Chapter Summaries

Fu Henghua comprehended a Heaven-tier Dao art and explained how the Horizon and Ends of the Earth could seal beings outside the world, while Fu Xuanxing began forming his core under a lightning tribulation. Elsewhere, Fu Yaozhen met Madam Xingqiao, who refused to stop targeting Fu Xuanxing and hoped he would die during the tribulation.

• Moon Mirror warned Yu Xiaolei that his future tribulation was connected to swords, then noticed lightning gathering over the rear mountain for Fu Xuanxing.
• Fu Henghua used a golden line to block the lightning striking him and explained his new understanding of the Horizon and Ends of the Earth sealing arts.
• Fu Henghua and the others saw signs that Fu Xuanxing was forming his core in a cave, while Moon Mirror reflected on how Fu Xuanxing had disrupted Donglai's fate.
• Fu Yaozhen met Madam Xingqiao and challenged her for targeting Fu Xuanxing, but Madam Xingqiao insisted that he remained central to the schemes of the figures in heaven.
• Madam Xingqiao learned that Fu Yaozhen and her companions had encountered Yan Lingzi, then concluded that Fu Xuanxing still needed a sacrifice to break through his tribulation and hoped he would die crossing it.

Fu Xuanxing struggled to form a Golden Core above First Rank, hoping to match the highest grade despite the risks. After disrupting his first core formation with immortal qi, he began again, and Fu Henghua warned that he had only three attempts before his meridians would shatter.

• Fu Henghua watched Fu Xuanxing's tribulation and assessed the core-formation method designed for him, while Fu Xuanxing began revising the formula himself.
• Madam Xingqiao imprisoned Fu Yaozhen in a starlight seal and explained that Spirit Seers had been fated to die for Fu Xuanxing during a future tribulation.
• Fu Xuanxing formed and refined a Yin-Yang Dragon Pearl, but halted before settling it into a Golden Core because he sensed that a First-Rank Core was the best he could achieve.
• Fu Xuanxing attempted to form his core, but a shift in the surrounding primordial qi disrupted the process and turned it toward First Rank.
• Fu Xuanxing used the immortal qi in his sword sheath to break the forming core and restart, prompting Fu Henghua to warn that he had only three attempts before his meridians would shatter.

Fu Henghua and Moon Mirror helped Fu Xuanxing attempt to form a Supreme-Grade Golden Core by calculating the movements of the world’s primordial qi, but an Eastern Sea battle disrupted their final predictions. Fu Xuanxing adapted at the crucial moment, succeeded, and received a Heaven-Bestowed Dao Art, while Fu Yaozhen warned Madam Xingqiao not to pressure her family further.

• Fu Henghua explained how cultivation arts and Golden Cores from Donglai adapted to the outside world, then sent Fu Xuanxing a Crimson Abyss method to draw on the Myriad Peaks Realm’s earth veins.
• Fu Xuanxing’s second Core Formation attempt failed when primordial qi shifted, so Fu Henghua and Moon Mirror calculated a more auspicious moment for his third attempt.
• Fu Xuanxing used Yin-Yang Pearls and the dragon powers in his sword scabbard to preserve the balance of yin and yang as an Eastern Sea battle disrupted Fu Henghua’s calculations.
• Fu Xuanxing formed a Supreme-Grade Golden Core, harmonized with the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths, and received a Heaven-Bestowed Dao Art.
• Fu Henghua recognized how Fu Xuanxing’s achievement differed from the Dao Realms formed by Heavenly Book cultivators.
• Fu Yaozhen warned Madam Xingqiao that Fu Henghua’s contribution to Fu Xuanxing’s success made further pressure unwise, and promised to fill the needed position herself if necessary.

Fu Henghua guided Fu Xuanxing in developing his Supreme-Grade Golden Core’s yin-yang dragon Dao Art into a Five-Colored Bracelet, while reflecting on the dangers of Fu Xuanxing’s cultivation path. Their experiment in the Eastern Sea was interrupted when two sharks belonging to the Eastern Sea Divine Palace attacked them.

