Recaps

Wei Yunqing's plan to use Wei Zonghao as a shield collapsed when she learned he had left the Haoran Sect, while Wei Yunxi entered Qingye Pool to prepare for the Baohua Secret Realm. Yunxi and her companions began cultivating there, leaving Yunqing still searching for a solution to her problems.

• Wei Yunqing learned that Wei Zonghao had left the sect, and her Message Talisman returned without reaching him.
• Wei Yunqing blamed Wei Yunxi for Ancestor Nanfeng's death and regretted that her plan to use Zonghao to shield her from scrutiny had failed.
• Wei Yunxi presented her tokens to the Spirit Transformation Realm cultivator guarding Qingye Pool and received permission to cultivate there for three months.
• Wei Yunxi asked Dian Dian to choose a pool, and Dian Dian pointed her toward one.
• Wei Yunxi settled into the pool and invited Dian Dian and Rosy Cloud to cultivate alongside her.

Yunxi completed her four-month cultivation at Qingye Pool and advanced to the late stage Golden Core, then learned Wei Yunqing had become a Personal Disciple of True Lord Zuoqiu. Suspicious of how Wei Yunqing secured the position, Yunxi decided to visit Lord Yuhuo, just as two Message Talismans arrived.

• Yunxi cultivated with Dian Dian and Rosy Cloud at Qingye Pool while an unknown visitor confronted Wei Yunqing and questioned her worth.
• After four months, Yunxi left Qingye Pool at the late stage Golden Core and was charged for exceeding her allotted time.
• Wei Yunxi confronted Yunxi at Lingxue Peak, but Yunxi used her cultivation pressure to force Wei Yunqing to kneel.
• Yunxi learned from Rosy Cloud that Wei Yunqing had taken True Lord Zuoqiu of Spirit Beast Peak as her master and had returned there to enter seclusion.
• Yunxi suspected a connection between True Lord Zuoqiu's seclusion and Wei Yunqing's appointment, decided to visit Lord Yuhuo, and received two Message Talismans.

Yunxi learned that the Baohua Mountain Secret Realm would open in a month and prepared to join the expedition. She also discussed Wei Yunqing’s new master with Lord Yuhuo, then met Wei Chenyin to talk about Wei Yunqing.

• Yunxi visited Lord Yuhuo, who told her the newly opened Baohua Mountain Secret Realm would open in a month and warned her to prepare carefully.
• Yunxi learned that Wei Yunqing had become True Lord Zuoqiu’s Personal Disciple by giving him an Enlightenment Fruit.
• Yunxi told Lord Yuhuo that Wei Nanfeng had arranged for Wei Yunqing to take a master and that Wei Yunqing had once suspected her of killing him.
• Lord Yuhuo predicted that Zuoqiu might soon reach Spirit Transformation and that Yunxi’s master might have good news by the time she returned from the Secret Realm.
• Yunxi went to Dharma Peak, where Wei Chenyin asked whether she knew Wei Yunqing had taken True Lord Zuoqiu as her master.
• Yunxi told Wei Chenyin that Wei Yunqing had come to show off, but Yunxi had intimidated her and sent her away.

Yunxi and Wei Chenyin discussed Wei Yunqing’s transactional apprenticeship with True Lord Zuoqiu and prepared for the dangerous Baohua Mountain secret realm. The Wei Family repaid the Feng Family by transferring valuable Kunyu City properties, and Yunxi learned the details of the Feng Family’s takeover.

• Yunxi told Wei Chenyin that Wei Yunqing had traded an Enlightenment Fruit to become True Lord Zuoqiu’s disciple, and they agreed the Wei Family should be warned about her.
• Yunxi and Wei Chenyin arranged to travel with Lin Keyang, Zhang Lingrui, and Cao Yi to Haoran City to buy protective treasures before entering the secret realm.
• Wei Chenyin sent Wei Lingtao details about Wei Yunqing’s apprenticeship, and the Wei Family Head later informed Yunxi that the family had sold important Kunyu City properties to the Feng Family at a very low price.
• Yunxi collected the completed mission’s jade slip from the Inner Sect Mission Hall, narrowly missing Sheng Yuhong there.
• Yunxi read Feng Jiaqing’s report that the Feng Family had accepted three important properties from the Wei Family after Kunyu City’s other great families had bought some of the remaining holdings.

