that dragons arose from primordial life evolving under spiritual qi, with dragon blood able to imitate all living matter. Their discoveries suggested ways to restore limbs and even form Dao bodies, and they began planning experiments while considering how dragon blood might free someone from the Yellow Dragon King's possession.

• Fu Henghua examined Dragon King True Blood and realized its blood elements resembled primitive, photosynthetic organisms, leading him to propose that dragons evolved from primordial life under the influence of Star Spirits and spiritual qi.
• Xue Kai understood Fu Henghua's theory and began experimenting with a drop of dragon blood as Shu Tianci asked for help interpreting the wedding requirements for soil from ten isles and water from the Four Seas.
• Lu Fengyang shared Fu Changqing's instructions to gather spirit soil from the ten isles' Spirit Veins and pure water from the Four Seas Sea Eyes, while Fu Henghua advised them to finish within three months.
• Fu Henghua and Xue Kai tested Xue Kai's theory that Chicken-Claw Ginseng resembled dragon blood and could help restore severed limbs, then proposed using Dragonblood Algae to create a restorative elixir.
• Fu Henghua and Xue Kai called for more researchers and considered using a nearby person as a source of dragon blood, reasoning that refined dragon blood might also free someone from the Yellow Dragon King's possession.

Fu Henghua and Xue Kai examined Fu Xuanxing’s blood and discovered that the Yellow Dragon King’s inheritance was turning it into powerful True Dragon blood. Xue Kai explored combining it with his poisonous blood to overcome his cultivation bottleneck, while Fu Henghua considered helping him become a Poison Dragon.

• Fu Henghua and Xue Kai bound Fu Xuanxing and drew blood from several parts of his body to study the Yellow Dragon inheritance within it.
• The two discovered that seals suppressed the dragon blood throughout Fu Xuanxing’s body, but blood outside his body rapidly transformed, with the forehead sample becoming powerful True Dragon blood.
• Fu Henghua asked for Ge Liu and Yu Yuyu to help investigate ways to suppress the dragon blood, then sent Zhou Xiao to search the turtle tomb for Baxia’s remains.
• Fu Henghua and Xue Kai compared their blood and found that Xue Kai’s venomous blood clashed with Fu Xuanxing’s dragon blood, drying up the mixture.
• Fu Henghua freed Fu Xuanxing and explained that combining dragon blood with Xue Kai’s poison might help Xue Kai overcome his bottleneck, then considered helping him become a Poison Dragon and attain True Dragonhood.

Fu Henghua devised a way to suppress Fu Xuanxing’s dragon blood and created a Dragon Refinement into Sainthood art, then used an article on dragon blood to help Xue Kai gain access to the Celestial Profound Dao Platform. The Sword Saint published the article, and medical cultivators began discussing its practical applications.

• Fu Henghua prepared a medicine that put the Dragon Element in Fu Xuanxing’s blood to sleep, giving him temporary relief from its effects.
• Xue Kai discovered that dragon blood could fuse dragon power with the Dao of poisons and declared his path the Venom Dragon Dao.
• Fu Henghua used the Divine Luo Heavenly Tome to devise a body-refining art, then tailored a Dragon Refinement into Sainthood technique for Fu Xuanxing.
• Fu Henghua arranged for Xue Kai to lead an article on dragon blood and submitted it to the Central Heaven Sword Saint as a means of entering the Celestial Profound Dao Platform.
• Fu Danwei and Mu Shengtian recognized the article’s potential, and the Central Heaven Sword Saint published it on the Dao Platform and gave Fu Henghua a mirror for Xue Kai.
• Xue Kai posted a medical art on limb reconstruction beneath the article, drawing medical cultivators into a discussion that the sword cultivators chose to let continue.

Xue Kai and Fu Henghua’s dragon-blood research spread across the Celestial Profound Dao Platform, prompting cultivators to develop a body-refinement method and raising the prospect of dragonkin being hunted for blood. Meanwhile, the Mysterious Subtle Sect sent four Heavenly Profound Treasure Mirrors to the Fu Family, and the Yansheng Dragon King grew wary that Fu Henghua might uncover the Dragon Clan’s ancient history.

