Chapter Summaries

Fu Yaozhen conceded her arena match, then watched Fu Henghua use music and Five Elements Mountain to challenge cultivators. His musical Dao and culinary arts astonished the spectators and Tribulation Immortals, who argued over whether his method of turning Hong Changyi’s mana into spirit cuisine should be banned.

• Fu Yaozhen conceded to Meng, saying her foresight showed she could not defeat him, and left to watch Fu Henghua and Fu Liuhui.
• Fu Yaozhen recognized that Fu Henghua’s five jade maidens used Dao sound to test opponents’ Dao attainments, while Long Xinghe’s notes inspired Xuantong High Person and Duan Sijing to develop the Jun Heaven Score.
• Duan Sijing comprehended the Jun Heaven Score, advanced his Qin Immortal incarnation, and began gathering musicians to study the musical Dao together.
• Hong Changyi endured Fu Henghua’s musical attacks, including techniques that drained his mana and turned it into ingredients for Five-Soup Grand Stew.
• Duan Sijing’s incarnation destroyed the stew bowl, causing a powerful explosion, while Hong Changyi refused to eat the dish made from his mana.
• The Tribulation Immortals debated whether to ban Fu Henghua’s method, with some demanding he stop using it to pass the arena.

Fu Henghua demonstrated his Five-Element jade maidens and fought Yu Danqing, a reincarnated Tribulation Immortal, in a battle that revealed a new, powerful technique. After the arena rules were adjusted to let him keep defending, he agreed to face Yu Xiaolei on the final day, sensing that the duel could advance both their cultivation.

• Fu Henghua received a summons to defend the Five-Soup Grand Stew before the Tribulation Immortals, while his jade maidens continued demonstrating varied Five-Element arts against challengers.
• Yu Danqing challenged Fu Henghua, who recognized the former Myriad Forms Palace Lord and agreed to test their Heavenly Diagrams against each other.
• Fu Henghua stacked Five-Element Mountain Scenery Diagrams, summoned Five Elements Mountain's soul, and fused it with his thirty-two Elephant Emperor's Hands to defeat Yu Danqing with the Heaven-Shading Hand and a final punch.
• Yu Danqing conceded, and the Purple Sovereign Pavilion debated whether Fu Henghua's Elephant Emperor's Hand exceeded the arena's magic-treasure limit before Liu Xuanyi ruled it counted as two slots.
• Yu Xiaolei asked Fu Henghua to fight him rather than let him challenge Fu Xuanxing, and Fu Henghua agreed to duel him on the final day of his arena defense.

Fu Henghua used the Eight Trigrams Furnace to defeat a succession of challengers, restore his mana, and refine his fan before beginning his duel with Yu Xiaolei. Their clash of heavenly lightning and divine fire destroyed the arena, but an Eight Trigrams barrier protected it and absorbed the lightning as Fu Henghua’s mana.

• Changsun Yunlin sparred with Fu Henghua, whose Eight Trigrams Furnace absorbed her attacks and helped him replenish his mana before she withdrew.
• Fu Henghua defeated Zhang Qing and Zhang Xuan with the Eight Trigrams Furnace, while his accumulated battle traces disrupted the arena and required Liu Xuanyi and the Heaven-Piercing Tower to intervene.
• After defending the arena through the day, Fu Henghua refined the Mysterious Fire Vermilion-Plume Fan with Six-Ding Divine Fire and Six-Jia Fire, then faced Yu Xiaolei.
• Yu Xiaolei unleashed a sea of heavenly lightning as Fu Henghua answered with a destructive fire sword, and their collision blasted apart the arena.
• Fu Henghua’s Eight Trigrams barrier held the arena together and absorbed the scattered lightning, prompting Wu Huaiping to consider trading for the Eight Trigrams Furnace Method.

Fu Henghua used the Eight Trigrams Furnace Method and a concealed sequence of fire swords to defeat Yu Xiaolei in their arena duel, blasting him into Dong Lingyu’s room. Yu Xiaolei began meditating as lightning Sword Qi surged from him, and Dong Lingyu realized he was about to undergo tribulation.

