Chapter Summaries

Fu Xiangfeng and the others defended two phoenixes from cultivators seeking to seize or study them, using Fu Danwei’s Coiled Dragon Token and their sect connections to deter the crowd. Fu Danwei then ordered them to bring the phoenixes to Tribulation Immortal Canglan, but the Phoenix Bird panicked when a battle broke out nearby.

• Lu Jiang and Linghu Danya broke the Eight Trigrams Formation after spotting phoenix auras inside the secret manor.
• Fu Xiangfeng used Fu Danwei’s Coiled Dragon Token to drive back Golden Core Cultivators, then introduced the Phoenix Bird as a friend of the Fu Family.
• Fu Bolao emerged with the newborn phoenix, and the gathered cultivators reconsidered their plans after seeing the Fu Family’s ties and allies.
• Eastern Jade Immortal recognized Hengshou and urged the cultivators to treat the Fu Family members and Mysterious Subtle Sect disciples with respect.
• Hengshou showed Fu Danwei’s note ordering them to bring the phoenixes to Tribulation Immortal Canglan, and the Phoenix Bird tried to flee as Xi Menxiu attacked.
• Tianxuan Zi used a Phoenix True Talisman to convey that Tribulation Immortal Canglan wanted to study the Phoenix Dao, but the frightened Phoenix Bird returned to Fu Xiangfeng’s shoulder.

Fu Danwei helped Fu Xiangfeng bond with Tianqi and sent him to study Eastern Sea cyclones, while the Fu elders drove away cultivators pursuing the phoenixes. At Plum Blossom Island, Xi Menxiu began his tribulation after battling Green Calyx Immortal, and Zhang Ruyi survived an incomplete Golden Core transmission with a plan to try again.

• Fu Xiangfeng and Fu Bolao returned to Coiling Dragon Island with Tianqi, who had contracted with Fu Xiangfeng and refused to meet Canglan.
• Fu Danwei transformed into a golden phoenix, revealed that he and Fu Ruiying had mastered phoenix transformation, and said Fu Ruiying had driven the pursuers out of Yanlong.
• Fu Danwei sent Fu Bolao to Phoenix Parasol Island and instructed Fu Xiangfeng to observe Eastern Sea cyclones and weaken an approaching Ferocious-Wind Weather Cluster.
• Green Calyx Immortal defeated Xi Menxiu at Plum Blossom Island, but Ji Mingfeng explained that Xi Menxiu had used the battle to advance toward the Nascent Soul Realm and begin his tribulation.
• After the secret estate altar was repaired, Zhang Ruyi received the Color Alchemist inheritance, vomited blood, and fell before completing her breakthrough.
• Zhang Ruyi said she had understood her natal color and would return in a month to attempt her breakthrough again.

Zhang Ruyi formed her Golden Core and gained the ability to derive pigments, while news arrived that yin ghosts were attacking cities across Bai Cang. Fu Henghua had already suppressed the ghosts threatening Aurora City and planned to redirect an Eastern Sea hurricane against the wider ghost armies, as Song Chunqiu and the others tried to uncover the calamity’s cause.

• Zhang Ruyi formed her Golden Core, opened the Colorless Realm, and demonstrated that she could freely refine low-grade pigments.
• Green Calyx Immortal reported that ten thousand ghosts had attacked Aurora City, but a spirit diagram used by the master of Tide-Note Studio had suppressed them.
• Hengshou and Fu Xuanxing set out for Aurora City, but Song Chunqiu stopped them and warned that the Hundred-Yin Ghost Veins had been completed and senior cultivators were forbidden to enter Bai Cang.
• Fu Henghua messaged Hengshou to go to the Eastern Sea and tell Third Brother to guide a hurricane toward Bai Cang rather than disperse it.
• Xiaoyu reported that Fu Henghua had used the Kui Lord's Ghost-Suppressing Diagram to defeat the Aurora City ghost army and intended to sweep the ghost forces away with a hurricane.
• Song Chunqiu gave Fu Xuanxing and Hengshou Spirit-Hiding Talismans and ordered them to consult Fu on Coiling Dragon Island before they helped Fu Henghua.

