Chapter Summaries

Yunxi explained to Venerable Haoyi why she risked her life to save Yuling and revealed the history of her conflict with Wei Yunqing. She gave Haoyi a Rejuvenation Fluid formula, and Haoyi recognized that it could be altered into the poison Flower Visage.

• Yunxi told Venerable Haoyi that she had rushed into Yuling’s tribulation because he had protected and provided for her, and she accepted the risk despite her damaged foundation.
• Yunxi admitted she had helped spread word about Wei Yunqing’s spirit plants and explained that Wei Yunqing and her mother had mistreated her since childhood.
• Venerable Haoyi asked Yunxi to prepare Rejuvenation Fluid, and Yunxi instead wrote down and gifted her the formula.
• Venerable Haoyi examined the formula and observed that adding one medicinal ingredient would turn it into the poison Flower Visage.

Venerable Haoyi questioned Yunxi about Zuoqiu’s escape and asked her to help expose traitors in the Haoran Sect by providing Flower Visage. After warning Yunxi that Huaxian Sect suspected her of taking the Baohua Mountain Secret Realm, Haoyi met Yuling and urged him to protect his disciple.

• Venerable Haoyi told Yunxi that Zuoqiu had escaped the Haoran Sect by abandoning his physical body, and Yunxi suspected a traitor had helped him flee.
• Haoyi revealed she had taken the Soul Nourishing Stone from Haohui and explained that she had removed the Evil Soul from Yu Su, whose body still needed purification.
• Haoyi asked Yunxi to help root out traitors and give her Flower Visage; Yunxi supplied two tubes and explained why she had used the medicine on Wei Nanfeng.
• Haoyi warned Yunxi to remain in the sect because suspects might seek her for an antidote and Huaxian Sect was watching her over suspicions about the Baohua Mountain Secret Realm.
• Yunxi swore she had not refined the Secret Realm, and the laws of heaven and earth confirmed her words.
• Haoyi met Yuling on Lingxue Peak, praised Yunxi for her resourcefulness and for helping resolve his tribulation, and told him to protect her.

Leng Ruohan learned that Yunxi was the variable foretold by the Founding Ancestor and was ordered to protect her while she recovered. Meanwhile, Wei Yunqing tried to learn about Yunxi and remove the Evil Soul hidden in her sea of consciousness, but she could not reach Lingxue Peak.

• Venerable Haoyi confirmed that Yunxi was the variable whose arrival had changed Leng Ruohan’s fatal tribulation, and ordered him to keep her safe while she recuperated.
• After Haoyi left Lingxue Peak, Sect Master Yugeng arranged new Sect Missions, keeping Sheng Yuhong busy.
• Wei Yunqing met Sheng Yuhong at the Mission Hall and asked whether Yunxi had awakened, but he knew nothing because he had been stopped outside Lingxue Peak’s formation.
• Wei Yunqing considered sending the Evil Soul in her sea of consciousness into Yunxi, but abandoned the plan when she realized she could not enter Lingxue Peak.
• Wei Yunqing accompanied Sheng Yuhong to the Inner Sect Mission Hall, where he politely entered the rear hall to avoid becoming entangled with her.

After half a year of recovering from her injuries, Yunxi was targeted by two people who used a demand for the Flower Visage antidote as a cover for a soul search and abduction. Haoyi and Yuling stopped them, leaving one attacker dead and the other captured.

• Wei Yunqing left the Haoran Sect after choosing a mission, while the Evil Soul mocked her interest in Yunxi and she reinforced the seals on it.
• Yunxi spent half a year repairing her Meridians and nurturing her Nascent Soul and damaged treasures because her Dantian could not store Spiritual Qi.
• A male cultivator entered Yunxi’s courtyard at night and demanded the antidote for Flower Visage, then tried to seize her and search her soul.
• Haoyi appeared, froze the intruder, and told Yunxi that the demand was a pretext to distract her master while others sought her soul and the Breath-Concealing Potion formula.
• A second attacker slipped into Yunxi’s shadow, but Yuling moved her to safety as Haoyi killed the rogue cultivator and took the other assailant away severely injured.

Yunxi learned that evil cultivators had infiltrated the sect’s Law Enforcement Hall and helped Zuoqiu conceal his schemes, while Leng Ruohan was summoned by Old Ancestor Hao Yi. As Yunxi waited in Peak Summit Hall, she discussed her injuries and Rosy Cloud’s recovery with Dian Dian, then discovered him clinging to her lips.

