Chapter Summaries

Yunxi and her companions confronted the red-robed Evil Flower that had corrupted the giant Demon Beasts. Yunxi used Ziyan to burn the flower’s true body while her allies held off its smoke manifestation, and she left the Evil Flower enraged and cut off from its body.

• Dian Dian warned Yunxi that the red-robed woman carried the same aura as the red Evil Flower, and Yunxi identified her as the source of the corrupted Demon Beasts.
• Yunxi stalled the Evil Flower while it attacked Yun Chen and Xun Kun, then sent Xun Kun to hold off its smoke manifestation as she went after its true body.
• Yunxi unleashed Ziyan on the red Evil Flower, and Ziyan expanded into a sea of purple flames that engulfed the flower and the surrounding Demon Beasts.
• Xun Kun, Han Lian, and Yun Chen joined forces to prevent the smoke manifestation from returning to the flower while Yunxi’s Shadow Clone tried to distract it.
• Yunxi told the Evil Flower that the person who had brought it into the Secret Realm had already been expelled, leaving the woman furious and separated from her true body.

Yunxi and her companions fought to protect the Exotic Flame as it burned the Evil Flower, while waves of corrupted Demon Beasts attacked them. Yunxi recalled a light-element inscription from the Shaman Clan’s booklet and used it to purify the first beast, offering a way to fight back.

• The Evil Flower vanished after threatening Yunxi, and the corrupted Demon Beasts redirected their attack toward her group.
• Yunxi and the others sent distress signals, prompting the sects’ Nascent Soul True Lords to leave the valley and prepare to break out.
• Yunxi trapped herself, Yun Chen, Han Lian, and Xun Kun inside a formation while the Exotic Flame continued burning the Evil Flower.
• After the others discussed ways to weaken the Evil Flower, Yunxi remembered a light-element inscription and formed it into a glowing seal.
• Yunxi sent the inscription at a Black Panther, purifying it and restoring its eyes to their normal color.

Yunxi and her companions fought the corrupted beasts while Yunxi and Ziyan destroyed the Evil Flower, which then self-destructed and triggered the Secret Realm’s collapse. The Realm Spirit expelled Yunxi and the others, while Wei Yunqing emerged from the Crimson Bracelet and found herself pursued by Army Ants.

• Yunxi taught Han Lian, Buddha Son Yunchen, and Xun Kun to draw a dharma seal that briefly restored the corrupted beasts’ reason, and Buddhist reinforcements arrived to help fight them.
• As Yunxi attacked the Evil Flower, it offered her a bargain and revealed that it had come to help Li Chang, leading Yunxi to suspect that the Spirit Realm’s evil cultivators were involved.
• Yunxi and Ziyan struck the Evil Flower together, silencing it, but its self-destruction cracked Yunxi’s formation and began shaking the Secret Realm.
• The Realm Spirit expelled Yunxi, Han Lian, Buddha Son Yunchen, and Xun Kun through a black hole just as the formation disk shattered.
• Wei Yunqing emerged from the Crimson Bracelet, was bitten by Army Ants, and teleported to the desert’s edge, where the ants continued pursuing her.

Wei Yunqing escaped the Army Ants but was swallowed by a sandpit, while Yunxi was expelled from the Secret Realm and began her tribulation. Outside, the sect leaders learned what had happened inside and debated whether to question Feng Xiyun about the evil cultivators.

• Wei Yunqing fled the Army Ants, used Directional Teleportation Talismans to escape, then fell into a sandpit and was swallowed by a Sand Scorpion.
• The Realm Spirit expelled Yunxi, Yunchen, Xun Kun, and Han Lian, and Venerable Haohui caught Yunxi as she announced her impending tribulation.
• Yunxi’s Thunder Tribulation began, and Venerable Haohui moved her to a mountain peak while the other Venerables carried Yunchen, Xun Kun, and Han Lian away.
• Han Lian, Xun Kun, and Yunchen recounted their experiences in the Secret Realm, and Yunchen reassured the sect representatives that the other cultivators might still be safe.
• Venerable Huayu proposed questioning Feng Xiyun separately, but Venerable Linlang and Venerable Haoqing objected, and Haoqing agreed only to a general questioning after her tribulation.

