Chapter Summaries

Fu Henghua learned from three memories that his father had tried to free a dragon child from the schemes of the Dragon Kings and immortals, and vowed to settle the debt against those who manipulated his family. After several days of rest, he emerged to prepare a Lantern Festival and announced he would investigate the ruins beneath Leopard-Tail Island to recover the Heavenly Evil Sword Qi.

• Nameless, the Western Hero shattered part of the Ice Demon’s frozen body, signed Dongfang Yunqi’s book, and learned that she had opened a furnace in Six Yin Abyss to refine the moon and give birth to the Great Dao.
• Fu Henghua examined three memories showing the master of Hongwen Pavilion discover that the dragon child was no reincarnation of his brother, learn of the child’s dragon-slaying destiny, and arrange for Jade Dragon to suppress that power with his sword scabbard.
• The memories revealed that the master of Hongwen Pavilion asked Jade Dragon to act as a mother when Fu Xuanxing eventually returned, and Fu Henghua vowed to avenge his father and settle the debt for Fu Xuanxing.
• After exhausting himself thinking through his responsibilities, Fu Henghua slept for several days and woke to find his family preparing a Lantern Festival for the people of Yellow Banner Village and Little Nameless.
• Fu Henghua lit the festival lanterns, gave everyone a day off, and said he would explore the ruins beneath Seven Luminaries Manor because the Heavenly Evil Sword Qi remained there.

Dongfang Yunqi ascended from Six Yin Abyss to the moon, while Fu Henghua reconsidered what forming a Golden Core meant for his Book of Creation. Both began to grasp that their Heavenly Books followed paths beyond the ordinary cultivation system, but Dongfang Yunqi was left stunned by what she saw beyond the Moon Palace.

• Dongfang Yunqi activated the Moon Pursuit Platform with Palace Master Shangguan and the others, then rode the Moon Chamber toward the moon and spotted the Fu Family’s festival lights on Leopard-Tail Island.
• Fu Henghua named the youth Fu Luoxing and explained that he could cultivate if he wanted, before the Western Hero brought him Dongfang Yunqi’s question: where was his Dao?
• Fu Henghua reconsidered his plan to form a Golden Core and concluded that the Book of Creation would make his core a sacred womb containing a primordial world, rather than a Taixuan-style medium for communicating with Heaven and Earth.
• Dongfang Yunqi arrived on the moon, saw eleven real moons orbiting it, and recognized the Moon Refinement Enlightenment she had calculated.
• Dongfang Yunqi entered the Moon Palace and saw a vast Star Sea beyond it, whereupon her Dao Heart shattered and she cried that it was impossible.

Dongfang Yunqi reached the Moon Palace in Three-Star Heaven, where Elder Osmanthus guided her to the Taiyin Heavenly Book and a new understanding of the world, though she declined to inherit the palace. After she returned, Fu Henghua sent Hengshou and Xiaoyu to retrieve a message from her while preparing to explore the ruins beneath Leopard-Tail Island, and Dongfang Yunqi decided to postpone contacting him until after the Eastern Sea Sword Duel.

• Dongfang Yunqi met Elder Osmanthus, learned about Three-Star Heaven and the primordial moon, and used the Moon Mirror to revise her cultivation method for the Taiyin Heavenly Book.
• Fu Henghua explained to Fang Dongyuan that Heavenly Book cultivation followed a path of Transcendence into Sainthood, with the Golden Core forming a Sacred Womb and marking the start of immortal life.
• Fu Henghua sent Hengshou and Xiaoyu to the Six Yin Abyss to check on Dongfang Yunqi and ask whether she had anything for him, while they arranged for Fu Yaozhen to watch him before he explored the ruins beneath Leopard-Tail Island.
• Dongfang Yunqi returned to the Immortal Algae Palace without inheriting the Moon Palace, gave a Redwood Box and a bundle to be delivered to Fu Henghua, and said she needed time to reconsider the world.
• Dongfang Yunqi chose not to contact Fu Henghua before the Eastern Sea Sword Duel, fearing that what she had learned would distract him.

