Chapter Summaries

Fu Henghua began building a fireseed-producing Flame Valley on Red Phosphorus Islet and joined it with seven other islets to form a new industrial chain for the Fu Family. The Cheng and Bao Families noticed the island chain’s strategic position, while Bao Liushu sought a marriage connection with the Fu Family.

• Jade Sage Pavilion cultivators debated Fu Henghua’s Feather Immortal True Register, and the elders decided to investigate him and recruit him.
• Fu Henghua had two hundred thousand Flame Valley rocks delivered to Red Phosphorus Islet and used formations, an Eternal Firestone, and Three Yang Treasure Flame to produce and bury more than a thousand fireseeds.
• Fu Henghua explained that he planned to use the Nine Winds Return to Heaven Formation to age flint and eventually produce Eternal Firestones in quantity.
• Jin Xian'e moved Red Phosphorus Islet beside White Iron Islet, and the Fu Family united eight islets into a Northern Dipper chain for its craft workshops.
• Cheng Qing and Bao Family cultivators considered how the new island chain affected their routes and relations, and Bao Liushu asked the Fu Family about suitable young women.

Fu Henghua developed the Feather Immortal True Register into a nine-talisman cultivation system and demonstrated its first talisman live on the Dao Platform. After revealing two talismans and a cultivation method, he left sect leaders and powerful cultivators debating his origins and the value of his work.

• Fu Henghua showed Fu Tiancang a Stargazing Platform blueprint, and Fu Tiancang began preparing the Northern Dipper Island Chain for its construction.
• Fu Henghua traveled toward Luogui Island with Jin Xian'e and Xiaoyu, but Zhou Xiao intercepted him and brought him to Langhuan Hall to continue his article on the Dao Platform.
• Fu Henghua explained that the Feather Immortal True Register could be divided into nine stages and wrote the Nine-Qi Starry-Heaven True Talisman, which Shangguan Xiaoyue tested to grant Qi Refining mana to two girls.
• The Heavenly Yi Sect and other powers debated whether Fu Henghua belonged to their sects as he wrote the Five-Elements Universal-Heaven True Talisman.
• Fu Henghua posted a cultivation method paired with the two talismans, prompting Dongfang Yunqi to recognize that he had revealed the Heavenly Talisman Scripture, and then went to sleep.

Fu Henghua watched cultivation masters debate and refine the Nine-Realm True Talismans, which could guide breakthroughs and benefit entire lineages. After a Tribulation Immortal revealed a method for embedding the talismans in Spirit Veins, Fu Henghua rushed to Luogui Island to test it.

• Dongfang Yunqi completed the Ninth Layer of Qi Refining derivation, and Twin-Dragon True Person presented a Nine-Luminaries Big Dipper True Talisman aligned with the ancient cultivation path.
• Purple Sage introduced three Purple Sovereign Pavilion True Talismans, prompting Taixuan cultivators to denounce them and Elder Tianjing to offer revised templates for the True Flame and Mystic Womb realms.
• Cultivators debated and improved the realm-specific True Talismans, including revising Fu Henghua’s Five-Elements Jun Heaven True Talisman into the Origin-Luo Jun Heaven True Talisman.
• Twin-Dragon True Person displayed a rudimentary Nine-Turn Golden Core True Talisman, and Fu Henghua copied it onto the Divine Luo Jade Tablet before it vanished.
• A Tribulation Immortal revealed a method for fusing the Nine-Realm True Talismans into Spirit Veins, prompting sects to act and Fu Henghua to hurry with Zhou Xiao to Luogui Island.

Fu Henghua allied the Fu Family with Luogui Island’s spirit tortoises, then advanced the island’s Spirit Vein and awakened new bloodline talents among the family’s descendants. After inscribing two true talismans, he saw Fu Pengming and Fu Baimin begin breaking through toward Foundation Establishment, while Zhou Xiao warned that the method could provoke a major conflict across Donglai.