• Yu Xiaolei restored his mana with his immortal sword, while Fu Henghua countered his attacks and unleashed Thunderfire Palace Refinement, which Yu Xiaolei resisted with a thunder barrier modeled on the Fu family's Wind-Spirit Heavenly Sword.
• Fu Henghua used eight fireballs to place the Eight Trigrams positions around the arena, then revealed that he had stored thunder and fire in the Eight Trigrams Furnace.
• Fu Henghua sent eight Fire-Spirit incarnations and his true body to attack Yu Xiaolei with the Eight Trigrams Sword Art, while concealing a second set of sword strikes beneath the display.
• Yu Xiaolei destroyed several visible fire avatars, but Fu Henghua’s hidden swords struck him, and a concealed First Light of Starfire detonated the accumulated fire power.
• Yu Xiaolei was blasted a hundred li into Dong Lingyu’s room, where he began meditating as lightning Sword Qi surged from his body.
• Dong Lingyu fled her room after realizing Yu Xiaolei was about to undergo tribulation.

Yu Xiaolei analyzed Fu Henghua’s Eighteen Linked Swords, broke through into the Sword Immortal Realm, and learned that Fu had gone to the Heaven-Piercing Pavilion. There, Fu faced a gathering of Tribulation Immortals who debated whether his Five-Soup Grand Stew Spell and the Food Immortal path should be forbidden, and he began demonstrating the art with a clay figurine.

• Yu Xiaolei understood how the twin Li Trigram sword locks had trapped him, recovered with his immortal sword’s help, and forged a Primordial Sword Embryo after breaking through into the Sword Immortal Realm.
• Yu Xiaolei returned to the arena seeking another duel, but Fu Henghua had already left; Zhongli Zihan extinguished the arena flames and told Yu that Fu had gone to the Heaven-Piercing Tower.
• Fu Henghua arrived at the Heaven-Piercing Pavilion with Hengshou and Xiaoyu, entered a starry hall, and recognized that twenty-four Tribulation Immortals had gathered behind concealed star gates.
• The Tribulation Immortals argued over the Five-Soup Grand Stew Spell and whether the Food Immortal path should be banned, while the host asked Fu Henghua to explain and demonstrate it.
• Fu Henghua shaped a clay figurine, placed a sliver of his Primordial Spirit Soul inside it, and began using it to demonstrate how the Food Immortal path circulated power while cooking.

Fu Henghua demonstrated the Food Immortal Dao and other spirit professions to the Tribulation Immortals, prompting debate over dangerous uses and rules for the new arts. After they approved safeguards and saw his fortune-blessing cuisine, the Heaven-Piercing Tower Lord asked him to reveal the full range of spirit professions he had devised.

• Fu Henghua served Dark Moon Soup and the Five-Soup Grand Stew, while Canglan Zi and other Tribulation Immortals tested the dishes with puppets and recognized that cooking could purify a Food Immortal's mana.
• Yan Chongxing warned Fu Henghua against absorbing other cultivators' power, and the Tribulation Immortals debated whether the Food Immortal Dao could enable people to be used as ingredients.
• The Tribulation Immortals agreed that Food Immortal cultivators must swear to the Donglai Golden Ranking not to use cultivators other than themselves as ingredients.
• Fu Henghua presented Eight-Treasure Ruyi, then demonstrated music and dance that could increase fortune and dispel misfortune.
• Duan Sijing questioned the prospects of Spirit Dancers, and the Heaven-Piercing Tower Lord asked Fu Henghua to list his other planned spirit professions and prepare more spirit cuisine.

Fu Henghua left his Eight Trigrams Furnace to defend his arena while he worked at the Heaven-Piercing Pavilion, and its victories drew challengers, including Dragon Daoist. After watching the furnace’s power from afar, Dongfang Yunqi remained at Immortal Algae Palace, determined to master Heavenly Scripture Dao Arts before meeting Fu Henghua.