• Fu Henghua explained how Fu Xuanxing’s Metal and Wood Dragons could combine with his other powers to form a yin-yang dragon Dao Art, and demonstrated several ways to evolve it.
• Fu Xuanxing rejected the Nine-Dragon path, practiced the twin-dragon method, and refined a Five-Colored Bracelet that swallowed seawater and water demons.
• Fu Xuanxing sent details of his new Dao Art to Li Ruxin, who learned of his Supreme-Grade Golden Core and discussed celebrating his achievement with the others.
• Fu Henghua considered how Fu Xuanxing’s cultivation differed from Heavenly Book cultivation and concluded that attaining the Dao would bring him a perilous tribulation.
• Two giant sharks confronted Fu Henghua and Fu Xuanxing, then attacked them with destructive beams after identifying themselves as servants of the Eastern Sea Divine Palace.

Fu Henghua and Fu Xuanxing captured a sharkfolk from the Eastern Sea, while Fu Yaozhen set out to seek a talisman that could revive her after death. Back at the underground blessed land, Fu Henghua learned that people from Nanyanfu Continent and the Sharkfolk were not of the same lineage as Donglai humans and might descend from the Devil Race.

• Fu Xuanxing defeated a sharkfolk warrior with Fu Henghua’s Five-Headed Dragon Ring, and Fu Henghua took him back for examination.
• Moon Mirror gave Fu Yaozhen map fragments leading to the Death-Defying Revival Divine Talisman and sent Hengshou and others to help her.
• Fu Henghua and Yu Xiaolei hurried to the underground blessed land after receiving an urgent message from Yun Mengyin and Fu Pengming.
• Yun Mengyin, Yu Danqing, and the others examined several people from Nanyanfu Continent and found that their bloodlines differed from Donglai humans.
• Yu Danqing reported that the examined people’s spiritual factors resembled the Earthly Fiend Lineage, and Fu Henghua concluded they might descend from the Devil Race.

Fu Henghua investigated whether the Devil Race descended from Demon Gods and questioned the hidden history of the Heavenlink War, Donglai, and humanity's origins. After researching bloodline tracing, he secretly led several companions toward Heavenfeather Mountain to investigate a new theory: the earliest Heavenlink people may have grown out of the earth.

• Fu Henghua tested a Devil Race corpse and found Demon God Factor in its blood, while telling Yun Mengyin that the result did not prove the race was evil.
• Yu Danqing privately discussed the Devil Race with Fu Henghua, who speculated that Demon Gods had created the race and that the Devil Emperors might have sought to sacrifice Heavenlink humans.
• Fu Henghua folded paper into a coffin and argued that Donglai's hurricane belts and an ancient prophecy might point to the continent being a prison for the dead.
• Fu Henghua questioned whether the Heavenlink War had ended in defeat or mutual destruction, and whether the survivors had deliberately split the continent to escape the Demon Gods.
• Yu Danqing fled when Fu Henghua asked where Heavenlink humanity had first originated, leaving Fu Henghua with more questions about the source of human life.
• After studying Blood-Origin Tracing for more than ten days, Fu Henghua led Fu Bozhao, Fu Dange, Fu Baitang, and Fu Xueke secretly toward Heavenfeather Mountain to investigate his theory that ancient people grew out of the earth.

Fu Henghua used Heavenfeather Mountain’s Spirit-Nurturing Grounds to create four Spiritfolk and disguise their origins, then continued investigating the history of Spirit-Vein Gestation. Meanwhile, Bodhi Daoist completed the creation of a living race in the Desolate Ancient Forest Sea.

• Fu Tian'er led Fu Henghua and the others into Heavenfeather Mountain’s Spirit-Nurturing Grounds, where Fu Henghua examined the wind vortex and obtained four spirit seeds.
• Fu Henghua used the family’s secret gestation incantation to place the seeds in the Whirlwind, where they quickly developed into two boys and two girls with inherited talents.
• Fu Henghua drew auras from Fu Baitang and the others to disguise their fates, then asked Fu Bozhao to help the three youngsters address the Fu Family’s troubles and seek entry into the Crimson Abyss Daoist Sect.
• Fu Tian'er took the four newly gestated Spiritfolk away while Fu Henghua remained to research Spirit-Vein Gestation.
• At Bodhi Garden, Bodhi Daoist’s nine Bodhi Fruits fell from a branch and became sprites, completing the first creation of a living race.