• The Turtle Immortal explained the spirit tortoises’ terms, and Fu Henghua agreed to an alliance that bound the Fu Family and Turtle Clan to mutual aid.
• Fu Henghua upgraded Luogui Island’s Spirit Vein to Heavenly Longevity and used it to awaken six talents, including Sword Bone in Fu Beidou’s unborn descendant.
• Baxia entered the tortoise grave, passing his dragon pearl to Fu Pengming and his remaining magic power to Fu Henghua.
• Fu Henghua inscribed the Nine-Qi Starry-Heaven True Talisman and the Origin-Luo Jun Heaven True Talisman into the Spirit Vein, causing Fu Pengming and Fu Baimin to begin breaking through toward Foundation Establishment.
• Zhou Xiao warned Fu Henghua that the true-talisman method could drive the great lineages to compete for Immortal Ascension Isles and trigger a catastrophe across Donglai.

The great sects inscribed True Talismans into their spirit veins to create or strengthen Immortal Ascension Isles, while True Person Meng Chen threatened to force the inner Nine Waters into action. The Eastern Sea Sword Sect prepared to attack the Fu Family for its spirit veins, and Fu Danwei resolved to advance Coiling Dragon Island and prepare for the coming conflict.

• The Five Elements Dao Master, Song Chunqiu, and the Jade Sage Pavilion elders inscribed True Talismans into their spirit veins, while the Two Forms Dao completed an Origin Core True Register and Purple Sovereign Pavilion began deducing a Soul-Formation True Talisman.
• True Person Meng Chen declared that he would trigger slaughtering tribulations unless the inner Nine Waters gained Immortal Ascension Isles within five hundred years, and Tribulation Immortal Canglan and the others argued over how far to push the other waters.
• The Eastern Sea Sword Sect leader prepared to lead three thousand disciples against the Fu Family, while his Martial Uncle ordered him to seize the Eastern Region families’ spirit veins so the sect could create an Immortal Ascension Isle.
• Fu Henghua spent eighty thousand Cloud Elixirs subscribing to Canglan’s collected writings, then proposed inscribing True Talismans on Coiling Dragon Island and sent Zhou Xiao to help arrange the work.
• Fu Danwei told Fu Henghua that he planned to advance Coiling Dragon Island the following Dragon Boat Festival and showed him a Soul-Formation technique, while preparing to face the Eastern Sea Sword Sect.

Fu Henghua examined young members of the Fu Family and chose cultivation paths for them, while he and his elders discussed a brewing dispute with the Eastern Sea Sword Sect. The chapter ended with Henghua challenging Peng Ming and Bai Min to comprehend a Xun Trigram in three days to earn instruction in a Heavenly Book.

• Fu Henghua merged the Spirit Veins of Coiling Dragon Island and Luogui Island, inscribed a Kan-Li Yin-Yang True Talisman, and returned to Langhuan Hall to rest.
• Fu Yifu brought Peng Ming and Bai Min to choose cultivation methods, while Fu Beidou introduced Fu Pingdao of Azure Horn and Fu Lizhu of Dark Yin for Henghua to assess.
• Fu Yifu and Fu Beidou told Henghua that Ai Yanchang had accused the Fu Family of abducting Tan Yufeng, and Henghua foresaw Xiang Zhongkong's exceptional future potential.
• Fu Henghua selected the Two Forms Divine-Wind Scripture for Fu Pingdao and recommended the Nine Netherworld Communion Scripture for Fu Lizhu, whose Netherwind compatibility reached eighty percent.
• Fu Baimin said he trusted Henghua's judgment, and Fu Pengming asked for a powerful immortal art; Henghua promised them a Heavenly Book if they comprehended his Xun Trigram within three days.

Fu Henghua helped Fu Pengming begin comprehending the Eight Trigrams, urged Fu Yifu to pursue Core Formation, and planned to revive the clan’s Eight Trigrams practice. After Fu Baimin failed to understand the Xun Trigram, Henghua took him to Luogui Island to seek another Heavenly Scripture.