After catching up on sect news, Yunxi learned that rumors were being spread to keep her out of the Baohua Mountain secret realm. She decided to enter under another identity while her companions traveled to Haoran City, where many high-level cultivators were gathering.

• Yunxi reviewed Feng Jiaqing's message and decided to check the Feng Family for Evil Cultivators after leaving the Baohua Secret Realm.
• Rosy Cloud told Yunxi that Sheng Yuhong had advanced to Golden Core with a celestial phenomenon, and Yunxi later met her companions at the sect entrance.
• Cao Yi told Yunxi that sect disciples were arguing she should not enter the secret realm because she had obtained the Medicine Immortal Sect's inheritance.
• Yunxi's companions condemned the rumors, and Yunxi said she would enter the secret realm under another identity but would not disguise herself before openly seeing them off.
• The five exchanged resources aboard Cao Yi's Flying Boat and then entered Haoran City, where many high-level cultivators had gathered.

Yunxi met Ye Yirui, the Young Valley Master of Medicine King Valley, who asked her to help repair her brother Ye Yuchen’s damaged Dantian. Yunxi agreed to examine him before deciding, but their plans were interrupted by news that a secret realm in the Baohua Mountain Range was about to open.

• Yunxi and her companions found Hundred Flavors Tower fully occupied, so Ye Yirui’s attendant invited Yunxi to use her private room.
• Yunxi went upstairs alone to meet Ye Yirui while Wei Chenyin and the others waited below.
• Ye Yirui explained that she had restored Ye Yuchen’s divine soul but could not repair his Dantian, and that he had been frozen for fifty years.
• Yunxi asked to examine Ye Yuchen before deciding whether she could help, and Ye Yirui agreed to take her to Medicine King Valley.
• An attendant reminded Ye Yirui that the secret realm in the Baohua Mountain Range was about to open.

Yunxi spoke with Ye Yirui about the plot that injured Ye Yuchen, then received a Medicine King Valley token before rejoining her companions to shop in Haoran City. At Hundred Flavors Tower, Sheng Yuhong stopped Yunxi and told her he had formed his Core and previously tried to visit her.

• Aunt Ran reminded Ye Yirui that she needed to enter the Baohua Mountain Range Secret Realm, and Ye Yirui sent her out.
• Yunxi declined to enter the Secret Realm and suggested Ye Yuchen may have been the intended target of the attack that injured him.
• Ye Yirui said she would investigate the Secret Realm for a way to repair Ye Yuchen's Dantian, gave Yunxi a Medicine King Valley token, and promised to visit Haoran Sect later.
• Yunxi rejoined Wei Chenyin and the others, and they bought life-saving pills and one-use magic treasures in Haoran City's commercial street.
• At Hundred Flavors Tower, Sheng Yuhong stopped Yunxi and said he had formed his Core and had tried to visit her while she was in seclusion.

Yunxi treated her friends to a spiritual meal before preparing for the Baohua Mountain Secret Realm. After receiving the Glazed Jade Mask from True Lord Yu Lian, she disguised herself as a male Artifact Refining Peak elder named Feng Xiyun.

• Yunxi told Sheng Yuhong she would skip the Secret Realm and return to seclusion, then saw him off with the other cultivators.
• Yunxi and four companions shared an expensive spiritual meal at Hundred Flavors Tower before returning to the sect.
• True Lord Yu Lian gave Yunxi the Glazed Jade Mask and a blank Identity Jade Token, explaining the mask's disguising and defensive abilities.
• Yunxi refined the mask, changed her appearance and clothing, and inscribed the false name Feng Xiyun on the token.
• Yunxi finished her disguise and asked Dian Dian how it looked.

Yunxi prepared to enter the newly discovered Baohua Mountain Range Secret Realm under a disguise, then left Lingxue Peak for the gathering point. A tribulation cloud formed near Artifact Refining Peak as she received a Message Talisman and hurried to Haoran Sect’s grand plaza.

