Recaps

Luo Muqing and Luo Yushuang told Yunxi and Di Fei how Luo Yiqing restored his cultivation through evil arts and slaughtered a mortal city. After attacking Luo Yuemu and escaping the Luo Family, he left her gravely injured, and the elders pursued him.

• Yunxi asked Luo Muqing and Luo Yushuang to tell Di Fei everything about Luo Yiqing so she could help capture him.
• Luo Yiqing sacrificed the people of a mortal city to restore his cultivation, then returned to Luoxiao City and hid there.
• Luo Yiqing attacked Luo Yuemu in her Pill Refining Room, releasing Black Beetles that invaded her and other Luo Family disciples.
• Great Elder Luo Da and Elder Luo Er contained the Black Beetles, while Luo Yuemu severed part of her soul to destroy the larvae inside her.
• Luo Yuemu wounded and poisoned Luo Yiqing with Entwine, but he escaped after threatening her; she collapsed and the elders went after him.

Yunxi explained how Luo Yiqing’s soul-targeting poison was driving him toward Dark Night Youlian and arranged with Di Fei and the Luo family disciples to watch for him. She also suspected an Evil Immortal was seeking the flower for the Evil God, while Luo Yiqing hid underground with an ally’s help.

• Yunxi explained that Luo Yiqing could only purge Entanglement by severing part of his divine soul, and that he likely sought Dark Night Youlian to repair it.
• Luo Yushuang and Luo Muqing agreed to watch Youlian Pond and notify Yunxi and Di Fei if Luo Yiqing appeared.
• Yunxi and Di Fei suspected an Evil Immortal in Youlian City was pursuing Dark Night Youlian for the recovering Evil God, and Di Fei offered to enlist the City Lord’s help.
• Luo Yiqing suppressed Entanglement in an underground chamber, having fled to Youlian City with help from an Evil Immortal.
• The owner of Luo Yiqing’s hiding place plotted in secret with a person who had deep blue eyes.

Yunxi and Di Fei prepared to expose the Evil Immortals’ scheme during the Dark Night Youlian bloom, then contained a swarm of Black Beetles that attacked the crowd. They captured Luo Yiqing, and Yunxi discovered enough through soul-searching to send Di Fei to help City Lord You Lian.

• The Hidden Scroll Pavilion’s master ordered a bearded ghost cultivator to use the injured Luo Yiqing as a pawn while keeping him hidden until Dark Night Youlian opened.
• Yunxi, Di Fei, and City Lord You Lian watched the lotus pool as Luo Muqing and Luo Yushuang searched the crowd for Luo Yiqing.
• Yunxi sealed the lotus pool with the Hong Energy Shield when Black Beetles burst from the blooming flowers and attacked the crowd.
• Yunxi froze the infected Immortal Practitioners with the Void Heaven Ice Flame, while Ziyan burned the flying beetles and Luo Muqing and Luo Yushuang fought Luo Yiqing.
• Luo Muqing and Luo Yushuang captured the badly injured Luo Yiqing, and Yunxi searched his soul before telling Di Fei to support City Lord You Lian.

Yunxi contained the Black Beetle outbreak that erupted across Youlian City and captured an Immortal Practitioner connected to the Evil Immortals. When he mistook her for Xihe, Yunxi insisted that she was Wei Yunxi, a cultivator of the Weiyu Realm.

• Yunxi ordered Luo Muqing and Luo Yushuang to bind the unconscious Luo Yiqing, then warned the uninfected Immortal Practitioners about the Black Beetles and released them from the Hong Energy Shield.
• Yunxi spread her Purple Lotus Barrier over Youlian City, killing Black Beetles and harming ghost cultivators who attacked the City Protection Grand Formation.
• Yunxi asked Difei to bring City Lord You Lian to her and refused Menglan Jun's offer to move the city's people into the Dream Realm.
• Yunxi unleashed the Void Heaven Ice Flame and froze all of Youlian City to prevent the insects from escaping.
• Yunxi seized a black-robed Immortal Practitioner, searched his sea of consciousness, and kept him frozen as the ice flame burned him.
• The captive called Yunxi Xihe and spoke of her eventual replacement, but Yunxi told him that she was Wei Yunxi, whose Dao name was Ranxi.

