Chapter Summaries

Yunxi broke through an illusion by forcing Hu Yingjun to remember his name, then escaped a silkworm cocoon with Ziyan’s help. She and Hu Yingjun left the area while other Secret Realm entrants remained trapped, and a new cocoon formed around Wei Yunqing and Sheng Yuhong.

• Yunxi confronted her elder brother and Young Madam in the illusion, beat her brother, and forced the Young Madam to reveal herself as Rosy Cloud, her Spirit Pet.
• Yunxi helped her brother remember his name, Hu Yingjun, causing the illusion to collapse.
• Yunxi woke inside a silkworm cocoon that was draining her spiritual power and used Ziyan to burn through it.
• Yunxi freed Hu Yingjun from her Spirit Beast Bag and learned that he was not an Illusion Fox.
• Yunxi saw that other entrants remained trapped in cocoons and left with Hu Yingjun; afterward, a new cocoon formed around Wei Yunqing and Sheng Yuhong.

Yunxi escaped the illusion trial and learned that the Secret Realm was a fragment of a newly formed minor world. She reached its true interior and flew toward a floating island, while Hu Yingjun and the others faced separate trials.

• Yunxi explained how she recognized and broke the illusion, and the Immortal Spirit Grass said her strong divine sense had helped her resist it.
• The Immortal Spirit Grass revealed that the Secret Realm was a sealed fragment of a minor world whose Realm Spirit used the illusion trial to weed out cultivators and protect itself.
• Yunxi realized the Realm Spirit had been trying to eliminate the Witch Tribe descendants and that she had unknowingly helped by bringing them into her space.
• Yunxi emerged from the mist, saw the Bronze Divine Tree and floating islands, and was warned not to try to take the tree with her current cultivation.
• The Immortal Spirit Grass said it intended to strip away the Secret Realm's Spiritual Vein, and Yunxi flew to a nearby island to search for treasures.
• Hu Yingjun struggled to break the restrictions on treasure-filled Fox Caves, while Wei Yunqing and Sheng Yuhong underwent an illusion in which they were celebrated Haoran Sect geniuses and presumed future Dao Companions.

Sheng Yuhong’s junior sister Yunxi was accused of attacking fellow disciples and nearly killing Wei Yunqing in the Secret Realm, leaving Yunqing’s Golden Core and Spiritual Root badly damaged. After returning to the sect, Sheng Yuhong struggled to save Yunqing until the Wei Family’s Old Ancestor approached him.

• Sheng Yuhong and Wei Yunqing argued over Yunxi’s place between them, and Wei Yunqing asked him to become Dao Companions after their Secret Realm expedition.
• Wei Yunqing avoided Sheng Yuhong until the expedition began, and after the disciples were scattered in the Secret Realm, Sheng Yuhong trained alone.
• A fellow disciple sent Sheng Yuhong a message accusing Yunxi of slaughtering disciples, so he followed Wei Yunqing’s secret marks to find them.
• Sheng Yuhong saw Yunxi stab Wei Yunqing and wounded Yunxi with his sword before discovering that Wei Yunqing’s Golden Core had shattered and her Spiritual Root was damaged.
• Wei Yunqing accused Yunxi of framing her and trying to kill her, and Sheng Yuhong bound Yunxi before taking both women out of the Secret Realm.
• After Wei Yunqing refused to see him, the Wei Family’s Old Ancestor asked Sheng Yuhong whether he wanted to save her.

Wei Nanfeng urged Sheng Yuhong to use Wei Yunxi’s Golden Core and Spiritual Root to heal Wei Yunqing, and Sheng Yuhong confronted the imprisoned Wei Yunxi in an illusion. After he saw through it and escaped a cocoon with Wei Yunqing, he recognized his own selfish motives toward both sisters.

• Wei Nanfeng told Sheng Yuhong that Wei Yunxi’s Golden Core and Spiritual Root could restore Wei Yunqing, and left him a jade slip describing the required formation.
• Sheng Yuhong read the formation and considered sacrificing Wei Yunxi’s cultivation to repair the harm done to Wei Yunqing.
• Sheng Yuhong visited the imprisoned Wei Yunxi and questioned her about her actions, but her questions exposed his assumptions and confused identity.
• Sheng Yuhong realized he was trapped in an illusion, recognized Wei Yunxi, and woke inside a cocoon with Wei Yunqing.
• Sheng Yuhong cut through the cocoon with his Lifebound Sword and understood that he had been selfishly drawn to Wei Yunxi’s fortune and potential.

