Chapter Summaries

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Yunxi moved the Shaman Clan tribespeople into her space to save them from a beast rampage, then followed the dying elder to an Ancient Teleportation Formation. The elder died before Yunxi could learn more, and Yunxi realized she would need her companions to activate the formation as the beasts closed in.

• The elder warned Yunxi that the giant beasts were about to rampage and urged her to evacuate the tribe.
• Yunxi gathered the Shaman Clan and moved them into her space, where she put them to sleep in the Medicine Immortal Sect's Outer Sect Disciples' cottages.
• The elder led Yunxi through a hidden door into a cave and showed her an Ancient Teleportation Formation that required nine types of spiritual power.
• The elder died of old age before Yunxi could question her, and Yunxi placed her body in the space.
• The Immortal Spirit Grass told Yunxi she needed her companions to activate the formation, while the beast roars drew nearer.
• Yunxi discovered that the elder's death had lifted the concealment around the stone mountain, and the membrane separating the cultivators in the Secret Realm had vanished.

Wei Yunqing and Sheng Yuhong joined forces against the frenzied giant beasts, while Yunxi found True Lord Shi Jun and revealed an Ancient Teleportation Formation that needed nine cultivators to activate. After helping clear a herd with Shi Jun, Yunxi met two more Nascent Soul cultivators, but still needed five companions to escape.

• Wei Yunqing found Sheng Yuhong, and they prepared to fight the giant bears together as the beasts attacked.
• Wei Chenyin joined Lin Keyang, Zhang Lingrui, and Cao Yi, and the four fought the crazed giant beasts.
• Yunxi met True Lord Shi Jun, told him about the Ancient Teleportation Formation that required nine different types of spiritual power, and agreed to lead him to it after the battle.
• Yunxi used the Nine Nether Underworld Dragon Umbrella to attack the charging beasts alongside Shi Jun, rapidly replenishing her spiritual power as she fought.
• Yunxi and Shi Jun met Nascent Soul cultivators from the Jihan Sect and Kunmo Sect, who agreed to summon companions, leaving Yunxi unsure whom she could contact.

Feng Xiyun helped three Nascent Soul cultivators fight off giant beasts, then joined a group of nine cultivators to activate the Teleportation Formation she had found. The formation transported them away, while its beam revealed their departure to others in the forest.

• Feng Xiyun unleashed the Nine Nether Underworld Dragon Umbrella’s black dragon, with help from Hei Yao and the Immortal Spirit Grass, to destroy the giant beasts.
• True Lord Shi Jun praised Feng Xiyun’s strength and led the arriving Nascent Soul cultivators toward the Teleportation Formation she had discovered.
• Elder Wang questioned whether Feng Xiyun was strong enough to travel with them, but True Lord Shi Jun and True Lord Huandie defended her.
• Feng Xiyun introduced herself as Feng Xiyun of Haoran Sect and guided the cultivators to the mountain wall containing the formation.
• The nine cultivators infused the formation with nine kinds of spiritual power and were teleported away as a pillar of light rose above the mountain.

Cultivators fought their way toward a pillar of light in the bizarre forest, where some who had absorbed its Spiritual Qi fell into madness. Yunxi awoke with no memories in an unfamiliar household and learned that before fainting, she had accused someone in the Eldest Young Master's bridal chamber of being a monster.

• Wei Yunqing and Sheng Yuhong spotted the pillar of light and fought toward it, while Wei Chenyin's group followed Cao Yi's direction toward the gate of life.
• Cultivators who had absorbed the forest's Spiritual Qi began attacking everyone around them, while the Buddhist cultivators of Yunmen Temple remained unaffected and helped the afflicted.
• Yunxi awoke unable to recognize A Dian, her parents, or anyone else, and Doctor Wang said her memory loss might be temporary after a prolonged fever.
• Yunxi asked A Dian about the night she fainted, and A Dian revealed that Yunxi had gone to the Eldest Young Master's bridal chamber and shouted that the young madam there was a monster.

Yunxi learned from A Dian how her brother met and married the Young Madam, then heard that she had fought her sister-in-law and been knocked unconscious by her brother. Furious that her family concealed the truth, Yunxi got out of bed and ordered A Dian to help her dress.

• Yunxi asked A Dian about her brother and learned he had returned from his travels with the woman who became his wife.
• A Dian recounted how bandits abducted Yunxi's brother and his companions, and how they escaped by alerting the authorities to a kidnapped bride.
• After the bride's family rejected her, Yunxi's brother rescued her from a suicide attempt and chose to marry her.
• A Dian told Yunxi that three nights earlier Yunxi had called the Young Madam a monster, fought her, and been knocked unconscious by her brother.
• Yunxi learned her parents had claimed she fainted in the corridor to hide the family dispute, then ordered A Dian to help her dress.