Bodhi Daoist created the Xuanti, a fruit-born race that could reproduce and help protect the tree spirits, and his insights advanced Fu Henghua’s understanding of Creation. Fu Henghua stopped his Golden Core breakthrough to avoid a powerful Heavenly Book Tribulation, then received word that a vast army had appeared in the Eastern Sea.

• Bodhi Daoist named the nine newly created sprites the Xuanti Tribe and explained to Linden Elder that they could reproduce by returning to the earth as seeds.
• The Xuanti sprites ate moss and tended the trees, convincing Linden Elder that they could serve as natural guardians for the tree spirits.
• Bodhi Daoist taught the Xuanti and developed a Wood Immortal Heavenly Book, while Pine Elder and Catalpa Elder considered creating their own retainer clans.
• Fu Henghua and his Spirit Souls shared their insights into Creation, and his cultivation rose as the Primordial Dao Seed evolved.
• Fu Henghua sealed his aura to avoid triggering his Golden Core Tribulation and decided to return to Donglai before advancing further.
• Hong Changyi told Fu Henghua that a vast army had appeared in the Eastern Sea and was confronting the forces of immortals and demons.

Fu Henghua and his allies prepared to divert the Eastern Sea Spirit King's forces by impersonating Dragon Clan envoys and causing trouble in the sea. As Fu Henghua infiltrated a satellite city, he discovered that its central altar was powered by familiar immortal-level sword intent.

• Yu Danqing told the group that the Eastern Sea navy had mobilized after they captured the Spirit King's son, and Fu Henghua proposed impersonating Dragon Clan envoys to draw the Spirit Sharks back toward the Sea King Palace.
• Yu Danqing sent Sha Jinshang, Fu Danyu, and Zhang Xuan to meet Fu Henghua, and they combined their Dharma Form Puppets to create a palm-sized Crystal Palace.
• Fu Henghua and Zhang Xuan transformed into Dragon Clan figures, took the unconscious Sharkfolk with them, and set out to provoke the Eastern Sea forces.
• The Spirit King led three million naval troops to the surface, intending to pressure the immortal and demon factions into helping search for his missing son.
• Fu Henghua and Zhang Xuan infiltrated Kanghou City, one of the Eastern Sea Royal Palace's satellite cities, and Fu Henghua headed toward its central plaza to cause a disturbance.
• Fu Henghua found an altar whose flames were sustained by immortal-level sword intent resembling the Southern Li Sword Immortal's power, and he realized the sword immortal's ruins might lead him to another strand of immortal qi.

Fu Henghua and Zhang Xuan infiltrated Guardian City and its volcanic mine, where Fu Henghua uncovered the Sharkfolk’s Sacred Flame and explained his understanding of the path to Dao attainment. They reached the volcano’s heart and found a massive crystal sword pinning a Sharkfolk-like tail beneath the ice, at the site of the Southern Li Sword Immortal’s battle with the First-generation Spirit King.

• Zhang Xuan triggered Guardian City’s alarm, while Fu Henghua imprisoned the square’s sacred flames in crystal and defeated Princess Consort Minghan with an imitation Crystal Palace.
• Fu Henghua and Zhang Xuan escaped, planted Dragon Aura talismans to frame the Dragon Clan, and headed for the volcanic mine after Fu Henghua learned that its Sacred Flame was Immortal Fire connected to Donglai immortals.
• As they traveled, Fu Henghua described his cultivation and explained the stages of seeking the Dao, prompting Zhang Xuan to reflect on his own path.
• Fu Henghua and Zhang Xuan entered the volcano disguised as Sharkfolk, and Fu Henghua subdued the guards with a Crystal Palace, the Five Elements Mountain Method, and Wind Lock.
• Fu Henghua explained that he had begun practicing answers to his Creation examination before reaching Golden Core Realm, then led Zhang Xuan to a giant crystal sword suppressing a tail beneath the ice.

Fu Henghua decided to take the Southern Li Sword Immortal’s crystal sword to forge a Dharma Form Puppet for Fu Xuanxing, while his incarnation and Zhang Xuan fought off a Sharkfolk Grandmaster. As the battle continued, Fu Henghua taught Zhang Xuan his transformation technique and gathered the twenty-fifth and twenty-sixth strands of immortal aura toward his goal of creating thirty-three heavens within his Golden Core.