Sheng Yuhong escaped an illusion and left Wei Yunqing trapped inside, while Yunxi explored a sealed floating island and found a rare Life-Force Tree sapling. After transplanting it, Yunxi discovered that the island’s barrier had grown thicker.

• Sheng Yuhong knocked Wei Yunqing unconscious, escaped the illusion, and left her to be drawn back into a cocoon.
• Yunxi was trapped on the first floating island by a barrier and found a stone stele bearing the words “Equivalent Exchange.”
• Yunxi followed Dian Dian’s sense of treasure and identified a struggling sapling as a Life-Force Tree.
• Yunxi dug up the sapling and transplanted it into her Portable Herb Garden, protecting it with an Isolation Formation.
• Yunxi sensed that the barrier around the floating island had thickened.

Yunxi learned that Immortal Spirit had taken a Spiritual Vein and heard its explanation of the Heavenly Dao’s role in the Shaman Clan’s decline. After her Dao heart stabilized and her cultivation reached peak late Golden Core, she accepted responsibility for helping the Shaman Clan and questioned Immortal Spirit about the vein.

• Rosy Cloud told Yunxi that the floating island’s barrier had strengthened, and Yunxi held back from trying to break it after Immortal Spirit suggested exchanging the Life-Force Tree for a spirit plant from her Portable Herb Garden.
• Immortal Spirit admitted it had taken a high-grade Spiritual Vein from the Shaman Clan settlement and said it had left nearly half behind to sustain the forest space.
• Immortal Spirit explained that the Secret Realm and the Heavenly Dao had helped bring about the Shaman Clan’s extinction, and Yunxi considered whether her own Witch Tribe bloodline had made the Heavenly Dao oppose her.
• Yunxi’s Dao seed sprouted as she gained enlightenment, and Immortal Spirit helped stabilize her cultivation while Dian Dian and Rosy Cloud stood guard.
• After an hour, Yunxi reached peak late Golden Core and told Immortal Spirit that helping the Shaman Clan was a responsibility she had to bear.
• Yunxi asked when Immortal Spirit had taken the Spiritual Vein and what would happen to the forest space, and Immortal Spirit said it had waited until the old woman left and preserved nearly half the vein.

Yunxi escaped the first floating island after compensating for the Life-Force Tree by planting spiritual plants, then began exploring a much larger island. Elsewhere, Sheng Yuhong started tempering himself on a Sword Mountain while Wei Yunqing remained trapped in an illusion that drained her spiritual power.

• Yunxi and Immortal Spirit explained that the floating island would disappear once the cultivators were teleported away, and Yunxi began restoring its land.
• Yunxi planted spiritual plants and seeds across the island and activated a Spirit Gathering Formation, causing the light barrier to vanish.
• Yunxi flew to a larger floating island near the Bronze Divine Tree and began exploring its lush terrain.
• Sheng Yuhong emerged from the white fog before a Sword Mountain, gripped his Lifebound Sword, and began tempering himself.
• Wei Yunqing continued living through an illusion in which she framed Wei Yunxi for killings and watched Sheng Yuhong attack her, while Wei Yunqing's spiritual power drained in reality.

While exploring the second floating island, Yunxi intervened in a fight between Zhou Langchen and a disguised demonic cultivator, whom she exposed as an evil cultivator. She warned Zhou and her companions about the infiltration, while Ye Yirui fought Elder Wang.

• Wei Yunqing remained trapped in an illusion as the Crimson Bracelet drained its spiritual energy to keep her alive.
• Yunxi explored the second floating island, collecting spiritual plants, and went to investigate a battle between Zhou Langchen and a masked cultivator.
• Yunxi recognized the masked cultivator as an evil cultivator disguised as a demonic cultivator, wounded him with her Mysterious Ice Needle, and forced him to flee using a Random Teleportation Talisman.
• Zhou Langchen explained that the cultivator had attacked him over a Spiritual Rhinoceros Grass, then declined Yunxi's offer to explore together.
• Yunxi urged Zhou Langchen to warn his sect and the Nascent Soul True Lords, then sent messages to Wei Chenyin and the others about the infiltrators.
• Ye Yirui fought Elder Wang.

