Recaps

Yunxi accepted Old Ancestor Hao Yi’s trial to become the sect’s eyes and ears, then began processing a mountain of intelligence in the Honeycomb. Meanwhile, Wei Yunqing was transported to the Eastern Domain after surviving three years at sea and sought out Yunmen Temple to deal with the Evil Soul in her sea of consciousness.

• Old Ancestor Hao Yi named Yunxi’s investigation and future intelligence work as trials for inheriting the codename “Dark Night,” then sent a secret message using Realm-Transmitting Incense.
• Yunxi returned to the Honeycomb and learned that Hao Yi had ordered screened information jade slips delivered to her every three days, so she began reviewing them.
• Wei Yunqing subdued the Fire Heart Flame, looted an underground herb garden, and was transported from the Secret Realm to the ocean.
• After three years of fighting sea beasts and crossing the ocean, Wei Yunqing reached the Eastern Domain and discovered that Buddhist cultivation suppressed the Evil Soul in her consciousness.
• Wei Yunqing decided to seek help at Yunmen Temple, where Buddha Son Yunchen had been assigned to serve as a sweeping monk.

Wei Yunqing sought Yunmen Temple’s help to remove an Evil Soul, while Yunxi doubted it had truly been expelled. Old Ancestor Haoyi then revealed that most cultivators from the Weiyu Realm who ascended to the Spirit Realm were killed, prompting Yunxi to question why their realm was being suppressed.

• Wei Yunqing asked Buddha Son Yunchen and Yun Ze to remove the Evil Soul sealed in her sea of consciousness, and they agreed to help.
• Wei Yunxi learned that Wei Yunqing had expelled the Evil Soul and was secluded to form her Nascent Soul, but she suspected the threat remained and ordered spies to watch her.
• Old Ancestor Haoyi told Yunxi that fewer than one in ten Weiyu Realm cultivators who ascended within the past five hundred years remained alive unless they joined powerful factions.
• Haoyi explained that the Weiling Realm had at least nine lower realms and largely ignored the deaths of Weiyu Realm ascendants.
• Yunxi argued that talented Weiyu Realm cultivators had been suppressed and questioned why their realm was repeatedly targeted.

Yunxi and Venerable Haoyi uncovered evidence that powerful forces were suppressing the Weiyu Realm by targeting its talented cultivators, while Yunxi found records suggesting the attacks were preventing the realm from advancing. As she continued recovering and investigating, the Seven-Colored Lotus bloomed.

• Venerable Haoyi summoned Haohui, Haoqing, and Hao Yan, shared the evidence Yunxi had found, and agreed to contact Venerable Minghong and alert the Famous Sword Sect about the suppression of the Weiyu Realm.
• Haohui urged the sect to secretly protect its Elite Disciples, and Haoyi ordered the Honeycomb to screen them for possible targets and future successors.
• Yunxi found records explaining how a realm could advance through accumulated ascensions and suspected that the mastermind was killing outstanding disciples to prevent the Weiyu Realm's evolution.
• Yunxi discovered a prophecy that the Weiyu Realm's variable would fall upon the Haoran Sect and privately suspected that she was the variable, but recorded only her broader theory in a jade slip.
• After eight years, Yunxi's Meridian injuries had healed, but the hole in her Dantian was growing; Dian Dian then told her that the Seven-Colored Lotus had bloomed.

Yunxi learned that the Seven-Colored Lotus could repair and protect her Dantian, then began screening Haoran Sect’s Elite Disciples for Old Ancestor Hao Yi. After presenting her analysis of the Weiyu Realm’s suppression, she shared another discovery about the disciples.

• The Immortal Spirit Grass explained that the Seven-Colored Lotus could repair Yunxi’s Dantian and had bloomed early after it used a top-grade Spiritual Vein.
• Deity confirmed that the barely ninth-grade lotus could repair Yunxi’s Dantian and instructed her to drip one drop of heart’s blood onto its core for seven days before fusing it with her Dantian.
• Yunxi asked Dian Dian and the Immortal Spirit to guard the lotus while she prepared to use it, then received Old Ancestor Hao Yi’s task to assess the potential of the sect’s Elite Disciples.
• Yunxi reviewed the histories and relationships of more than one thousand Elite Disciples and found recurring connections between them and other cultivators.
• Yunxi presented Hao Yi with her analysis of the Weiyu Realm’s suppression and a second jade slip detailing her discovery about the Elite Disciples.