• Leng Ruohan checked Yunxi’s recovery and told her that most of her Meridians had healed, while her Dantian injury remained difficult to treat.
• Leng Ruohan told Yunxi that some evil cultivators had been identified, but Zuoqiu remained missing and disciples had taken the Soul Nourishing Stone containing his divine soul out of the sect.
• Leng Ruohan recalled that the Law Enforcement Hall and its intelligence network, the “Honeycomb,” had been infiltrated and purged, and that Old Ancestor Hao Yi was investigating from the bottom up.
• After receiving a Message Talisman, Leng Ruohan sent Yunxi to Peak Summit Hall while he went to meet Old Ancestor Hao Yi.
• Yunxi asked Dian Dian about Rosy Cloud and explained her Dantian injury, then offered to set him free if it could not be repaired; Dian Dian ended up hanging from her lips.

Haoyi and the Haoran Sect’s elders planned to use Hao Ting to expose hidden spies while concealing Yunxi, but a staged disturbance at Lingxue Peak ended with Yuling returning injured. The chapter leaves the sect’s Nascent Soul cultivators shocked as Haohui reveals that Liu Qichong is a Spirit Transformation Venerable.

• Yunxi reassured Dian Dian that Haoyi and Yuling would help her find a way to repair her Dantian.
• Haoyi told the elders that he had killed the disguised evil cultivator and planned to keep Hao Ting alive to send the Breath-Concealing Potion formula to the enemy.
• Yuling advised against faking Yunxi’s death, and Haoyi agreed that she should be hidden somewhere no one could find her.
• The elders arranged a disturbance at Lingxue Peak as cover for their efforts to expose spies within the sect.
• Haohui returned to Haoran Peak with the injured Yuling and asked who had recruited Liu Qichong into the sect.
• Haohui revealed that Liu Qichong was a Spirit Transformation Venerable, shocking the gathered Nascent Soul cultivators.

Haoran Sect announced Liu Qichong’s attempt to abduct Wei Yunxi and sent her to the back mountain to recover, prompting her relatives to strengthen their precautions. Yunxi was secretly taken to the sect’s Honeycomb intelligence center, where Yugeng explained that the investigation into the compromised network was still underway.

• Haohui ordered Yuling to send the unconscious Yunxi to the back mountain and go into seclusion while Yugeng took charge of the remaining work.
• Yugeng issued a sect-wide announcement about Liu Qichong’s attack, and Wei Yunting, Wei Zonghan, and Wei Zong Jin visited Yuling to ask about Yunxi.
• Yuling reassured Yunxi’s relatives that she was safe in the back mountain and warned them that the wicked cultivators might target them or the Wei Family.
• Wei Yunting urged Wei Zong Jin to warn the family head, and the three relatives left for the Wei Family together.
• Yunxi followed Yugeng into the Honeycomb, where he explained how Hao Yi had investigated the compromised intelligence network and suspected the Bee King had hidden important information.

Yunxi learned that Old Ancestor Hao Yi wanted her to review five hundred years of discarded Honeycomb messages while staying hidden and recovering. She entered Honeycomb disguised as Venerable Yuling, with the sect spreading a cover story about his injuries and fallen cultivation.

• Yugeng told Yunxi that Honeycomb would review messages previously filtered out, and that Hao Yi had assigned her to help search them for overlooked information.
• Yugeng explained that Yunxi and Yuling would be sent separately to the Back Mountain for safety, with Yuling stabilizing his cultivation and Yunxi secretly working in Honeycomb.
• Yunxi agreed to disguise herself as Yuling after Yugeng explained that Yuling had approved the plan and her Spirit Transformation-level divine sense would help conceal the disguise.
• Yugeng gave Yunxi Yuling's Dharma robes and personal items, and Yunxi successfully imitated his appearance, aura, and manner of speaking.
• Yunxi received authority to review sect intelligence in Honeycomb, where cultivators were told that Yuling had been severely injured and had secretly come there while recovering.

While recovering in the Haoran Sect, Yunxi spent five years studying old records and uncovered clues about Old Ancestor Hao Yi's extraordinary longevity and cultivation technique. Wei Yunqing entered a Secret Realm and found a newly formed Exotic Flame, while Sheng Yuhong worried about Yunxi; the chapter ended with Hao Yi asking Yunxi whether she was curious about his technique.

• Yunxi studied sealed information while recovering, cultivated carefully, and left Dian Dian to care for Rosy Cloud and the Witch Tribe descendants in her space.
• Wei Yunqing completed her Sect Mission, entered a fixed Secret Realm with several Rogue Cultivators, and lost her pursuer after random teleportation scattered them.
• Wei Yunqing arrived in a volcanic crater and began trying to subdue a newly formed Exotic Flame.
• Sheng Yuhong worried about Yunxi's injuries but could not bring himself to ask Yugeng to let him visit her.
• After five years of reviewing records, Yunxi found that Hao Yi had appeared during major Haoran Sect upheavals and that his longevity was linked to his cultivation technique.
• Yunxi visited Hao Yi in the Back Mountain, and he asked whether she was curious about the technique he practiced.