• Fu Pengming practiced the Eight Trigrams Palm after Fu Henghua imprinted the Xun Trigram on him, while Henghua urged Fu Yifu to study the Eight Trigrams and seek Core Formation.
• Fu Pengming gained a small insight into the Heavenly Book by spending a year of his lifespan, and Fu Henghua told him to replenish it with Longevity Pine-Crane Pills.
• Fu Henghua learned that Fu Pengming’s Spirit Longevity Qi could extend another person’s life, then sent him and Fu Yifu to discuss starting an Eight Trigrams practice class with the clan elders.
• Fu Henghua found that Fu Baimin had failed to understand the Xun Trigram and took him to Luogui Island to consult Zhou Xiao about another Heavenly Scripture.

Fu Henghua traveled alone into the Eastern Sea to find Fu Maiyuan and Fu Tongjun, but discovered the Eastern Sea Sword Sect had set a trap. He captured and transformed several of its disciples into fish, then took spirit bamboo from Purple Bamboo Island and fashioned it into a carriage as he continued toward the encirclement.

• Fu Henghua arranged for Zhou Xiao to teach Fu Baimin and develop a Supreme Mystery Sect cultivation method suited to him.
• Fu Danwei sent Fu Henghua to support Fu Maiyuan and Fu Tongjun, and Henghua traveled alone to the Eastern Sea.
• Fu Henghua captured Huang Lingshan and learned that Ai Yanchang had brought three thousand disciples to use Fu Tongjun and another man as bait.
• Fu Henghua transformed Huang Lingshan into a yellow fish and entered Purple Bamboo Island, where he subdued its maze formation and received branches from a spirit bamboo.
• Fu Henghua made a bamboo basket and transformed Eastern Sea Sword Sect disciples into fish, then turned the basket into a carriage and forced the fish to lead him onward.

Fu Henghua joined Fu Maiyuan and Fu Tongjun to recover the Cosmic Radiance Divine Water stolen by an Eastern Sea Sword Sect impostor. After retrieving it, they fought through the sect’s pursuers, and the chapter ended with Fu Henghua using two captured sword cultivators to force another enemy into Fu Tongjun’s poisonous mist.

• Fu Maiyuan and Fu Tongjun verified Fu Henghua’s identity, then told him an impostor had stolen the Cosmic Radiance Divine Water.
• Fu Henghua traced the thief to a southern island, where Fu Maiyuan captured him and recovered the divine water.
• Fu Tongjun discovered that Fu Henghua had turned dozens of Eastern Sea Sword Sect disciples into fish and helped keep them subdued with Gu Snakes.
• Fu Maiyuan and Fu Henghua prepared to return by the southern sea entrance, discussing Dragon Tongue techniques and a new finger formula.
• Eastern Sea Sword Sect cultivators attacked; Fu Maiyuan summoned dragons while Fu Tongjun and Fu Henghua captured two sword cultivators and used them to disrupt the attackers.
• Fu Henghua threw the hostages into Fu Tongjun’s poisonous mist, prompting a sword cultivator to charge out and challenge them to fight one-on-one.

Fu Henghua and his siblings defeated an Eastern Sea Sword Sect ambush, turning the captured cultivators into fish and storing them in his bamboo basket. When Ling Yuezi arrived and threatened them, Fu Henghua challenged him to lift the basket, which rested on a Black Tortoise’s shell.

• Fu Henghua, Fu Tongjun, and Fu Maiyuan fought off the sword cultivators, and Fu Henghua defeated Dou Wendong and the other attackers with his sword arts.
• Fu Henghua used Thousand-Coiled Silk and the bamboo basket to capture the sword cultivators, transforming them into fish with Form-Shifting Pills.
• Fu Henghua recognized the approaching Ling Yuezi as a Mystic Womb Perfection cultivator and used the captured fish to deter him from attacking.
• Fu Maiyuan began activating Dan Xuanzi’s Golden Core Dao intent while Fu Henghua and Fu Tongjun recorded Ling Yuezi’s threats and argued over the captives’ fate.
• Fu Henghua challenged Ling Yuezi to lift the bamboo basket and summoned a Black Tortoise to bear it on its shell.

Fu Henghua trapped Ling Yuezi, escaped Ai Yanchang’s attack, and challenged the Eastern Sea Sword Sect to answer for its disciples’ actions. At Demon-Subduing Cliff, Fang Bitian arrived to confront him but was defeated by Fu Beidou’s starry sword formation.

