Chapter Summaries

After transmigrating into the doomed supporting character Wei Yunxi, who was destined to have her Spiritual Root and Golden Core taken by Wei Yunqing and Sheng Yuhong, Wei Yunxi decided to escape her fate. Still trapped in a five-year-old body, she went with her maids to her late mother’s courtyard and asked her father, Wei Lingyue, to carry her.

• Wei Yunxi woke in the Wei family mansion and pretended to sleep while Chunyu and Xiamo discussed her mother’s death and her uncertain future.
• Wei Yunxi recognized the novel’s plot and remembered that Wei Yunqing and Sheng Yuhong would eventually take her Spiritual Root and Golden Core.
• Wei Yunxi decided to flee her fate, but found that her small body could not get down from the bed by herself.
• When Chunyu and Xiamo entered, Wei Yunxi pretended to grieve and insisted they carry her to her mother Feng Jiayun’s room.
• Wei Lingyue met Wei Yunxi and her maids outside Feng Jiayun’s courtyard, and Wei Yunxi reached out and asked him to carry her.

Wei Yunxi woke determined to claim the Red Wooden Token her mother had left for her before Wei Yunqing could take it. After turning away Concubine Du’s maid, she bound the token to herself, while Wei Yunqing felt an unexplained loss and demanded to go out.

• Wei Lingyue took the sleeping Wei Yunxi to her maids, then searched his wife’s rooms and removed an ownerless Storage Pouch from the White Jade Bed.
• Wei Yunxi remembered that Wei Yunqing had taken her mother’s Red Wooden Token in the novel and decided to secure it first.
• Wei Yunxi learned that her maternal uncle Feng Jiaqing had arrived and ordered her maids to prepare her belongings while she went to her mother’s courtyard.
• Wei Yunxi had Chunyu send Liuxu away when Concubine Du’s maid came to inspect the courtyard.
• Wei Yunxi found the Red Wooden Token in her mother’s dressing table and bound it with her blood, causing it to fly into her glabella.
• Wei Yunqing felt a pain in her heart, began to cry, and told her maid she wanted to go out.

Wei Yunxi awakened after the Gold-inlaid Ruby Hairpin absorbed her blood, then clashed with Wei Yunqing over the hairpin. After Feng Jiaqing intervened, Wei Yunxi was invited to stay at Feng Manor, and she asked Wei Lingyue for permission.

• Wei Yunqing pushed into the former Madam's room, where Wei Yunxi had just awakened clutching her mother's hairpin.
• Wei Yunqing snatched the hairpin, and she and Wei Yunxi fought until the maids pulled them apart.
• Wei Lingyue and Feng Jiaqing arrived, and Wei Yunxi accused Wei Yunqing of stealing the hairpin and hitting her.
• Feng Jiaqing defended Wei Yunxi, and Wei Lingyue ordered Jinxiu to take Wei Yunqing away and keep Concubine Du confined.
• Feng Jiaqing promised to sort through Feng Jiayun's belongings for Wei Yunxi and asked to take her to Feng Manor for two days.
• Wei Yunxi asked Wei Lingyue whether she could go to Feng Manor.

Wei Yunxi moved temporarily to the Feng Family, where Feng Jiaqing recovered a jade box her mother had hidden and showed her that her mother’s Soul Lamp was still lit. He strengthened the lamp with Wei Yunxi’s blood and then brought out a Spirit Testing Plate.

• Wei Lingyue reprimanded Du Ruolan for Wei Yunqing’s attempt to take Wei Yunxi’s things, reserved Zhuohua Courtyard for Wei Yunxi, and promised Wei Yunqing a magical artifact.
• Du Ruolan comforted Wei Yunqing and concluded that Wei Yunxi had taken an opportunity meant for her daughter.
• Feng Jiaqing found a Filigree White Jade Box hidden beneath a floor tile and gave it to Wei Yunxi, who recognized it as the Portable Herb Garden from the novel.
• Feng Jiaqing took Wei Yunxi to the Feng Family home and explained that her mother’s faint Soul Lamp meant she was far away, contradicting Wei Lingyue’s claim that she had died.
• Feng Jiaqing put a drop of Wei Yunxi’s blood into her mother’s Soul Lamp, brightening its flame, and then produced a Spirit Testing Plate.