After the Yellow Dragon King returned to sleep, the Tribulation Immortals learned that a Devil Lord had escaped toward the Western Sea and set out for the Eastern Sea sword contest. Meanwhile, Fu Henghua rescued Wang Dan from a deadly curse and learned that the Evil Sovereign Ruins connected to Seven Luminaries City, where a million Spiritfolk had been sealed.

• Mu Shansheng and the Sword Saints confirmed that the Yellow Dragon King had calmed, while Daoist Xuanling asked to attend the postponed sword contest.
• Sun Cheng reported that a Devil Lord had fled through the South Sea wind belt with an imperial Demon Soldier, and the Tribulation Immortals warned the Celestial Profound Dao Platform and headed toward the Eastern Sea.
• Zhang Xiangying’s team found Wang Dan in the underground ruins, and Fu Henghua brought him to an isolation tent and suppressed the Five Plagues Yin-Killing Curse.
• Wang Dan told Fu Henghua that Qiu Yu had gone deeper and that a Heaven-and-Earth Gate led from the ruins to Seven Luminaries City.
• Wang Dan revealed that Seven Luminaries City held a million Spiritfolk sealed by the immortals, leaving Fu Henghua questioning the history and scale of the Divine Land Era.

Fu Henghua and the Ancient Seekers uncovered evidence that Seven Luminaries City’s Spiritfolk enslaved and bred mortals as materials, while its founder’s recordings revealed a plan to unite Spiritfolk against mortals. After reading diaries that confirmed the city’s atrocities, Fu Henghua and Ouyang Ziming decided to investigate underground.

• Fu Henghua examined Ouyang Ziming’s sketches and learned that ordinary Seven Luminaries City residents had kept mortals in enclosures and made household objects from human bones.
• Zhang Xiangying’s group reported that the household they explored had practiced crossbreeding and infanticide, and Fu Henghua identified three wicked artifacts for destruction.
• Fang Dongyuan arrived with a message from Fu Yaozhen about the Redwood Box and briefly considered joining the Ancient Seekers.
• Fu Henghua watched a recording in which a Spiritfolk leader described mortal persecution and declared his intention to establish a Spiritfolk city and nation.
• Fu Henghua and Ouyang Ziming read diaries documenting the exploitation of mortals as laborers and materials, then agreed to explore underground with several seniors.

Fu Henghua led a team into Seven Luminaries City to investigate the sealed ruins alongside two other groups. After they encountered monsters that had apparently eaten recent visitors, the explorers suspected that people from White Wave Kingdom had awakened creatures preserved in the city for thousands of years.

• Fu Henghua recruited the Hu brothers and collected protective talismans before joining the other teams at the Yellow Banner flagpole.
• Village Chief Li opened the way into the ruins, and the three teams passed through the Golden Gate and a vast sealing formation to reach Seven Luminaries City.
• The teams prepared their protective formations and advanced into the city, where Fu Henghua used Five-Colored Lotuses to shield everyone from the resentful mist.
• Zhang Xiangying's team killed five monsters that attacked from the mist, and the explorers found White Wave Kingdom cloud brocade among the remains.
• Fu Xuanxing and the others recalled that some rescued visitors had returned to the ruins, and the Qiankun Pavilion Master suspected they had awakened monsters preserved in stasis.

Fu Henghua’s group explored Seven Luminaries City’s botanical garden, where records and remains revealed that the Division Chiefs had sacrificed lowborn people and may have fought over a chance to ascend. A nameless woman revived beneath a maple grove and warned that a blood sacrifice in the Royal Hall had to be stopped, prompting the Qiankun Pavilion Master to teleport there.

• Heng Hua’s group dismantled the botanical garden’s defensive wards, entered it, and gathered rare plants and seeds.
• Heng Hua and his companions read records describing the persecution of Yuheng Division Chief’s followers and the creation of people through blood sacrifice.
• Fang Dongyuan found two mummies with animal features, while Heng Hua pieced together how Seven Luminaries City had consumed lowborn people to keep its facilities running.
• Zhang Xiangying’s team found a nameless woman who had revived beneath a maple grove, and she warned them not to let a plan in the Royal Hall succeed.
• The woman identified an altar in the inner city and warned that someone was conducting a blood sacrifice to complete a transformation.
• The Qiankun Pavilion Master obtained a map and teleported toward the Royal Hall.