• Fu Henghua sent an Eight Trigrams Furnace to defend his arena, declaring that breaking it would count as his defeat.
• Ximen Long challenged the furnace, but its Divine Fire overwhelmed him, and Dong Moyang collected the flames to protect him and the other challengers.
• Cultivators discovered that surviving the furnace’s attacks tempered their true essence, and Dragon Daoist paid spiritual treasures to challenge it.
• The furnace unleashed eighteen sword moves and depleted thirty percent of Dragon Daoist’s mana before he conceded and left the arena.
• Fu Henghua continued building a world of spiritual occupations at the Heaven-Piercing Pavilion with Xiaoyu and Hengshou while controlling the furnace.
• Dongfang Yunqi watched the furnace’s defense through Fu Tongjun, then chose to stay at Immortal Algae Palace and cultivate rather than meet Fu Henghua.

Fu Henghua demonstrated cultivation arts derived from many trades, but the Tribulation Immortals rejected the artistic paths and accepted only productive ones. They rewarded him by joining their immortal qi to nourish his Core Embryo, then ended the review and prepared to begin the Central Heaven Dao Debate.

• Fu Henghua used clay figurines to demonstrate cultivation arts, including an actors’ path that projected divine spirits onto performers.
• The Tribulation Immortals praised his Spirit Sculptor and productive arts but argued that Donglai had no need for independent artistic cultivation paths.
• Fu Henghua accepted their judgment and selected productive professions for transmission, sensing that his Great Dao of Creation gained Dao Virtue Qi and Sacred Virtue Qi.
• The Twin-Dragon True Person revealed Fu Henghua’s Core Embryo, and the Tribulation Immortals contributed immortal qi to nourish it.
• Elder Tianjing warned Fu Henghua not to depend on borrowed strength, and the Tribulation Immortals ended the review to prepare for the Central Heaven Dao Debate.

At the Central Heaven Dao Debate, Donglai’s cultivators calculated the continent’s fortunes for the coming century and began examining the movement of its myriad qi. Outside, Dong Moyang tried to protect Fu Henghua’s Eight Trigrams Furnace during the arena trials, but it repelled him and independently resisted a Nascent Soul Grandmaster’s pressure.

• Bodhi Daoist arrived openly at the debate with Pine Elder and the Eastern Grove Green Mulberry Tree King, while Fu Henghua sat among the younger cultivators.
• The Heaven-Piercing Tower Lord opened the debate, praised major achievements including Fu Henghua’s Dao arts and Fu Yuandao’s spiritual professions, and led the assembly in calculating Donglai’s heavenly secrets.
• The calculations revealed signs of tribulation for Fu Danwei, Hong Xuanji, and Five-Thunder Divine Lord, while the Fu Family’s fortunes appeared to be rising despite an obscured catastrophe involving an immortal.
• The assembly began calculating the movement of Donglai’s myriad qi as the Heaven-Mixing Myriad-Qi Instrument displayed the continent’s elemental forces.
• Dong Moyang kept Fu Henghua’s Eight Trigrams Furnace operating on an arena, where cultivators advanced their cultivation and Fu Xuanxing began forging a bronze furnace modeled on it.
• When a Purple Sovereign Pavilion Grandmaster unleashed his Nascent Soul pressure, the Eight Trigrams Furnace attacked Dong Moyang and then resisted the pressure by itself.

Fu Henghua proposed turning Donglai into a vast Spirit Architect structure, and the Tribulation Immortals successfully formed the first framework of the Donglai Grand House. He explained how it could become an immortal city that strengthened and protected the cultivation world, and the Dao Debate began organizing the creation of a new Heaven Grade Dao Art.

• Su Dinglu was knocked off his ring, but Long Xinghe concluded that Fu Xuanxing’s Eight Trigrams Copper Furnace had kept the twentieth spot open for him.
• The Purple Sovereign Pavilion elders postponed ranking Fu Henghua and Yu Danqing because their strength was too difficult to assess, while Fu Henghua joined the noisy calculations of Donglai’s myriad qi.
• Fu Henghua presented a model of Donglai as a structure, prompting the Tribulation Immortals to combine the Primordial Screen Art, the Cloud Realm Grand Formation, the Four Seas Hurricane Belt, and the House-Building Art.
• The Tribulation Immortals formed a vast framework around Donglai, and cultivators sensed that it improved their ability to use primordial qi.
• Fu Henghua explained Spirit Architect cultivation and proposed turning Donglai and its sect strongholds into an immortal city that could defend the continent.
• Fu Danwei offered the Eastern Yanlong Region’s Spirit Realm Technique, and the acting pavilion master offered the Primordial Screen Art as the Dao Debate organized work on the new Heaven Grade Dao Art.