• Mu Shansheng rang the Dao Bell for Xue Kai and Fu Henghua’s article on refining the body with dragon blood, and Tianxuan Zi connected Xue Kai’s research to his own Sage Path studies.
• Yuwen Chunqiu told no one the full story of Chang Yuezi’s expulsion and curses against Fu Henghua, then helped Fu Henghua make the final revisions to the Dragon Codex.
• Hengyuan True Person ordered four Heavenly Profound Treasure Mirrors delivered to the Fu Family, including one for Fu Henghua, and told Song Chunqiu to frame them as gifts for the revival of the Fufeng Immortal Palace.
• Cultivators across the Dao Platform shared their experiences and developed a systematic Blood Refinement Body-Shaping Method, while Fu Danwei refined Thunder Dragon King True Blood and ordered Mu Shansheng to protect dragonkin from kidnappers.
• The Yansheng Dragon King sensed a threat and began calculating whether Fu Henghua had already started investigating the Dragon Clan’s ancient origins.

Xiao Fan and another person were staring each other down when a roar interrupted them. A massive shadow burst from the forest and fixed its crimson eyes on them.

• Xiao Fan and another person heard a low roar from deep within the forest during their standoff.
• Xiao Fan tightened his grip on his longsword and scanned the undergrowth.
• A massive shadow burst through the foliage and locked its crimson eyes on them.

Fu Henghua and his companions completed the Dragon Codex, and Canglan examined its dragon lineages while testing some of its proposed transformations. After discussing the deeper differences between dragons and phoenixes, Fu Henghua left the research to return to cultivation, while his companions planned to meet beyond the Dao platform.

• Fu Henghua and his group completed the Dragon Codex, which Canglan incorporated into the Myriad-Things Sphere and examined by lineage.
• Canglan tested whether petrified objects could become Stone Dragons and confirmed the transformation after using dragon blood on a stone shard and a ladybug.
• Fu Henghua and Canglan discussed the origins of the dragon-phoenix conflict and considered whether dragons, phoenixes, and qilin represented competing paths of Dao cultivation.
• Canglan displayed the Phoenix, Black Tortoise, Qilin, and sage lineages before putting away the Myriad-Things Sphere.
• Fu Henghua declined to help another group because he wanted to resume cultivation, and Dong Moyang, Yuwen Chunqiu, and Sha Jinshang invited him to join their gathering.
• Fu Henghua offered to pay for the gathering, but the three companions refused his offer.

Fu Henghua and the cultivators responded to research on dragon blood by developing new techniques and plans, while the Celestial Profound Dao Platform fostered collaboration. Tribulation Immortal Canglan promised to take the Grandmasters to seek the Thunder Dragon King's true blood as their research into the Heavenly Dipper Arts continued.

• Fu Henghua spent the Cloud Coins Tribulation Immortal Canglan sent him, learned that most Dragonkin blood could not replace dragon blood, and sent Fu Ruiying a Dragonkin Blood Refinement Art.
• Fu Ruiying ordered Fu Xiazhai to help Fu Beidou receive Dragonkin, settle them on Coiling Dragon Island, and recruit craftsmen to build a water net for raising dragon-related species.
• Cultivators on the Celestial Profound Dao Platform explored algae and other sources of life essence, while Elder Tianjing secretly offered body-refinement services and urged cooperation to revive Donglai.
• Tribulation Immortal Canglan discovered the Grandmasters were researching Sage Bodies and offered to take them to the North Sea to seek the Thunder Dragon King's true blood.
• The cultivators resumed their work investigating the properties of living beings and things to understand and develop the Heavenly Dipper Arts.

Fu Henghua joined the dragon-blood research, then was pulled into a swordsmanship contest between his family and the Sword Immortal Continent’s disciples. He defeated You Ziwei and began a second match with Duan Xun using two Dao arts at once.

• Fu Henghua showed Xue Kai, Ge Liu, and Yu Yuyu how dragon and phoenix cultivation paths differed, prompting Xue Kai to begin experimenting with cultivating Venom Dragon true blood through gu arts.
• Fu Henghua went to Sword-Seeking Hall and was swept into the rear courtyard, where Fu Danwei and Mu Shengtian were overseeing a contest between the younger generations of both sides.
• Fu Henghua assessed the previous matches and entered the contest after Fu Danwei urged him to fight seriously.
• Fu Henghua used the Five Elements Mountain Method to strike You Ziwei with three rising mountains until You Ziwei surrendered.
• Fu Henghua began fighting Duan Xun, combining an Eight Trigrams sword with a five-colored stone sword as his trigrams clashed with Duan Xun’s Sunfire Mysterious Flame Sword.

Fu Henghua defeated Duan Xun with his Eight Trigrams Sword Formation, prompting Mu Shansheng to give him a fuller sword manual and criticize his shallow understanding of swordsmanship and the Dao. The chapter ended with Mu Shansheng warning that Fu Henghua lacked a clear way to walk his Dao Path.