Ye Yirui fought Elder Wang after discovering that transparent threads were controlling his attacks, while Wei Yunqing escaped Sheng Yuhong’s illusion and found that her Crimson Bracelet had been damaged. Ye Yirui continued attacking Elder Wang, and Wei Yunqing left through the mist.

• Ye Yirui entered the herb mountains and harvested rare low-grade spiritual herbs before encountering a thread trap among the fourth-grade spirit plants.
• Ye Yirui escaped the poisonous threads and fought Elder Wang, who attacked her under the control of transparent threads.
• Ye Yirui used Hongzhi to inject paralytic fluid into Elder Wang, then continued attacking him after he lost consciousness.
• Wei Yunqing broke free of Sheng Yuhong’s illusion, cut open her cocoon, and discovered that her Crimson Bracelet’s inner space had shrunk.
• Wei Yunqing took a Spirit-Replenishing Pill and entered the mist to leave the area.

Yunxi captured a Jihan Sect cultivator who may have been stirring up trouble for the Western Region, then was teleported into a battle between a Yunmen Temple monk and an unknown swordsman. The swordsman tried to use Yunxi as a hostage, and she struck his sea of consciousness with Thunder Soul Stab.

• Yunxi defeated a late stage Golden Core cultivator from the Jihan Sect, suspecting demonic cultivators had paid him to provoke others, and imprisoned him in her Portable Herb Garden.
• A Teleportation Formation transported Yunxi away just as she prepared to continue exploring the floating island.
• Wei Chenyin, Lin Keyang, Zhang Lingrui, and Cao Yi entered a sealed Ancient Cultivator's Cave and decided to search it for a way out and for treasures.
• Yunxi arrived in the middle of a fight between a Nascent Soul monk from Yunmen Temple and an unknown swordsman, and the swordsman's attack shattered her jade crown.
• The swordsman grabbed Yunxi as a hostage and thrust his sword toward her Dantian, but her black umbrella blocked the strike.
• Yunxi used Thunder Soul Stab to attack the swordsman's sea of consciousness.

Yunxi killed Li Chang after recognizing him beneath his disguise, then followed Buddha Son Yunchen to find a Jihan Sect cultivator who could identify another suspicious captive. Their search ended at a Pear Blossom Forest, where Yun Chen encountered Hanlian and asked why she had the prayer beads he gave Han Mo.

• Yunxi killed the disguised Li Chang with a divine sense attack and burned through his Dantian.
• Yun Chen used his prayer beads to reveal Li Chang’s true appearance, confirming Yunxi had killed him.
• Yunxi told Yun Chen about evil cultivators infiltrating the Secret Realm and about a suspicious Jihan Sect cultivator she had captured.
• Yun Chen invited Yunxi to meet an old friend from the Jihan Sect who could identify her captive, and she followed him out of the valley.
• At a Pear Blossom Forest, Yun Chen tried to flee from Hanlian, who blocked his path and said she had traded Han Mo for the prayer beads he had given him.

Yunxi brought Zhao Sinan before True Lord Hanlian to verify whether he was truly a Jihan Sect cultivator, then used an Imprint Jade recording to show what had happened. Han Lian confirmed his identity and let Yunxi leave, then turned her attention to Zhao Sinan.

• Han Lian questioned Yunxi’s claim that Zhao Sinan was an Evil Cultivator in disguise, and Yunxi explained why she suspected him.
• Yunxi released Zhao Sinan, who identified himself as a Jihan Sect elder and claimed he had merely competed with her for a Flying Catkins Flowing Sand Stone.
• Yunxi challenged Zhao Sinan’s account and presented an Imprint Jade recording of their encounter to Han Lian.
• Han Lian verified that Zhao Sinan belonged to the Jihan Sect, spared his life at Yunxi’s request, and let Yunxi and Buddha Son Yunchen depart.
• After Yunxi and Buddha Son Yunchen left, Zhao Sinan knelt before Han Lian, and she pulled him toward her with a frosty expression.

Yunxi reasoned that Zhao Sinan had a serious problem within Jihan Sect, then learned that the Secret Realm had separated Nascent Soul cultivators from others. As the jungle collapsed and killed its remaining inhabitants, Wei Yunqing was teleported from a spirit-plant field into a blood-scented cave.