Yunxi endured a Heart-Questioning Tribulation Lightning that trapped her divine soul in her sea of consciousness, then broke free and destroyed the red light that had emerged from her. She successfully advanced to Nascent Soul True Lord, but Haohui and Haoqing suspected her role in a greater mystery and questioned how she had entered the Secret Realm.

• Venerable Minghong argued that those with unrighteous Dao hearts could not withstand a Thunder Tribulation as Yunxi faced its final bolt.
• The final bolt trapped Yunxi’s divine soul in her sea of consciousness, where she resisted a strange voice and shattered the restraints with an inscription made from Soul Power and Merit.
• Yunxi returned to her body and struck the fleeing red light with heavenly lightning from the Seven-Star Deadly Staff, dispersing it and completing her tribulation.
• Haohui and Haoqing recognized Yunxi as Wei Yunxi and privately wondered whether she was obstructing something connected to the Founding Ancestor’s prophecy.
• After absorbing the Spirit Rain, Yunxi thanked the Venerables and explained how she had entered the Secret Realm, leaving out her encounters with the Shaman Clan, Zhusheng, the Life-Force Tree, and the Spiritual Vein.

After revealing her identity and presenting an edited Imprint Jade as evidence, Wei Yunxi faced accusations from Huaxian Sect cultivators over Yiran’s death and the Profound Thunder Purple Flame. When Huabai attacked her with divine sense, Yunxi countered and warned him that he might have blamed the wrong person.

• Venerables Haohui and Haoqing returned with Wei Yunxi to the Dharma House, where she revealed her true appearance and introduced herself as a disciple of Haoran Sect.
• Wei Yunxi explained why she had concealed her identity and presented Venerable Minghong with an Imprint Jade recording events in the Secret Realm.
• Venerable Huayu questioned Wei Yunxi about the Profound Thunder Purple Flame, and she explained that Yiran had tried to use his half of the flame to devour hers.
• Huabai burst into the Dharma House and attacked Wei Yunxi with divine sense, while Huayu failed to stop him.
• Wei Yunxi blocked Huabai’s attack, countered with her own divine sense and the Profound Thunder Purple Flame, then told him he might have blamed the wrong person for Yiran’s death.

Yunxi offered Huabai the Profound Thunder Purple Flame, prompting him to discover the truth about his junior Yiran’s death in the flame’s memories. After Huabai withdrew, the cultivators turned their attention to demonic cultivators infiltrating the Secret Realm, while Yunxi resolved to stay wary of Huabai.

• Yunxi offered Huabai the Profound Thunder Purple Flame and challenged him to learn the truth behind Yiran’s death.
• Haohui and Haoqing defended Yunxi, while Huayu and other cultivators criticized Huabai for trying to seize the flame from her.
• Huabai touched the flame’s memories and learned that a divine soul within it had possessed Yiran; the flame then returned to Yunxi’s Dantian.
• Yunxi explained how the two halves of the flame had merged and how Yiran’s attack had triggered the possession and Heavenly Flame backlash.
• Haohui warned that demonic cultivators had infiltrated the Secret Realm and were plotting to replace members of the major sects.
• Huayu calmed Huabai, but Yunxi remained wary and planned to cultivate in seclusion before facing him again.

Yunxi learned that Yuling’s Spirit Transformation tribulation had trapped him inside Lingxue Peak, where he could not absorb Spiritual Qi. After discovering that Wei Yunqing’s master, Zuoqiu, appeared smug about the crisis, Yunxi resolved to use the Boundary Breaking Cone to help Yuling.

• Haohui told Yunxi that Yuling’s Spirit Transformation had gone wrong, and he took her back to Haoran Sect.
• Yugeng explained that Yuling was trapped inside Lingxue Peak, unable to absorb Spiritual Qi while tribulation lightning struck him.
• Yunxi tried to enter Lingxue Peak, but the tribulation lightning targeted her and Haohui pulled her to safety.
• Yunxi noticed Zuoqiu’s calm, smug expression and learned that he was Wei Yunqing’s master.
• Yunxi asked the Immortal Spirit to send Spiritual Qi to Yuling and decided to use the Boundary Breaking Cone to help him succeed.

Yunxi risked her life to break Yuling’s confinement and help him face his Spirit Transformation lightning tribulation. She was carried to Qingye Pool gravely injured, while Yuling resumed confronting the tribulation and Zuoqiu withdrew after realizing his chance to kill him was slipping away.