• Yunxi changed her appearance, voice, and aura, then placed Dian Dian and Rosy Cloud in a Spirit Beast Bag.
• Yunxi refined a Portable Herb Garden, moved most of its spirit plants into her courtyard, and promised Dian Dian it could eat a Spring Sinking Flower after the Secret Realm.
• Yunxi told True Lord Yuling she was leaving for the Secret Realm, recounted Wei Yunqing’s boast about True Lord Zuoqiu reaching Spirit Transformation, and wished her master success in his own breakthrough.
• The next morning, Yunxi disguised herself, left Lingxue Peak, and saw a tribulation cloud forming near Artifact Refining Peak.
• Yunxi received a Message Talisman and flashed to Haoran Sect’s grand plaza, where the disciples bound for the Baohua Mountain secret realm were gathering.

Yunxi joined the Haoran Sect’s expedition to the newly opened Secret Realm at Baohua Mountain, preparing to keep her identity hidden and confront Wei Yunqing if the chance arose. After Wei Yunqing arrived just in time, the sect’s Flying Ship departed as cultivators from across the regions gathered in Baohua City.

• Yunxi recorded the Medicine Immortal Sect’s inheritance on a jade slip to hand over to the sect.
• Venerables Haohui and Haoqing summoned a massive Flying Ship, and the disciples boarded for the Secret Realm.
• Wei Yunqing arrived after completing her Golden Core tribulation, and Sect Master Yugeng sent her aboard just before departure.
• Yunxi told Dian Dian and Rosy Cloud to stay by her side, then began familiarizing herself with the Nine Nether Underworld Dragon Umbrella as her weapon.
• Wei Yunqing failed to spot Yunxi, chose a cabin opposite Sheng Yuhong’s, and began stabilizing her cultivation.
• The Haoran Sect’s Flying Ship set off as ships from Western Region sects headed toward Baohua Mountain and cultivators filled Baohua City.

Cultivators from across the regions gathered in Baohua City and prepared to enter the Secret Realm, while Ye Yirui resisted Elder Wang’s attempt to use her to obtain the Medicine Immortal Sect’s inheritance. After Haoran Sect arrived, Yunxi watched Wei Yunqing fail to join Sheng Yuhong’s team and then approached her; the chapter ended with Yunxi calling Song Ke over.

• Ye Yirui told Elder Wang that Wei Yunqing’s sect would likely protect her and refused to help him retrieve the Medicine Immortal Sect’s inheritance.
• Elder Wang returned to his room and reconsidered his plans, while Ye Yirui secluded herself to prepare for the Secret Realm.
• The major sects from the other regions studied Western Region cultivators, overlooking Yunxi because she would not enter the Secret Realm.
• Haoran Sect arrived at Baohua Mountain, where Haohui reunited with Venerable Minghong and Haoqing instructed the disciples to stay cautious.
• Wei Yunqing failed to join Sheng Yuhong’s team and then asked Yunxi to team up; Yunxi refused and called Song Ke over after Wei Yunqing left.

Yunxi teamed up with Song Ke and discovered that Wei Yunqing had been marking Golden Core cultivators with scented powder, though her purpose remained unclear. As cultivators from all Five Regions gathered at the Baohua Mountain Range, the new Secret Realm’s opening drew near.

• Yunxi asked Song Ke to team up with her, and he agreed before tactfully turning away Wei Yunqing’s request to join them.
• Yunxi sent Dian Dian to investigate Wei Yunqing and learned that she had marked people she met with scented powder mixed with her aura.
• Zhou Langchen visited Mu Ningzhu, and Yunxi observed cultivators from the Western Region arriving, including Hu Yingjun, who became suspicious of her disguise.
• Yunxi sensed that the Secret Realm would likely open within two days as cultivators from the other four regions arrived at the Baohua Mountain Range.
• The leaders of Yunmen Temple and Kunmo Sect clashed over Buddhist teachings, while the White-Browed Old Ape tolerated the gathering under the agreement to share the Secret Realm.

Yunxi entered the Secret Realm and found a Cloud Ascending Staircase that tested cultivators’ physical strength. After Song Ke and several others were teleported away, Yunxi continued climbing and passed five hundred steps.