• Yunxi explained to Dian Dian that True Lord Hanlian’s behavior suggested Zhao Sinan was either allied with evil cultivators or possessed by one.
• Buddha Son Yunchen told Yunxi that only Nascent Soul cultivators could reach their area and asked her to wait with him for Hanlian.
• Yunxi suspected the Realm Spirit had raised the trial’s difficulty after she captured a Jihan Sect cultivator, while the Immortal Spirit Grass stayed silent.
• As the Strange Jungle collapsed, Yun Si and the Yunmen Temple Buddhists abandoned the uncontrollable cultivators and fled toward the Teleportation Formation; the remaining people and beasts were crushed.
• Wei Yunqing harvested spirit plants in a field, including a Longevity Fruit tree, before a teleportation circle carried her to a dim cave.
• Wei Yunqing put away the spirit grass, drew her Spirit Sword, and cautiously approached the source of the blood scent.

Wei Yunqing killed an injured Kunmo Sect cultivator and took his Storage Ring, but a Soul Nourishing Stone inside it released a spirit that attacked her divine soul. Elsewhere, Wei Chenyin’s group entered an ancient miniature city, while Yunxi and True Lord Hanlian uncovered evidence that evil cultivators planned to possess Secret Realm cultivators.

• Wei Yunqing beheaded the wounded Kunmo Sect cultivator, burned his corpse, and took his Storage Ring.
• Wei Yunqing found magic stones and treasures in the ring, then touched a black ore that released a gray spirit into her sea of consciousness and attacked her divine soul.
• Wei Chenyin’s group met cultivators from several sects at the entrance to a miniature city, and they entered together after two Huaxian Sect cultivators vanished inside.
• Buddhist cultivators from Yunmen Temple arrived and entered the miniature city.
• True Lord Hanlian told Yunxi and Buddha Son Yunchen that Zhao Sinan had joined evil cultivators to stir up conflict in the Secret Realm.
• Yunxi and Buddha Son Yunchen examined Soul Nourishing Stones and concluded that evil cultivators had entered the Secret Realm to possess other cultivators’ bodies.

Yunxi, True Lord Hanlian, and Buddha Son Yunchen uncovered the evil cultivators’ plan to spread soul-bearing Soul Nourishing Stones and seize cultivators’ bodies in the Secret Realm. They agreed to explore together, but their progress stopped when Hanlian sensed danger ahead.

• Yunxi explained how Zhao Sinan had brought Soul Nourishing Stones containing evil cultivators’ souls into the Secret Realm, and Yunchen suspected their body-seizure plot targeted Golden Core cultivators.
• Yunxi suggested the fallen cultivator Li Chang had been a Clone, and Yunchen explained that killing a Clone could cause its true body to suffer a decline in cultivation.
• Hanlian and Yunchen sent warnings to their sect members, while Yunxi said she had contacted her own allies but was unsure they could receive her message.
• Yunchen invited Yunxi to explore with him and Hanlian, and Hanlian agreed to let her join them.
• Ziyan sensed a related Exotic Flame nearby and guided Yunxi toward it as the group traveled.
• Hanlian vanished after sensing something ahead, and Yunchen told Yunxi to stay close before he disappeared too; Yunxi followed using the Wind Swaying Steps.

Wei Yunqing recovered after the Crimson Bracelet trapped the evil cultivator's soul, while battles spread through the Secret Realm. Yunxi and her companions met Yu Su and Yiran after discovering a suspicious corpse, but the Nascent Soul cultivators remained divided over how a recent fight had begun.

• Wei Yunqing rejected the evil cultivator's temptation and meditated to heal her soul after the Crimson Bracelet helped her regain control.
• Wei Chenyin's group clashed with eight Yunmen Temple cultivators, and Cao Yi and the Buddhist cultivators each set up formations as Zhang Lingrui argued with their leader.
• Yunxi arrived at a ruined battlefield where Yiran of Huaxian Sect and Yu Su of Haoran Sect had been fighting, and she revealed Li Chang's corpse and the frozen Soul Nourishing Stone.
• Yu Su identified Li Chang as a wanted evil cultivator who had likely entered the Secret Realm through the Rogue Cultivator Alliance.
• Yiran explained that a Western Regions Immortal Demon Sect cultivator had self-destructed her Nascent Soul and killed his junior brother, while Yu Su had mistaken his intervention for a joint attack.

