Chapter Summaries

Fu Henghua and Fu Xiangfeng handled the Wei Family after their clash while the Jadeflame Trading House considered its plans for the Yanlong Waters. At Coiling Dragon Island, Fu Danwei deduced that the threat to the island branch came from the remnants of the Demon Palace.

• Fu Henghua recorded his meeting with Mei Zhongtian, then secretly took hair from the five Wei Family members so he could use suppression arts if they caused trouble later.
• Fu Xiangfeng explained that he had spared the Wei Family members to avoid provoking retaliation against other cultivators and suspected someone was trying to incite a feud.
• Lu Xin and Qingxi discussed the hidden expert protecting the Fu Family and weighed the Wei and Cheng Families as possible agents for the Jadeflame Trading House.
• Wei Lingzheng blamed the Jadeflame Trading House for the ambush, but led his men away and fled a water demon that attacked them at night.
• Lu Xin considered recruiting Fu Xiangfeng and Heng Hua as guards after Coiling Dragon Island fell.
• Fu Danwei used the Heto Calculation Canon to deduce that remnants of the Demon Palace planned to wipe out the Coiling Dragon Island branch.

Fu Danwei learned that Coiling Dragon Island faced a threat from the Demon Palace and prepared to defend it while Fu Henghua stayed away. Elsewhere, Fu Liuhui and Heng Hua each mistook a Nine-Radiance Ghost Serpent egg for food, but the egg began to crack as they considered its uses.

• Fu Beidou arrived on Coiling Dragon Island to help Fu Danwei, who insisted on facing the Demon Palace himself and asked his nephew to protect the children.
• Fu Henghua sensed Fu Danwei divining him, checked his own fortunes, and learned there was no immediate danger.
• Fu Liuhui defeated the Wei Family at a Spirit-Energy Treasure Vortex, took its treasures, and began boiling a golden egg she believed could boost her cultivation.
• Heng Hua identified a stallholder’s red-and-white egg as a Nine-Radiance Ghost Serpent egg and explained that it was difficult to hatch, prompting the seller to keep it rather than eat it.
• The egg in Fu Liuhui’s pot developed a crack, while Heng Hua and the other cultivators turned their attention to an unidentified black object.

Heng Hua appraised several supposed treasures at the spirit market, then recognized Qingxi’s concealed spirit artifact as a dangerous trap. He began purifying the Cloudsoaring Fan with divine fire while its hidden owner, Lu Xin, watched.

• Heng Hua identified the burly man's first two items as ink-soaked cuttlebone and a broken jade seal, prompting the man to leave in anger.
• Xiang Feng secretly warned the burly man to avoid the Wei and Cheng Families and seek an appraisal on Windgate Island.
• Lu Xin sent Qingxi to have Heng Hua appraise a battered folding fan that was actually the intact spirit artifact Cloudsoaring Fan.
• Heng Hua explained how Black, White, and Gray Artifacts could trap, possess, or corrupt cultivators, and warned that the fan contained another person's divine sense.
• Heng Hua declared the Cloudsoaring Fan a trap and used the Mysterious Fire Vermilion-Plume Fan to engulf it in Nanquan Divine Fire.

Heng Hua thwarted Qingxi’s attempt to expose the Fu Family and warned Mei Zhongtian about dangers in cultivation, then learned that the Eternal Firestone was thousand-year flint essence from Firegate Island. As the ship left Immovable Reef, Fu Liuhui discovered a strange newborn beast and sought Fu Henghua’s help identifying and feeding it.

• Heng Hua used Separation Flame to threaten Qingxi, who reclaimed Lu Xin’s folding fan and fled; Heng Hua spared him after suspecting a connection to his father’s benefactor.
• Heng Hua described traps involving artifacts, pills, and cultivation arts, while Xin Mao advised Mei Zhongtian to stay cautious and avoid Cheng Family dealings.
• Heng Hua and Fu Xiangfeng discussed Baiqiang merchant associations’ interest in entering Dragonreach through the eastern families as their ship departed Immovable Reef.
• Mei Zhongtian revealed that the Eternal Firestone was thousand-year flint essence from Flint Valley, and Heng Hua advised him on selecting metal essences to form a Golden Core.
• Fu Liuhui found a silver, horned newborn beast in a pot, failed to feed it, and used Huang Qiong’s feather to seek Fu Henghua’s guidance.

Heng Hua used Secret Mantra Golden Registers to refine Watermoon Silver and Puppet Gold while explaining his knowledge of the Gongsun Book and Black Artifacts to Fu Xiangfeng. The chapter ended with the Puppet Gold finished and Heng Hua sending Xiang Feng out after revealing that Fu Danwei had once beaten him for planning to use a Black Artifact against the Wei Family.