After the ghost assault on Aurora City, Fu Henghua learned that a vast Ghost Gate Pass was drawing souls into a growing Ghost Realm, and that its master planned seven nights of attacks across Bai Cang. With the cities and powerful allies refusing to intervene, Fu Henghua prepared to act with the help of his own companions and sought out Dong Moyang, Yuwen Chunqiu, and Sha Jinshang.

• Fu Liuhui treated Fu Henghua’s ghost-poisoned wounds, and Fu Tongjun explained that the attacker was Liang Yuchan merged with nine resentful spirits, including Wei Zhidong.
• Fu Yaozhen returned injured with Fu Pengming and showed Fu Henghua the immense Ghost Gate Pass, which could enslave the souls of everyone who died in Bai Cang.
• Fu Henghua pieced together that the Yin Ghost King was carrying out a Seven-Night Yin Sacrifice to build a Ghost Realm beneath Bai Cang and warned the Cloud Cities.
• Fu Henghua learned that the cities planned to wait for outside reinforcements and that Nascent Soul Grandmasters, his grandfather, and his master would not intervene.
• Fu Henghua arranged for Fu Tongjun to raise Soul-Devouring Gu, planned to gather experts and scatter the ghost armies, then went to meet Dong Moyang, Yuwen Chunqiu, and Sha Jinshang.

Fu Henghua gathered Dong Moyang, Sha Jinshang, and Yuwen Chunqiu to plan how to use an Eastern Sea hurricane to destroy the ghost army threatening Bai Cang, while their sects agreed to let him proceed. After treating Yun Mengyin and bringing her to Tide-Note Studio, Fu Henghua left with the others for Sanyuan City as the second ghost attack struck Aurora City.

• Fu Henghua met Dong Moyang, Sha Jinshang, and Yuwen Chunqiu at an inn and learned that the three great water regions' sects were still waiting to act against the ghost calamity.
• Fu Henghua proposed driving an Eastern Sea hurricane through Bai Cang to sweep away the ghosts, and Sha Jinshang relayed the plan to his sect, which told him to assist.
• Yuwen Chunqiu rescued Yun Mengyin from the ghost army, and Fu Henghua healed her before taking her to Tide-Note Studio as a rabbit.
• Fu Tongjun examined Yun Mengyin, helped her recover, and persuaded her to buy goods from Tide-Note Studio before another ghost attack struck Aurora City.
• Xiaoyu found Fu Henghua, Dong Moyang, and their companions gone and discovered that the White Dragon Horse had left with them.

Fu Henghua and his companions helped Sun-Gazing Mountain City survive a devastating ghost attack, then used soul-purifying arts to guide the dead away. The Ghost Gate dragged the souls back beneath the water, and as the group rested for sunrise, Fu Henghua’s Divine Luo Heavenly Tome began glowing like a Spirit Portrait.

• Fu Henghua and his companions reached Sun-Gazing Mountain City, where unrepaired walls had allowed a massive ghost army to invade.
• Dong Moyang, Yuwen Chunqiu, and Sha Jinshang joined forces to shield the city while Fu Henghua restored its protective formation, and the White Dragon Horse drove off the One-Horned Ghost King.
• The Wutu Tower Master fought the Thousand-Armed Ghost King as Fu Henghua used the Purple Cloud Platform’s spiritual resonance to help Sha Jinshang purge the city of ghosts.
• Fu Henghua summoned golden lamps to purify the ghosts’ souls, but the Ghost Gate pulled the souls back underwater before they could reach the heavens.
• The Redflame Ghost King and Thousand-Armed Ghost King escaped, and the group rested on Sun-Watching Heavenly Peak as Fu Henghua studied the sunrise.
• Dong Moyang returned to find Fu Henghua’s Divine Luo Heavenly Tome glowing red, and he recognized the light as a Spirit Portrait.

Fu Xuanxing and Hengshou carried a hurricane route map toward the Eastern Sea as the Fu Family prepared to contend for the Soul Formation opportunity in Bai Cang. Meanwhile, Tribulation Immortals across the water regions investigated the secret use of Meng Chen’s Yin-Ghost Heavenly Soldier Technique, but the culprit remained unknown.

