Chapter Summaries

Fu Henghua confronted the Fu Clan Master, negotiated compensation for Fu Xuanxing, and acquired ancient Fu Clan texts. After Qiu Yu brought Fu Xuanxing’s recovered treasures, Heng Hua returned to developing the Spirit Architect path, whose growing influence caught Yin Yanqing’s attention.

• Fu Henghua confronted the Fu Clan Master about involving Fu Xuanxing, recognized a mysterious Fate Track, and agreed to let the matter end if the Fu Clan Master returned to his true body.
• Fu Henghua demanded compensation for Fu Xuanxing and ancient texts, and the Fu Clan Master handed over a totem technique scroll and the Myriad Wood Azure Leaf Register.
• Qiu Yu gave Fu Henghua the treasures he had taken from the Fu Clan treasury, including the Dark Mysterious True Water Fu Xuanxing needed, and invited him on a treasure-hunting expedition.
• Fu Henghua declined Qiu Yu’s invitation and discussed his Spirit Architecture Heartscape Technique and new opportunities for Spirit Architects and Cinnabar-and-Blue painters on the Dao Platform.
• Yin Yanqing watched Dao Virtue qi gather around Fu Henghua and wondered whether he might be the future figure destined to achieve Civilization Dao-Proof.

After recovering from the Dragon King's attack, Fu Xuanxing began training in the Southern Li Sword Formula while Heng Hua organized the Fu Family members' stay in the Grotto of Spirit Tribulations. Heng Hua also planned a library and a gathering there, then watched Tribulation Immortals battle using manifested Dao Palaces and wondered when he could join them.

• Heng Hua told the recovering Fu Xuanxing that the Dragon King's divine consciousness had been destroyed and gave him a ring of treasures as compensation for using his death to counterattack.
• Heng Hua taught Fu Xuanxing the Southern Li Thirteen-Sword Formula in the Grotto of Spirit Tribulations, and Fu Xuanxing practiced it successfully despite his injuries.
• Fu Xuange showed Heng Hua and Fu Xuanxing a Starwood core for a weapon, and Heng Hua sent Fu Xuange and Fu Tongjun to rescue Mei Zhongtian from a tribulation in Yuanming.
• Heng Hua arranged for the Fu Family members to cultivate in the grotto and assigned Xiaoyu and Hengshou to prepare a library, while he planned a Double Ninth Festival banquet.
• Heng Hua received images of Tribulation Immortals battling with manifested Dao Palaces and watched the Heaven-Piercing Purple-Qi Tower face a host of rival inner scenes.

Fu Henghua hosted the Double-Nine Gathering at the Grotto of Spirit Tribulations, drawing young cultivators from across Donglai to share food, books, and immortal inheritances. As the guests explored his library and entered the grotto, Huang Yu arrived carrying a hidden consciousness that recognized Fu Henghua as a threat, prompting Henghua to summon Fu Pengming to study the Heavenly Book Dao.

• Fu Henghua sent invitations across the three great waters, and the guests discussed the East Sea Dragon Palace conflict, the absent invitees, and who would attend from their regions.
• Young cultivators from Central Heaven, the Golden Direction Water Region, and the Mystic Jade Waters arrived at Yuanpeng Mountain, where Fu Henghua welcomed them and revealed a crab mountain created through the Creation Art.
• Fu Henghua led the guests through Yuanpeng Curio Hall, where they found his vast library of Dao texts and began studying its collections before entering the immortal cave.
• Fu Danyu discovered that Fu Henghua's Stellar Manual contained unusually complete early cultivation methods, secretly hid it, and resolved to take it back to the Fu Clan.
• Fu Henghua directed Huang Yu to a passage suited to his cultivation, while the hidden consciousness in Huang Yu's mind warned that Fu Henghua's Heavenly Book embryos could destroy it.
• Fu Henghua ordered Fu Pengming to come cultivate at the Grotto of Spirit Tribulations until he researched the Heavenly Book Dao art, and arranged for Fu Danwei to have Fu Yifu take over Pengming's business.

Fu Henghua’s Spirit Tribulation Symposium spread his influence across Donglai as cultivators gained knowledge and advanced their cultivation. After more than a decade, Fu Liuhui discovered that Henghua had vanished from his quarters and the Grotto of Spirit Tribulations, prompting her to summon the Fu family.