• Five Spirit Transformation Venerables opened the Secret Realm entrance, and the cultivators entered in sequence; Haohui and Haoqing were rejected, while the nearly spent Venerable Mingxian entered.
• Yunxi landed in a vast plaza, where she discovered a staircase rising into the clouds and learned that divine sense could not probe the area.
• Yunxi burned away a mark placed on Song Ke, then climbed the staircase with him as their spiritual power and divine sense were sealed.
• Song Ke stopped at the 327th step and was teleported away, along with Sheng Yuhong, Wei Yunqing, Du Yuling, Mu Ningzhu, and other cultivators.
• Yunxi continued climbing and realized she had passed five hundred steps when she drew level with a Nascent Soul Early Stage cultivator.

After reaching her limit on the steps, Yunxi was transported to a primeval forest, where she rescued a young woman from a Black Panther and accepted a golden gemstone to treat an injured tribesman. She began stitching the man’s wounds while the tribespeople watched warily.

• Yunxi reached her limit after climbing five hundred steps and was transported to a primeval forest.
• Yunxi discovered primitive tribespeople fighting a giant Black Panther and watched as their leader and a young woman tried to bring it down.
• When the Black Panther broke free and attacked the young woman, Yunxi blocked its claw with the Nine Nether Underworld Dragon Umbrella and killed it with the Cold Frost Profound Ice Needle.
• The young woman offered Yunxi a golden gemstone to save the injured man, and Yunxi accepted after confirming the Black Panther had no spiritual power.
• Yunxi protected the injured man’s heart meridians and began stitching his abdominal wound with ice silk from the Mysterious Ice Needle.

Yunxi followed the primitives to their settlement beneath a cliff and discovered that the jungle’s strange influence made her Spirit Pets agitated at night. When giant Rhinoceros Beasts attacked her formation, she trapped them and began fighting back, hoping to learn more about the realm and find a way to leave.

• Yunxi secretly followed the primitives with a Rosy Cloud Butterfly and saw them return to their settlement, where an old woman took the injured man inside for treatment.
• Yunxi scouted the settlement and agreed to let Dian Dian explore with her the next day.
• After night fell, Dian Dian and Rosy Cloud Butterfly became unusually violent and restless, while Yunxi felt only unsettled.
• A herd of giant Rhinoceros Beasts surrounded and rammed Yunxi’s formation, so she put her Spirit Pets in the Spirit Beast Bag and trapped the beasts with a Fourth-Grade Formation Disk.
• Yunxi killed the smallest Rhinoceros Beast and stored it, then entered the formation containing two more beasts and faced their attack.

Yunxi fought giant beasts through the night, using a formation and Spirit Stones to survive while the jungle’s Spiritual Qi seemed dangerous. After dawn, the beasts withdrew, and Dian Dian and Rosy Cloud reported that the agitating aura had disappeared or been neutralized.

• Yunxi discovered that Thunder Spiritual Power could damage the giant Rhinoceros Beasts’ internal organs and killed the fifteen beasts trapped in her formation.
• Yunxi replenished her Spiritual Power with Spirit Stones, then fought giant jackals one at a time and harvested their red fur.
• Across the jungle, cultivators faced the beasts differently; some cultivated in the rich Spiritual Qi overnight and awoke with faint blood mist clouding their eyes.
• At dawn, the giant beasts stopped attacking and scattered, allowing Yunxi to restore her Spiritual Power.
• Yunxi released Dian Dian and Rosy Cloud, who said the aura that had stirred them had disappeared or been neutralized, and she showed them the beasts she had hunted.

Yunxi discovered that mysterious inscriptions strengthened the giant beasts’ bones and that Rosy Cloud’s wing powder caused their bodies to shrink after death. As Yunxi prepared beast meat as a gift for the primitive tribe, Wei Yunqing emerged from her protected shelter after surviving a night in the jungle and losing contact with Sheng Yuhong.