• Fu Danwei and Mu Shengtian sent Fu Xuanxing and Hengshou toward the Eastern Sea with Fu Ruiying’s hurricane route map and instructions to find Xiang Feng.
• Mu Shengtian and Fu Danwei discussed competing for the Soul Formation opportunity in Bai Cang, and Fu Ruiying told them to bring cultivators from the four families and use a refined secret item.
• Elder Tianjing and other Tribulation Immortals watched the Grand Profound Fate-Reversal Art and discussed Zhou Xiao’s talent and the investigation into Bai Cang’s calamity.
• Meng Chen angrily questioned cultivators on the Celestial Profound Dao Platform after discovering that someone had secretly used his Yin-Ghost Heavenly Soldier Technique.
• The Tribulation Immortals failed to identify the culprit and turned their suspicions toward the Mysterious Bright Demon Palace.

Fu Henghua completed two opposing spiritual diagrams and traveled toward Bai Cang, while Fu Xiangfeng and Tianqi steered a hurricane toward the haunted region. Fu Henghua’s group fought ghosts in Sun-Gazing Mountain City as other Four Seas cultivators sought entry to Bai Cang and Dan Xuanzi blocked them.

• Fu Henghua completed the Sunrise Diagram, revealed its shadow counterpart, and departed with Dong Moyang and the others for Sanyuan City.
• Hengshou and Fu Xuanxing asked Fu Xiangfeng to help move the Ferocious-Wind Weather Cluster toward Bai Cang, and he and Tianqi began steering it with a smaller hurricane.
• Wandering immortals pursued Fu Xuanxing and Hengshou, hoping to use the Fu Family’s journey to reach Bai Cang, but Dan Xuanzi intercepted the pair and drove the cultivators back.
• Dan Xuanzi brought Fu Xuanxing and Hengshou onward with Fu Maiyuan and taught them how temperature changes could generate hurricanes.
• Fu Henghua’s group reached Sun-Gazing Mountain City, where Dong Moyang and local cultivators killed the ghosts while Fu Henghua sealed their lingering obsessions.

Fu Henghua and the cultivators fought through the ghost armies outside Sanyuan City, using his Five Elements Mountain to restore and support the whole team. They advanced toward the East Gate, where Merchant Alliance Elder Lord Ling Xian watched and studied Fu Henghua’s technique.

• Fu Henghua’s group reached Sanyuan City during a fierce assault by twenty-four Ghost Kings and coordinated their defense aboard the tower ship.
• Fu Henghua used Five Elements Mountain and the Eight Trigrams Furnace to replenish his companions’ mana while the two rotating squads protected him and Dong Moyang and White Dragon Horse handled powerful foes.
• The cultivators fought through the ghosts with their Dao arts and treasure artifacts, collecting defeated spirits in the Yin-Nurturing Myriad-Ghost Gourd.
• Yin Mountain Lord led an army of vengeful beast ghosts, and Zha Zhenhua and Hong Changyi combined their abilities to help destroy it.
• Lord Ling Xian watched the party approach the East Gate and ordered his aide to record Fu Henghua’s technique for the Dharma Performance Hall and the Two Forms Dao.

After Fu Henghua’s party escaped the ghost army into Sanyuan City, he studied his companions’ cultivation methods and created the Creation Five Elements Canon. The Five Elements Dao Master recognized its promise, and Fu Ruiying helped develop it further, prompting Five-Qi Celestial Pivot Isle to withdraw from the contest for Bai Cang’s Soul Formation opportunity and support the Fu Family instead.

• Fu Henghua’s group defeated Yin Mountain Lord and broke through the ghost army before Ling Xianjun rescued them with the Nine-Yang Jun Heaven Ring and brought them into Sanyuan City.
• While recuperating, Fu Henghua studied sixteen companions’ cultivation methods, devised the Creation Five Elements Canon, and sent each of them a corresponding cultivation text.
• Hong Changyi consulted the Five Elements Dao Master about the Creation Five Elements Canon, then obtained Fu Henghua’s star chart and permission to share the method for reference.
• The Five Elements Dao Master studied Fu Henghua’s work, gained insight into a Five Elements Canopy divine ability, and sought Fu Ruiying’s guidance on its deeper principles.
• Fu Ruiying helped Hong Xuanji revise the Creation Five Elements Canon, and Hong Xuanji ordered his disciples to withdraw from Bai Cang’s Soul Formation contest and assist the Fu Family in helping Mu Shengtian form his Nascent Soul.