• Huang Yu returned to Yuanpeng Library, where Fu Henghua recognized his Book of Changing Heaven and the Eight Extremes path and gave him books to study.
• Fu Henghua kept Fu Pengming in seclusion, making him write and calculate hexagrams until he refined a Dao seed.
• Fu Tongjun learned that Dongfang Yunqi had sent away a mortal imitation of herself and that she and Fu Henghua had avoided meeting because she could not bear his pity.
• Lu Zhenzhen reached Foundation Establishment, Yun Mengyin formed her core, and other guests gained cultivation insights from the library and symposium.
• Fu Henghua’s annual gatherings became renowned, and he established a select circle of young cultivators across the three great waters.
• Xiaoyu told Shu Tianci that Fu Henghua was missing, and Fu Liuhui confirmed through their bloodline connection that he was not on Cuiyun Island and called for the Fu family.

Fu Henghua was abducted and imprisoned in the Western Sea, where he escaped his captors only to be confronted by Xuanjian True Person, who demanded the Heavenly Evil Sword Qi. After Xuanjian wounded him, Henghua fled toward the South Sea while his family and allies searched for him.

• Fu Tongjun and the others searched Fu Henghua’s room, found no signs of a struggle, and feared a powerful enemy had taken him for his abilities as a Dharma Performer.
• Fu Yaozhen learned that Fu Henghua had vanished and used her Mystic Sight to investigate, while Hengshou went to Five Elements Mountain to seek answers from the Wukong Incarnation.
• Fu Henghua awoke inside an Immortal-Imprisoning Coffin with his mana sealed and suspected that Qiu Yu or Yu Yuyu had arranged his abduction.
• Fu Henghua broke free when a blind sword cultivator opened the coffin and recognized the attacker as Xuanjian True Person, who demanded the Heavenly Evil Sword Qi.
• Fu Henghua fled across the Western Sea using secret treasures, but Xuanjian struck him down, severed his arm, and shattered one of his life-replacing spirit jades.
• Fu Henghua treated his wound and redirected his escape toward the South Sea, puzzling Xuanjian True Person, who had expected him to flee toward the Yellow Dragon Mountain Range.

Fu Henghua struggled to escape Xuanjian True Person while the Azure Dragon King's delayed blood curse made the Western Sea hostile to him. Their flight led them to Water Tree Kingdom, where they joined forces against the Ice Demon, and Fu Henghua left Xuanjian True Person unconscious as the kingdom's ruler survived.

• Fu Henghua discovered that the Azure Dragon King's Dragon-Slaying Blood Curse had activated in the Western Sea and forced its Dragon Clan and dependents to attack him.
• Fu Henghua fled toward Water Tree Kingdom while Xuanjian True Person pursued him, and the two clashed as Xuanjian True Person revealed his Foundation Establishment cultivation and Heavenly Evil Sword Body.
• Fu Henghua and Xuanjian True Person reached Water Tree Kingdom and found the Ice Demon freezing the kingdom and suppressing its ruler.
• Fu Henghua and Xuanjian True Person destroyed the four ice steles, allowing the ruler of Water Tree Kingdom to break free and counterattack the Ice Demon.
• The Ice Demon struck Fu Henghua and Xuanjian True Person with soul-targeting spells, but Fu Henghua escaped and used the Three-Treasure Ruyi Ring Sword to knock Xuanjian True Person unconscious.
• The ruler of Water Tree Kingdom survived and called for aid, while Fu Henghua hoped Senior Qiu would soon find him.

Fu Henghua captured Xuanjian True Person, used a curse to bind their lives, and persuaded him to accompany him to an Evil Sovereign relic. After discovering the relic’s connection to a stolen human head and abandoning the golden gate when Xuanjian warned it would kill them, Henghua revealed that their real target was the Frogman King.