• Heng Hua checked Fu Heyi, confirmed he was recovering, and decided to refine metal instead of cultivating qi.
• Heng Hua and Xiaoyu used a Secret Mantra Golden Register and the formation to create Watermoon Silver from Spirit Silver and Bright Moon Pearls.
• Heng Hua wrote the Puppet Gold Golden Register, and Fu Xiangfeng used Samadhi True Fire to help refine the metal.
• Heng Hua told Xiangfeng that Langhuan Hall kept a fragment of the Gongsun Book and discussed its connection to Black Artifacts.
• Heng Hua revealed that his Qiankun Ring had begun as a Black Artifact meant to enslave members of the Wei Family, but Fu Danwei had stopped him and beaten him.
• Heng Hua and Xiangfeng completed the Puppet Gold, and Heng Hua sent Xiangfeng out of the room.

Heng Hua used divination and the Seven Sages Heaven-Misting Illusion Art to thwart Wei Chongwei’s attempt to locate Fu Xiangfeng and conceal the Colorful-Luan Spirit Ship. Meanwhile, Yan Qianyu prepared to attack Coiling Dragon Island, and Heng Hua continued building a Golden Crab Armored Soldier.

• Hengshou reflected that Heng Hua had learned numerous evil arts from books and credited Fu Danwei with keeping him from becoming an evil cultivator.
• Heng Hua began crafting a Golden Crab Armored Soldier and said his divination suggested the puppet master could no longer trouble him.
• Yan Qianyu joined the Profound Heart Altar’s demonic formation and planned to destroy Coiling Dragon Island and take a Fu Family descendant’s body.
• Wei Lingzheng asked Wei Chongwei to help investigate Fu Xiangfeng, and Wei Chongwei began divining his location.
• Heng Hua identified Wei Chongwei’s probing, disrupted his divination, and used the Seven Sages Heaven-Misting Illusion Art to hide the ship’s tracks.

Wei Chongwei’s divinations against Fu Xiangfeng and Fu Liuhui were thwarted, while the Fu family’s enemies began plotting to corrupt Fu Danwei and seize Fu Henghua. The demons learned that Fu Henghua had left Coiling Dragon Island and ordered both brothers brought back as targets for possession.

• Wei Chongwei failed to divine Fu Xiangfeng, and Fu Liuhui used the Hair-Coiling Curse to repel his attempt to locate her.
• Wei Chongwei discovered that his nephew had fabricated a rebellion to seize a ruler’s consort, then decided to invite the Fu Family to Skyhanging Isle and prevent them from obtaining life-extending medicine for Fu Danwei.
• Fu Henghua concealed the boat’s trail with the Seven Sages Heaven-Misting Illusion Art, then used sunlight to guide the Colorful-Luan Spirit Ship after disabling its Water Chart Compass.
• Liu Yuli and Fang Zichu plotted to damage Fu Danwei’s spirit, provoke him into possessing Fu Henghua, and then exploit the conflict to pull him into the Demon Dao.
• Liu Yuli learned that Fu Henghua had left the island and ordered his followers to bring back both Fu Henghua and Fu Xiangfeng, intending to use one as a spare target.

Heng Hua crafted a jade crab puppet and used it as a vessel for his mind ape while continuing to refine his cultivation method. After an hour of practice, he went to help restore the water map and encountered an unusually well-equipped young cultivator with Fu Xiangfeng.

• Heng Hua repaired a jade crab puppet with demonic Dao totems, but Xiaoyu refused to help him use blood sacrifice to give it vitality.
• Heng Hua infused the puppet with the river clam demon’s essence, tested its hidden leg-swords on Xiaoyu, and concealed his mind ape inside it.
• Heng Hua found that the Soul-Hosting Spell let the mind ape remain in the puppet for a long time, then pondered how to settle the Five Elements in his cultivation method.
• When the mind ape grew restless, Heng Hua used the Eight Trigrams Furnace to calm it, then set off to help restore the water map.
• Heng Hua saw Fu Xiangfeng drinking tea with a well-equipped red-clothed youth and asked who the young man was.

Heng Hua tried to avoid a calamity around Azure Sluice Island, but Fu Xiangfeng rushed to Fu Xuanxing’s aid after the youth became embroiled in a fight. Heng Hua joined the rescue, and the group fled aboard the spirit ship as more pursuers closed in.