Fu Henghua helped cultivators with their Dao methods, warned Sanyuan City about the Ancient Battlefield, and planned ways to expand his family's influence in the Merchant Alliance. After recognizing Chen Yu as the Hundred-Beast Yin Mother, he confronted a Winged Poison Tiger that charged toward her, and she realized he was trying to frame her.

• Fu Henghua tactfully encouraged Zha Zhenhua to consult his family elders, then explained the Wind-Flute Secret Art and advised other cultivators on their Dao methods.
• Dong Moyang wondered whether Fu Henghua might become a disciple of a Tribulation Immortal elder, while Fu Henghua continued deducing his Myriad Gods Chart.
• Fu Henghua contacted Xiaoyu, learned that the Myriad Illusions Demon Cavern's outbreak had been quelled, and warned Ling Xianjun to watch the Ancient Battlefield.
• Xiaoyu gave Li Nanxing and his four sworn brothers Fu Henghua's Northern Dipper Pivot Five-Dragon Method, a secret art that linked their Golden Core domains.
• At a banquet in Sanyuan City, Fu Henghua assessed the Merchant Alliance elders and considered expanding his family's influence through trade.
• Fu Henghua recognized Chen Yu as the Hundred-Beast Yin Mother, who plotted to provoke a fight against him, but a Winged Poison Tiger charged toward her and she suspected he was framing her.

Fu Henghua used a series of staged attacks to expose Yin Mother as a Devil Palace agent, then killed her with a mirror-reflected assault. He left the others believing a family treasure had saved him, while City Lord Zhang thanked him for revealing the spy beside him.

• Fu Henghua created a temporary Winged Poison Tiger and directed it toward Yin Mother's courtyard to provoke her.
• Fu Henghua staged a poison-needle attack and planted signs of Devil Palace power on Yin Mother, making City Lord Zhang and the others suspect her.
• Yin Mother revealed her venomous insects and fought Dong Moyang, City Lord Zhang, and the White Dragon Horse while Fu Henghua appeared to retreat.
• Yin Mother attacked Fu Henghua with the Myriad Yin God-Slaying Finger, but his Dead Mirror Art reflected her assault and helped kill her divided soul.
• Fu Henghua claimed his grandfather's secret treasure had saved him and told the gathered allies that he had exposed Yin Mother after noticing strange auras at the banquet.
• City Lord Zhang thanked Fu Henghua for uncovering the Devil Palace spy who had been living beside him.

Fu Henghua exposed the Devil Palace’s infiltration of Sanyuan City, prompting the Merchant Alliance and the three great waters to mobilize against demonic cultivators. As the Devil-Slaying Edict spread, Song Chunqiu assigned Fu Henghua to lead preparations to move Bai Cang’s people into the Cloud Cities ahead of the ghost calamity.

• The Merchant Alliance elders surrounded City Lord Zhang and began investigating his residence after Fu Henghua exposed its connection to the Devil Palace.
• The Yin Mother escaped through a hidden thread of Divine Sense in an oriole and resolved to enlist Zhang Yue and the Hall Masters against Fu Henghua.
• Liu Yang identified the defeated demon as an incarnation of the Yin Mother and warned Fu Henghua that Bai Cang’s coming ghost calamity was tied to the Devil Palace.
• Two Tianyang Waters cultivators and envoys from the Mystic Jade Waters delivered orders to eradicate demonic strongholds, while news arrived that the Devil Palace had rescued Xuanjian True Person and prompted a Demon-Slaying Edict.
• Song Chunqiu arrived with an order from the orthodox Supreme Profound sects and tasked Fu Henghua with moving Bai Cang’s mortals and rogue cultivators into the Cloud Cities before the fierce winds came.

As the Eastern Sea tempest devastated Bai Cang, Fu Henghua’s preparations moved people toward safety while Fu Xiangfeng deepened his understanding of the wind Dao. At Yuji City, Song Chunqiu revealed a time-bending divine power to confront the Blood Demon Hall Master and protect the city’s people.