• Xuanjian True Person woke in a cave restrained by Henghua, who had used a Golden Hoop Method to suppress his damaged soul.
• The Ice Demon fled Water Tree Kingdom, and Fu Yaozhen and Fu Xuanxing learned that a human head containing memories had been stolen from the kingdom.
• Henghua read the head’s memories and discovered an Evil Sovereign domain, then bound Xuanjian True Person with a curse that made him take Henghua’s place in death.
• Henghua promised to help resolve the flaw in Xuanjian True Person’s eyes and brought him to the relic, where they found white-bone pagodas and a golden gate.
• Xuanjian True Person warned Henghua that entering the golden gate would kill them, so Henghua abandoned the attempt and called out the Frogman King hiding among the frogs.
• Henghua trapped the Frogman King with the Five Elements Mountain Method and urged Xuanjian True Person to kill him, offering to end their grudges.

Fu Yaozhen and Fu Xuanxing joined the kingdom lords in exploring Seven Luminaries City, where they discovered Fu Henghua’s warnings and learned that a true dragon lurked beyond the Golden Gate. They escaped the collapsing ruin and reached Yellow Banner Village, while Fu Henghua and Profound Sword were rescued at sea by Yin Yanqing and headed toward Leopard-Tail Island.

• Fu Yaozhen and Fu Xuanxing entered the bone-tower ruins with the Water Tree Kingdom Lord and the lords of Heavenly Purity and White Wave, where their guide suddenly turned to ashes.
• Fu Xuanxing found Fu Henghua’s warning on a Millennium Incense fragment, and Fu Yaozhen used Mystic Sight to learn that Fu Henghua and Profound Sword had killed the Frogman King.
• The group found Fu Henghua’s further warnings about the Ten Thousand Eyes Convergence Formation and the Golden Gate, but the Heavenly Purity Kingdom Lord and Duan Yue continued toward the gate.
• Fu Yaozhen recognized Fu Henghua’s blood curse on the Golden Gate, and Fu Xuanxing sensed that a true dragon was inside as black mist and animated bone towers trapped the retreating cultivators.
• Fu Yaozhen led Fu Xuanxing and the Water Tree Kingdom Lord’s group through a vortex to the Western Sea, where they emerged near Yellow Banner Village.
• Fu Henghua and Profound Sword were rescued from the sea by Yin Yanqing, and Fu Henghua agreed to visit Leopard-Tail Island to investigate an ancient ruin.

Fu Henghua arrived at Leopard-Tail Island with Xuanjian True Person and joined Yin Yanqing and Zhang Xiangying to investigate Seven Luminaries Manor and its ancient ruins. When they entered the manor’s main hall, the Qiankun Pavilion Master, the Five-Thunder Divine Lord, and Heaven-Yin Boy appeared, leaving Heng Hua stunned by the gathering of Nascent Soul Grandmasters.

• Xuanjian True Person tried several methods to break Fu Henghua’s linked Three Realms Five Elements curse system, but each attempt failed.
• Fu Henghua told Yin Yanqing a fabricated story about how Xuanjian True Person had rescued him, while privately saying he was helping stabilize Xuanjian’s Dao heart.
• The group disembarked on Leopard-Tail Island, where Xuanjian True Person recognized a ruined statue of the Sun Radiance Star God and Zhang Xiangying explained the site’s ancient history.
• Zhang Xiangying said that outsiders had arrived at Seven-Night Manor, and she led Yin Yanqing, Fu Henghua, and Xuanjian True Person there to investigate.
• After learning that someone had died in the manor’s main hall, the group entered and was met by a jade tower attack that Xuanjian True Person deflected.
• The Qiankun Pavilion Master and the Five-Thunder Divine Lord emerged from the hall, followed by Heaven-Yin Boy.

Fu Henghua investigated the deaths at Seven Luminaries Manor and found that an unknown curse and a strange fog trapped the group on Leopard-Tail Island. Meanwhile, Fu Yaozhen and Fu Xuanxing were stranded in Yellow Banner Village with several dangerous factions, and the chapter ended with the Western Hero suspecting Fu Henghua’s father had once sought to revive a dead friend on the island.