• Fu Xuanxing introduced himself as a cultivator from the Golden Fang Water Region and asked Heng Hua for directions to Azure Sluice Island.
• Heng Hua divined that Azure Sluice Island faced a bloodshed calamity, changed the ship’s route, and persuaded Fu Xiangfeng not to go there.
• Fu Xuanxing appeared ahead with enemies pursuing him, and Fu Xiangfeng left the ship to help him fight three True Flame Realm cultivators.
• Heng Hua realized Fu Xuanxing had likely tried to avoid involving them, then ordered Xiaoyu and Hengshou to help rescue Fu Xiangfeng and the others.
• Fu Xiangfeng forced Fu Xuanxing and the wounded old man onto the spirit ship, while Heng Hua blocked the pursuers with wind, ice, and a wall of fire.

Fu Henghua treated the gravely wounded Zhou Xiao, a transmission elder of the Mysterious Subtle Sect, while weighing the danger his pursuers posed. After Zhou Xiao recognized the Fu brothers and explained why Fu Danwei needed an Earth-Grade Immortal-Tier Soul-Formation Method, he asked whether they knew Fu Henghua.

• Fu Henghua used golden needles to stabilize Zhou Xiao, whose Golden Core had shattered, and warned Fu Xiangfeng not to involve their family in the pursuers' conflict.
• Zhou Xiao revealed that he was a transmission elder and offered to help deduce a Soul-Formation Method, but said he needed to know the cultivator's condition.
• Fu Xiangfeng asked Zhou Xiao about deducing a method for their grandfather, and Fu Henghua refused to bring him to Coiling Dragon Island because of the calamity surrounding him.
• After Fu Henghua treated Zhou Xiao again, Zhou Xiao learned that the brothers were descendants of Fu Danwei, the Dragon Sword Immortal, and said he needed an Earth-Grade Immortal-Tier method to help him.
• Zhou Xiao explained that he could not deduce the required method himself, then asked whether the brothers' generation included someone named Fu Henghua.

Fu Henghua concealed his identity while learning that the Mysterious Subtle Sect knew of his Heaven-Penetrating Wisdomheart and arranged to travel with the gravely wounded Zhou Xiao. After divining the dangers ahead, Henghua began treating Zhou Xiao in exchange for Soul Formation secret arts to help his grandfather.

• Fu Henghua claimed to be Fu Tongjun when Zhou Xiao asked about Little Six and explained that the sect had learned of Henghua's Wisdom Heart through Dong Moyang.
• Fu Xiangfeng and Fu Henghua recognized Dong Moyang as Fu Xuanhe's former drinking companion, who had gained insight after speaking with Henghua.
• Henghua used divination to learn that traveling with Zhou Xiao would bring seven groups of pursuers, then delayed a lightning-wielding attacker with a water-mist net and Mirage Tower Illusion Art.
• Henghua offered to seal Zhou Xiao's scattered core essence and prolong his life, asking for Soul Formation secret arts in return so he could help his grandfather.
• Zhou Xiao agreed to teach as much as he could, while refusing to pass on the Mysterious Subtle Sect's core methods.

Fu Henghua negotiated with Zhou Xiao, who swore not to harm anyone aboard the ship and promised to teach him cultivation methods and arts. Li Nanxing and his followers caught up to pursue Zhou Xiao, and after revealing Zhou Xiao had been expelled by his sect, Li Nanxing hurled the spirit ship toward the Immovable Reef to begin their duel.

• Zhou Xiao agreed to teach Fu Henghua in exchange for treatment, then swore by the Donglai Golden Ranking not to harm anyone aboard the ship.
• Li Nanxing arrived with several cultivators and declared that he would kill Zhou Xiao over their old rivalry.
• Li Nanxing's follower revealed that Zhou Xiao had been expelled by the Mysterious Subtle Sect and was under a life-or-death pursuit order.
• Fu Xiangfeng tried to protect Zhou Xiao, while Fu Henghua invoked the Dragonreach Waters' rules against fighting over the water.
• Li Nanxing seized the Colorful-Luan Spirit Ship with a hand of vital energy and hurled it toward the Immovable Reef, where he challenged Zhou Xiao to a duel.

Fu Henghua used Fu Danwei’s Coiled Dragon Token to strip Li Nanxing of the Primordial Copper Divine Cauldron’s advantage and restrain him, allowing the group to escape. The group sailed toward Earthflame Island, where Heng Hua planned to seize the cauldron, while Li Nanxing sent pursuers after them.