• Fu Henghua and the other disciples helped relocate cultivators and mortals to Cloud Cities before the tempest’s defenses failed and the storm swept across Bai Cang.
• White Dragon Horse rescued cultivators, and Fu Xuanxing reunited with it before traveling with Hengshou toward Sanyuan City.
• Fu Xiangfeng comprehended how the tempest joined the four seas’ wind currents and began refining his body through the Spirit-Vortex Method.
• Dong Moyang recognized Fu Xuanhe’s Thousand-Talisman Wind-Welcoming Art suppressing ghosts in the tempest, while Ghost Gate Pass continued its attacks and the Seven-Night Sacrifice proceeded.
• Heart Ape discovered the Blood Demon Hall Master’s sea-of-blood domain beneath Yuji City as Song Chunqiu and the Merchant Alliance elders fought to protect its inhabitants.
• Song Chunqiu expanded his Great Dream of Spring and Autumn across Yuji City, cutting away a year of its time and confronting the Blood Demon Hall Master within his domain.

Song Chunqiu defeated the Blood Demon Hall Master’s incarnation and used the Cloud Scroll to restore Yuji City, while Fu Henghua prepared a star-powered weapon to confront the ghosts at Ghost Gate Pass. The Meteor Heaven Staff’s activation summoned a colossal meteor that recreated the ancient catastrophe, leaving the fate of Sanyuan City and Ghost Gate Pass in immediate danger.

• Song Chunqiu formed the Four Seasons Heaven and Five Elements Mountain into a sword formation, then refined the sea of blood’s power with Mu Shengtian’s Essence Qi of Heaven.
• Song Chunqiu used the Cloud Scroll to restore Yuji City to its state before the attack and erased the demonic cultivators, including the Blood Demon Hall Master’s Divine Sense.
• Fu Henghua met Mu Shengtian and the allied families at Sanyuan City, where Fu Bozhao presented the one-use Meteor Heaven Staff for the plan to destroy the ghosts.
• Fu Henghua and six others activated the Northern Dipper Meteor Star-Chart Formation, drawing down the stars to empower the Heavenly Staff.
• The formation produced a vast meteor that echoed the catastrophe from ten thousand years earlier, alarming the Tribulation Immortals and threatening Ghost Gate Pass.

As the Ghost Gate’s final assault began, Fu Henghua’s Earth-Veil Binding severed its connection to the ghost armies, but the Gate countered by turning Bai Cang’s cities and inhabitants to gold. With the calamity star due soon and a seventh soul-shaking bell forming, the survivors prepared to suppress the Gate while Fu Henghua confronted the old divisions among the four families.

• Fang Dongyuan activated the Wordless Stele with his inherited divine blood and began developing his own Primordial Unity Profound Art.
• Fu Henghua coordinated the Cloud Cities’ cultivators in unleashing hurricane-powered Spirit-Flower Whirlwind Curses that devastated the ghost armies.
• Fu Henghua and the other cultivators completed the preparatory Earth-Veil Binding, linking more than a hundred cities’ spirit veins and cutting off the Ghost Gate’s connection to the ghosts beyond.
• The Ghost Gate rang its six golden bells and cast the Stone-to-Gold Method across Bai Cang, transforming cities, living beings, and cultivators who could not escape.
• Fu Henghua learned that the calamity star could arrive by July fourteenth and warned that the forming seventh bell could overwhelm Golden Core Yin Spirits; the cultivators planned to remove the bells and seal the Gate.
• The Yin Family head offered to sacrifice her puppet body as bait, while Fu Henghua urged the Yin, Bao, Cheng, and Fu Families to share their techniques and overcome their distrust.

Yin Xiang'e lured the ghosts away from the Ghost Gate while Golden Core Cultivators attacked it, and Fu Henghua deduced how the gate was anchored across Bai Cang. The cultivators raced toward its eight anchor sites to destroy them and compete for the opportunity to reach Soul Formation.

• Yin Xiang'e danced across the water, drawing ghosts away from the Ghost Gate, while Fu Henghua used Clearheart Talismans to protect cultivators from her bewitching art.
• Fu Xuanxing told Fu Xiangfeng and Fu Maiyuan that he could spend his life with any of the Fu Family girls, and Fu Xuanhe stayed to watch over the Ghost Gate after recognizing it as a lost Southern Continent immortal artifact.
• The Golden Core Cultivators attacked the exposed Ghost Gate, destroying many Ghost Kings as the seventh bell began to form.
• Fu Yaozhen analyzed the Ghost Gate, and Fu Henghua used her findings and his deductions to identify its eight anchor points beneath the Cloud Cities surrounding Bai Cang.
• The Golden Core Cultivators agreed to clear the field and compete by destroying the eight yin lands, while Mu Shengtian took Fu Henghua and Fu Yaozhen toward Aurora City.