Yunxi defeated the Evil Immortal’s manifestation and helped You Lian and Di Fei contain the Evil Insects in Youlian City. With Baili Yanque taking charge, the city’s frozen ghost cultivators were brought to the City Lord’s Mansion, where Yunxi began removing the insects.

• Yunxi taunted the dark-eyed man before the Void Heaven Ice Flame burned him to ash, and the man meditating in Jiushao Palace collapsed unconscious as blue-violet markings spread over him.
• Nan Ming Ye and two other City Lords attacked Yunxi’s barrier, but You Lian explained the crisis, and Baili Yanque arrived and ordered the barrier opened.
• Baili Yanque entered Youlian City, inspected You Lian’s Imprint Jade, thanked Yunxi, and arranged for the City Protection Grand Formation to be activated so Yunxi could withdraw her barrier.
• Yunxi gave Luo Yushuang two Divine Resonance Pills for Luo Yuemu and insisted that the Luo Family treat Luo Yiqing as dead rather than protect him.
• Baili Yanque brought a frozen ghost cultivator into the main hall, and Yunxi released the ice seal before a silver needle pierced and pulled the Black Beetle from the cultivator’s glabella.

Yunxi explained how the Black Beetles infected ghost cultivators, and she and Baili Yanque saved those who could still be rescued in Youlian City. After the crisis, Yunxi and Di Fei found the Dark Night Youlian flower spirit, who chose to disperse herself to prevent the Evil Immortal’s influence from causing another disaster.

• Baili Yanque burned the Black Beetle and asked Yunxi how to treat infected ghost cultivators.
• Yunxi showed the court that a fully infected Ghost Immortal vanished and left behind a Black Beetle, convincing Baili Yanque and the others of the danger.
• Yunxi and Baili Yanque rescued the recoverable Ghost Immortals, while Yunxi removed Black Beetles from infected Immortal Practitioners.
• Baili Yanque left with You Lian to meet the Ghost Emperor and appointed Di Fei temporary City Lord of Youlian City.
• Yunxi and Di Fei discovered the Dark Night Youlian flower spirit hiding in an unbloomed flower and learned the Evil Immortal had used her true body to spread the insects.
• After Yunxi and Di Fei warned that the Evil Immortal might still threaten the city through her, the flower spirit dispersed and the Dark Night Youlian withered.

After helping eliminate the threat in Youlian City, Yunxi and Di Fei left when Nan Ming Ye arrived to take over, then headed for Shattered Soul Valley. Along the way, they met a group of immortals whose leader appeared to regard them as easy prey, and Yunxi decided to play along.

• Yunxi sent Ziyan into the lotus pool, where it devoured a flower spirit controlled by an Evil Immortal, and Di Fei ordered the city's Dark Night Youlian destroyed.
• Nan Ming Ye arrived with the Ghost King's order to take over Youlian City, and Di Fei handed over the City Lord's token before leaving with Yunxi.
• Di Fei told Yunxi that You Lian might have been used by the Evil Immortals and explained the Ghost Domain's purge of those involved in breeding Insectoids.
• Di Fei suggested they travel to Shattered Soul Valley, and Yunxi agreed to follow her arrangements.
• After walking toward the valley, Yunxi and Di Fei met a group led by Lin'an, who invited them to join; Yunxi decided they should play along because the group likely saw them as easy prey.

Yunxi and Di Fei joined Lin'an, Kunshan, and Kongzhi’s squad on the way to Shattered Soul Valley, hiding their identities and cultivation as they assessed the group’s intentions. Lin'an and Kunshan planned to separate and rob Yunqing, while Kongzhi agreed to keep their secret before leaving the group.

• Di Fei introduced herself as Di Jiao, and Yunxi used her dead half-sister’s name, Yunqing, when Lin'an introduced the squad.
• Lin'an explained that opportunists extorted Soul Stones from people training in Shattered Soul Valley and promised to protect the two newcomers.
• Yunxi and Di Fei sensed the squad was appraising them like merchandise and agreed to wait and see what the others would do.
• Lin'an, Kunshan, and Kongzhi discussed robbing the sisters, deciding to separate them and target Yunqing first because Di Jiao’s connections could make retaliation dangerous.
• Kongzhi said she wanted to leave after the robbery, and Lin'an required her to swear a Heavenly Dao oath not to reveal their secret.