• Yunxi entered the heart of Yuling’s lightning tribulation and used the Boundary Breaking Cone to shatter his confinement.
• Yunxi blocked successive bolts of Tribulation Lightning with the Nine Nether Underworld Dragon Umbrella and Seven-Star Deadly Staff, then sent Immortal Spirit Grass to Yuling.
• Rosy Cloud dragged the unconscious Yunxi out of the tribulation’s range, losing both wings before Yuling blocked the final bolt aimed at her.
• Yuling regained consciousness and began confronting the Tribulation Lightning head-on, while Venerable Haohui scattered a bolt that followed Yunxi.
• Venerable Haohui found that Yunxi’s Meridians, Dantian, Nascent Soul, and Spiritual Root were badly damaged, and Sect Master Yugeng took her to Qingye Pool.
• Zuoqiu realized Yuling’s survival left him little chance to strike and silently withdrew from the crowd.

Yunxi lay unconscious after helping Yuling survive his Spirit Transformation tribulation, while the Seven-Star Deadly Staff absorbed the Thunder Spiritual Power in her body. Zuoqiu tried to kill her at the Qingye Pool, but her Immortal Artifact struck him down; after Yuling succeeded in his tribulation, he learned that Zuoqiu had been taken for questioning.

• True Lord Yugeng placed the gravely injured Yunxi in the Qingye Pool and returned to Lingxue Peak, while Dian Dian, Rosy Cloud, and Zhusheng remained unconscious.
• Zuoqiu entered the Qingye Pool and attacked Yunxi's sea of consciousness, but the force from her glabella overwhelmed his divine sense and knocked him unconscious.
• Haoyan appeared at the pool and agreed to watch over Yunxi, while Haohui took Zuoqiu to the Law Enforcement Hall for interrogation about the attack and the tampered formation.
• Yuling endured the final lightning bolt and successfully advanced to Spirit Transformation stage as the Nascent Soul merged with his true body.
• Yuling asked about Yunxi and learned that Zuoqiu had tried to harm her; Yugeng grew furious and cursed Zuoqiu.

After Yunxi was badly injured in the Baohua Mountain secret realm, Yuling and the Haoran Sect leaders arranged her protection and investigated the evil cultivators’ infiltration. Yunxi then suddenly found herself back in her modern workplace, where she stood up to her director and submitted the original proposal before he stopped her at the elevator.

• Haohui told Yugeng and Yufeng that evil cultivators had infiltrated the Five Regions and ordered them to investigate Zuoqiu and tighten security at the Haoran Sect.
• Yuhuo sent Yunxi a Message Talisman offering pills, while Yugeng and Yufeng resumed their work after Haohui left for the Baohua Mountain Range.
• Yuling visited Yunxi at Qingye Pool, confirmed to Hao Yan that Yunxi was the variable described by the Founding Ancestor, and learned that the Exotic Flame would attack anyone who approached her.
• The Immortal Spirit returned to Yunxi and sent Spiritual Qi into her body to help repair her injuries.
• At work, Yunxi told her colleague to submit the original proposal to the client and offered to take responsibility, then the director stopped her at the elevator.

Wei Yunxi broke up with Sheng Yuhong after he grabbed and shoved her, then saved surveillance footage and vowed to push him out of his director position. Sheng Yuhong and a woman named Qingqing plotted to keep Yunxi distracted, but his attempt to enter Yunxi’s home the next evening ended with her punching him.

• Sheng Yuhong confronted Wei Yunxi after a work meeting, demanded her support, and grabbed her wrist when she refused.
• Wei Yunxi threw Sheng Yuhong against a wall and punched him, then told him their relationship was over and declared she would challenge him for the director’s seat.
• Wei Yunxi copied surveillance footage of Sheng Yuhong’s assault, while he later spoke with Qingqing, who urged him to beg Yunxi to reconcile and keep her occupied.
• Sheng Yuhong sent Wei Yunxi roses and invited her to lunch, but she gave away the flowers and turned down his invitation.
• Sheng Yuhong used a spare key to enter Wei Yunxi’s home, where she greeted him with a punch.

Yunxi beat Sheng Yuhong after he entered her apartment, reported him as an intruder attempting assault, and helped secure his conviction and detention. She then pressured the company to dismiss him, and the chapter ended with her slapping Wei Yunqing outside the building.