• Fu Henghua used the Eight Trigrams Sword Formation to shatter Duan Xun's Golden Sun Sword Domain and take his flying sword, then returned it to him.
• Mu Shansheng praised the formation and gave Fu Henghua a more comprehensive Eight Trigrams Aspects-Heaven Sword Manual.
• Mu Shansheng criticized Fu Henghua's rigid sword technique, saying he treated the sword as a tool for expressing the Dao rather than pursuing swordsmanship itself.
• Mu Shansheng advised Fu Danwei to send Fu Henghua to the three great water regions to learn from their cultivators and traditions.
• Fu Henghua challenged Mu Shansheng's claim that he lacked a Dao Heart, and Mu Shansheng explained that he lacked a clear understanding of how to walk his Dao Path.

After Mu Shansheng questioned Fu Henghua’s Dao heart, Fu Henghua sought counsel through the Bronze Ancient Mirror and clarified his path as a Dharma Performer devoted to Creation. His Heavenly Book revealed that another wind tribulation was approaching, while his distant correspondent disclosed that completing a Heavenly Book had also brought heavenly lightning.

• Mu Shansheng told Fu Henghua that he needed to understand his Dao heart, then agreed to watch over the hauntings in Bai Cang and train his disciples to capture ghosts.
• Fu Henghua withdrew to his study, where three Golden Core Cultivators offered conflicting advice about forming a core and left him more confused.
• Fu Henghua contacted the cultivator on the paired Bronze Ancient Mirror, who reassured him that the Sword Saint could not judge his path and described his Dao as Creation.
• Fu Henghua’s heart cleared, and a jade tree bearing the Dao methods he knew appeared behind him as his Heavenly Book revealed that a wind tribulation was coming.
• The mirror’s other cultivator told Fu Henghua that completing a Heavenly Book had brought heavenly lightning and advised using morality, sage virtue, and merit to reduce tribulations.

Fu Henghua refined and shared a defensive Dao art that Ge Liu adapted into his Golden Core Domain, while Fu Henghua continued seeking people to teach and support in Bai Cang. He distributed communication rings and left two still without chosen recipients, one of which he sensed was tied to the Food Immortal’s forbidden book.

• Fu Henghua created a silver pendant that rebounded attacks and healed him, then found that Ge Liu was the only one among their companions able to inherit the Star-Turning Mirror Method.
• Ge Liu sparred with Lu Fengyang and used a starry mirror to return Lu Fengyang’s sword attacks with doubled force; Fu Henghua realized Ge Liu had incorporated the art into his Hundred Herbs Spirit Realm.
• Fu Danwei and Mu Shengtian discussed returning to Coiling Dragon Island, but Mu Shengtian agreed to leave only after arranging several matches for young cultivators.
• Ge Liu encouraged Fu Henghua to teach Chi Junwang medical cultivation, and Fu Henghua later assessed Hu Boyan’s painting and urged Zhang Ruyi to produce more pigments for a new cultivation path.
• Fu Henghua gave communication rings to Zhang Ruyi, Hu Boyan, Xin Mao, and Ma Dongren, then set aside three more rings, including one he sensed was connected to the Food Immortal’s forbidden book.

Duan Xun returned to Aurora City with a sword fouled by ghostly qi and discovered Fu Henghua was offering magical treasure restoration and color-alteration services. Fu Henghua and Fu Xuanxing restored Jade Tiger Wanderer’s treasured ocarina and began turning pigment-based enchantments into a thriving craft, while Duan Xun left with a sword warded against ghosts.

• Duan Xun and Shu Tianci returned to Aurora City, where Duan Xun learned Fu Henghua was restoring treasures at Tide-Note Studio.
• Fu Henghua repaired a damaged Taiji Bagua Diagram and began restoring Jade Tiger Wanderer’s Thunder-Calling Xun with help from Fu Xuanxing.
• Fu Henghua cleaned Duan Xun’s ghost-fouled Sunfire Mysterious Flame Sword, and Fu Xuanxing purified it with Li Fire before Fu Henghua painted on a temporary ward against ghosts and monsters.
• Fu Henghua recolored a guest’s treasure pearl and added a healing curse, prompting artifact refiners to study his pigment-based enchantment method.
• Fu Henghua and Fu Xuanxing restored the ocarina and its Phoenix Diagram, and Jade Tiger Wanderer thanked Fu Henghua with a book summarizing his feng shui arts.
• Fu Henghua continued accepting requests to recolor and modify treasures as customers brought in an expanding variety of artifacts and clothing.