Wei Yunxi discovered she had three full-value Mutated Spiritual Roots and agreed to keep the test secret while she began planning to cultivate. Feng Jiaqing then told the Feng Family's Old Ancestor that Wei Yunxi's blood had strengthened the Soul Lamp and helped her mother hold on longer.

• Wei Yunxi tested with full-value Wind, Lightning, and Ice Mutated Spiritual Roots, prompting her to suspect the Wei Family had hidden her aptitude and that Wei Yunqing had schemes against her.
• Feng Jiaqing asked Wei Yunxi not to tell her father about the test, and she agreed to follow his advice.
• Wei Yunxi tried to enter the wooden plaque again, but it expelled her consciousness and told her she could enter only after she could cultivate.
• Wei Yunxi resolved to start cultivating and took comfort in the thought that she could change the future.
• Feng Jiaqing told Feng Feng that Wei Yunxi's blood had strengthened the Soul Lamp and would help his sister hold on longer.

Feng Jiaqing and Old Ancestor Feng arranged to conceal Wei Yunxi’s extraordinary Spiritual Roots so the Wei Family would not exploit her, and Feng Jiaqing refined the artifact for her. The chapter ended with him testing her Spiritual Roots again after the artifact acknowledged her as its master.

• Feng Jiaqing told Old Ancestor Feng that Wei Yunxi had top-grade mutated wind, lightning, and ice Spiritual Roots, and they agreed she should cultivate with the Feng Family’s protection.
• Old Ancestor Feng gave Feng Jiaqing a flawed High-Grade Artifact that would make Wei Yunxi’s Spiritual Roots appear one grade lower during testing.
• Feng Jiaqing explained the artifact and the Feng Family’s plan to Wei Yunxi, who decided that staying close to the Feng Family was safer than relying on the Wei Family.
• Wei Yunxi agreed to the plan, and Feng Jiaqing used her heart’s blood to refine the Silver Ring and make it acknowledge her as its master.
• After Wei Yunxi recovered, Feng Jiaqing brought out the Spirit Testing Plate and she placed her hand on it.

Wei Yunxi concealed her supreme-grade Spiritual Root and began attending the Feng family academy, where she learned about the Weiyu Realm and its cultivation regions. She left the chapter preparing to study and make friends among the Feng children.

• Patriarch Feng used a Silver Ring to conceal Wei Yunxi's supreme-grade Spiritual Root, making her test as a child with water, wood, and fire Roots of sixty each.
• Patriarch Feng told Wei Yunxi not to cultivate or reveal that the Feng Family had already tested her Spiritual Roots before the Wei Family's upcoming test.
• Patriarch Feng arranged for Wei Yunxi to study at the Feng family academy, and the steward delivered training clothes and Body Tempering Pills.
• Wei Yunxi joined the Beginner Class at the Feng family academy and learned that Kunyu City lay in the resource-poor Western Region of the Weiyu Realm.
• Wei Yunxi learned about the Five Regions, the cultivation limits of the Weiyu and Weiling Realms, and the role resources played in reaching higher realms.

Wei Yunxi returned to the Wei Family for her fifth birthday after leaving her mother's treasures with Patriarch Feng for safekeeping. She prepared to have her Spiritual Root tested the next day and asked Wei Lingyue what birthday gift he had for her.

• Wei Lingyue summoned Wei Yunxi back from the Feng Family, and Patriarch Feng gave her beginner cultivation supplies in a Storage Pouch.
• Wei Yunxi entrusted her Storage Pendant with Feng Jiaqing, fearing Wei Yunqing would take her mother's treasures, and received a first-grade Defense Bracelet from Patriarch Feng.
• Wei Yunxi returned to Zhuohua Courtyard and greeted Wei Lingyue and Du Ruolan, who had become Madam Wei.
• Wei Lingyue asked about Wei Yunxi's time with the Feng Family, and she showed him the Storage Pouch he had given her.
• Wei Lingyue told Wei Yunxi that the clan would test the five-year-olds' Spiritual Roots the next day, and she asked him what birthday gift he had prepared.

Wei Yunxi received a Spirit Beast Egg from Wei Lingyue and attended the Wei Family’s Spiritual Root testing, where she concealed her true aptitude by appearing to have Three Spiritual Roots. The results pleased Yunqing and led the family to consider different cultivation paths for the sisters, including Yunxi’s potential in Alchemy.