• Yunxi beat Sheng Yuhong in her dark apartment, called the police, and gave officers a tearful account of his alleged assault.
• Yunxi identified Sheng Yuhong at the hospital and provided witnesses and surveillance footage that supported her account after their breakup.
• Sheng Yuhong was convicted of breaking into a residence, detained for a month, and fined, while Yunxi refused to meet him.
• Yunxi denounced Sheng Yuhong to Director Zhou and urged the company to dismiss him, warning that retaining him would damage its reputation.
• Wei Yunqing confronted Yunxi after work, and Yunxi slapped her hard enough to leave half her face swollen.

Yunxi exposed and destroyed the red-light entity that had tried to trap her soul in her sea of consciousness. She returned to her badly injured body, where Leng Ruohan told her she had nearly died beneath the Spirit Transformation lightning tribulation.

• Yunxi dragged Wei Yunqing into her residence, confronted her about Sheng Yuhong, and beat her when she attacked.
• Wei Yunqing revealed that she had planned to trap Yunxi in her sea of consciousness, but Yunxi explained she had seen through the deception.
• Yunxi reshaped her sea of consciousness and used a light-element rune to dissolve the red-light entity.
• Yunxi's divine soul returned to her body, and she awoke to find Leng Ruohan beside her after his advance to the Spirit Transformation stage.
• Yunxi inspected her injuries and found her Meridians, Dantian, Lightning Spiritual Root, and bones badly damaged, while Ziyan refined the remaining Thunder Tribulation power.

After waking from nearly two years in a coma, Yunxi learned why Zuoqiu had attacked her and began recuperating from devastating injuries. She discovered that repairing her damaged Dantian might require the legendary Creation Green Lotus, leaving her with a daunting search ahead.

• Leng Ruohan told Yunxi that Zuoqiu had tried to kill her while she was unconscious, and explained that Zuoqiu had sabotaged Lingxue Peak to trap him during his tribulation.
• Yunxi learned that every disciple left on Lingxue Peak had perished and urged Leng Ruohan not to let Zuoqiu escape punishment; Leng Ruohan said the Sect Leader Martial Uncle was handling the matter.
• Leng Ruohan carried Yunxi from Qingye Pool back to Lingxue Peak, where she began a long recovery and reunited with Dian Dian.
• Yunxi released the cocooned Rosy Cloud into her space, settled Zhusheng and the Life-Force Tree there, and learned Ziyan was refining the tribulation power he had absorbed.
• Yunxi asked Ethereal Immortal how to recover from her injuries, and Ethereal Immortal said a Creation Green Lotus petal might repair her damaged Dantian, with changing bodies as the alternative.

After awakening, Yunxi learned that remnants of the Creation Green Lotus might repair her Dantian and began healing her injuries. Sect Master Yugeng told Sheng Yuhong to keep Yunxi’s recovery quiet, while the Haoran Sect continued secretly investigating evil cultivators.

• Ethereal Immortal explained that remnants of the Creation Green Lotus had scattered across the world, and Yunxi decided to heal her other injuries before seeking them.
• Yunxi checked on Rosy Cloud, Dian Dian, and the Seven-Colored Lotus, then settled down to heal.
• Leng Ruohan sent Sect Master Yugeng a Message Talisman reporting that Yunxi had awakened, and Yugeng told Sheng Yuhong her recovery would take eight to ten years.
• Yugeng warned Sheng Yuhong not to spread news of Yunxi’s awakening and to remain cautious while the sect investigated infiltrators.
• Venerables Haohui and Haoqing secretly subdued True Lord Yusu after confirming she had been possessed by an Evil Soul.
• Wei Yunqing recalled finding sand gold ore and Sand Scorpion eggs in the Secret Realm and felt pleased that Sheng Yuhong had returned unharmed.

While Wei Yunxi recovered from her injuries on Lingxue Peak, Wei Yunqing gloated over her condition and alienated the Wei family disciples, who resolved to focus on their own cultivation. Yunxi continued repairing her damaged body as other factions dealt with the Secret Realm’s aftermath and investigated its events.