• Wang Dan arrived at Seven Luminaries Manor, and the Western Hero examined a subordinate who had mysteriously choked to death before Uncle Liu burned alive despite everyone’s attempts to save him.
• Fu Henghua and Ouyang Ziming discovered that three of the manor’s nine sealed chambers had been opened and their ash-filled urns destroyed, while the group suspected an unknown curse was at work.
• The party found that dense fog trapped them on Leopard-Tail Island and that their combined flames could not destroy Seven Luminaries Manor, so they camped outside.
• The Western Hero told Fu Henghua that Yellow Banner Village had once been swallowed by a tsunami and that a survivor might connect the village to Seven Luminaries Manor.
• Fu Yaozhen woke in Yellow Banner Village and learned that the Five Poisons Sect Master, Qiu, and Ao Dezheng’s Celestial Maiden Sect were also on the island.
• Five-Thunder Divine Lord revealed that he sought an elixir said to revive the dead, and the Western Hero realized Fu Henghua’s father might have come to the island to revive a deceased friend.

Fu Henghua linked Yellow Banner Village and Leopard-Tail Island through ancient names for Rahu and Ketu, then wondered whether Fu Xuanxing might be his godfather’s reincarnation. Meanwhile, Fu Yaozhen and Fu Xuanxing investigated the trapped village and found that a pile of chalcedony might hold the clue to Xuanxing’s mother.

• Western Hero showed that the records placed Yellow Banner Village far from Leopard-Tail Island, while Fu Henghua argued that their names connected them to Rahu and Ketu.
• Ouyang Ziming recounted an ancient legend about Rahu and Ketu as two halves of a slain black god, and the Grandmasters considered how the legend related to the mist and Seven Luminaries Manor.
• Fu Henghua discussed the Seven-Soul Spirit-Severing Scripture and speculated that Fu Xuanxing might be the reincarnation of his godfather.
• Fu Yaozhen and Fu Xuanxing explored Yellow Banner Village, learned that its visitors could not leave, and met the Five Poisons Sect Master and Qiu Yu.
• Fu Xuanxing sensed a connection to the chalcedony fragments in Qiu Yu’s mine, and Fu Yaozhen’s Mystic Sight revealed that piecing them together could uncover the clue to his mother.

Fu Henghua and Ouyang Ziming discussed resurrection, ancient civilizations, and Ouyang Ziming’s artificial star before Heng Hua entered the mist with Xuanjian True Person guarding his body. Heng Hua reached Yellow Banner Village and discovered it was a Netherworld projection, while the others deduced the manor’s history and learned his apparent death was feigned.

• Heng Hua prepared Soul-Stabilizing Soup for Xuanjian True Person, and Ouyang Ziming revealed his artificial Origin Star and shared its creation methods.
• Heng Hua and Ouyang Ziming suspected that Uncle Fu’s past actions surrounding Uncle Jiang’s reincarnation warranted further investigation, while Heng Hua decided to explore the mist using a Spirit Soul projection.
• More people died through apparent suffocation and other killings, and the Grandmasters and Antiquity-Chasing Lineage debated whether Yellow Banner Village was linked to the deaths across the mist.
• Fu Xuanxing’s group assembled a jade dragon tail and found three buried corpses, prompting Qiu Yu to warn everyone to stay alive so the other side would remain safe.
• Heng Hua followed Starfire Silver Lamps through the mist, arranged thirty-six lamps into a constellation, and crossed into Yellow Banner Village, discovering it was a Netherworld projection sheltering Yin Spirits.
• Xuanjian True Person returned with Heng Hua’s apparently lifeless body, but Ouyang Ziming recognized his feigned death and relayed that Heng Hua had shifted his fate into Yellow Banner Village, disrupting the link behind the killings.

The Mind-Ape Spirit entered Yellow Banner Village and passed the Heavenly Evil Sword Qi to the Frogman King while investigating the village’s role in the curse. Meanwhile, Fu Yaozhen, Fang Dongyuan, and Fu Xuanxing uncovered Dragonblood Steles linked to the Western Sea Dragon King, and the chapter ended with Fang Dongyuan recounting his mother’s views on love and mortality.

• The Mind-Ape Spirit escaped the Frogman King’s pursuit by unleashing the Heavenly Evil Sword Qi and hiding inside Yellow Banner Village, where he noticed that the living residents’ numbers did not match those on the other side.
• Ouyang Ziming and the others planned to capture Yellow Banner Village and break the boundary between life and death before the Seven Luminaries curse advanced further.
• Fang Dongyuan met Fu Yaozhen and Fu Xuanxing in the village and joined them as they investigated the jade dragon excavation.
• The excavators unearthed Dragonblood Steles bearing the Mountain-River Dragon-Locking Formation, and Qiu Yu suspected the blood might be tied to the Western Sea Dragon King.
• Qiu Yu received a warning that the Dragon King’s blood was unpurified and an order to contact the camp to break the life-and-death boundary the next day.
• Fang Dongyuan told Fu Xuanxing about his mortal mother’s independent outlook and the terms she had set for her love with his father.