• Wei Lingyue gave Yunxi a Spirit Beast Egg after she pressed him for a birthday gift.
• Chunyu brought Yunxi to the Wei Family ancestral hall for Spiritual Root testing alongside children from the direct and collateral branches.
• Yunqing tested as having Water-Wood Dual Spiritual Roots with Root Values of eighty-five, earning praise from the Elder.
• Yunxi tested as having Water, Wood, and Fire Three Spiritual Roots with equal Root Values of sixty-five, concealing her true Spiritual Roots.
• The Elder told Yunxi her Spiritual Roots suited Alchemy, while Du Ruolan and Wei Lingyue considered the sisters’ future cultivation plans and possible placement at the Haoran Sect.

Wei Yunqing’s mother learned that her daughter would be sent to the Haoran Sect and began considering how to bring Wei Yunxi along. Meanwhile, Wei Yunxi suspected her new bodyguard Zhenzhu was connected to Du Ruolan, and discovered that someone had searched her room overnight.

• Du Ruolan told Wei Yunqing that Wei Lingyue planned to send her to cultivate at the Haoran Sect, and urged her to complete Qi Introduction quickly.
• Wei Yunqing asked Du Ruolan to arrange for Wei Yunxi to accompany her, saying Wei Yunxi had good things, and Du Ruolan promised to speak with Wei Lingyue.
• Du Ruolan sent a confidant to investigate Zhuohua Courtyard while Wei Yunxi prepared for Clan School.
• The steward brought Zhenzhu, a Qi Refining third-layer maid assigned by Wei Lingyue to protect Wei Yunxi, and Dongmei reported seeing her speak with Liuxu from Du Ruolan’s courtyard.
• Wei Yunxi whispered instructions to Dongmei, who left Wei Manor through the back gate; later, a shadow searched Wei Yunxi’s room and inspected her Storage Pendant.
• The next morning, Wei Yunxi noticed that her Storage Pendant had been moved and asked Chunyu to summon Xiamo, who had stood watch.

Wei Yunxi attended her first Qi Introduction lesson while hiding her true ability and investigating the danger posed by her maid Zhenzhu. She kept up the appearance of making no progress as Wei Yunqing completed Qi Introduction on the fifth day.

• Wei Yunxi learned that Xiamo had fallen asleep while keeping watch and assigned Chunyu to guard her the next night.
• At the Cultivation Hall, Wei Yunxi pretended to be envious of Wei Yunqing's maid and secretly compared the Sixth Elder's Qi Introduction lesson with what she had learned before.
• Wei Yunxi suspected Zhenzhu had tampered with her Storage Pendant to steal the resources left by Feng Jiayun and decided not to trust her during cultivation.
• Wei Yunqing sensed blue and green points of Spiritual Qi during the lesson but failed to draw them into her body before they scattered.
• Wei Yunxi hid that she could sense Spiritual Qi and pretended to abandon cultivation while Zhenzhu watched her play with the contents of her Storage Pendant.
• After several days of pretending to make no progress, Wei Yunxi heard that Wei Yunqing had completed Qi Introduction on the fifth day.

Wei Yunxi learned that Wei Yunqing intended to bring her to the Haoran Sect, threatening her plan to avoid becoming Wei Yunqing’s Fortune-Bringing Child. Meanwhile, Du Ruolan learned that Wei Yunxi’s late mother’s belongings were with the Feng Family and urged Wei Lingyue to reconsider sending Yunxi to the sect, leaving the decision unresolved.

• Wei Yunxi congratulated Wei Yunqing on completing Qi Introduction and pretended to be delighted when Wei Yunqing said she could accompany her to the Haoran Sect.
• Wei Yunxi meditated diligently at the Cultivation Hall while privately worrying that the heavens were pushing her back into her destined role beside Wei Yunqing.
• Zhenzhu searched Zhuohua Courtyard for Wei Yunxi’s mother’s belongings, then told Du Ruolan she had heard they were left with the Feng Family.
• Du Ruolan told Wei Lingyue what Zhenzhu had learned and argued that Wei Yunxi lacked the resources to cultivate at the Haoran Sect.
• Wei Lingyue said the Wei Family would not covet the Feng Family’s belongings, but agreed to think further about whether Wei Yunxi should go to the Haoran Sect.

Wei Yunxi received support from the Feng Family and successfully began cultivation, unaware that her unusual aptitude had already made her Qi Introduction more effective than an ordinary beginner’s. She woke after cultivating for two days and two nights, while Du Ruolan kept her plans to control Wei Yunxi and seek out her late mother’s resources.