Yunxi and Di Fei learned that Lin'an's group intended to sell them, and Yunxi suspected Evil Immortals were behind the scheme. They planned to follow the plot to its buyer, then reached Shattered Soul Valley with the group and delayed entering for two days.

• Di Fei secretly watched Lin'an's group and discovered they planned to sell her soul and Yunxi's body for cultivation resources.
• Yunxi speculated that Evil Immortals might be the buyers and proposed turning the scheme against the group to uncover the real master.
• Yunxi and Di Fei joined themselves with the Soul-Binding Thread so they could sense and support each other if separated.
• After ten days of slow travel, Yunxi, Di Fei, and Lin'an's group reached Shattered Soul Valley.
• Di Fei asked to rest for two days before entering the valley, and Lin'an agreed that the group would wait together.

Yunxi and Di Fei let Lin'an’s scheme unfold in Shattered Soul Valley, where he drugged Yunxi and captured her while his companions abandoned Di Fei. Yunxi was sold to a mysterious woman, while Di Fei pursued the group using the Soul-Binding Thread.

• Yunxi and Di Fei trained in Shattered Soul Valley with Lin'an, Kunshan, and Kongzhi, then agreed to venture deeper into the valley.
• Lin'an used a sudden gale to separate Yunxi and Di Fei from the others, pulled Yunxi away, and drugged her with an orchid fragrance.
• Lin'an trapped the unconscious Yunxi in a Black Jade Gourd as Kunshan and Kongzhi claimed Di Fei had been swept into the Inner Ring and likely killed.
• Di Fei secretly watched the three men leave Shattered Soul Valley and tracked Yunxi through the Soul-Binding Thread.
• Lin'an handed Yunxi over to a woman, who suppressed Yunxi’s cultivation and told her that Lin'an had sold her.

Yunxi was captured and confined aboard the Yunrong Workshop after Lin'an and Kunshan sold her, while Di Fei killed Kongzhi and tracked Yunxi’s location. Lin'an and Kunshan planned to recruit a seductive Demon Immortal, leaving Di Fei to pursue Yunxi.

• Yunxi pretended to resist as two attendants dragged her into confinement aboard the Yunrong Workshop, where she learned she was being held for sale.
• Lin'an and Kunshan divided their spoils, and Kongzhi left after swearing a Heavenly Dao oath.
• Kunshan proposed recruiting a beautiful female Demon Immortal with weak combat skills, and Lin'an agreed to meet her before deciding.
• Di Fei seized Kongzhi, searched her soul, extracted her inner core, and stored it with her corpse.
• Di Fei followed the Soul-Binding Thread to locate Yunxi after learning the group's movements from the mark on Kongzhi.

Yunxi was auctioned at Yunrong Workshop and bought by Cang Feng and the disciples of Yaogui Gate, who recognized and rescued her. She reimbursed them and asked them to help stage a scene, leaving Ouyang Xiange shouting that something had happened to draw the workshop’s attention.

• Di Fei discovered that Yunxi was moving through the air and went after her.
• Yunxi was put up for auction at Yunrong Workshop and sold to Xuan Yin Hall.
• Cang Feng recognized Yunxi, explained that he had bought her to rescue her, and introduced his junior sister Ouyang Xiange.
• Yunxi gave Cang Feng a Soul Ring to repay Yaogui Gate and asked the group to act out a play with her.
• Ouyang Xiange ran out of the private room shouting that something had happened, drawing the guards’ attention.

Yunxi endured Yunrong Workshop’s punishment while Cang Feng’s group left to seek help, and Kunshan recruited Ren Tianning to investigate the disappearances. Ren Tianning recognized the portrait of the captured female immortal and warned Kunshan that he was in serious trouble.