Fu Henghua completed his forty-nine Heaven-and-Earth Vats with the Donglai Golden Ranking’s help, then set out with his companions for the Southern Continent. As the expedition gathered at Divine Void City, a message from Fu Henghua’s young lady raised questions about Ancient Wilds City and Donglai’s buried past.

• Fu Henghua pressed Hengyu True Person for updates on the Great Wilderness City project, then agreed to take Jiang Xiaoli along on his journey south.
• At Crimson-Horn Golden Rock, Fu Henghua used the Golden Ranking’s power to merge his forty-nine Heaven-and-Earth Vats into a golden vat and received insights into the Crimson Thunder Life-Creation Art.
• Fu Henghua sent the vats to Bodhi Daoist, collected South Sea water, and traveled toward Divine Void City aboard the White Dragon Ship.
• Yu Luan delivered protective treasures and a letter from her young lady, who urged Fu Henghua to ask the Crimson Abyss Daoist Sect about the Crimson Abyss Mountain-Raising Art and the Nine-Dragon King’s destruction of Donglai’s treasured lands.
• At Divine Void City, Fu Tongjun avoided Sun Sun, and Sun Cheng’s group prepared to depart with the assembled ships and young experts.

Fu Henghua and the Four-Dragon Ships crossed into the Hurricane Belt, demonstrating the ships’ coordinated design and capabilities as their crew guided them toward the Southern Continent. When Fu Tongjun reported a stranded person ahead, Fu Henghua wondered how anyone could be trapped in the deadly storms.

• Fu Henghua met Fu Xiangfeng at the South Sea border, where the Wind Gate opened and a short lotus passage led into the Hurricane Belt.
• Jiang Xiaoli tested the hurricane’s force, while Qi Longjiao used the Thousand-Wind Golden Bag to gather wind before the ships left the protected passage.
• Fu Henghua led the Four-Dragon Ships through the storms, and the ships took turns guiding one another as the Fu Family sailors operated them.
• Zhang Qing, Dragon Daoist, and others examined the ships’ advanced systems, while Zhongli Zihan hosted a tea gathering aboard the Azure Dragon Ship.
• Fu Henghua and Fu Yaozhen planned to visit the Crimson Abyss Daoist Sect before traveling to Heavenfeather Mountain to find their family’s Southern Region group.
• Fu Tongjun reported that the Purple Dragon Ship had spotted a stranded person, and Fu Henghua questioned how anyone could be stranded in the Hurricane Belt.

Fu Henghua and the Fu Family helped a malformed wind spirit complete its transformation into a phoenix, earning the Four-Dragon Ships a protective wind technique. As they studied the technique in the Hurricane Belt, a giant aquatic beast attacked, and Zhongli Zihan and Yu Xiaolei rushed to meet it.

• The cultivators rescued Kang Zhaiyu, a Southern Continent cultivator, from the Hurricane Belt and decided to take him along while keeping watch over him.
• A Storm Divine Bird appeared and sought the Fu Family’s help; Fu Henghua and his relatives played phoenix music until it completed its transformation and left them an Invisible Wind Ring technique.
• Fu Henghua gathered his relatives to study the Phoenix Speech Dao Method, sending Fu Dange, Fu Xueke, Fu Baitang, and Fu Pengming outside the ships to practice it.
• A giant aquatic beast struck at the weakening wind ring, but Fu Henghua suppressed its tentacles with Five Elements Mountain as Zhongli Zihan and Yu Xiaolei attacked.

Fu Henghua and his allies fought a powerful tentacled sea beast until a Primordial Phoenix Bird arrived and killed it, along with a wounded horned whale. The Phoenix introduced its Dao companion, and Fu Henghua agreed to prepare a spoken blessing for the white waterbird.