Yunxi reported her discoveries about the plots surrounding the Elite Disciples, and Haoyi arranged for the Law Enforcement Hall to investigate while giving Yunxi a secluded Immortal Cave. After Yuling emerged from seclusion and learned what Yunxi had uncovered, he urged her to repair her Dantian before the Grand Competition of the Five Regions.

• Haoyi praised Yunxi's investigation and agreed to have the Law Enforcement Hall capture some suspicious cultivators openly and others secretly.
• Haoyi gave Yunxi a Jade Token to an Immortal Cave and told her to hand the Honeycomb over to her master, Yuling.
• Yuling emerged from seclusion after stabilizing his cultivation at the early Deity Transformation stage and went to meet Yunxi.
• Yunxi removed her Glazed Jade Mask, briefed Yuling on the past five years, and handed him her collected jade slips and the Bee King duties.
• Yunxi told Yuling that the Medicine Immortal Sect's inheritance contained a method to repair her Dantian, and he urged her to enter seclusion before the Grand Competition of the Five Regions in two years.

Old Ancestor Haoyi shared evidence of the evil cultivators’ conspiracy with Venerable Mingjia and urged the Famous Sword Sect to investigate and coordinate with the other regions. Meanwhile, Yunxi began fusing the Seven-Colored Lotus, and Wei Yunqing triggered her Nascent Soul tribulation.

• Yunxi returned her master's Identity Jade Token and entered seclusion, while Venerable Yuling examined the new jade slips piled in the Honeycomb.
• Old Ancestor Haoyi gave Venerable Mingjia evidence uncovered by the Haoran Sect, and he agreed to investigate the conspiracy and alert the Western Region’s sects and clans.
• Haoyi told Mingjia that Zuoqiu had escaped the Haoran Sect as a divine soul after conspiring with evil cultivators, and Mingjia resolved to investigate Li Chang’s escape and purge his sect.
• Yunxi spent seven days nourishing the Seven-Colored Lotus with her heart’s blood, then began its second refinement and fusion in her Dantian.
• Wei Yunqing triggered her Nascent Soul tribulation lightning while in seclusion at Yunmen Temple.

With Yun Ze’s help, Wei Yunqing drove out the sealed Evil Soul and entered seclusion at Yunmen Temple, where she faced a dangerous Nascent Soul tribulation. The final lightning bolt trapped her in a Heart Demon illusion as Yunxi continued repairing her Dantian with the Seven-Colored Lotus.

• Yun Ze helped Wei Yunqing expel the Evil Soul, though a thread of gray qi secretly remained in her sea of consciousness.
• Wei Yunqing broke through to the Nascent Soul Realm and endured the first two waves of tribulation lightning with pills, Dharma treasures, and an array.
• The Crimson Bracelet shielded Wei Yunqing from most of the eighth bolt, but the final black lightning struck her unconscious.
• Yun Ze recognized the tribulation as a Heart Demon tribulation, and Yunchen said Wei Yunqing had to overcome the illusion herself.
• Wei Yunqing’s illusion showed her growing jealous of the woman Sheng Yuhong rescued, and thoughts of killing her began to take hold.
• Yunxi’s red lotus petal repaired her Dantian, and she began fusing the orange petal into it.

Yunxi completed the Seven-Colored Lotus’s fusion with her Dantian, repaired its damage, and stabilized her cultivation at the peak of the Nascent Soul Middle Stage. After visiting her master, she learned that the Wei Family was secure under the Haoran Sect’s protection and that Wei Yunqing remained injured and in seclusion at Yunmen Temple.

• Yunxi absorbed Spiritual Qi after the Seven-Colored Lotus fully merged with her Dantian, then broke through to the peak of the Nascent Soul Middle Stage before choosing not to advance further.
• Haohui and Hao Yan discussed Yunxi’s rapid progress and the dangers facing the Weiyu Realm while they guarded her Immortal Cave.
• Yunxi left seclusion, greeted Haohui and Hao Yan, and went to see her master, Yuling.
• Yuling gave Yunxi jade slips about the Wei Family and Wei Yunqing, and Yunxi learned that the Haoran Sect had protected the Wei Family’s Rejuvenation Fluid business in exchange for a share of its profits.
• Yunxi read that Wei Yunqing had survived a perilous Nascent Soul tribulation at Yunmen Temple but remained badly injured and in seclusion.

Yunxi learned that Wei Yunqing had barely survived her Nascent Soul tribulation and reviewed evidence of a wider scheme targeting elite disciples across the cultivation world. After confirming that Haoran Sect was temporarily stable, Yunxi decided to prepare for the Grand Competition of the Five Regions and return to the Wei Family.