• Wei Chenyin returned to the Wei Family, handed family affairs to Wei Lingtao and the elders, and entered seclusion to form her Nascent Soul, frustrating Wei Yunqing’s plans to influence the family.
• Wei Yunting and the other Wei family disciples tried to visit Yunxi, but True Lord Yuling’s disciples turned them away; they learned Yunxi had formed her Nascent Soul and resolved to cultivate diligently.
• Wei Yunqing mocked the disciples for visiting Yunxi, but Wei Yunying and Wei Zongyu warned her that Venerable Yuling could hear her; the group left on bad terms and agreed to focus on cultivation.
• True Lord Yuling observed the confrontation and chose not to intervene, while Immortal Spirit channeled Spiritual Qi to help the awakened Yunxi heal her damaged Dantian and body.
• Ye Yirui returned to Medicine King Valley without finding a plant to repair her younger brother’s Dantian, and Venerable Huabai accepted that he could not avenge his descendant over the Profound Thunder Purple Flame.
• Xian Yao and Xian Xu reviewed the Secret Realm events after returning and placed their suspicions on Feng Xiyun.

Huaxian Sect’s Venerables investigated the Secret Realm’s disappearance, Wei Yunxi’s role, and the threat posed by evil cultivators while preparing for the Five Regions Grand Competition. Elsewhere, Xiao He was punished for a failed mission and forced to continue serving the evil cultivators, though he had secretly entered the Secret Realm to seek resources for his sister.

• Xian Xu and Xian Yao wondered why Feng Xiyun had been chosen to leave the Secret Realm early and decided to ask Venerable Huayu.
• Venerable Huabai and Huayu suspected Wei Yunxi had cooperated with or refined the Realm Spirit, and they arranged to watch Haoran Sect for her awakening.
• Huayu warned that Li Chang and the evil cultivators’ connections to the Weiling Realm could signal trouble in the Spirit Realm, while Sect Master Xianwei proposed gathering information during the next Five Regions Grand Competition.
• Venerable Huatang ordered Huayu and Huabai to watch the Nascent Soul cultivators, while Sect Master Xianwei arranged surveillance of the Golden Core cultivators for signs of corruption.
• An evil cultivator punished Xiao He for failing his mission and threatened his sister if he failed again.
• After the figure left, Xiao He admitted to himself that he had entered the Secret Realm alone to find cultivation resources for himself and his sister.

Xiao He reflected on his revenge against the Xiao Family and fled to the Central Domain after evading suspicion over the Secret Realm mission. Meanwhile, as the Five Regions investigated evil cultivators, Leng Ruohan learned that Zuoqiu’s divine soul had escaped the Law Enforcement Hall and suspected an accomplice inside the sect.

• Xiao He recalled cooperating with evil cultivators to avenge his father, while sending Xiao Lei away to keep her from becoming involved.
• After leaving the Secret Realm, Xiao He avoided suspicion, traveled from the Western Regions to the Central Domain, and rented an inn room to treat his injuries.
• During Yunxi’s two-year unconsciousness, the Five Regions’ major sects intensified their investigation of evil cultivators, and Li Chang became a key lead.
• After Yunxi awoke, Leng Ruohan went to the Law Enforcement Hall to confront Zuoqiu and learned that Zuoqiu’s divine soul had escaped his body.
• Hall Master Geng told Leng Ruohan that the Law Enforcement Hall had ruled out possession as the means of escape, leading Leng Ruohan to suspect an insider had carried a soul-housing artifact out of the sect.

Leng Ruohan learned that the sect had activated Dark Night Profound Rain to investigate Zuoqiu's betrayal and suspected the Wei sisters’ changing fortunes had shaped events. On Lingxue Peak, Venerable Haoyi questioned Yunxi about saving Yuling, the Boundary Breaking Cone, and the Spiritual Vein she had used, ending by asking how she had sent it to her master.

• Leng Ruohan visited Venerable Haohui and learned that Dark Night Profound Rain was investigating Zuoqiu’s betrayal.
• Venerable Haohui explained how Zuoqiu had gained an Enlightenment Fruit through Wei Yunqing and suggested that the Wei sisters’ fortunes had altered events.
• Leng Ruohan left the Back Mountain after Venerable Haohui warned him that Dark Night Profound Rain might question Yunxi.
• Venerable Haoyi visited Yunxi on Lingxue Peak and asked how she had broken the confinement formation and obtained the Boundary Breaking Cone.
• Yunxi told Venerable Haoyi that she had used a top-grade Spiritual Vein to supply Yuling with enough Spiritual Qi.
• Venerable Haoyi asked Yunxi how she had sent the Spiritual Vein to Yuling.