Fu Henghua and the three Grandmasters uncovered the Ancient Life Tree’s horrifying ritual and learned that its tumors held Tribulation Immortal Dao Domains. The nameless beauty guided the Qiankun Pavilion Master, Heaven-Yin Boy, and Five-Thunder Divine Lord into the inner city, where her healing powers helped them survive their first encounter with a sleeping Tribulation Immortal’s domain.

• The Qiankun Pavilion Master sent a mirror into the fog, revealing that the Ancient Life Tree was built from the faces and souls of a million spiritfolk.
• Heaven-Yin Boy reconstructed the Tianshu Division Chief’s ritual and explained that the Life Tree was being used to capture souls and let competing Dao Domains evolve.
• The nameless beauty told the Qiankun Pavilion Master that the Seven Luminaries Cosmic Wheel could reverse time and destroy the monster in the royal hall.
• Fu Henghua began carving a replacement eye for Xuanjian True Person while the Qiankun Pavilion Master, Heaven-Yin Boy, and Five-Thunder Divine Lord took the beauty into the inner city.
• The group entered the first flesh-tumor domain and faced a sleeping Tribulation Immortal’s Primordial Spirit, where the beauty used Revival from Death to heal Five-Thunder Divine Lord and restore the others.

Fu Henghua used Jade Pupils and Creation Dao to restore Tao Ming’s eyes, triggering a transformation that freed the True Person from the demonic path. The three Grandmasters continued suppressing the Life Tree’s domains while Fu Xuanxing’s hidden connection to the Demon Emperor Mark was exposed.

• The Five-Thunder Divine Lord, Qiankun Pavilion Master, Heaven-Yin Boy, and the Nameless beauty destroyed the first domain’s black tree and moved on to the next.
• Fu Henghua formed new Jade Pupils for Xuanjian True Person, restoring his eyes and awakening the Solar and Lunar Sword Qi sealed within them.
• As Xuanjian True Person’s Sun-Moon Sword Intent clashed with his demonic nature, Fu Xuanxing, Fang Dongyuan, and Yin Yanqing helped suppress the demonic force.
• Xuanjian True Person destroyed his old body and shed the evil blade’s influence, then rebuilt himself with Sun-Moon Spirit Eyes and severed his Demon Emperor Mark.
• The Demon Emperor Mark’s destruction caused Fu Xuanxing’s hidden spells to fail, and Xuanjian True Person noticed signs of demonic fortune in Fu Xuanxing and Fang Dongyuan.
• The three Grandmasters struggled against the third domain’s mountain formations while Fu Henghua recovered from creating Xuanjian True Person’s eyes.

Fu Henghua’s allies explored the remaining secret realms while Qiu Yu and Duan Yue uncovered evidence of Seven Luminaries City’s leaders’ schemes and a possession ritual. The group withdrew from the powerful dragon realm and headed toward the Yuheng Secret Realm.

• Tao Ming thanked Fu Henghua for helping him recover his sword and agreed to help him seek the Life Tree opportunity.
• The three Grandmasters and the nameless beauty entered the fourth secret realm, found the remains of the Heavenly Purity Kingdom Lord’s party, and prepared to challenge its Three-Headed Black Dragon.
• Qiu Yu reunited with Duan Yue, gave him a Creation Glazed Pearl to heal his injuries, and helped suppress cursed black vapor from a skeleton in Prosperity Palace.
• Qiu Yu read a papaya’s records, learned that the Tianji Division Chief had planned a Heaven-Reaching Pagoda, and destroyed an evil thought attempting possession.
• The four explorers fled the dragon’s secret realm and, at the nameless beauty’s suggestion, headed for the Yuheng Secret Realm.

Qiu Yu and Duan Yue learned that the nameless beauty had led three Grandmasters to the Yuheng Secret Realm and hurried to warn them. Fu Henghua and the others revealed their trap, identified the beauty as Siren, and battered her after she unleashed her water-based powers.