• Yunxi learned that Yun Ze had saved Wei Yunqing from an Evil Soul and a failed tribulation, leaving her Nascent Soul cultivation unstable.
• Yunxi read reports about evil cultivators manipulating disciples to harm elite disciples in Haoran Sect and the Famous Sword Sect.
• Mingjia and Haoyi investigated other regions’ leading sects and delivered warnings, ending their visit at Huaxian Sect.
• Yunxi told Yuling that she wanted to compete in the Grand Competition of the Five Regions and return to the Wei Family in Haoran City.
• Yuling gave Yunxi a reinforced Identity Jade Token, and Yunxi left Lingxue Peak.

Haoyi and Mingjia visited Huatang at Huaxian Sect to warn her that evil cultivators had infiltrated sects across the Weiyu Realm and might exploit the upcoming Grand Competition of the Five Regions. Huatang agreed to investigate and purge her sect, while the threat to the competition remained looming.

• Xian Yao escorted Haoyi and Mingjia to Huatang, who read their jade slips about the evil cultivators’ infiltration and plans.
• Haoyi told Five Poisons Hermit Xiang Sizi that the Rogue Cultivator Alliance could be targeted and that the escaped traitor Zuoqiu might seek a body to possess.
• Haoyi gave Xiang Sizi a vial of Flower Visage, and Xiang Sizi vowed to keep the Rogue Cultivator Alliance from falling into chaos.
• Haoyi and Mingjia warned Spirit Transformation cultivators across the Four Regions, prompting them to secretly search their sects for infiltrators.
• Huatang promised to investigate the threat and purge Huaxian Sect, while Mingjia warned that evil cultivators could strike during the upcoming Grand Competition of the Five Regions.

Huatang learned that evil cultivators might exploit the Grand Competition of the Five Regions, while Wei Yunxi updated her sect records after advancing to the Nascent Soul Middle Stage. When Yunxi sensed a pursuer on her way to Haoran City, she confronted him and their battle escalated until someone called for her to stop.

• Haoyi told Huatang that Wei Yunxi had not contracted the new Baohua Mountain Secret Realm and that Huaxian Sect could stop watching her.
• Yunxi updated her Identity Jade Token, collected her Nascent Soul supplies, and learned that Venerable Yuling had paid her debt to the sect.
• Sheng Yuhong learned Yunxi had reached the Nascent Soul Middle Stage and realized the gap between them had grown too wide to pursue her.
• Yunxi sensed someone following her, changed course to protect the Wei Family, and confronted a white-clad Nascent Soul cultivator.
• Yunxi struck the pursuer with a divine sense attack and fought him with her Seven-Star Deadly Staff and Shadow Clones until their attacks leveled the mountain.
• The male cultivator prepared a stronger sword attack, but someone called, "Yunxi, stop!"

Yunxi returned to the Wei Family after recovering from her injuries and advancing to the Nascent Soul Middle Stage. She warned Wei Lingtao and Wei Lingkai about the demonic cultivators and laid out plans to strengthen the family, before a red figure rushed into the hall.

• Haoyi stopped Yunxi from killing a Huaxian Sect cultivator who had been sent to investigate whether she refined the Secret Realm of Baohua Mountain.
• Yunxi returned to Wei Manor, where Wei Lingtao, Wei Lingkai, and the clan elders welcomed her and learned that she had recovered and reached the Nascent Soul Middle Stage.
• Yunxi learned that Alchemy Peak had made a fair agreement with the Wei Family concerning Rejuvenation Fluid profits and the sect's protection.
• Yunxi showed Wei Lingtao and Wei Lingkai information about demonic cultivators and urged the family to increase resources, inspect its members for infiltration, and bring Feng Family disciples to Haoran City.
• Yunxi gave Wei Lingtao cultivation resources and a Nascent Soul Pill, then urged Wei Lingkai to advance as Great-Aunt Chenyin prepared to form her Nascent Soul.
• A red figure rushed into the discussion hall before Wei Lingkai could reply.

Wei Yunxi returned to the Wei Family, exposed Du Ruolan’s ignorance of her Nascent Soul breakthrough, and helped the family investigate infiltrators. She learned Wei Lingkai’s injuries still limited his cultivation and offered hope of healing him before Wei Lingyue arrived to speak with her.