• Yunxi tested the Rhinoceros Beast’s horn and the jackal’s limbs, discovering inscriptions that blocked lightning and appeared to strengthen the beasts.
• Rosy Cloud’s wing powder made the dead Rhinoceros Beast and jackal shrink, and Rosy Cloud suggested that the beasts had absorbed an energy that enlarged them.
• Yunxi learned that Rosy Cloud had lost contact with the little Rosy Cloud Butterfly and decided to bring the tribe beast meat as a gift.
• Yunxi began cutting up the Rhinoceros Beast and jackal while Dian Dian watched.
• Wei Yunqing emerged from her Immortal Cave after hiding there overnight, unable to sense the marker she had placed on Sheng Yuhong and having killed a Rock Bull with an Explosion Talisman.

Yunxi watched the Stone Hammer man and his people trap a giant lynx, then decided to turn their trap to her advantage. The hunt went badly for the tribe, and Yunxi prepared to approach them.

• After resting, Yunxi resumed exploring the jungle with Dian Dian tucked against her chest and the Rosy Cloud Butterfly in her sleeve, while her shortened divine-sense range made her more cautious.
• Yunxi spotted the Stone Hammer man leading ten people as they dug and camouflaged a pit, and she realized the tribe could identify special beast bones despite not cultivating spiritual power.
• Dian Dian recognized the unconscious red fox used as bait as a Demon Cultivator from the Baohua Mountain Range, and Yunxi said they would try to save him.
• A giant lynx took the bait, fell into the pit, injured its leg, and was attacked by the Stone Hammer man and his companions.
• The lynx broke free of the tribe’s encirclement and fled, impressing Yunxi with its apparent intelligence.
• Dian Dian asked what they should do next, and Yunxi decided to walk into the trap the tribe had prepared for her.

Yunxi lured the stone-hammer man and his companions into inviting her back to their tribe, where the white-haired old woman offered to reveal a way out of the Secret Realm if Yunxi helped the tribe survive. The old woman explained that the tribe’s safe territory had been shrinking and fewer than a hundred people remained.

• Yunxi offered beast meat to trade for the little red fox, but left when the stone-hammer man kept demanding more.
• One of the stone-hammer man's companions blocked Yunxi and invited her to be a guest at the tribe, and she agreed.
• Yunxi followed the group back to the tribe beneath the cliff and entered the stone house with the white-haired old woman.
• The old woman thanked Yunxi for saving a tribesman and offered to explain how to leave if Yunxi ensured the tribe’s survival.
• The old woman told Yunxi that giant beasts had steadily reduced the tribe’s safe territory and that the tribe was nearing extinction.

Yunxi learned that the Shaman Clan had tested her with a cursed gemstone and intended to enlist her help, but she rejected their methods and walked away. The old woman’s final revelation—that her people descended from the Shaman Clan—stopped Yunxi in her tracks.

• Yunxi reasoned that the tribe had entered the Secret Realm to survive and agreed to hear the old woman’s proposed exchange: repair their protective formation and teach them cultivation in return for passage across the realm.
• The old woman claimed Yunxi was linked to the tribe by blood because the curse on Qin’s golden gemstone had not sealed her power, and explained that the tribe cursed valuables to punish plunderers.
• Yunxi learned that the old woman had used a red fox and a rampaging colossal beast to test whether she could help the tribe.
• Yunxi returned the gemstone, rejected the old woman’s request, and left because she refused to accept the tribe’s coercive methods.
• The old woman pleaded with Yunxi not to abandon her people and said the tribe descended from the Shaman Clan, making Yunxi turn back in surprise.

After the space fusion, Yunxi explored the restored Medicine Immortal Sect and sought Ethereal Immortal’s advice about the Witch Tribe descendants she had met. She decided to help them and began negotiating a trade with Star Trek, but warned that the alchemy inheritance might require spirit plants unavailable in his world.

• Yunxi learned that the old woman’s Witch Tribe descendants had survived in the Secret Realm after their last High Priest sent them there, and she left to consider whether to help them.
• Yunxi entered her expanded space, found the Medicine Immortal Sect restored within it, and let the Rosy Cloud Butterfly settle there.
• Yunxi contacted Ethereal Immortal, who confirmed the Witch Tribe story was plausible and told her to follow her heart; Yunxi decided she could not abandon her blood relatives.
• Star Trek asked Yunxi about her body-forging progress, and she offered to trade an alchemy inheritance for something he could provide.
• Star Trek eagerly accepted, and Yunxi cautioned him that the required spirit plants might not exist in his time and space.