• Fu Henghua identified the crystal sword as the Southern Li Sword Immortal’s Water Severance and decided to take it for Fu Xuanxing’s Dharma Form Puppet.
• A Sharkfolk Grandmaster ambushed Fu Henghua and Zhang Xuan, and Fu Henghua summoned an incarnation to help defend them.
• The incarnation transformed into Twin-Dragon True Person and severed the Grandmaster’s tail with the Twin-Dragon Shears.
• The incarnation transformed into several Tribulation Immortals, empowered Zhang Xuan’s Azure Dragon, and drove the Grandmaster into retreat.
• Fu Henghua explained his transformation method to Zhang Xuan and revealed that his Jade Emperor’s Dao-Bearing Art used immortal qi to imitate Tribulation Immortals.
• Fu Henghua’s Great Scarlet Origin Pearl began accumulating the twenty-fifth and twenty-sixth strands of immortal aura, from the Southern Li Sword Immortal and the First-generation Spirit King.

Five Aggregates Demon Lord and an immortal-path Tribulation Immortal went to the Sea King Palace to address the missing prince, but an earthquake forced the Spirit King to rush back to the Eastern Sea. Fu Henghua refined the crystal sword and the First-generation Spirit King’s remnant power into Sea God Crystals, leaving the Spirit Shark Clan with a new resource as he departed to seek Fu Xuanxing and learn about Fu Danyu’s opportunity.

• Five Aggregates Demon Lord found that none of the demons’ travel records showed a trip to the deep sea, then brought the records to the Sea King Palace alongside an immortal-path Tribulation Immortal.
• An earthquake struck while the Spirit King met with the two groups, and he hurried out with his princes to investigate.
• Fu Henghua extracted immortal qi from the crystal sword, learned that the First-generation Spirit King had created the Sharkfolk, and used water, fire, yin, and yang to form Sea God Crystals as the volcano collapsed.
• The Spirit King found the new crystals awakened his people’s bloodline, rescued the miners, and ordered the kingdom to prepare for war after learning that the missing prince had been found and that Dragonkin were involved.
• Fu Henghua explained to Zhang Xuan that he had settled his karma with the Spirit Shark Clan, then gave Sha Jinshang the heavy crystal sword and set off to find Fu Xuanxing and the others.

Fu Henghua joined Fu Xuanxing and the others at the Serpent Abyss, helping him descend through its spirit snakes and uncovering a vast illusion that concealed an immortal estate. After Henghua dismantled the illusion, the group found a ruined palace and a token identifying it as Azure Spirit Palace, raising the possibility that Empress Bao had died there.

• Fu Xuanxing repeatedly entered the Serpent Abyss, using spirit meals made by Fu Henghua to recover and gain layers of water-fire protection.
• Fu Henghua arrived, explained how the Fish Puffs generated protective barriers, and prepared fresh spirit meals that strengthened Fu Xuanxing's attacks against the snakes.
• After Fu Xuanxing encountered the Snake King, Fu Henghua led the group into the abyss aboard Fu Danyu's defensive Jade Palace Golden Tower Dharma Form.
• Fu Henghua used the Divine Luo Heavenly Tome to analyze the Serpent Abyss's power and, after several hours, dismantled the Great Serpent Abyss Curse, dispersing the Cloud Sea and spirit snakes.
• The group advanced into the revealed ruins, where Yuwen Chunqiu found a shattered Azure Spirit Palace token, prompting Fu Henghua and Fu Yaozhen to wonder whether Empress Bao had died there.

Fu Henghua and his companions explored an ancient immortal palace and discovered the remains of Bao Mufeng’s ancestor, whose death pointed to a future threat against the Fu Family. After Bao Mufeng gained the ancestor’s immortal qi, Fu Henghua concluded that the palace’s second-generation lord had left both opportunities and warnings for descendants, then prepared to advance a plan involving Xiaoyu.