• Ouyang Xiange exposed Yunxi’s attempted escape, and Yunrong Workshop returned Cang Feng’s Soul Stones and gave his group a discount after Yunxi was subdued.
• Cang Feng told his companions to conceal Ranxi’s involvement, then left the auction with Ouyang Xiange to seek information in Chunxiao City.
• Yunrong Workshop locked Yunxi in a cell and activated black flames to punish her, but the Void Heaven Ice Flame swallowed the flames as she pretended to pass out.
• Kunshan recruited Ren Tianning, who used her charm to distract Lin'an and signed a contract to join the group.
• Ren Tianning learned that Kunshan had captured a female immortal from Shattered Soul Valley and inspected the portrait he made of her.
• Ren Tianning recognized the captured immortal and told Kunshan he was finished.

Ren Tianning revealed that the woman Kunshan had sold was Immortal Lord Ran Xi, while Di Fei traced Yunxi to Yunrong Workshop and rushed to rescue her. Yunxi was taken to Shattered Soul Valley, where her captors exposed her identity and tried to trap her as the isolation shield began to fail.

• Ren Tianning told Kunshan that the woman he had sold was Immortal Lord Ran Xi, and Kunshan decided to apologize after completing the mission.
• Yunxi woke among the prisoners at Yunrong Workshop and learned from a graying Demon Immortal that the workshop quietly disposed of people after extracting their value.
• Chanjia passed Yunxi's location to Jiaojiao, who confirmed it was inside Yunrong Workshop, and Di Fei headed there in disguise while ordering her subordinates to capture Lin'an and Kunshan.
• Yunxi and the other prisoners were taken away in a Qiankun Bottle, and Yunxi realized she had been brought to the core of Shattered Soul Valley.
• A phantom revealed that Yunxi's identity was known and claimed the failing Isolation Formation would erase her, but Yunxi snapped her Soul-Imprisoning Ring and activated the Hong Energy Shield as the barrier shattered.

Yunxi discovered an Evil Immortal lair beneath Shattered Soul Valley and preserved its blood pools and evidence before escaping the valley. She contacted Ghost King Baili Yanque and learned Di Fei was at Yunrong Workshop, where she headed next.

• Yunxi found imprisoned cultivators dissolved in a blood pool, used Ziyan to suppress the Resentful Evil Qi, and copied the runes that could corrupt people.
• Yunxi concluded that Yunrong Workshop had sent her into the lair as a death trap after recognizing her as Immortal Lord Ran Xi, and that the Evil Immortals had likely turned missing cultivators into puppets.
• When the Hong Energy Block ran low, Yunxi replaced it and layered ten Nine Directions Tortoise Shell Formations over the lair to protect the evidence.
• Yunxi used the Moon Gate to leave Shattered Soul Valley and contacted Ghost King Baili Yanque to report the Evil Immortal lair.
• Yunxi learned Di Fei was at Yunrong Workshop, told him to wait, and sensed spatial fluctuations.

Yunxi brought Baili Yanque to the Evil Immortal’s lair in Shattered Soul Valley, then joined Difei to confront Yunrong Workshop over its auction of Yunxi. The chapter ended as Yunxi and Difei trapped Yunrong Workshop’s Immortal Ship in their domain and began their attack.

• Yunxi explained how she and Difei had tracked the Evil Immortal, and Baili Yanque agreed to follow her into Shattered Soul Valley.
• Baili Yanque searched the lair for clues before Yunxi used the Moon Gate to escape with him as her formations collapsed.
• Yunxi told Baili Yanque she planned to recover her Storage Ring and deal with the Evil Immortal’s lackeys, and he authorized her to capture Yunrong Workshop’s steward.
• Baili Yanque captured the spies who had left Shattered Soul Valley, while Yunxi used the Soul-Binding Thread to reach Difei.
• Yunxi bound Yunrong Workshop’s steward and drew him into the Soul-Collecting Mirror, then she and Difei dragged the Immortal Ship into their domain and attacked it with purple lightning.

Yunxi and Di Fei attacked Yunrong Workshop’s Ghost Monarch guard and subdued the people aboard the Immortal Ship. They left the guard under a coordinated assault while Lili collected the spoils.