• Qiu Yu warned Zhang Xiangying to contact the Grandmasters and be careful of the nameless beauty, then hurried with Duan Yue toward the Yuheng Secret Realm.
• The nameless beauty led the three Grandmasters into the Yuheng Secret Realm and explained the roles of its Division Chiefs, including Yuheng's management of household registration and population growth.
• The Grandmasters confronted the beauty, while Fu Henghua and his allies used a formation of island mountains to suppress the Secret Realm's water power.
• The beauty revealed herself as Siren, master of Seven Luminaries Yuheng, and summoned water beasts and soulless cultivator replicas to attack the group.
• Siren reacted when Fu Henghua named the Dragon-Dweller Civilization and the Twelve Divine Veins, then summoned an army of Water Dragons.
• Yin Yanqing's Nanming Dragon-Subduing Sword Intent destroyed Siren's Water Dragons, and the Grandmasters and their allies struck her with coordinated attacks that sent her crashing onto the water.

Fu Henghua and the others defeated the Yuheng Director’s water incarnations and destroyed her Primordial Spirit, but Xuanjian True Person then took Fu Henghua to the Heavenly Evil Secret Realm to teach him swordsmanship. There, Tao Ming challenged the Heavenly Evil Sword and urged Heng Hua to learn his precise sword technique before the time ran out.

• Fu Henghua and the Grandmasters sealed the Yuheng Director’s water power, while Yin Yanqing and Fang Dongyuan formed a Water-Seizing True Talisman to weaken her.
• The group fought through the Yuheng Director’s water-formed cultivators as Fu Henghua used Breath Soil and Five Elements Mountain to protect their ground and replenish their strength.
• The Qiankun Pavilion Master used Clouds Veiling the Sky, the Five-Thunder Divine Lord revealed his supernatural art, and Heaven-Yin Boy seized the Yuheng Director’s Primordial Spirit, which Tao Ming destroyed with his sword.
• Xuanjian True Person took Fu Henghua to the Heavenly Evil Secret Realm, where Fu Henghua recognized the Heavenly Evil Sword and its connection to the Evil Emperor Sword.
• Tao Ming demonstrated his swordsmanship by defeating the sword-Dao puppets formed by the Heavenly Evil Sword and asked Fu Henghua to learn his style before they ran out of time.

The three Sword Saints and their factions gathered on Hundred Flowers Island for the sword duel, but Fu Henghua remained absent while training with Tao Ming in the Western Sea. The Qiankun Pavilion Master’s teleportation array finally brought them to the Sword-Dueling Palace, where Fu Henghua and Tao Ming demonstrated their new sword techniques and Fu Henghua called Ai Yanchang to begin.

• The three Sword Saints arrived on Hundred Flowers Island and took their places with their respective factions as they prepared for the next day’s duel.
• Mu Shansheng and Fu Danwei worried that Fu Henghua had not arrived, while Fu Yaozhen and the other Grandmasters reported that he was still practicing swordsmanship with Tao Ming.
• Fu Danwei and Ai Yanchang argued over the Eastern Sea Sword Sect’s treatment of disciples who wanted to study the Dao Sword path, while Fu Henghua’s absence delayed the formal duel.
• The Qiankun Pavilion Master opened a transposition array to bring Fu Henghua and Tao Ming from the Western Sea, but dragon beasts from the Yaoguang Secret Realm came through first.
• Fu Henghua and Tao Ming appeared among the dragon beasts, coordinated their wind and sun-moon sword arts to destroy them, and then Fu Henghua challenged Ai Yanchang to begin the duel.

Fu Henghua used a forbidden art to transform into wind and duel Ai Yanchang, evading his powerful sword while slowly wearing down his defenses. As the duel continued, Fu Danwei recognized the dangerous methods behind Henghua’s transformation and wondered whether the crystal between his brows was an Origin Pearl.

• Fu Henghua transformed into wind and used storms, sword rain, and a Wind Sword Domain to challenge Ai Yanchang’s sea-based sword arts.
• Ai Yanchang broke the Wind Sword Domain, split his flying sword into sixteen, and trapped Fu Henghua’s apparent form, but Henghua escaped and bound the sword in a vortex of wind qi.
• The observers judged that Fu Henghua’s limited mana made it difficult for him to damage Ai Yanchang, though his wind form let him avoid being struck.
• Fu Danwei identified Henghua’s Thought-Cutting, Emotion-Locking Art and Molting Transformation into Origin Art, then showed Bai Hezi and Liu Yang notes Henghua had written as a child about transforming into primordial forces and even the Heavenly Dao.
• Fu Henghua continued using elaborate wind sword arts to evade Ai Yanchang and gradually destroy the protective runes on his clothes without taking a hit.