• Fu Shishi brought Bao Mufeng to meet Yu Danqing, and the two traveled in frozen wooden crates to the ruined palace at the bottom of Serpent Abyss.
• Fu Henghua’s group explained how they had suppressed the palace’s restrictions, and Yu Danqing identified several corpses as Donglai elders from the Divine Land Era.
• Bao Mufeng recognized one burned corpse as his direct-line ancestor, the Third Ancestor, and recalled records that said the Bao Family had preserved some of his ashes.
• The ancestor’s remaining body released immortal qi into Bao Mufeng, advancing him to the perfection of the Kaiyang Realm, and Fu Henghua gave him the North Pole Star-Seeking Incantation.
• Fu Henghua and Fu Yaozhen inferred that the second-generation Palace Lord had left the corpse as an opportunity for Bao Mufeng and as a warning about an immortal skilled in fire arts.
• Fu Henghua told Hengshou that it was time for Xiaoyu to die and discussed beginning the next step of their plan.

The disguised Hundred Refinements Sect members manipulated a battlefield clash to deliver a Demon Emperor Dharma Form blueprint to the Five Aggregates Demon Lord, while Xiaoyu escaped after faking her death. Fu Henghua revised the puppet designs and planned to use the demonic path to build the Demon Emperor Dharma Form, then seize control of it.

• The Five Aggregates Demon Lord followed a plan based on a message from the Hundred Refinements Sect, and the disguised cultivators staged a battle that left Xiaoyu’s Thousand Hands and Thousand Eyes Dharma Aspect apparently destroyed.
• Zhongli Zihan, Li Ruxin, Yang Dai, and two Immortal Dao Grandmasters escaped the blast, while Fu Danyu and Zhang Xuan emerged unharmed beneath the Jade Palace Golden Towers.
• Dragon Daoist warned the Five Aggregates Demon Lord that the Jade Seal Sect’s reinforcements included the powerful Elephant Emperor, then offered to trade a blueprint for a Demon Emperor Dharma Form in exchange for the demonic path’s support and supplies.
• Fu Henghua learned that Xiaoyu had escaped by feigning her death, refined the Nine-Faced Profound-Heaven Demon God Venerable design, and tested a power source for Fu Xuanxing’s Yin-Yang Profound Furnace Lord of Fate, which exploded.
• Fu Henghua planned to have the demonic path forge the Demon Emperor Dharma Form and then intercept and control it with the Heaven-Swallowing Demon Gourd.

Li Ruxin offered the Crimson Abyss Daoist Sect plans for a simplified External Mechanical Body, and Fu Henghua used the resulting spread of Spirit Orbs to encourage innovation on both sides of the war. A month later, the Immortal Dao forces turned the new technique against the demons, while Dragon Daoist agreed to help the Five Aggregates Demon Lord counter it.

• Li Ruxin gave Cao True Person the Heavenly Origin Profound-Spirit Sphere blueprint and offered to share the simplified technique while reserving the complete crafting art for the Crimson Abyss Daoist Sect.
• Bu Xuan and the other Tribulation Immortals debated whether spreading the art would strengthen the sect or provoke an arms race, then considered the threat of the demonic path developing its own puppets.
• Fu Henghua explained to Xiaoyu that he wanted both immortal and demonic cultivators to refine the art, and Xiaoyu showed him a drop of Three Luminaries Divine Water obtained with Yang Dai's help.
• One month later, Li Ruxin's Spirit Orbs helped Immortal Dao formations trap demonic Grandmasters, and Li Ruxin killed one with the Profound-Spirit Amplification Art as the Immortal Dao forces pushed the demons back.
• Dragon Daoist reassured the Five Aggregates Demon Lord that the Spirit Orbs were no threat, then agreed to help counter them after Fu Danyu's disguised junior brother spoke with him.

Fu Henghua used the conflict between the demonic and immortal paths to test new puppet techniques while advancing his plans to study both sides and secure resources for repairing the Earth Abyss. The chapter ended with Fu Hongluan arranging for the Crimson Abyss Daoist Sect to buy the Fu Family’s protective and medical talisman bandages.

• Dragon Daoist explained that the Nine-Faced Demon Emperor would take years to complete, and the Five Aggregates Demon Lord agreed to let demon disciples learn the Dharma Idol Puppet Art while the factory continued its work.
• Hong Changyi and Fu Henghua outfitted three demon disciples with puppet skeletons that could contaminate and seize control of the immortal path’s Heavenly Origin Profound-Spirit Spheres.
• The three skeleton soldiers attacked beneath the Heaven-Piercing Bone Walls, disabling many Spirit Orbs and injuring the cultivators linked to them; Fu Henghua observed that the Demon Emperor grew stronger by absorbing other Dharma Form Puppets.
• Li Ruxin prepared to protect the Spirit Orbs with talismans and secret treasures, and Fu Hongluan offered the Fu Family’s lower-cost Clearheart Tranquilizing Talisman Cords instead.
• Yang Dai inspected the Fu Family’s Talisman Belt Factory and agreed to buy its protective bandages as well as its supplies for stopping bleeding and treating injuries.