• Du Ruolan barged into the council hall to ask about Wei Yunqing, and Yunxi revealed she had formed a Nascent Soul without Yunqing telling her.
• Wei Lingtao expelled Du Ruolan and ordered the elders to find the spies she had placed in the Wei Family.
• Yunxi gave Dian Dian to Wei Lingtao to help identify disciples who had recently contacted evil cultivators.
• Wei Lingkai told Yunxi that his damaged heart meridians would prevent him from advancing beyond Core Formation, and she found a medicinal formula that might heal him.
• Yunxi gave Wei Lingkai a list of the spirit plants needed for the Life Tracing formula, then greeted her arriving father, Wei Lingyue.

Yunxi confronted Wei Lingyue about her mother Feng Jiayun’s death and forced him to admit he had pushed her into a fissure. After warning him to stay away and secretly placing an Ice Needle in his Dantian, Yunxi left Wei Lingyue to return to Du Ruolan, where he blamed Du Ruolan for provoking the conflict and declared that Yunxi would inherit his branch.

• Wei Lingyue told Yunxi he had only just learned she had returned, then asked where Wei Yunqing was.
• Yunxi rejected Wei Lingyue’s call for the sisters to support each other and accused him of causing Feng Jiayun’s death.
• Wei Lingyue admitted he had accidentally pushed Feng Jiayun into a fissure while they were exploring an Immortal Cave.
• Yunxi knocked Wei Lingyue down with her Nascent Soul pressure, warned him to stay away, and secretly placed an Ice Needle in his Dantian.
• Wei Lingyue returned to Du Ruolan, rebuked her for trying to drive a wedge between Yunxi and Wei Yunqing, and said Yunxi would inherit his branch.

Yunxi returned to the Wei Family, secured Wei Lingtao’s promise not to interfere in her dealings with Wei Lingyue, and helped uncover suspicious contacts with evil cultivators. After visiting Lord Yuhuo and collaborating with him on replacement medicinal agents, she learned the sect was investigating pills that might have been tampered with; two message talismans then arrived for her.

• Yunxi recorded Wei Lingyue admitting he caused Feng Jiayun’s death and gave the jade slip to Wei Lingtao, who agreed the Wei Family would not interfere in her future actions against Wei Lingyue.
• Wei Lingtao told Yunxi that Dian Dian had identified more than a dozen clan members who had recently contacted evil cultivators, and that they had been secretly imprisoned for questioning.
• Yunxi stayed with the Wei Family for three days while it made arrangements and contacted the Feng Family; Feng Jiayun then set out for Haoran City with selected clan members.
• Yunxi visited Lord Yuhuo to thank him for protecting the Wei Family, then worked with him for over a month to develop more than a dozen substitutes for medicinal agents made from extinct spirit plants.
• Yuhuo told Yunxi that the Law Enforcement Hall had found problems with two disciples who transported pills to the sect storehouse, prompting a screening of the low-grade pills.
• Yunxi discussed Sheng Yuhong’s cultivation with Yuhuo, and two Message Talismans flew toward her.

Yunxi received a mission to investigate a Golden Core trial Secret Realm suspected of being controlled by evil cultivators, then repaid Zhao Jinmu for his past help with a valuable sword-refining material. She met Feng Jiaqing in Haoran City and reassured him that the traitor who had attacked her was caught, before setting out on her mission.

• Old Ancestor Haoyi ordered Yunxi to investigate the troubled Golden Core trial Secret Realm and eliminate any evil cultivators controlling it.
• Yunxi met Zhao Jinmu at the sect gate and gave him a thousand-year Purple Gold Meteorite Stone and a recommendation to Xi Muran to help him refine his Lifebound Sword.
• Zhao Jinmu met Xi Muran, who brought him to True Lord Yu Lian; Zhao later refined Shuo Xi and made a name for himself at the Grand Competition of the Five Regions.
• Yunxi traveled to Haoran City and met Feng Jiaqing, telling him about her injuries and assuring him that the traitor who attacked her had been caught.
• Feng Jiaqing expressed concern about traitors in great sects, and Yunxi warned that cultivators with unstable Dao hearts could be led astray by evil cultivators.

Wei Yunxi exposed an Evil Soul possessing Feng Xiaoyan and warned Feng Jiaqing that the evil cultivators planned to use the Feng Family to infiltrate the Wei Family. She then watched a closed Golden Core secret realm for a way in, learned Wei Yunqing was recovering in seclusion, arranged to acquire a defense shield, and captured a suspicious figure near the realm entrance.