• Heng Hua realized Li Nanxing borrowed Golden Core power through a False Core and a blood-refined bronze cauldron, then planned to take the cauldron away.
• Heng Hua revealed Fu Danwei’s Coiled Dragon Token and used its golden dragon to overwhelm Li Nanxing’s copper dragon, forcing Li Nanxing into the water and restraining him.
• Li Nanxing recognized Fu Danwei’s name card but continued the pursuit, using the bronze cauldron to send other cultivators after Zhou Xiao’s group.
• Fu Xiangfeng explained that the Coiled Dragon Token could restrain Li Nanxing for about a day, and Heng Hua said they needed to defeat the pursuers before nightfall.
• Hengshou changed course toward Earthflame Island, where Heng Hua intended to take Li Nanxing’s cauldron and let Zhou Xiao finish him.

Heng Hua and his companions captured Xu Wenyu with a Ruyi Golden Hoop and persuaded him to help repel Zhou Xiao’s pursuers without killing them. After learning Li Nanxing’s cultivation method and hearing Zhou Xiao’s divination, Heng Hua began reconsidering how to reach the Mysterious Embryo Realm through the Taiji Dao.

• Heng Hua sent Hengshou to help Fu Xuanxing and Fu Xiangfeng defeat Xu Wenyu, then used the Ruyi Golden Hoop to subdue him.
• Heng Hua bound the Golden Hoop to Xu Wenyu and persuaded him to help stop the people pursuing Zhou Xiao in exchange for removing it later.
• Heng Hua said he could not use the hoop to restrain Li Nanxing, and Zhou Xiao explained Li’s character and taught Heng Hua the Grand White Mystic Gold Art.
• Zhou Xiao divined that seven groups representing greed, wrath, delusion, love, hate, desire, and malice were tied to his tribulation and Heng Hua’s Foundation Establishment.
• Watching Fu Xuanxing use the Two Forms Sword Technique, Heng Hua realized Taiji and yin-yang might offer another way to achieve the fivefold reunion of the Mysterious Embryo Realm.

Heng Hua deduced a new Foundation Establishment mental art based on Taiji and the Five Elements, then used hair puppets and divination to respond to threats near his group. The chapter leaves the Wei Family and Profound Heart Altar cultivators facing one another as Fu Liuhui escapes and Heng Hua anticipates trouble from the Heavenly Demon Lineage.

• Heng Hua entered an epiphany, then used Zhou Xiao's Golden Puppet and the Heart Ape to deduce the Creation's Epoch-Reunion Art through Taiji, yin and yang, and the Five Elements.
• Heng Hua completed the art's central thesis to Foundation Establishment Perfection, and Zhou Xiao explained that the Golden Puppet could store its Dao intent and unleash a strike.
• Heng Hua turned Wei Lingzheng's hair into a temporary Dao Soldier and told Xiaoyu to prepare more hair puppets.
• Wei Chongwei used the Lesser Sumeru Dust Illusion Art to reconstruct events at Immovable Reef and discovered the direction of the Colorful-Luan Spirit Ship.
• Fu Liuhui noticed the Wei Family searching for Heng Hua and used witchcraft to warn him; Heng Hua sensed her signal, the Wei Family, and approaching demonic qi, then used a curse and fate substitution to redirect the threat.
• Fu Liuhui fled as cultivators from the Profound Heart Altar arrived and encountered Wei Chongwei's party, with both sides readying their magical treasures.

Heng Hua discovered that Zhou Xiao’s Demonic Beast was the Heavenly Demon Six-Desires Pearl, which had awakened and plunged people aboard the Colorful-Luan Spirit Ship into a demonic illusion. As water demons gathered around the ship, Heng Hua prepared to find help and seal the Pearl.

• Wei Chongwei and the Profound Heart Altar demon cultivators agreed to observe each other and consider joining forces against the Fu Family.
• Heng Hua sent a Wind-Riding Sound Transmission to Fu Liuhui, told her to meet him near Turtle-Burial Reef, and advised her how to feed the young spirit beast.
• The Heavenly Demon Six-Desires Pearl’s demonic influence struck Heng Hua as Zhou Xiao’s room filled with black qi and the ship’s prisoners became its nourishment.
• Heng Hua learned from Fu Xuanxing that Zhou Xiao had taken the Demonic Beast to Firegate Island to destroy the Heavenly Demon Six-Desires Pearl.
• Heng Hua and Fu Xuanxing saw water demons gathering around the ship and decided to set up a formation before seeking help to seal the Pearl.