• The effeminate Ghost Monarch demanded that Yunxi and Di Fei open their domain, but they refused and began attacking the ship’s occupants.
• Yunxi used Soul-Collecting Mirrors to capture Ghost Immortals, while Di Fei fought the guard with her White Bone Whip.
• Yunxi deployed Hei Yao and used the Nine Nether Sword to restrain attackers who resisted.
• Di Fei revealed that the guard was a dead eunuch who had devoured ghost cultivators and been hunted by Ghost King Baili.
• Yunxi and Di Fei decided to kill or cripple the guard and launched a coordinated assault with lightning, wind, and Di Fei’s Bone Whip.
• Hei Yao joined the attack, while Lili collected Yunrong Workshop’s treasures and the unconscious Immortal Practitioners’ storage equipment.

Yunxi and Di Fei fought Ande after he attacked them, while Di Fei guarded the wrecked Yunrong Workshop and its captives. As Ande tried to flee Yunxi’s lightning assault, a pale hand seized him by the throat.

• Ande tried to break the domain, but Yunxi and Di Fei shattered his White Bone Blade and wounded his divine soul.
• Yunxi trapped Ande in a devastating lightning attack while Di Fei withdrew the domain and guarded the Yunrong Workshop survivors.
• Di Fei reported the situation to Ghost King Baili and prevented onlookers from removing captives, capturing one person who tried to take someone away.
• Yunxi weakened Ande with her sustained lightning assault, and a pale hand grabbed him by the throat as he tried to escape.

Baili Yanque captured Ande and ordered Yunxi and Di Fei to take Yunrong Workshop’s guests to Yaibai City for investigation. There, Baixu detained the guests and imprisoned the workshop’s staff, while Yunxi frightened the Female Ghost Immortal who had once bought her.

• Baili Yanque sealed Ande’s escape, searched his soul, and restrained him with a Soul Sealing Nail.
• Yunxi and Di Fei explained their roles in stopping Yunrong Workshop and told Baili Yanque that Lili had taken compensation from the workshop’s treasures.
• Baili Yanque ordered the Immortal Ship’s occupants taken to Yaibai City and warned that everyone aboard Yunrong Workshop would be examined.
• Yunxi and Di Fei brought the Immortal Ship to Yaibai City, where Ghost Lord Baixu received them and took them to the City Lord’s Mansion.
• Baixu’s guards detained the guests separately and sent Yunrong Workshop’s Ghost Immortals to the dungeon, while Yunxi’s former buyer dropped to her knees in fear.

Yunxi confronted Lin'an and questioned Kunshan about allowing her to be captured while he pursued his mission. Kunshan could not justify his choices, and Yunxi left him with a warning about treating others as expendable.

• Yunxi told City Lord Baixu to imprison and interrogate the Female Ghost Immortal who had supplied Yunrong Workshop with victims.
• Di Fei and Baixu reunited and discussed their past travels, while Yunxi learned that Lin'an and Kunshan had been captured.
• Di Fei’s subordinates brought Lin'an, Kunshan, and Ren Tianning into the Reception Hall, and Yunxi struck Lin'an with purple lightning.
• Kunshan explained that he had let Lin'an take Yunxi so he could trace the missing Demon Immortals, and Ren Tianning asked Yunxi to forgive him.
• Yunxi challenged Kunshan for failing to protect her or leave a tracking mark, then warned him against treating others as stepping stones.

Yunxi helped resolve the investigation into Yunrong Workshop and learned that Ghost King Qianji was its backer, while Ren Tianning gave her information about the Demon Realm. The chapter ended with Yunxi and Difei preparing to investigate Qianji in Shui Qiancheng.

• Yunxi arranged for Kunshan and Ren Tianning to wait until the investigation was complete, then take the problematic Demon Immortals away to fulfill their mission.
• Over the next month, innocent Immortal Practitioners left Yaibai City, while Ren Tianning and Kunshan departed with the problematic Demon Immortals and completed their mission.
• Before leaving, Ren Tianning gave Yunxi a jade slip about the Demon Realm, and Yunxi agreed to visit it after settling matters in the Ghost Domain.
• Yunxi and Lili sorted the gains from Yunrong Workshop, while Difei reported that Evil Immortals had learned Yunxi was alive and that evidence pointed to Ghost King Qianji as the workshop's backer.
• Difei explained that Baili Yanque had taken the evidence to Ghost Emperor Mei Huan and instructed her to visit Shui Qiancheng, where Qianji was pursuing a breakthrough.
• Yunxi learned that Baili's recent appearances had been split souls and asked whether they would go to Shui Qiancheng to investigate Qianji.