• Yunxi told Feng Jiaqing about the evil cultivators' infiltration and revealed that Feng Xiaoyan had been possessed by an Evil Soul seeking to infiltrate the Wei Family.
• Yunxi searched Feng Xiaoyan's soul and gave Feng Jiaqing a jade slip listing the Evil Soul's plans and contacts, then Feng Jiaqing summoned elders to investigate the Feng Family.
• Yunxi reached the Golden Core secret realm, found it closed for fifty years, and monitored its surroundings for over a month.
• Yunxi learned from Buddha Son Yunchen that Wei Yunqing had nearly been possessed and had entered seclusion to stabilize her Nascent Soul cultivation.
• Yunxi exchanged medicine recipes with Star Trek for a Capsule House and arranged to obtain a Hong Energy Defense Shield and supplies for a hundred years.
• Yunxi seized a black-clad figure approaching the secret realm entrance with her Lightning Strike Technique and dragged him into the Capsule House.

Yunxi captured Xiao He and learned that he had returned to the Western Regions to rescue his sister, Xiao Lei, from an evil cultivator-held Secret Realm. She persuaded him to become her informant by promising to save Xiao Lei and let the evil cultivators believe they were both dead, then sent Venerable Yuling her plan.

• Yunxi woke Xiao He and searched his Storage Ring, finding a Black Token that he warned would trigger a restriction if its imprint were forcibly erased.
• Xiao He admitted the Black Token belonged to an evil cultivator he had killed and granted entry to a Secret Realm where Xiao Lei was imprisoned.
• Xiao He explained that the evil cultivators had captured Xiao Lei to control him, and Yunxi offered to rescue her in exchange for his service as an informant.
• Yunxi proposed destroying the Secret Realm and faking Xiao Lei's death to preserve Xiao He's standing among the evil cultivators.
• Xiao He swore a Heavenly Dao oath not to betray Yunxi, then told her how he had tracked Xiao Lei and secretly returned to the Western Regions.
• After verifying Xiao He's account, Yunxi sent her plan to Venerable Yuling, who left the Honeycomb after reading it.

Yunxi entered the Secret Realm in disguise and began attacking the evil cultivators, while the captured Xiao Lei struggled to resist being turned into a puppet. The chapter ended as an evil cultivator released the blood-pool captives and sent the converted puppets to confront Yunxi.

• Hao Yi approved Yunxi’s plan to infiltrate and eliminate the evil cultivators while protecting the Secret Realm.
• Yunxi sent Xiao He back to the Central Domain and prepared to enter the Secret Realm in disguise with Dian Dian.
• Yunxi entered the Secret Realm and killed several evil cultivators with Dian Dian’s guidance and her magical weapons.
• Xiao Lei endured the Evil Qi in the blood pool as she hoped her brother would rescue her.
• An evil cultivator released the blood-pool captives and sent the converted puppets toward Yunxi.

Yunxi rescued Xiao Lei from the blood pool, destroyed the evil cultivator, and cleansed the Secret Realm of Evil Qi. She purged the Evil Qi from Xiao Lei and left her unconscious but alive.

• Yunxi evaded the puppets' Golden Core explosions by taking Xiao Lei into her space, while the blasts destroyed the blood-pool cavern.
• Yunxi awakened Ziyan to burn away the scattered Evil Qi as she searched the Secret Realm for the fleeing evil cultivator.
• Ziyan found the evil cultivator, and Yunxi's Profound Thunder Purple Flame reduced him to ashes and cleansed the Secret Realm.
• Yunxi spread spirit seeds across the scorched earth, then brought Xiao Lei out of her space while Ziyan's flames purged the Evil Qi from her body.
• Yunxi told Xiao Lei that her brother had infiltrated the evil cultivators to save her, and Xiao Lei endured the burning until she could safely fall unconscious.

Yunxi agreed to save the Demon Beasts living in the unstable Secret Realm and moved them all into her Portable Space. After she escaped with Xiao Lei, the Secret Realm vanished from the Weiyu Realm, alarming the arriving Nascent Soul Cultivators.

• Yunxi met a fourth-rank red panda, who told her that evil cultivators had killed Spotted Tiger, harmed its companions, and drained the Secret Realm of its vitality.
• The red panda asked Yunxi to contract its companions and take them away before the Secret Realm collapsed, offering to acknowledge her as its master if she saved them all.
• Yunxi agreed, then used her divine sense to send every living thing in the Secret Realm into her Portable Space.
• Yunxi put away the Capsule Dharma House, collected the unconscious Xiao Lei, and used the Black Token to leave the Secret Realm.
• A quarter of an hour later, the Secret Realm shook and vanished from its location, and nearby Nascent Soul Cultivators arrived to investigate.

