Chapter Summaries

Yunxi cleared suspicion that she had caused Wei Nanfeng’s death and confronted Wei Yunqing over her attempt to cast blame on her. She returned to the sect to tell Wei Chenyin that Wei Nanfeng had died, then showed her the blurred figure from the Retrospection Mirror, causing Wei Chenyin’s mood to darken.

• The Retrospection Mirror showed that Yunxi had met Ancestor Nanfeng without touching him, and Wei Yunxi questioned her about what they had discussed.
• Wei Yunqing’s investigation found that Wei Nanfeng had died when his lifespan ran out, and Li Qingtong confirmed the same conclusion.
• Wei Lingtao criticized Wei Yunqing for stirring up suspicion, while Yunxi said she would return to the sect and invite Elder Chenyin to see Ancestor Nanfeng off.
• Yunxi left a Rosy Cloud Butterfly to monitor Wei Yunqing and went to Wei Chenyin’s Immortal Cave to report Wei Nanfeng’s death.
• Yunxi showed Wei Chenyin the blurred figure from the Retrospection Mirror, and Wei Chenyin’s expression darkened.

Yunxi learned from Wei Chenyin how Wei Nanfeng had tried to exploit her and arrange for her to become True Lord Zuoqiu’s cultivation cauldron. After Yunxi supported Wei Chenyin and helped her let go of the past, Wei Chenyin advanced toward the late stage of Golden Core while Yunxi guarded her Immortal Cave.

• Yunxi recognized True Lord Zuoqiu as Wei Nanfeng’s old connection and suspected Wei Nanfeng had sought his help to counter her through Wei Yunqing.
• Yunxi speculated that Wei Nanfeng had tried to make True Lord Zuoqiu accept Wei Yunqing as a disciple, and Wei Chenyin agreed that he had wanted to keep Yunxi under his control.
• Wei Chenyin revealed that Wei Nanfeng had tried to take her cultivation art and offer her to True Lord Zuoq as a cultivation cauldron in exchange for resources.
• Wei Chenyin explained that she had exposed her cultivation art to the sect, cut ties with the family, and cultivated independently after Wei Nanfeng returned to the family.
• Yunxi encouraged Wei Chenyin, who laughed with relief as Spiritual Qi surged around her and she began advancing.
• Yunxi placed spirit stones beside Wei Chenyin, left the Immortal Cave, and set a Fourth-Grade Formation Disk to guard the entrance.

Yunxi helped Wei Chenyin resolve her inner turmoil, enabling her breakthrough to the late stage Golden Core, and urged her to help cleanse the Wei Family without leaving the Haoran Sect. Rosy Cloud then revealed that Wei Yunqing had accused Yunxi of stirring up trouble, while Wei Yunqing explained that she used the Retrospection Mirror to investigate Old Ancestor's death after receiving his message about a Nascent Soul Late Stage True Lord.

• Yunxi guarded Wei Chenyin during her breakthrough and clashed with a stranger whose Divine Sense was at the peak late Nascent Soul.
• Wei Chenyin emerged at the late stage Golden Core and thanked Yunxi for helping her gain insight.
• Yunxi advised Wei Chenyin to remain in the Haoran Sect while helping the Wei Family address the damage Wei Nanfeng had left behind, and Wei Chenyin agreed.
• Yunxi asked Rosy Cloud what Wei Lingyue and Wei Yunqing had discussed, and Rosy Cloud recounted their exchange.
• Wei Lingyue challenged Wei Yunqing about returning late and borrowing the Retrospection Mirror, and Wei Yunqing said she had used it to seek Old Ancestor's murderer.
• Wei Yunqing said Old Ancestor had told her he found a Nascent Soul Late Stage True Lord who would take her as a disciple once she reached the Golden Core stage.

Wei Yunqing suspected that Yunxi had secretly poisoned Ancestor Nanfeng with Rejuvenation Fluid, though she had no evidence to challenge the confirmed cause of his death. Her father then asked her for help obtaining a Golden Core Pill, and she became alarmed when he mentioned rumors that she had cultivated high-grade spirit plants.

• Wei Yunqing told Wei Lingyue and Du Ruolan that Ancestor Nanfeng's death seemed suspicious because he had planned to find her a Nascent Soul master.
• Wei Lingyue explained that the Retrospection Mirror and several witnesses had confirmed Ancestor Nanfeng died after his lifespan was exhausted, leaving them without evidence to overturn the finding.
• Wei Yunqing questioned Wei Lingyue about Yunxi's visits and learned that Yunxi had given Ancestor Nanfeng Rejuvenation Fluid before he suddenly regained his youth.
• Wei Yunqing argued that the Rejuvenation Fluid might have been a slow poison and vowed to find evidence, while Du Ruolan warned her not to confront Yunxi rashly.
• Wei Lingyue asked Wei Yunqing to help him obtain a Golden Core Pill, but she said he would need to provide the spirit stones.
• Wei Lingyue accused Wei Yunqing of withholding help despite cultivating high-grade spirit plants, and she asked whether Yunxi had told him about them.

Wei Yunqing investigated the leak about her Enlightenment Fruit Tree while Yunxi returned to the Wei Family with Wei Chenyin, who took charge after advancing to late-stage Golden Core. Wei Chenyin burned Wei Nanfeng’s body, entrusted his belongings to the family, and ordered his courtyard simplified.