Yunxi was engulfed by True Lord Yiran’s Purple Flame, but Ziyan absorbed it and returned to her. Ziyan then destroyed Yiran’s Spiritual Root and consumed him before a Spirit Transformation soul fragment could save him, leaving the four cultivators to attack the fragment.

• Yiran sent the Purple Flame into Yunxi’s Dantian, and Ziyan revealed that it was the other half of its body, fused with a fragment of Lei Hongxuan’s soul.
• Yu Su and Yun Chen fought Yiran while Han Lian shielded them from the battle’s aftershocks, and Yunxi endured the flames with help from the Immortal Spirit Grass.
• Ziyan finished devouring the Purple Flame and flew back into Yiran’s Dantian, where it destroyed his Spiritual Root.
• Yu Su struck Yiran and a Spirit Transformation soul fragment appeared to protect him, but Ziyan engulfed Yiran and he turned to ash before his Nascent Soul could escape.
• Yunxi opened the Nine Nether Underworld Dragon Umbrella against the soul fragment’s pressure, and Yu Su, Yun Chen, and Han Lian attacked it together.

Yunxi concealed that she had secretly taken the Profound Thunder Purple Flame into her space, while the group continued through the Secret Realm and waited for news about the evil cultivators and Soul Nourishing Stone. The chapter also followed Sheng Yuhong training on Sword Mountain, Wei Yunqing fleeing an Earth Dragon, and Wei Chenyin’s group preparing to fight the Buddhist cultivators.

• Yunxi told Han Lian that the Exotic Flame had left her body and that she had survived True Lord Yiran’s attack through her cultivation and a protective treasure.
• Han Lian recognized the flame as the Profound Thunder Purple Flame, and Yunxi pretended to mourn its loss while Buddha Son Yunchen encouraged her.
• Yunxi confirmed privately that Ziyan was safe in her space and told Dian Dian to keep it hidden until they left the Secret Realm.
• The four cultivators left the flattened Boulder Forest and entered a bamboo grove, where the Rogue Cultivator Alliance pursuers lost track of them.
• Sheng Yuhong continued tempering himself against Sword Qi, while Wei Yunqing fled a third-rank Earth Dragon underground.
• Wei Chenyin’s group and the Buddhist cultivators from Yunmen Temple prepared to unleash their ultimate moves against each other.

Wei Chenyin’s group and their allies defeated Yunmen Temple’s Buddhist cultivators after Zijing and Lu Wangyou intervened, then learned that evil cultivators might be provoking conflicts across the Secret Realm. The Huaxian Sect women joined the discussion, and Cao Yi asked them to communicate with the trapped Buddhists.

• Zhang Lingrui and Yunmen Temple’s eight Golden Core cultivators powered up their formations as the Huaxian Sect women watched from hiding.
• Zijing’s flute and blossoms, Lu Wangyou’s Thunderstorm Orbs, and Zhang Lingrui’s sword broke the Buddhist formation, while Cao Yi trapped the eight cultivators.
• Lu Wangyou and Zijing called out the Huaxian Sect women, who emerged and explained that they had arrived only after the battle began.
• Wei Chenyin revealed Yunxi’s warning that evil cultivators had infiltrated the Secret Realm and were provoking cultivators from different regions.
• After learning Wei Yunxi was their mutual acquaintance, Zhang Lingrui called the groups natural allies, and the Huaxian Sect women read the warning.
• Cao Yi asked the Huaxian Sect women to speak with the trapped Yunmen Temple cultivators.

Cao Yi and Liu Haotian brought the Western Region cultivators and Yunmen Temple to a truce after exposing doubts in the accusations against them. The groups swore not to attack one another and headed toward the city center, where the miniature city began to shrink.

• Cao Yi proposed that the cultivators stop fighting and search for the Evil Cultivators, and Liu Haotian persuaded the Huaxian Sect women to negotiate with Yunmen Temple.
• Cao Yi and Liu Haotian agreed to form a group and require everyone to swear a Heavenly Dao oath against internal conflict.
• The Yunmen Temple leader recounted attacks by people who appeared to be Western Region cultivators, but Wei Chenyin and Lin Keyang argued that the attackers could have been Evil Cultivators in disguise.
• Liu Haotian urged both sides to swear an oath not to attack one another and to search for clues about the Evil Cultivators, and Yunmen Temple agreed.
• The cultivators withdrew the trapping formation and headed toward the city center, where the miniature city began to tremble and shrink.