Fang Dongyuan told Fu Xuanxing about his mortal mother’s beliefs and choices, then discussed mortality and immortality with the youth from Yellow Banner Village. Suspecting that the village chief was a powerful cultivator, Fang Dongyuan went to meet him and found the Five Poisons Sect Master already there.

• Fang Dongyuan explained that his mother had loved his father but chose a mortal life, accepted her aging and death, and asked her family not to force anything if they met her in another life.
• Fang Dongyuan comforted Fu Xuanxing about growing up without his mother, then spoke with Fu Yaozhen and learned she had vowed not to marry.
• Fang Dongyuan asked the youth whether he would leave Yellow Banner Village and discussed whether a short, fulfilling mortal life could be better than immortality.
• The Five Poisons Sect Master suspected that the village chief possessed Golden Core Realm cultivation despite claiming to be an ordinary mortal.
• Fang Dongyuan went to the village chief’s home to test his strength, where the Five Poisons Sect Master invited him in for tea.

Fu Henghua and the allied Grandmasters broke the Frogman King’s time-displaced illusion around Yellow Banner Village and pulled the village back into the present. As the Frogman King and his allies attacked, Fu Henghua revealed himself and prepared to settle their unfinished conflict.

• Fang Dongyuan warned Fu Xuanxing that Chief Li was far more powerful than he appeared, then the sun began falling as Seven Luminaries Manor descended toward Yellow Banner Village.
• Qiu Yu explained that the village was an illusion of a place destroyed centuries earlier, and Li Zheng revealed that Mister Fu had created its Nether Realm so its inhabitants could await the end of a mission.
• The Five-Thunder Divine Lord attacked the Frogman King’s manifestations while the Qiankun Pavilion Master used coordinates recorded by Fu Henghua’s fishhook to locate the village’s displaced spacetime.
• The Qiankun Pavilion Master shattered the mirror concealing Yellow Banner Village and pulled it back into the present, prompting the Frogman King to unleash black flames and summon the Ice Demon.
• Xuanjian True Person brought Fu Henghua’s body into the village, where the youth wielding a fishing rod blocked the Frogman King’s sinister rays with Five Elements Mountain and announced he would finish their unfinished business.

Fu Henghua defended Yellow Banner Village from Li Ye’s Eclipse God by using the Cloud Scroll to create the All-Heavens Form Emperor Dharma Form. After he destroyed Li Ye with heavenly thunder, a blast from Dragon King Hill pierced his celestial form, and the Ice Demon fled as the White Dragon King awakened.

• Li Ye attacked Yellow Banner Village with his Eclipse God, but Fu Henghua protected the village behind Five Elements Mountain and tore off one of the Demon God’s claws.
• Xuanjian True Person explained that Li Ye’s power came from the village’s final time cycle and that Fu Henghua could endure by stalling until the cycle turned.
• Fu Henghua used the Cloud Scroll and the Elephant Emperor’s Hands to form the All-Heavens Form Emperor, then dispersed Li Ye’s black hole with the Four Brahma Heavens Sacred Mirror.
• Fu Henghua struck Li Ye with a heavenly thunder spear, destroying the Eclipse God, while the Ice Demon fled the mirror world.
• A blast accompanied by a dragon’s roar surged from Dragon King Hill and pierced Fu Henghua’s celestial form, and the Ice Demon recognized that the White Dragon King had awakened.

Fu Henghua used the Three Pure Ones Heavenly Crown and the Elephant Emperor true body to withstand the White Dragon King's attacks. Jade Dragon then seized the White Dragon King and dragged him into the mine pit, while Fu Henghua was told to cast a spell because he held the unconscious youth.