• Wei Zongjin successfully underwent Qi Introduction, becoming the second child in the Cultivation Hall to do so.
• Du Ruolan told Wei Yunqing that Wei Yunxi would not accompany her to the Haoran Sect and promised to obtain the hairpin Wei Yunqing wanted.
• Feng Xiu arrived at Zhuohua Courtyard with a Storage Pendant and resources from the Feng Family, then took charge of the courtyard.
• Wei Yunxi activated the Isolation Formation Disk and successfully underwent Qi Introduction, continuing to cultivate until impurities covered her skin.
• Feng Xiu sent Chunyu to request leave for Wei Yunxi, while Zhenzhu questioned Chunyu about her absence.
• Feng Xiu cleaned and fed Wei Yunxi after she emerged from cultivation, then told her she had cultivated for two days and two nights.

After reaching the second layer of Qi Refining, Wei Yunxi entered the Red Wooden Token Space and discovered a mysterious Chat Group that had belonged to someone called Witch Tribe Maiden. She claimed the unclaimed items sent by the group’s members, then saw messages questioning whether Witch Tribe Maiden’s tribe had survived.

• Feng Xiu discovered that Wei Yunxi had reached the second layer of Qi Refining and warned that the Wei Family would reassess her value.
• Wei Yunxi concealed her cultivation from Zhenzhu, activated the Isolation Formation Disk, and entered the Red Wooden Token Space.
• Wei Yunxi found the space barren and cursed the heavens until a mechanical voice announced that the Chat Group had reactivated.
• The Chat Group automatically logged Wei Yunxi in as Witch Tribe Maiden, and she accepted the unclaimed items sent by its members.
• Tribal Warrior and Star Trek asked whether Witch Tribe Maiden had returned and survived a calamity, while Ox-Head and Horse-Face claimed her tribe had been exterminated.

Wei Yunxi joined the Cross-Server Chat Group as “Fleeting Smoke” and learned that her ancestors were the Shaman Clan’s High Priests, whose clan had fallen into decline and entered reincarnation. She received a Soul Refining Art and an Immortal Artifact to conceal her aura, then left the group dizzy from spending too much Soul Power as the Isolation Formation was disturbed.

• Wei Yunxi admitted she was a descendant of the Witch Tribe Maiden, changed her username to “Fleeting Smoke,” and asked the group where her mother had gone.
• Ethereal Immortal explained that the Witch Tribe Maiden had not logged in for over ten thousand years, and other users clarified that the Chat Group could only be activated by descendants.
• Ethereal Immortal recounted how the Heavenly Dao no longer needed the Shaman Clan, while Ox-Head and Horse-Face said the clan had entered reincarnation.
• Wei Yunxi learned that bloodline and Soul Power had let her activate the group, while an outsider such as Wei Yunqing could only access the vessel’s Portable Space.
• After Ethereal Immortal warned that the group consumed Soul Power, Ox-Head and Horse-Face sent Wei Yunxi a Soul Refining Art and Ethereal Immortal gave her a Low-Grade Immortal Artifact.
• Wei Yunxi withdrew from the Wooden Token Space, felt dizzy from depleted Soul Power, and noticed the Isolation Formation being disturbed.

Wei Yunxi bonded with the Flower Diadem Immortal Artifact, which concealed her cultivation and aura and could imitate a higher realm. She revealed her Qi Introduction progress to Wei Yunqing at the Cultivation Hall, where Wei Yunqing asked how she had advanced so quickly.

• Wei Yunxi bonded with the Flower Diadem and used it to conceal her cultivation when Zhenzhu interrupted her.
• Zhenzhu claimed she had worried Wei Yunxi might have suffered a cultivation deviation, and Wei Yunxi ordered her to stay out of the inner courtyard.
• Wei Yunxi refined the Flower Diadem with Soul Binding and learned it could conceal her aura, disguise her cultivation, and alter her appearance, though its false display of strength could fail in battle.
• Wei Yunxi went to the Cultivation Hall and told Wei Yunqing and the other disciples that she had completed Qi Introduction.
• Wei Yunqing congratulated Wei Yunxi and asked how she had completed Qi Introduction so quickly.