Fu Henghua helped expose and remove the curse binding the Nine-Yin Stakes, allowing the cultivators to confront the Ghost Gate as a falling star descended. The sealed Heaven-Yin Boy was rescued and revealed that his ordeal had unexpectedly helped him pass the Human Tribulation, leaving him ready to undergo tribulation on the fifteenth of July.

• Fu Yaozhen spotted the Eyeless Ghost-Worm Script around the Nine-Yin Stake, and Fu Henghua used the Celestial Profound Dao Platform's deciphered principles to reveal the Netherworld Formless Array.
• Mu Shengtian seized control of the formation and pulled out the stake, while Zhao Mingjun returned it to her after discovering it could withstand primordial qi of heaven.
• The cultivators removed the Hidden-Yin Stakes, sealed the bronze Ghost Gate, and waited until the falling star struck it on the fourteenth of July.
• The Ghost Gate's seven bells shattered against the falling star, and Mu Shengtian and seven others drove the Eight-Extremes Yin-Locking Nails into the gate as its trapped occupants called for help.
• The cultivators rescued Heaven-Yin Boy from a coffin and learned the Devil Palace had used him in rites to nurture a mindless Yin Ghost King.
• Heaven-Yin Boy said the Ten-Thousand Ghosts Gu-Nurturing had helped him pass the Human Tribulation, and he announced that he would undergo tribulation the next day.

Song Chunqiu and the gathered cultivators welcomed three Tribulation Immortals, who inscribed True Talismans across Bai Cang Hundred Cities to develop the Nascent Soul True Register. Heaven-Yin Boy formed his Nascent Soul and helped the Tribulation Immortals trace the Soul-Formation True Talisman, but an unknown person used a powerful Dipper-Shift Talisman to steal the Ghost Gate.

• Song Chunqiu refused to release the chains binding Bai Cang Hundred Cities, and he announced that the Nascent Soul True Register had a clue that needed testing.
• Mu Shansheng, Meng Chen, and Canglan Zi inscribed True Talismans across the Cloud Cities, raising some cities' cultivation levels while draining the spiritual power and fortune of others to strengthen key cities.
• Fu Henghua recognized that the strengthened cities aligned with the eight Hidden-Yin Stakes and realized the Tribulation Immortals were building a Nascent Soul True Register around Sanyuan City.
• Heaven-Yin Boy revealed his Five Ghosts Plague Lord Art, overcame his thunder, fire, and wind tribulations, and formed his Nascent Soul as the three Tribulation Immortals used the moment's spiritual opportunity to trace the Soul-Formation True Talisman.
• Song Chunqiu refused Heaven-Yin Boy's request to take custody of the Ghost Gate, but an unknown talisman user invoked Dipper Shift and Stellar Transposition to move the Ghost Gate away.

Fu Henghua and his allies dealt with demonic schemes while his family arranged his aunt’s marriage, and he learned more about Minor Divine Abilities. After Hengshou and Xiaoyu defeated Yin Mother’s incarnation, Fu Henghua decided to pursue a False Core through an incarnation so he could study the Golden Core realm without endangering his true Dao Path.

• Fu Xuanhe discovered that the Ghost Gate was an imitation, recognized a resemblance to a relic forged by Meng Chen, and fled before Ling Tianchou could catch him.
• Meng Chen’s attempt to complete the Soul-Formation True Talisman failed, and Mu Shansheng secured Mu Shengtian’s agreement to discuss Lu Fengyang’s marriage to the Fu family’s aunt.
• Fu Henghua arranged for Hengshou and Xiaoyu to help Ji Mingfeng expose Yin Mother’s hidden incarnation, and the pair captured and destroyed it with the Three-Treasure Ruyi Ring Sword.
• Fu Henghua and Fu Yaozhen discussed clues that might point to their missing eldest brother, then Fu Henghua learned the Illusory Heart Suppressing Spirit Art and heard Heaven-Yin Boy’s insights about Minor Divine Abilities.
• Fu Henghua resolved to form a False Core through an incarnation, with Hengshou and Xiaoyu recognizing that their own incarnations could attempt Core Formation without hindering their true bodies.