Fu Henghua developed the Myriad Gods Chart, a project to embody the myriad Dao as gods, and began building it from individual diagrams. After a ghost killed someone in Aurora City, he suspected a coming tribulation and decided to create a Zhong Kui diagram to counter the growing threat.

• Bai Cang's attached-treasure services spread, and the Colorful Cloud Workshop invited Zhang Ruyi to teach pigment arts; Fu Henghua encouraged her to accept and gave her a Five Yin Tower token for protection.
• Fu Henghua completed a Morning Cloud Water-Dividing Diagram, whose divine general granted Ma Dongren a scripture and talisman, then explained that Ma could summon the general for aid.
• Fu Yaozhen foresaw a world-covering Dao diagram and worried that the fates of the four arts might lead their practitioners to become Demon Emperors.
• Fu Danwei and his wife left Aurora City with Fu Changqing after warning the family to watch over the younger generation; once they were gone, the relatives celebrated their newfound freedom.
• Fu Henghua planned the Myriad Gods Chart as a series of fused Dao God Diagrams and asked Hengshou to find Ji Mingfeng while he worked on its designs.
• After a sinister wind brought news of a ghost killing someone nearby, Fu Henghua connected the incident to an approaching tribulation and decided to paint a Zhong Kui Diagram for catching ghosts.

Hengshou escorted Zhang Ruyi and Hu Boyan to Plum Blossom Island, where Ji Mingfeng revealed a secret manor holding a legendary Color Alchemy inheritance. Fu Henghua sent Fu Xiangfeng, Fu Xuanxing, and Fang Dongyuan to explore it, while he stayed behind and said the manor was Fu Pengming’s destined opportunity.

• Mu Shansheng brought Hengshou, Zhang Ruyi, and Hu Boyan to Plum Blossom Island, then flew to Cloud Dragon Free-and-Easy Isle to seek spirit soil.
• Situ Lüe prepared for a spell duel against Ximen while Ji Mingfeng left Green Calyx Pavilion after their chess game.
• Ji Mingfeng showed Hengshou and Zhang Ruyi Colorful Cloud Workshop and explained that a secret manor beneath the island held the Myriad Colors Blending Heaven Collection and rare pigment formulas.
• Fu Henghua told Hengshou that he wanted a thirty-percent share in the inheritance and sent Fu Xiangfeng, Fu Xuanxing, and Fang Dongyuan to explore the underwater manor.
• The three newcomers joined Hengshou and dived beneath Plum Blossom Island as Ji Mingfeng watched, uncertain whether they could open the manor.
• At Tide-Note Studio, Fu Henghua declined to direct the search and said the underwater manor was Fu Pengming’s destined opportunity.

Hengshou, Fu Xuanxing, Fu Xiangfeng, and Fang Dongyuan entered a hidden water manor, battled its Ink Beasts and lethal tomb defenses, and discovered a phoenix-blood spirit bird’s trail. After Hengshou collected the manor’s spirit ink, Fu Xiangfeng followed the bird’s guidance toward its Phoenix Nest, where it was undergoing ascension.

• Hengshou led the others through the Primordial Trigrams and into the water manor, where they found old bird blood and were attacked by Ink Beasts.
• The four fought through the manor’s defenses, located the ink pool, and narrowly escaped the star-filled plaza’s assault.
• Fu Xiangfeng and the others destroyed the brush that created the Ink Beasts, while Hengshou collected the pool’s spirit ink through a spatial passage.
• A phoenix-blood spirit bird’s Divine Sense appeared and told Fu Xiangfeng that its true body was ascending in a Phoenix Nest deeper inside the manor.
• Fu Xiangfeng followed the bird’s guidance with Hengshou, Fu Xuanxing, and Fang Dongyuan toward the Phoenix Nest.

Fu Henghua investigated the Phoenix Nest and realized that its wind-and-fire transformation was tied to the Phoenix Clan’s origins and Fang Wanjin’s plan for rebirth. As the Phoenix Bird began transforming, Fang Wanjin’s five-colored painting entered the Nest to shape a new Phoenix egg, leaving both chances of resurrection in play.

• Fu Xiangfeng, Fu Xuanxing, Fang Dongyuan, and Hengshou reached the Phoenix Nest, where Fang Dongyuan recognized it as the core of the Fu Family’s defensive system.
• The Phoenix Nest formed Wind Phoenix and Fire Huang figures that split apart and reunited around the Phoenix Bird as its feathered transformation began.
• Fu Henghua theorized that primordial Phoenixes embodied wind and fire, then concluded that Fang Wanjin had prepared the Phoenix Nest and a five-colored painting to enable his rebirth as a Phoenix.
• Heng Hua sent Hengshou to retrieve Fang Wanjin’s painting, which contained his remaining essence, and explained that it would help shape a new Phoenix egg.
• Hengshou brought the painting to the Phoenix Nest, where it flew inside and triggered a surge of spiritual energy throughout the secret manor as Fu Henghua accepted the risk to both the Phoenix Bird and Fang Wanjin.