Heng Hua and Fu Heyi fought the Heavenly Demon Six-Desires Pearl’s illusions and defended the spirit skiff while waking the others with Clearheart Talismans. After Fu Xiangfeng wounded the Carp King and Heng Hua’s flute calmed the demons, Fu Xuanxing sealed the brass furnace in Zhou Xiao’s room, ending the demonic aura.

• Heng Hua convinced Fu Heyi that he had been trapped in an illusion, and the two raised the Positive-Negative Wind Armor Formation against the attacking fish demons.
• Heng Hua fused Clearheart Talismans to weaken the demonic qi, while Fu Xuanxing freed the prisoners and Fu Xiangfeng broke out of his illusion.
• Heng Hua used another fused talisman to clear more demonic qi, and Fu Xiangfeng drove it from the skiff before wounding the Carp King with Fu Xuanxing’s help.
• Heng Hua’s talisman light awakened Hengshou, Xiaoyu, and Xu Wenyu from their illusions, and the three joined him aboard the spirit skiff.
• Heng Hua played the Spirit-Calming Demon-Subduing Melody, calming Zhou Xiao and the fish demons, while Fu Xuanxing sealed the brass furnace and stopped the demonic aura.

After sealing the Heavenly Demon Pearl, Fu Henghua and Fu Heyi planned to use the Southern Li Dark Sparrow Formation to cripple Li Nanxing on Earthflame Island. Fu Xuanxing revealed his talent for crafting specialized tools, allowing them to expand the formation across the entire island.

• Fu Heyi learned why Zhou Xiao and Fu Xuanxing were being hunted, agreed to travel with them, and gave Fu Henghua twelve flags for the Southern Li Dark Sparrow Formation.
• Fu Heyi hurried the group to Earthflame Island, where Fu Henghua assigned the imprisoned cultivators to prepare the formation and persuaded them to help by offering cultivation guidance.
• Zhou Xiao and Fu Heyi revised the plan for using the Secret Mantra Golden Register and Earthflame Island's fire to refine Li Nanxing's bronze cauldron into Crimson Origin Gold Essence.
• Fu Xuanxing demonstrated his artifact-crafting skill by making carts that dug trenches and inscribed patterns, so Fu Henghua decided to form the entire island into a formation.

Fu Henghua’s group used Earthflame Island’s formations to trap Li Nanxing and unleash their prepared countermeasures. The island became a formation disk that refined its metal into Crimson Origin Gold Essence, targeting Li Nanxing’s Bronze Cauldron as the battle continued.

• Li Nanxing reached Earthflame Island and tried to uproot it with a giant Origin Copper hand, but discovered it was a submerged volcanic region protected by ancient formations.
• Fu Henghua and the others activated the Return Wind, Turn Fire Formation, which repelled Li Nanxing’s attacks until he forced a crack in its barrier and entered.
• Li Nanxing used a Duality Stabilizing Talisman to counter Zhou Xiao’s magnetic arts, but Fu Henghua activated the Southern Li Dark Sparrow Formation and filled the island with Separation Flame.
• Fu Xiangfeng and Fu Xuanxing blocked Li Nanxing’s flying swords while Fu Henghua deployed thirteen Crimson Origin Golden Registers and the Talisman Fusion Technique.
• The Golden Registers transformed Earthflame Island into a formation disk that refined its metal into Crimson Origin Gold Essence and began melting the Bronze Cauldron and other metal objects.

Heng Hua trapped Li Nanxing and helped Zhou Xiao defeat him, then used the Crimson Origin Eight-Trigrams Furnace to draw out Li Nanxing’s gold qi and teach him a Five-Elements cultivation method. Li Nanxing survived, regained his cultivation through the new method, and bowed to Heng Hua as his teacher.

• Li Nanxing attacked Heng Hua, but the Golden Register resisted his control of the bronze cauldron while the Return Wind, Turn Fire Formation trapped him.
• Heng Hua helped Zhou Xiao use the Golden Firmament Mystic Thunder Formation and Duality Reversal Art to capture Li Nanxing beneath the Duality Jade Pillar.
• A volcanic eruption sent an iron tablet into the bronze cauldron, spilling Crimson Origin Gold Essence over Li Nanxing and turning his body into metal as he tried to refine the elixir.
• Heng Hua and Fu Xuanxing transformed the bronze cauldron into a Crimson Origin Gold-Essence Furnace and used it to draw the gold qi from Li Nanxing.
• Heng Hua taught Li Nanxing a Five-Elements Core-Synthesis method, which halted his decline and let his cultivation begin to recover.
• Li Nanxing emerged from the furnace and bowed to Heng Hua, thanking him for saving his life and helping him attain the Dao.