Yunxi arranged a long-term exchange with Star Trek for alchemy formulas and body-forging supplies, then explored her fused space and consulted Immortal Spirit Grass about the Secret Realm. Immortal Spirit explained that the Realm Spirit was concentrating destructive forces in the forest, leaving Yunxi to suspect the Witch Tribe’s descendants were being targeted.

• Yunxi agreed to exchange alchemy formulas with Star Trek for intermediate and advanced Body Forging Arts and their potions after she finished organizing the formulas.
• Yunxi found Rosy Cloud Butterfly and her children in the plantation, where a Seven-Colored Lotus repelled Rosy Cloud’s attempt to land on it.
• Yunxi caught Dian Dian in the Medicine Immortal Sect’s treasure vault and promised him one treasure and the Spring Sinking Flower in return for inventorying the vault.
• Yunxi moved Immortal Spirit Grass into her fused space, but it chose to stay with her and search the Secret Realm for Spiritual Veins.
• After Yunxi returned to the forest, Immortal Spirit Grass warned her not to cultivate with the local Spiritual Qi and said the Realm Spirit was concentrating the Secret Realm’s destructive forces there.

Yunxi fought through another night of increasingly violent giant-beast attacks, suffering broken ribs before reaching safety and recovering. At dawn, the beasts withdrew, and she headed for the Shaman Clan tribe after learning from Immortal Spirit why the beasts attacked at night and that filtering the harmful substance would damage it.

• Yunxi evaded a giant python, killed it with Explosion Talismans, and took its gallbladder before another python broke her ribs and she killed it with Cold frost Profound Ice Needles.
• The old woman and the man with the stone hammer heard the explosions but decided not to send anyone into the forest at night.
• Yunxi escaped to her formation, while Wei Yunqing and Sheng Yuhong fought off giant beasts and retreated to their own protective formations to recover.
• At sunrise, the beasts returned to their lairs, and Yunxi replenished her Spiritual Qi with spirit stones before setting off for the Shaman Clan tribe.
• Immortal Spirit explained that daylight suppressed the substance provoking the beasts and warned Yunxi that filtering it would damage its true body.

Yunxi agreed to take the Witch Tribe descendants out of the Secret Realm and teach them cultivation, then questioned the old woman about the tribe’s decline and the mysterious inscriptions. She learned that the Realm Spirit had been gradually restricting the tribe’s territory and that inscriptions could grant power or extend life when carved onto living creatures.

• Yunxi healed Sen’s internal injuries, and Sen stood up from the stone bed.
• Yunxi promised to help the Witch Tribe descendants leave the Secret Realm and learn cultivation, while making clear their future would be their own responsibility.
• The old woman explained that giant beasts and hostile outsiders had killed many tribespeople, while the tribe’s accessible territory had steadily shrunk until they were confined to the forest.
• Yunxi and the Immortal Spirit Grass concluded that the Realm Spirit was restricting the Witch Tribe because it saw them as consuming the Secret Realm’s resources without helping it evolve.
• The old woman explained that mysterious inscriptions gave giant beasts special abilities and that she had carved one onto herself, extending her lifespan, though not every tribesman could withstand them.

Yunxi learned about the Witch Tribe descendants’ inscriptions and accepted their record of them, then traded beast meat for Hu Yingjun. She planned to bring the descendants into her space and help them settle in the Cultivation Realm, but the sky suddenly darkened at an unexpected time.

• The old woman explained that she alone could carve inscriptions with Witch power, and Yunxi reassured her that the Witch Tribe’s inheritance had continued in another form.
• The old woman gave Yunxi a beast-hide book of inscriptions, and Yunxi studied it and tested the inscriptions with spiritual power.
• Yunxi traded meat from three rhinoceros beasts for the unconscious Hu Yingjun and put him in her Spirit Beast Bag.
• Yunxi discussed with the Immortal Spirit Grass her plan to bring the Witch Tribe descendants into her space, teach them the Cultivation Realm’s language, and find them cultivation methods.
• The sky darkened suddenly, and Yunxi realized the timing was wrong.