Fu Henghua separated the Phoenix Bird’s ascension from the hatching Phoenix egg and gained a new foundation for his Myriad Gods Chart. As the secret manor came under threat from a battle above, Fu Xiangfeng and the others hid it while Green Calyx Immortal faced Ximen’s expanding talisman domain.

• Fu Henghua drew Fang Wanjin’s natal star into Phoenix Nest, where a Phoenix egg began competing with the Phoenix Bird for the stored Phoenix True Qi.
• Hengshou used Fu Henghua’s talisman, and Hengshou, Xiaoyu, and Heng Hua joined within Phoenix Nest to operate the Jade Cauldron Combined Elixir Art.
• Fu Henghua understood the Phoenix Clan’s mother-womb space, formed a Taiji vision of two yin-yang gods, and separated the Phoenix Bird’s ascension from the egg’s hatching.
• Hengshou sensed that Green Calyx Immortal’s duel was shaking the secret manor, so Fu Xiangfeng, Fang Dongyuan, and Fu Xuanxing activated the Fu Family’s Eight Trigrams Formation to conceal it.
• Green Calyx Immortal broke Ximen’s Thousand Talisman Formation with her Green Plum Domain, but Ximen filled the domain with golden talismans that began overwhelming her space.

Xi Menxiu and the Green Calyx Immortal fought an evenly matched Golden Core battle above Plum Blossom Island, while Fu Henghua intervened in the Phoenix Nest to resolve a struggle among Fu Bolao, Fang Wanjin, and a phoenix bird. The Phoenix Nest broke apart, leaving Fu Bolao and the phoenix bird battling over the phoenix egg as Fu Henghua’s incarnation departed.

• Xi Menxiu countered the Green Calyx Immortal’s attacks with his Heavenly Talisman Domain, regrew his severed arm, and wounded her with the Three-Treasure Soul-Destroying Talisman.
• The two Golden Core cultivators moved their fight into the sky after their battle forced Spirit-Energy Treasure Vortices and hidden islands to surface.
• Fu Henghua’s Wukong Incarnation recognized that Fu Bolao had hidden his soul in the Phoenix Nest and used Heavenly Demon Thought-Cleaving to sever Fu Bolao’s hostile intent toward him.
• Fu Henghua separated the phoenix bird, phoenix egg, and Wutong tree, then used his Creation Origin-Unity teachings to give the egg life and help the bird transform its bloodline.
• Fu Henghua broke the Phoenix Nest with the Taiji Diagram, and Fu Bolao emerged carrying the phoenix egg as the phoenix bird attacked him.
• Fu Bolao and the phoenix bird exchanged attacks while Fu Henghua’s incarnation erased their memories of him and left to rejoin his main body.

Fu Xiangfeng and Fu Bolao settled the Phoenix Nest dispute as Fang Wanjin emerged as a Brocade Phoenix, while Fu Henghua drafted a vast Myriad Gods Chart and began seeking enough Spirit Essence Pigments to complete it. The chapter left Fu Henghua preparing to experiment with new ways to extract pigments and Fu Bolao joining the others to defend the exposed hidden estate.

• Hengshou summoned Fu Xiangfeng to mediate as Fu Bolao and the Phoenix Bird argued over the Phoenix Nest, and Fu Bolao explained that the Bird's arrival had disrupted his and Fang Wanjin's revival.
• Fu Bolao's Phoenix egg hatched into a Brocade Phoenix, which he identified as Fang Wanjin, and he agreed to raise it on Phoenix Parasol Island.
• Fu Xiangfeng described the Fu Family's growth and invited Fu Bolao to return with them, while Fu Bolao suggested that Fu Xiangfeng and the Phoenix Bird form a cultivation contract.
• Fu Xuanxing warned that cultivators were approaching the exposed hidden estate, so Fu Bolao activated its mechanisms and joined Fu Xiangfeng and the others to help defend it.
• Fu Henghua completed a draft of his enormous Myriad Gods Chart and realized that he lacked enough Spirit Essence Pigments to finish it.
• Fu Henghua ordered Xiaoyu to have Hengshou gather pigments from the hidden estate, sought antique paintings and calligraphy to scrape for pigments, and began experimenting with new sources.