• Fu Pengming and Dong Moyang reinforced an Eight Trigrams platform so Yu Xiaolei and Zhongli Zihan could fight the sea beast without their powers interfering.
• Fu Dange, Fu Xueke, and Fu Baitang wounded a trapped tentacle, while Fu Henghua secretly magnified its pain and passed the damage to the beast.
• Fu Xuanxing, Li Ruxin, and Dragon Daoist joined the battle and attacked the tentacles to retrieve their Mysterious Water Jade Pupils.
• A wounded azure whale crashed into the sea beast, and a Primordial Phoenix Bird descended and tore apart the beast's dragon-scale armor, killing it.
• The Phoenix thanked Fu Henghua and gifted him the tentacle monster and horned whale, then introduced its white waterbird Dao companion.
• Fu Henghua agreed to prepare a spoken blessing for the white waterbird and summoned the Fu Family to continue playing the sound of the Phoenix.

Fu Henghua and his companions left the Hurricane Belt with help from White Phoenix and Golden Phoenix, who gave them maps, mineral deposits, and gifts before departing. As the group prepared their ships and studied the Southern Continent, Fu Shishi discovered that the demonic path had seized much of the Right Continent, leaving the Crimson Abyss Daoist Sect in danger.

• White Phoenix told Fu Henghua’s group how she and Golden Phoenix had gained their phoenix heritage and become cultivation companions.
• White Phoenix and Golden Phoenix moved the four dragon ships beyond the Hurricane Belt, warned the travelers about the Southern Continent’s demonic calamity, and showed them valuable mineral veins.
• White Phoenix marked more than a hundred mineral veins on a map, Golden Phoenix gave Fu Henghua a wind-aspected feather and a sea chart, and White Phoenix’s flight improved the dragon ships’ Gold Essence.
• Fu Henghua joined the four dragon ships into a mobile floating island, while Yu Danqing organized an effort to mine Mystic Gold and upgrade the vessels.
• Fu Henghua asked who held the Demon Tome, making Dragon Daoist and Dong Moyang wary, and Fu Shishi concluded that the demonic path controlled Black Moon Reef and much of the Right Continent.

Fu Henghua’s group learned that the Crimson Abyss Daoist Sect might return to Donglai as the Southern Continent’s demon calamity worsened, and they resolved to help the sect establish itself there instead. The chapter ended with Henghua proposing a cross-continent campaign to fight demons, gather resources, and equip their group with specialized Dharma Form Puppets.

• Yu Danqing identified a gold-transmuted strip as fish eggs attached to a spirit-tree leaf and sent the group to search the ore vein for a possible Golden-Essence Mysterious Mother.
• Zhongli Zihan and Yu Xiaolei found a Golden-Spirit Profound Python in the mine, and Henghua questioned it after Yu Danqing cured two gold-transmuted cultivators.
• The Python recounted how Dragon Kings destroyed the Divine Whale lineage in the Southern Continent and revealed that a wounded Profound Octopus King currently occupied the Sea King Palace.
• Henghua and the others concluded that the Crimson Abyss Daoist Sect’s predicament resembled the Mysterious Bright Demon Palace’s history and feared its return would disrupt Donglai’s unity.
• Henghua persuaded the group to land near Earthspirit Marsh and independently aid the Crimson Abyss Daoist Sect by fighting demons and gathering resources.
• Henghua proposed using captured resources to build specialized Dharma Form Puppets that could let the group combine their strengths against Grandmasters.

Fu Henghua and his companions seized Black Moon Reef in a silent surprise attack, concealed their identities, and began preparing a base in the hostile Southern Continent. As the group organized its next steps and investigated a suspicious passenger, Fu Tongjun sent Fu Henghua news from afar.

• Yu Xiaolei, Zhongli Zihan, Dragon Daoist, Fu Henghua, and Dong Moyang killed the demonic cultivators at Black Moon Reef before they could raise an alarm.
• Fu Pengming and the others landed carefully, while Yu Danqing warned them that the reef’s pervasive demonic energy could contaminate their true essence.
• Fu Henghua detained the dead cultivators’ souls, and Zhang Xiyue and Fu Shishi turned their remains into a soul forest protected by a purification formation.
• Fu Henghua concealed the group’s identities in the Southern Continent’s heavenly records, then returned to the ships while Yu Danqing directed the surveys.
• Dragon Daoist and Yun Mengyin continued watching Kang Zhaiyu, while Fu Xuanxing and Yu Linshan proposed building a Celestial Profound Dao Platform and a Heaven-and-Earth Realm for sharing intelligence and supplies.
• Fu Tongjun’s Message-Transmitting Gu reached Fu Henghua and offered him good news and bad news.