Fu Henghua fought Ai Yanchang through the night, using his Wind-Spirit Heavenly Sword to turn Ai Yanchang’s attacks against him. As Ai Yanchang drew on the Eastern Sea to unleash his Nine-Dragon Divine Sea Realm, Fu Henghua revealed a final sword bearing the Heavenly Sword’s name and brought it down on his shield.

• Tao Ming explained that his training with Fu Henghua had let him glimpse the Sword Saint level, and he declared that he would face Fu Danwei if no one else stepped forward.
• Fu Henghua repeatedly sealed Ai Yanchang’s Deepsea Sword and attacked with Wind Spirit Sword Qi, keeping up the exchange until his wind butterflies tore through Ai Yanchang’s protective robe.
• Ai Yanchang unleashed Sea Dragon Devours Heaven and thrust his Jade Radiance Sword toward Fu Henghua’s brow, but Fu Henghua used Sword Spirit Seizes the Dao to absorb the attack’s attributes and send foreign Sword Qi into Ai Yanchang.
• Ai Yanchang expelled the foreign Sword Qi with Nine Dragons Seize Heaven, then invoked the Nine-Dragon Sword Intent and drew on the Eastern Sea to form the Nine-Dragon Divine Sea Realm.
• Fu Henghua revealed the final move of his Wind-Spirit Heavenly Sword Formula and sent a gigantic five-colored blade, which Mu Shansheng recognized as the Heavenly Sword, crashing toward Ai Yanchang’s sword shield.

Fu Henghua defeated Ai Yanchang with the Four Winds Immortal-Slaying Formation after Ai transferred his Sword Embryo into the Deepsea Sword, forcing him to switch from the Spirit Formula Sect to the Divine Armament Sect. The Jade Radiance Sword Sage healed Ai, then challenged Fu Henghua’s Heavenly Sword, and Mu Shansheng prepared to spar with the other Tribulation Immortals who wanted to examine it.

• Fu Henghua struck Ai Yanchang with the Heavenly Sword, scattering much of his mana, and Ai transferred his Sword Embryo into the Deepsea Sword to restore his power.
• Ai used the Divine Armament Method to summon nine water dragons, but Fu Henghua gathered the winds of the Four Seas and trapped him in the Four Winds Immortal-Slaying Formation.
• The Jade Radiance Sword Sage broke the formation, restored Ai to human form, healed him, and declared that he would support Ai as a member of the Divine Armament Sect.
• Fu Henghua formed another Heavenly Sword and brought it down on the Jade Radiance Sword Sage, who caught and shattered it with five streams of Sword Qi.
• The Myriad Forms Sword Sage and other Tribulation Immortals wanted Fu Henghua to make another sword, so Mu Shansheng offered to spar with them himself.

After recovering from the sword duel, Fu Henghua learned how his family had fared and considered what his Wind Resonance could become. As he rested, he received invitations tied to cultivation research and the Central Heaven Dao Debate, then tried to avoid meeting Yu Zhitong and his son.

• Fu Henghua woke to find that Fu Danwei had beaten him and ordered him to remain in bed for three days, while his swordsmanship insights had faded after his sleep.
• Fu Tongjun told Fu Henghua about her sword victories and Fu Xiangfeng’s progress toward Divine Samadhi Wind, leading them to discuss the potential of the Fu Family’s Wind Resonance.
• Fu Pengming and Fu Baimin reported that visitors had come seeking Fu Henghua after footage of his duel spread, and Dan Xuanzi and Fu Maiyuan discussed the inaccessible East Sea Dragon Palace with him.
• After his visitors left, Fu Henghua considered how to create new life, declined Canglan Zi’s invitation to help compile the Eight-Nine Mysterious Technique, and exchanged messages with Hengyuan True Person about cultivation and the Western Sea Dragon Palace.
• Fu Henghua received an invitation to the Central Heaven Dao Debate nine years later and planned to seek the final chapters of the Book of Changing Heaven and the Eight Extremes.
• When someone called for Fu Henghua to meet Yu Zhitong and his son in fulfillment of an old agreement, he hid under his bedding and told Xiaoyu and Hengshou to send them away.