Wei Yunxi cultivated diligently but was excluded from the group traveling to Haoran Sect, so Feng Jiaqing arranged for her to study Alchemy with the Feng Family. Just as she thought she had escaped the danger, True Lord Yufeng arrived in Kunyu City to recruit more disciples, including three additional places for the Wei Family.

• Wei Yunxi fooled Wei Yunqing by claiming Feng Xiu's Maid had helped her succeed in Qi Introduction, then cultivated alongside Wei Yunqing and Wei Zongjin.
• Du Ruolan learned of Wei Yunxi's success and ordered Zhenzhu to watch her while she searched her Storage Pouch for a way to ruin Wei Yunxi's Spiritual Root.
• Over the following two months, Wei Yunqing and Wei Zongjin advanced in cultivation while Wei Yunxi remained at the first layer of Qi Refining and was left off the Haoran Sect travel list.
• Feng Jiaqing intervened after Wei Yunxi complained to her maternal family, and Wei Lingyue arranged for her to move to the Feng Family to study Alchemy.
• True Lord Yufeng arrived at the Wei Family and announced that Haoran Sect would recruit talented disciples from Kunyu City, granting the Wei Family three additional places.

Haoran Sect's expanded recruitment forced the Wei and Feng Families to reconsider Wei Yunxi's future. Unsure whether to enter the sect or study Alchemy with the Feng Family, Wei Yunxi sought advice from the Chat Group and was urged to enter the game rather than hide from it.

• True Lord Yufeng promised the Wei Family three recruitment places, and Wei Lingtao and Wei Lingyue thanked him before notifying the City Lord's Mansion.
• Feng Jiaqing and the clan elders decided to send two Elite Disciples to Haoran Sect while allowing branch-family disciples to try their luck.
• Feng Feng told Feng Jiaqing to let the Wei Family decide whether Wei Yunxi would enter Haoran Sect or come to the Feng Family to study Alchemy.
• Feng Xiu delivered the news to Wei Yunxi, who activated her Defensive Formation and entered the Chat Group to ask for guidance.
• The Chat Group members advised Wei Yunxi to face the danger of entering the sect, and Ethereal Immortal told her to enter the game and defeat those who would use her.

Wei Yunxi broke through to the Qi Refining third layer and began cultivating the Soul Refining Art, then discovered that her spirit meal had been poisoned. Wei Lingyue started investigating after Chunyu implicated Zhenzhu, whom he caught spying outside Zhuohua Courtyard.

• Wei Yunxi took Ethereal Immortal's advice, broke through to the Qi Refining third layer, and began studying the Soul Refining Art.
• Wei Yunxi learned that her divine soul had reached the late Qi Refining stage and cultivated through the night, absorbing Lunar Yin Force.
• Du Ruolan sent Zhenzhu a Message Talisman after learning that Wei Yunxi was likely to receive a Haoran Sect slot.
• Feng Xiu tested Wei Yunxi's breakfast with a Poison Detection Pearl and discovered that the spirit meal had been drugged.
• Wei Yunxi sent Chunyu to summon Wei Lingyue, and Chunyu revealed that Zhenzhu had stopped her on the way with the meal.
• Wei Lingyue examined the poisoned porridge and seized Zhenzhu by the throat after catching her peering into Zhuohua Courtyard.

Wei Lingyue uncovered Du Ruolan and Zhenzhu’s plot to destroy Wei Yunxi’s Spiritual Root and killed Zhenzhu, while warning Du Ruolan not to harm his daughter. After giving Wei Yunxi a false explanation for Zhenzhu’s actions, he told her she could join Yunqing at the Haoran Sect.

• Wei Lingyue seized Zhenzhu, accused her of putting a Spirit Melting Pill in Wei Yunxi’s spirit meal, and crippled her cultivation.
• Wei Lingyue confronted Du Ruolan in Begonia Courtyard, killed Zhenzhu, and warned Du Ruolan that he would hold her responsible if anything happened to Wei Yunxi.
• Du Ruolan realized Wei Lingyue valued family interests over her and put Zhenzhu’s corpse in her Storage Pouch.
• Feng Xiu explained to Wei Yunxi that the Spirit Melting Pill could permanently destroy her Spiritual Root and warned her to be cautious with food and elixirs.
• Wei Lingyue told Wei Yunxi that Zhenzhu had acted out of jealousy, then announced that Wei Yunxi could go to the Haoran Sect with Yunqing.