• The White Dragon King appeared and destroyed the attack that had overwhelmed the Grandmaster dharma manifestation.
• Fu Henghua revealed the Elephant Emperor true body and formed the Three Pure Ones Heavenly Crown from the Three-Cavern Golden Rings.
• Fu Henghua used the Heaven-and-Earth Chaotic Wheel to block two of the White Dragon King's strikes.
• Jade Dragon rose from Dragon King Hill, bit the White Dragon King, and dragged him into the mine pit.
• Jade Dragon told Fu Henghua to cast a spell because he was holding the unconscious youth.

Fu Xuanxing found his mother, the Jade Dragon, at Dragon King Hill and learned she had sacrificed herself to stop the White Dragon King’s reincarnation. As Fu Henghua’s preparations trapped the newly born White Dragon King, Jade Dragon and her son fought to contain him, and Henghua began a rite that would consume them both to revive Yellow Banner Village.

• Fu Xuanxing and the others completed the Jade Dragon statue and found all seventy-two Dragonblood Steles, revealing that the Jade Dragon had been a pregnant True Dragon.
• Fang Dongyuan used the Dragonblood Steles to form a suppression array, and Fu Xuanxing entered it and recognized the Jade Dragon as his mother.
• Jade Dragon used the formation’s power to weaken the dragon eggs inside her and hatch the White Dragon King, who attacked Fu Xuanxing before turning toward Fu Henghua.
• Fu Henghua and Fu Xuanxing used the Nanquan Divine Fire and the Jade Dragon’s help to trap the White Dragon King, while Jade Dragon bound him with a demonic curse.
• Fu Henghua invoked Revival from Death, using Jade Dragon and the White Dragon King as sacrifices to try to revive the people of Yellow Banner Village.

Fu Henghua completed the Resurrection Method, reviving the youth while the Jade Dragon and White Dragon perished; the White Dragon King’s soul escaped to the Starry Heaven. As the villagers of Yellow Banner Village prepared to depart for reincarnation, Fu Henghua accepted responsibility for the youth and told him to respect their choice.

• The Jade Dragon used the Curse Reversal Art and her bond with the White Dragon to trap him, then chose to die and extinguish the Dragon King bloodline inherited through Fu Xuanxing’s branch.
• Fu Henghua completed the Resurrection Method, reviving the youth and sharing the dragons’ remaining vitality with the villagers of Yellow Banner Village.
• Fu Yaozhen and Fang Dongyuan helped Fu Xuanxing and the others send the White Dragon King’s dragon soul toward the Starry Heaven, but he escaped and vowed revenge.
• Ouyang Ziming cast the Matchmaking Secret Curse for the Jade Dragon, who blessed Fu Xuanxing and departed to seek reunion with Fu Lang in another life.
• Village Chief Li explained that Li Ye had destroyed Yellow Banner Village and that its villagers had become Living Dead while protecting the youth, who was born from a Living Dead body.
• Fu Henghua accepted the youth as his adopted son and told him that the villagers had chosen to leave for reincarnation, while Fu Xuanxing stood beside the ashes left by his mother.

Fu Henghua and Heaven-Yin Boy returned Yellow Banner Village’s souls to Starry Heaven, then the group emerged from the mirror world on Leopard-Tail Island. At the Six Yin Abyss, Dongfang Yunqi defeated the Ice Demon and sealed him in an ice statue, leaving his soul trapped in darkness until it dissipated.

• Fu Henghua and Heaven-Yin Boy performed the Returning Stars to Heaven Technique, guiding Yellow Banner Village’s villagers toward reincarnation as the boy watched them depart.
• Fu Henghua’s split spirit received memories from Fu Xuanxing’s mother, and the Heart Ape Spirit Soul sensed pure Taiyin star power falling toward the Six Yin Abyss.
• The Five-Thunder Divine Lord and the Qiankun Pavilion Master shattered the mirror space, returning everyone to Leopard-Tail Island, where Fu Henghua explained the relationship between the mirror world and the real world.
• Fu Henghua sent the Western Hero to the Six Yin Abyss to help settle the Ice Demon’s karma with him and Fang Dongyuan.
• Palace Mistress Shangguan and Dongfang Yunqi used a reverse Feather Immortal True Register and layered formations to strip away the Ice Demon’s cultivation and seal his escape arts.
• Dongfang Yunqi defeated the weakened Ice Demon with a Fallen Immortal True Register, freezing him into an ice statue and leaving his demonic soul in eternal darkness.