• Fu Henghua and Fu Maiyuan trapped Ling Yuezi in the bamboo basket, transformed him into an Ao Fish, and fled toward Demon-Subduing Cliff with Fu Tongjun.
• Ai Yanchang attacked the siblings, but Fu Tongjun’s Golden Cicada Escape Technique helped them evade the sword strike, and Fu Maiyuan’s purple lotus stopped the lingering Sword Qi.
• Fu Henghua set up a camp at Demon-Subduing Cliff and sent Huang Lingshan, disguised as a yellow fish, to deliver a letter accusing the Eastern Sea Sword Sect’s disciples of banditry and challenging Ai Yanchang to meet him.
• Ai Yanchang read Fu Henghua’s letter, which also disputed the sect’s claims about Tan Yufeng, and sent Fang Bitian to bring Fu Henghua back.
• Fu Beidou arrived at Demon-Subduing Cliff and used his starry sword formation to defeat Fang Bitian and seal his Niwan Palace.

Fu Henghua prepared Demon-Subduing Cliff for the coming sword duel while devising a plan to weaken the Eastern Sea Sword Sect by teaching its captured disciples. Dan Xuanzi arrived and helped bind the transformed cultivators to the pond, then offered Henghua a Daoist art in exchange for the Great Void Spellbreaking Method.

• Fu Beidou sealed Fang Bitian's powers, took his spirit sword, and suppressed him beneath Demon-Subduing Cliff until after the sword duel.
• The Bao, Yin, Cheng, and Fu families fortified Demon-Subduing Cliff, while Fu Henghua and Fu Tongjun taught the imprisoned fish and turtles cultivation and sword arts as part of a plan to sow divisions within the Eastern Sea Sword Sect.
• Fu Henghua gave Fu Maiyuan and Fu Xiangfeng jade slips of Eastern Sea Sword Sect techniques and explained how he had restored and studied the sect's sword formulas.
• Dan Xuanzi arrived wearing a mask and revealed that the sword duel would help him establish an immortal estate and eventually suppress a Nine-Yin Poison Spring.
• Dan Xuanzi transformed the pond into an array that kept the captured cultivators in fish and turtle form as long as they remained in the water, and offered to teach Fu Henghua the art in exchange for the Great Void Spellbreaking Method.

Fu Henghua returned to Coiling Dragon Island after the sword sect and the cultivation families agreed to settle their conflict through sword battles and formations. While nurturing the Heavenmoon Spirit Fungus with Cosmic Radiance Divine Water, he realized that understanding the nature of living things could improve transformation arts and proposed a Natural History Atlas.

• Ai Yanchang led seven Golden Core Cultivators in a Cangyuan Formation attack on Demon-Subduing Cliff, but Dan Xuanzi and the Four Symbols, Eight Sceneries Formation dissolved their Sword Qi.
• Fu Beidou negotiated twelve sword battles and twelve sword formations to decide the conflict, while Dan Xuanzi sent Fu Henghua home with the Cosmic Radiance Divine Water.
• Fu Henghua returned to Hundred Herbs Garden with Fu Maiyuan and Fu Tongjun, discovered that Fu Tongjun carried a Myriad Gu Yin Coffin, and helped cultivate the Heavenmoon Spirit Fungus.
• Following Duan Sijing's advice, Fu Maiyuan sprinkled Cosmic Radiance Divine Water on the fungus, which matured as Fu Henghua exchanged cultivation notes with Great Clairvoyant about plant classification.
• Fu Henghua connected knowledge of a creature's essential nature to the difficulty of transformation arts and proposed compiling a Natural History Atlas with his fellow cultivators.

Fu Henghua published an article about investigating things and extending knowledge, then discussed how creatures evolve with Tribulation Immortal Canglan. He began sketching an evolutionary chart grounded in both his past knowledge and the cultivation world's understanding.