Fu Henghua emerged from seclusion and turned away Yu Zhitong and Yu Xiaolei’s challenge, setting a future duel between Yu Xiaolei and Fu Xuanxing at the Central Heaven Dao Debate. After Fu Danwei gave him a manuscript to help perfect the Wind-Spirit Heavenly Sword, Henghua began trading sword-art improvements for cultivation guidance, and the chapter ended with him advising a succession of visitors.

• Fu Xuanxing defeated Huo Runde in a sword duel, then rushed to Fu Henghua’s residence when Fu Baimin reported that Yu Zhitong and Yu Xiaolei were causing trouble.
• Fu Danwei intervened as Yu Xiaolei challenged him, but Fu Henghua emerged and explained that he was no longer a sword cultivator; he arranged for Yu Xiaolei and Fu Xuanxing to meet at the Central Heaven Dao Debate instead.
• Fu Danwei gave Fu Henghua a manuscript of wind-sword techniques and told him to perfect the Wind-Spirit Heavenly Sword, promising to waive his punishment if he succeeded without aftereffects.
• Fu Danwei fought Yuan Zikang at Sword-Dueling Palace and used Wind-Sword Skywall to repel his sword art.
• Fu Henghua announced an exchange in which he would improve sword arts in return for help refining his Wind-Spirit Heavenly Sword, then improved Li Ruxin’s Wind Butterfly Illusory Dance and Lord Guan’s sword intent.
• Fu Henghua revised Yan Qing’s Northern Dipper Star-Mirror Technique, designed a matching artifact for Fu Xuanxing to refine, and then deduced a personalized cultivation method for a visitor from the Mystic Jade Waters.

Fu Henghua deciphered an ancient tree-themed cultivation method, inspiring Bodhi Daoist to create the Wood Immortal Book and vow to establish a lineage for tree essences. Meanwhile, the Devil Lord seized control of the Devil Palace, while Zhang Yue and Yin Mother plotted to rescue Fang Dongyuan and arrange Fu Henghua’s poisoning.

• Fu Henghua deciphered the tree diagrams in an ancient book, revealing an internal cultivation method to its owner and receiving Profound Earth Essence in return.
• Bodhi Daoist used the book’s tree-meridian diagrams to create the Wood Immortal Book and vowed to make the tree essences Wood Immortals.
• Divination Demon learned of Fu Henghua’s growing strength, then fled with the other hall masters as the Devil Lord attacked and occupied the Devil Palace.
• The Devil Lord demanded the hall masters submit to him, and the master of the Mystic Feminine Hall approached him while the others withdrew.
• Zhang Yue and Yin Mother discussed rescuing Fang Dongyuan and decided to use the Fu Family against the Devil Lord.
• Yin Mother revealed that she had ordered Xiao Jiu to find a chance to poison Fu Henghua.

Tao Ming defeated Lord Guan, and Fu Danwei defeated Xu Ziwen in the sword-fighting matches. At Fu Henghua’s exchange, he treated Feng Yu’s injuries while secretly teaching him a way to preserve his Golden Core, then worked with Yin Yulong as Mu Shengtian began to suspect her connection to the Hundred-Beast Yin Mother.

• Tao Ming shattered Lord Guan’s sword domain with his sword of light and won their match, earning the Myriad Forms Sword Sage’s praise for reaching the true sword.
• Fu Danwei turned Xu Ziwen’s dragon-powered attacks back on him and defeated him with a formation of three wind swords.
• Fu Henghua examined Feng Yu, whose Golden Core and Sword Embryo had clashed, while Feng Chen urged him to dissolve the Core and make Feng Yu devote himself to sword cultivation.
• Fu Henghua secretly taught Feng Yu the Seed-Borrowing Hua Transformation method, which could cultivate a Golden Core within a Sword Embryo, while slowly treating his injuries.
• Yin Yulong arrived and helped Fu Henghua deduce a guest’s sword art, while Mu Shengtian learned about Yin Yulong’s background and went to inspect her.
• Mu Shengtian recognized a resemblance between Yin Yulong and the Hundred-Beast Yin Mother and silently watched her with suspicion.