The demon cultivators deployed the Sorrow-Faced Machine God against the immortal forces, beginning an escalating contest between the Nine-Faced Demon Emperor’s puppets and the Immortal Dao. As the battle improved the combatants’ abilities and advanced Dharma Form Puppet research, Fu Henghua seized the chance to search for the Demon Tome aboard the Four-Dragon Ship.

• The Spirit Orbs destroyed the skeleton soldiers, prompting Meng Long to obtain the Sorrow-Faced Machine God from the masked man and control it with a Yin Demon avatar.
• Meng Long used the Sorrow-Faced Machine God’s sorrow domain to freeze and defeat immortal cultivators, until Zhongli Zihan, Li Ruxin, and Yang Dai devised ways to counter its effects; two days later, the Sword of Returning Ten Thousand Rivers shattered the puppet.
• The masked man introduced the Joy-Faced Machine God, and Li Ruxin later found counters for its effects and those of other Demon Emperor faces as the Immortal Dao and demonic path continued testing their techniques.
• The contest strengthened Li Ruxin, Zhongli Zihan, and other cultivators while Yu Danqing and Fu Henghua gained experience creating Dharma Form Puppets.
• After Dong Moyang left to investigate an ancient civilization, Hengshou and Xiaoyu tried to dissuade Fu Henghua from seeking the Demon Tome, but he declared that he would search for it and read it while the others were away.

Fu Henghua searched the dragon ships, found the hidden Demon Tome, and broke through several layers of seals to open it. The Tome then asked how it had ended up in his hands and which branch of the Feng Family he came from.

• Fu Henghua used Ghost-Hidden Yin Insects to search the four dragon ships and found a faint trace of aura beneath a vat on the Red Dragon Ship.
• Fu Henghua retrieved the golden casket and used the Divine Luo Heavenly Tome to calculate a key that opened it, revealing a Cosmic Bag sealed by the Myriad Forms Palace.
• Fu Henghua froze the casket’s warning incantations, then used Daoist Wukong’s Myriad Demons Ranking to undo the Cosmic Bag’s Heavenly Net Incantation.
• The Taixuan Nine-Heavens Seal on the Demon Tome repelled Daoist Wukong’s power, so Fu Henghua sealed the Taiji Diagram with his own blood and removed the outer seal.
• Fu Henghua opened the Demon Tome, and it asked which branch of the Feng Family he came from and how its book had reached his hands.

Fu Henghua suppressed the genuine Demon Tome, forged a convincing duplicate, and turned to the cultivation manuals Xiaoyu had brought back. Meanwhile, Daoist Wukong’s growing influence spread through the demonic warzones, and Fu Henghua prepared to draw Five Aggregates Demon Lord deeper into a plan involving the Demon Emperor Dharma Form.

• Fu Henghua sealed the talking Demon Tome, then worked with Hengshou and Xiaoyu to make a golden-paper duplicate and hide it aboard the Red Dragon ship.
• Xiaoyu gave Fu Henghua a collection of Southern Continent cultivation manuals, which kept him occupied while she and Hengshou discussed the risks of his plans and Daoist Wukong’s rising influence.
• Five Aggregates Demon Lord ordered his camp searched for Youxuan Devil Palace infiltrators after learning that Daoist Wukong had spread powerful Heavenly Demon methods and attracted many followers.
• Five Aggregates Demon Lord pressed Meng Long to master the Hundred Refinements Sect’s puppet techniques for the Nine-Faced Demon Emperor Dharma Form.
• After studying Xiaoyu’s manuals, Fu Henghua concluded that Southern Continent cultivation and Donglai shared ancient roots, sent the Cloud-Swallowing Myriad Qi Art to Brother Fang, and planned to send Jade Seal Sect reinforcements against Five Aggregates Demon Lord.