Yunxi watched the vanished Secret Realm and discovered that a demonic cultivator had inspected its entrance before returning to rescue Xiao Lei. She explained Xiao He's infiltration plan and the bargain that saved Xiao Lei, then took the unconscious girl away.

• Su Quan told the gathered cultivators that the Secret Realm had sealed itself away to recover, then left as they questioned his calm response.
• A black figure inspected the empty entrance at midnight, and a cultivator in Wuyou Mountain received a message and condemned its senders as idiots.
• Yunxi identified the figure's aura as belonging to a demonic cultivator and asked Dian Dian to remember it.
• Yunxi returned to the concealed Immortal Cave and found Xiao Lei awake and attacking the restriction.
• Yunxi told Xiao Lei that Xiao He had joined the evil cultivators to avenge their father, but had agreed to remain undercover in exchange for Xiao Lei's rescue and future cultivation.
• Xiao Lei lost consciousness, and Yunxi swept her away with Sleeve Universe.

Xiao He learned that Xiao Lei had supposedly been killed and received a new task from the hooded man, while Yunxi secretly brought the rescued Xiao Lei to Haoran Sect to heal. Xiao Lei awakened at Lingxue Peak, where Yunxi asked her to contact her brother without alerting the evil cultivators.

• Xiao He confronted the hooded man after learning that Xiao Lei had supposedly died, then accepted a jade slip with a new task so he could investigate the Secret Realm's disappearance.
• Yunxi told Old Ancestor Hao Yi that evil cultivators' detonations had damaged the Secret Realm, and Hao Yi instructed her to heal Xiao Lei and arrange contact with Xiao He.
• Yunxi used Hao Yi's authorization to bring Xiao Lei into Qingye Pool, where she monitored Xiao Lei's recovery and sent mission discoveries to the Honeycomb.
• After seven days, Xiao Lei awakened, and Yunxi brought her to Lingxue Peak and gave her cultivation resources.
• Yunxi asked Xiao Lei to message Xiao He that she was safe while avoiding the evil cultivators' suspicion.

Xiao Lei and Xiao He confirmed they were safe and arranged to meet, while Yunxi warned Xiao Lei about the lasting harm her brother’s past choices had caused. As Yunxi prepared for the siblings’ meeting and planned her next steps, her master Yuling supported her appointment as Lingxue Peak’s next Peak Master.

• Xiao He received Xiao Lei’s message confirming she had reached Haoran Sect, then disguised himself and boarded a Flying Ship back to the Western Regions with information for True Lord Wei.
• Xiao Lei told Yunxi that Xiao He wanted to deliver important information in person, and Yunxi agreed to let the siblings meet while keeping safeguards in place.
• Yunxi reminded Xiao Lei that Wei Lingkai’s life force and immortal path had been damaged by the Evil Formation, forcing Xiao Lei to confront the consequences of her brother’s choices.
• Yunxi sent Dian Dian into her space to check on the Secret Realm Demon Beasts and Witch Tribe descendants, then received Feng Jiaqing’s Message Talisman.
• Yuling told Sect Leader Yugeng that Yunxi was capable of becoming Lingxue Peak’s Peak Master, despite Yufeng’s concern that the appointment was too soon.

Yuling told Yunxi that Old Ancestor Hao Yi wanted him to lead the Honeycomb, so he asked her to choose between becoming Lingxue Peak's Peak Master and the Bee King. Yunxi agreed to inherit the peak after the Grand Competition of the Five Regions and then set out for Kunyu City to investigate the evil cultivators there.

• Yuling explained to Sect Master Yugeng that he would take charge of the Honeycomb and discussed reports of the Five Regions' purges of evil cultivators.
• Yugeng and Yuling discussed Venerable Xiang Sizi's crackdown on suspected evil cultivators in the Rogue Cultivator Alliance and Yuling's response to rumors about her.
• Yuling offered Yunxi the position of Lingxue Peak's Peak Master and revealed that she could instead become the Bee King.
• Yunxi asked to delay taking over Lingxue Peak until after the Grand Competition of the Five Regions, and Yuling agreed.
• Yunxi told Yuling she planned to investigate Kunyu City, then met Feng Jiaqing in Haoran City and departed that night.