• Wei Yunqing questioned Wei Lingyue about the leaked news, then returned to the sect to investigate who knew about her Enlightenment Fruit Tree.
• Wei Yunqing went to find Ye Shaohua but learned he was in secluded cultivation, then failed to meet Yunxi at Lingxue Peak and went to Haoran City to wait for her.
• Wei Chenyin returned to the Wei Family with Yunxi, and Wei Lingtao and the elders welcomed her as their new powerful ancestor.
• Wei Chenyin told the elders she would make decisions differently from Wei Nanfeng and ordered them to share his belongings through the family storehouse.
• Wei Chenyin burned Wei Nanfeng’s body, scattered his ashes in the spirit plant garden, and handed his storage items to Wei Lingtao for inventory.
• Wei Chenyin chose to stay in Wei Nanfeng’s courtyard and ordered its furnishings removed so his former bedroom could become a cultivation room.

Wei Chenyin reorganized the Wei Family after returning to lead it, establishing fairer rules and distributing Wei Nanfeng’s possessions to secure the elders’ cooperation. As Yunxi accompanied her to her new courtyard, Wei Yunqing arrived at the council hall and asked where Yunxi was.

• Wei Chenyin told Wei Lingtao that the Wei Family had to make the most of its move to Haoran City and that family members needed to work hard themselves.
• Wei Chenyin criticized Wei Nanfeng’s preference for talented disciples and decreed equal starting resource allotments, with rewards increasing as disciples advanced.
• Wei Chenyin gave Wei Lingtao revised clan rules to review before they were announced to the family.
• The Sixth Elder and Seventh Elder brought Wei Nanfeng’s possessions to the council hall, and Wei Chenyin let each elder choose one item as compensation.
• After the meeting, Yunxi and Wei Lingtao accompanied Wei Chenyin to her new courtyard while the elders claimed their chosen items.
• Wei Yunqing entered the council hall, saw the elders discussing Wei Nanfeng’s possessions, and asked where Wei Yunxi was.

Wei Chenyin took charge of the Wei Family while Yunxi helped arrange aid for the Feng Family and prepared to return to cultivation. After confronting Wei Yunqing and overhearing Wei Lingyue, Yunxi left for the Haoran Sect, while Wei Lingyue withdrew into seclusion.

• Wei Yunqing learned that Wei Chenyin had returned to the family and resented being ignored by the elders, while Wei Lingyue again blamed his failure to form a core for their humiliation.
• Wei Chenyin inspected her renovated courtyard with Yunxi and Wei Lingtao, who revealed that Wei Nanfeng had concealed the Evil Cultivators' attack on True Lords Yufeng and Yuhuo.
• Wei Chenyin proposed transferring the Wei Family's unfinished Kunyu City properties to the Feng Family as thanks, and Yunxi urged Wei Lingtao to handle the matter discreetly.
• Wei Yunqing confronted Yunxi about telling Wei Lingyue that her spirit plants could help him advance, but Yunxi pointed out that Yunqing could not privately use the plants cultivated for Alchemy Peak.
• Wei Lingyue overheard the sisters' exchange, returned to his courtyard, and announced that he was entering seclusion.
• Yunxi returned to the Haoran Sect and exchanged her rewards for enough contribution points to cultivate in Qingye Pool for three months.

Wei Yunxi redeemed her reward to enter Haoran Sect’s Treasure Pavilion and was guided to a wind-element treasure on the fifth floor. Dian Dian was barred from entering and left with the pavilion’s white-bearded guardian.

• Wei Yunxi exchanged her reward for three months at Qingye Pool and an opportunity to enter the Treasure Pavilion.
• Wei Yunxi took her jade ring to the Library’s sixth floor, where a golden scroll transported her to the pavilion.
• The white-bearded old man recognized Dian Dian’s Treasure-Seeking Bloodline and kept it outside while Wei Yunxi entered the pavilion.
• The treasures inside discussed Wei Yunxi and noticed her Mosang Ring, but she asked them to stop studying her.
• A childish voice told Wei Yunxi to search the fifth floor for a suitable wind-element artifact, and she went upstairs.

Yunxi reached the fifth floor of the Treasure Pavilion and formed a contract with the Nine Nether Underworld Dragon Umbrella after it chose her. The old man sent her back to Lingxue Peak, where she ran into Zonghao.

• Yunxi replenished her Spiritual Qi and examined the five ancient treasures on the fifth floor.
• Yunxi cultivated a fourth Shadow Clone, and the black umbrella chose her and formed a contract.
• The Nine Nether Underworld Dragon Umbrella revealed its name and Artifact Spirit, Hei Yao, and became a white jade hairpin in Yunxi’s hair.
• Yunxi thanked the Artifact Spirits and left the Treasure Pavilion, where the old man praised her for gaining Hei Yao’s recognition and returned Dian Dian to her.
• The old man sent Yunxi to the foot of Lingxue Peak, where she met Zonghao, who had come looking for her.

Yunxi warned Zonghao that Wei Yunqing might be trying to use him to conceal her plans to refine an Enlightenment Fruit, and urged him to leave the sect. Zonghao departed for Haoran City, while Wei Yunqing learned he had already gone.

• Zonghao told Yunxi he planned to leave the sect to gain experience, and she gave him protective items.
• Zonghao explained that Wei Yunqing had been seeking him after news spread that she cultivated a Fifth Order spirit plant.
• Yunxi warned Zonghao that Wei Yunqing might ask him to refine an Enlightenment Fruit and shift suspicion onto him.
• Zonghao left the sect for Haoran City without returning to Pill Peak.
• After waiting three days at the Alchemy Lodge, Wei Yunqing learned Zonghao had left on a mission.

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.