Yunxi and Di Fei traveled to Shui Qiancheng in disguise to investigate Ghost King Qianji’s territory and arrived as the city prepared for its lord’s daughter’s Dao Companion Ceremony. They learned Qianji would attend the ceremony and began arranging a place to stay.

• Di Fei gave Yunxi one of Baili Yanque’s jade talismans for calling him to their aid, and Yunxi shared their spoils from Yunrong Workshop with her.
• Yunxi and Di Fei left Yaibai City, changed their appearances and cultivation levels, and traveled for twenty days to Shui Qiancheng.
• Yunxi noticed that the city wall’s formation repelled her divine sense, and she and Di Fei paid to enter the crowded city.
• A young ghost cultivator told Yunxi that Shui Qiancheng’s City Lord was celebrating his daughter’s Dao Companion Ceremony, which Ghost King Qianji would attend in five days.
• Yunxi and Di Fei agreed to stay for the ceremony, and their guide led them to the inn Qu Jing You You.

Yunxi and Di Fei rented a bamboo cottage in Shui Qiancheng and learned about City Lord Qian Sidu, his daughter Qian Sujin, and her upcoming Dao Companion Ceremony with Ye Yuchen. Recognizing Ye Yuchen as an old acquaintance, Yunxi suspected Ghost King Qianji might have been manipulated and asked Di Fei to investigate the Ghost King's whereabouts.

• Yunxi and Di Fei entered the Qu Jing You You inn, found its bamboo cottage suitable, and paid to stay for seven days.
• Yunxi paid a little ghost for information about Qian Sujin and her Dao Companion Ceremony.
• The little ghost explained that Qian Sujin was the daughter of City Lord Qian Sidu and Lin Wanqing, and said she had returned to Shui Qiancheng with Ye Yuchen, a late Profound Immortal and Personal Disciple of the Medicine Immortal Sect.
• Yunxi recognized Ye Yuchen's name and told Di Fei that she knew her elder sister and had inherited the Medicine Immortal Sect's complete legacy.
• Yunxi asked Di Fei to have her friends investigate whether Ghost King Qianji had returned to Shui Qiancheng so they could find a way to meet him.

Yunxi and Di Fei discovered signs of a dangerous Nine Wheel Sacrifice Formation in Shui Qiancheng and went to meet Ghost King Qianji. Qianji denied involvement with Yunrong Workshop and accused Baili Yanque of trying to make her take the blame.

• Di Fei told Yunxi that the Soul Power in the inn was unstable, and Yunxi identified the inn as the Formation Core of a Nine Wheel Sacrifice Formation.
• Yunxi and Di Fei suspected Evil Immortals were behind Shui Qiancheng’s abnormalities and planned to investigate the city while using Ghost King Baili as cover.
• The two visited Ghost King Qianji’s Mansion and introduced themselves as Honglan and Zhuge Qing, delivering Baili Yanque’s message.
• Di Fei told Qianji that Yunrong Workshop had been purged and that Baili’s people had found evidence she sheltered it.
• Qianji denied participating in Yunrong Workshop’s operations and accused Baili Yanque of blaming her without investigating, possibly as part of the Evil Immortals’ scheme to turn Ghost Kings against one another.

Yunxi and Di Fei left Ghost King Qianji’s mansion without investigating Yunrong Workshop, and Yunxi suspected Qianji had a reason for not killing Qian Sujin. While touring Shui Qiancheng, they learned that the Soul Artifacts for Qian Sujin’s Dao Companion Ceremony had been specially commissioned by Qian City Lord.

• Yunxi told Di Fei that Qianji’s Clone had shown genuine killing intent toward Qian Sujin and might be waiting for a reason to act.
• Yunxi persuaded Di Fei to avoid Qianji’s mansion until after Qian Sujin’s Dao Companion Ceremony and to explore Shui Qiancheng instead.
• Yunxi eagerly bought Di Fei Soul Artifacts throughout the city, then purchased an Eight Treasures Lotus Soul Hairpin at Boss Pang’s shop.
• Boss Pang said Qian City Lord had commissioned a set of Soul Artifacts for his daughter’s ceremony and clarified that the hairpin was made separately from better materials.