Fu Henghua's Wukong Incarnation secretly went to Lingyun Mountain, where it defeated Helian Jin and turned his demonic gourd into the Heaven-Swallowing Myriad Demons Gourd. As Dong Moyang and Dragon Daoist's group overwhelmed the stronghold, Wukong rushed to save the endangered Situ Yin so he could be converted into a Heavenly Man.

• Fu Henghua arranged for Dong Moyang's team to attack Lingyun Mountain while Zhongli Zihan went to inspect Earthspirit Marsh, then secretly sent his Wukong Incarnation ahead.
• Dong Moyang and Zhang Xuan infiltrated Lingyun Mountain, and Dragon Daoist and the others began attacking its demonic cultivators.
• Wukong entered the rear mountain, defeated Helian Jin, and used the Moon-Swallowing Gourd to imprison him and the surviving demonic cultivators.
• Wukong renamed the gourd the Heaven-Swallowing Myriad Demons Gourd and transformed its interior into a Heavenly Demon realm that bound the prisoners to his cultivation method.
• As the front mountain collapsed and Dragon Daoist threatened to kill Situ Yin, Wukong rushed in to save him and planned to turn him into a Heavenly Man.

Wukong rescued Situ Yin from Dong Moyang and Dragon Daoist, then captured him and Helian Jin inside the Myriad Demons Gourd while posing as Walker Sun. Back at Black Moon Reef, Fu Henghua’s group learned more about the Great Demon Calamity and argued over their next move and how to care for the sixty rescued yin maidens.

• Wukong intervened as Dong Moyang and Dragon Daoist attacked Situ Yin, rescued him, and later captured him and Helian Jin in the Myriad Demons Gourd.
• Wukong called himself Walker Sun and used the Heavenly Demon Marvelous Realm to tempt the captured demon cultivators and transform them into heavenly beings.
• Dong Moyang’s group brought the yin maidens and Lingyun Mountain’s documents to Black Moon Reef, where the documents revealed that the Demon Emperors were fighting two Red Abyss immortals in Jade Dragon Sea and that the demonic sects held seven battlefields.
• Fu Henghua sent Wukong to gather more demonic cultivators while discussing with his companions how to avoid exposure and establish an underground refuge at Black Moon Reef.
• Fu Tongjun challenged Fu Henghua over the burden of caring for the sixty yin maidens, and he decided that the Fu family would care for and train them under labor contracts, hoping to bring them to Fu Xuanhe at Heavenfeather Mountain.

Zhang Xiyue and Fu Xuange reclaimed Black Moon Reef, discovered a sealed earth-vein nexus, and began plans to restore the Crimson Abyss Daoist Sect’s Mountain Seal system. Meanwhile, Fu Henghua’s Wukong Incarnation captured demonic cultivators at Wuwang Mountain and raided the Jade Dragon Sea demon camp, leaving the Red Abyss defenders to suspect he had secretly joined their warfront.

• Zhang Xiyue purified Black Moon Reef’s soil with spiritual plants while Fu Xuange’s Star Soul warriors cleansed the land and buried the bones of mortals buried by demonic cultivators.
• Zhang Xiyue and Fu Xuange discovered a sealed earth-vein nexus containing transformed Crimson Abyss Daoist Sect disciples, and Fu Danyu identified it as part of the sect’s Mountain Seal system.
• Fu Shishi divined that Black Moon Reef’s Mountain Seal was gone, so Dong Moyang assigned Sun Yan and Fu Xuanxing to design and forge a replacement.
• Fu Henghua’s Wukong Incarnation overwhelmed the Heavenly Demon cultivators at Wuwang Mountain, collected them in the Myriad Demons Gourd, and set out for the Central Continent.
• Wukong infiltrated the Jade Dragon Sea demon camp and began converting its guards to the Heavenly Man Dao, prompting the Devil Lords to recall their army and rush back.
• Shi Long and Hui Hu saw the demon camp burning and suspected Fu Henghua had secretly attacked from the rear after learning he was absent from the Eastern Sea Warzone.