• Fang Dongyuan and other readers found Bodhi's short article, Embryonic Transformation and the Origin of Change, puzzling because it focused on investigation and classification rather than talisman cultivation.
• Fu Henghua spoke with Tribulation Immortal Canglan, who shared examples of aquatic creatures evolving into Black Tortoises, Soaring Serpents, or Divine Dragons.
• Fu Henghua asked why creatures could evolve across the domains of the five creatures, and Canglan explained that the paths of evolution intermingled as beings pursued their own natures.
• Canglan described Sagehood as wisdom, Divine Dragons as life, and Black Tortoises as yin and yang, but admitted he knew little about plants, Phoenixes, or Qilins.
• Fu Henghua reconsidered his plan to copy classifications from his previous life and began drawing an evolutionary chart with the Four Auspicious Beasts at the four directions and Sagehood at the center.

Fu Danwei prepared to refine pills with the Heavenmoon Spirit Fungus while considering the Darkgold Ginseng held by Jadeflame Trading House and his old friend’s danger. As Fu Tongjun and Fu Maiyuan traveled to the Flame Waters and Fu Liuhui explored Sword-Sealing Island’s Sword Mound, Fu Henghua received guidance from Tribulation Immortal Canglan to seek a dragon painter there.

• Fu Danwei explained that he had refused Jadeflame Trading House partly because Liu Yang wanted the Fu Family to support his Nanyang Trading Company, while Lu Xin kept the Darkgold Ginseng as leverage.
• Fu Danwei sent Fu Tongjun and Fu Maiyuan to the Red Algae Waters to help Fu Xuanxing and Fu Liuhui search for Darkgold Ginseng, asking them to greet his old friend and not force him.
• Fu Yinggu and Zhang Qiulan collected Tou Ling'er's letter incense from Fu Henghua, who warned them to keep the eccentric alchemist away from Langhuan Hall.
• Fu Henghua sent his Heaven-and-Earth Five Creatures Diagram to Tribulation Immortal Canglan, who advised him to seek guidance from a dragon painter in the Flame Waters.
• Fu Tongjun and Fu Maiyuan entered the Flame Waters and sensed that its fire poison had sunk beneath the water as they hurried toward Sword-Sealing Island.
• Fu Liuhui descended into Sword-Sealing Island's Sword Mound and discovered a wind sword wielding the Innate Sword Art, while Qilei followed spirit-beast phantoms deeper inside.

Fu Henghua used his Wukong guise to recruit help against a Red Dragon painting spirit and visited Sword-Sealing Island, where Fu Liuhui took two spirit swords for Qilei. Meanwhile, Xiaoyu and Hengshou discovered Fu Henghua was cultivating through dreams and stood guard as he confronted an evil aura.

• Fu Tongjun and Fu Maiyuan encountered a Red Dragon in the Flame Waters, and Fu Henghua, disguised as Wukong, explained that the painting spirit had swallowed True Person Ye Long and asked them to find the Dragon Girl.
• Fu Tongjun went to search for the Dragon Girl while Fu Maiyuan headed to Sword-Sealing Island to notify Senior Du.
• Fu Liuhui entered the Sword Mound’s fourth level, fought off its Sword Intents, and accepted the Qilin and lightning swords to wield for Qilei.
• Fu Henghua’s Wukong guise told Fu Liuhui that the sword suited to him existed in dreams and in his heart, but not before his eyes.
• Xiaoyu and Hengshou completed their External Incarnations, entered Fu Henghua’s sealed room, and recognized that he was using dream arts to travel outside his body.
• Xiaoyu and Hengshou kept watch as Fu Henghua’s expression tightened under a surge of evil aura, and Hengshou said he was controlling a sinister object rather than being injured.

Fu Henghua subdued an escaped demonic Heart Sword in the Sword Mound and discovered it was an unfinished Evil Emperor Sword, which he renamed the Three-Treasure Ruyi Ring Sword. Meanwhile, Divination Demon learned that Fu Henghua must be kept from obtaining the Evil Emperor Sword and set out to find it first.

• A formless black Heart Sword escaped the Sword Mound’s fifth level and stirred evil thoughts, while ten spirit swords failed to defeat it.
• Fu Henghua used three golden rings and his Three Caverns Seal Method to bind the Heart Sword, then shaped it into a flying sword with Du Huaiyuan’s Demon-Sealing Seal.
• Fu Henghua identified the sword as an unfinished Evil Emperor Sword and decided to refine its evil nature, naming it the Three-Treasure Ruyi Ring Sword.
• At the Devil Palace, Divination Demon learned that the master of Seven Kills Hall had left to ambush Xuanjian True Person with the master of Blood Sea Hall.
• Divination Demon foresaw that Fu Henghua could become a demon if he gained two opportunities and resolved to find the Evil Emperor Sword before Fu Henghua could obtain it.

Fu Liuhui awakened her Divine Firmament Sword Intent and formed a Golden Thunder flying sword after Wukong taught her to cultivate a Dao sword within her body. As Xuanjian True Person fought two demonic hall masters near Sword-Sealing Island, Wukong gathered Fu Liuhui, Fu Xuanxing, Ji Yunshu, and others to slay a Red Dragon and rescue True Person Ye Long.

• Fu Liuhui comprehended her natal Divine Firmament Sword Intent in the Sword Mound, and Wukong taught her an Inner Sword-Embryo Cultivation Art instead of relying on a sword pellet.
• Fu Liuhui formed a sword furnace within her body and infused a silver sword pellet with her Sword Intent, creating a Golden Thunder flying sword.
• Eight hundred miles north of Sword-Sealing Island, Blood Demon Hall and Seven Kills Hall attacked Xuanjian True Person, who unleashed the Sun-Moon Heaven-Piercing Sword Canon as Du Huaiyuan sensed the battle.
• Wukong led Fu Liuhui and Fu Xuanxing out of the Sword Mound and invited them to help slay a Red Dragon, revealing that two other Fu Family members were also involved.
• White Dragon Horse and Ji Yunshu arrived and said they had been sent to help rescue True Person Ye Long.

The Nine Suns Sect and Red Dragon Sect fought over the Red Dragon while Ye Long weakened it from within and the Dragon Maiden prepared to sever its link to the Flame Waters. Elsewhere, Duan Sijing subdued Xuanjian True Person and sent him to the Sword Saint for help escaping his sword demon state.

• The Nine Suns Sect trapped the Red Dragon in golden nets, but Red Dragon Sect attacks freed it and sparked a battle between the two sects.
• Tong Liuming and the Red Dragon Sect Master left to fight elsewhere, while Fu Maiyuan and the others joined the struggle to capture the Red Dragon.
• Fu Xuanxing wounded the Red Dragon, and Wukong defeated the Red Dragon Sect disciples as Ye Long continued burning the dragon from within.
• Fu Tongjun brought the Dragon Maiden to the battlefield, and the Dragon Maiden entered the water to sever the Red Dragon's connection to the Flame Waters.
• Duan Sijing subdued Xuanjian True Person after he defeated Du Huaiyuan, then told Du Huaiyuan to take him to the Sword Saint for help.

Fu Henghua’s dream of Flame Waters ended with True Person Ye Long rescued and the Red Dragon sealed, while the Black Tortoise and Purple Eel discovered a possible way to revive their lord. Back on Coiling Dragon Island, Fu Henghua learned that his grandfather’s death omen had lifted and discovered that the Ginseng Immortal had left behind Darkgold Ginseng, then caught up with the injured immortal and invited him to recover on the island.

• True Person Ye Long escaped the Red Dragon, sealed it in a painting, and gave the dragon maiden a dragon-transformation painting after Wukong helped him overcome and seal away his fear.
• Fu Maiyuan and his companions continued toward the Red Algae Waters, while the Black Tortoise and Purple Eel found a Reverse Scale they believed could revive the Red Dragon.
• Fu Henghua woke from his dream, recreated the Heaven-and-Earth Five Creatures Diagram, and sent it to Tribulation Immortal Canglan, who wondered whether Wukong was Bodhi’s disciple or Fu Henghua himself.
• After three Auspicious Birds appeared, Fu Henghua divined that Fu Danwei’s death omen had vanished and rushed to Welcome Immortals Gate to investigate a visitor’s gift.
• Fu Henghua identified the purple ginseng left by the two-armed visitor as Darkgold Ginseng, caught up with the injured Ginseng Immortal in Yanlong, and invited him to Coiling Dragon Island for treatment.