Yunxi reported to Old Ancestor Hao Yi that demonic cultivators appeared to be weakening the Weiyu Realm by eliminating talented disciples and manipulating their successors. After he promised to seek evidence, Hao Yi invited Yunxi to join Dark Night Profound Rain, Haoran Sect’s secret defense group.

• Yunxi learned that Haoyi’s cultivation technique required him to disperse his cultivation and start over nine times, with the timing and duration under his control.
• Yunxi gave Haoyi her findings and explained that demonic cultivators seemed to provoke chaos by targeting talented disciples while avoiding direct blame for their deaths.
• Yunxi described how suspicious successors replaced the dead disciples, often with ties to powerful elders, and how most later faded from prominence.
• Haoyi praised the importance of Yunxi’s discovery, said he would seek supporting evidence, and instructed her to keep screening information in the Honeycomb.
• Haoyi asked Yunxi to join Dark Night Profound Rain and revealed that its code names belonged to him and Haoran Sect’s Founding Ancestor.

Yunxi accepted Old Ancestor Hao Yi’s trial to become the sect’s eyes and ears, then began processing a mountain of intelligence in the Honeycomb. Meanwhile, Wei Yunqing was transported to the Eastern Domain after surviving three years at sea and sought out Yunmen Temple to deal with the Evil Soul in her sea of consciousness.

• Old Ancestor Hao Yi named Yunxi’s investigation and future intelligence work as trials for inheriting the codename “Dark Night,” then sent a secret message using Realm-Transmitting Incense.
• Yunxi returned to the Honeycomb and learned that Hao Yi had ordered screened information jade slips delivered to her every three days, so she began reviewing them.
• Wei Yunqing subdued the Fire Heart Flame, looted an underground herb garden, and was transported from the Secret Realm to the ocean.
• After three years of fighting sea beasts and crossing the ocean, Wei Yunqing reached the Eastern Domain and discovered that Buddhist cultivation suppressed the Evil Soul in her consciousness.
• Wei Yunqing decided to seek help at Yunmen Temple, where Buddha Son Yunchen had been assigned to serve as a sweeping monk.

Wei Yunqing sought Yunmen Temple’s help to remove an Evil Soul, while Yunxi doubted it had truly been expelled. Old Ancestor Haoyi then revealed that most cultivators from the Weiyu Realm who ascended to the Spirit Realm were killed, prompting Yunxi to question why their realm was being suppressed.

• Wei Yunqing asked Buddha Son Yunchen and Yun Ze to remove the Evil Soul sealed in her sea of consciousness, and they agreed to help.
• Wei Yunxi learned that Wei Yunqing had expelled the Evil Soul and was secluded to form her Nascent Soul, but she suspected the threat remained and ordered spies to watch her.
• Old Ancestor Haoyi told Yunxi that fewer than one in ten Weiyu Realm cultivators who ascended within the past five hundred years remained alive unless they joined powerful factions.
• Haoyi explained that the Weiling Realm had at least nine lower realms and largely ignored the deaths of Weiyu Realm ascendants.
• Yunxi argued that talented Weiyu Realm cultivators had been suppressed and questioned why their realm was repeatedly targeted.

Yunxi and Venerable Haoyi uncovered evidence that powerful forces were suppressing the Weiyu Realm by targeting its talented cultivators, while Yunxi found records suggesting the attacks were preventing the realm from advancing. As she continued recovering and investigating, the Seven-Colored Lotus bloomed.

• Venerable Haoyi summoned Haohui, Haoqing, and Hao Yan, shared the evidence Yunxi had found, and agreed to contact Venerable Minghong and alert the Famous Sword Sect about the suppression of the Weiyu Realm.
• Haohui urged the sect to secretly protect its Elite Disciples, and Haoyi ordered the Honeycomb to screen them for possible targets and future successors.
• Yunxi found records explaining how a realm could advance through accumulated ascensions and suspected that the mastermind was killing outstanding disciples to prevent the Weiyu Realm's evolution.
• Yunxi discovered a prophecy that the Weiyu Realm's variable would fall upon the Haoran Sect and privately suspected that she was the variable, but recorded only her broader theory in a jade slip.
• After eight years, Yunxi's Meridian injuries had healed, but the hole in her Dantian was growing; Dian Dian then told her that the Seven-Colored Lotus had bloomed.

Yunxi learned that the Seven-Colored Lotus could repair and protect her Dantian, then began screening Haoran Sect’s Elite Disciples for Old Ancestor Hao Yi. After presenting her analysis of the Weiyu Realm’s suppression, she shared another discovery about the disciples.

• The Immortal Spirit Grass explained that the Seven-Colored Lotus could repair Yunxi’s Dantian and had bloomed early after it used a top-grade Spiritual Vein.
• Deity confirmed that the barely ninth-grade lotus could repair Yunxi’s Dantian and instructed her to drip one drop of heart’s blood onto its core for seven days before fusing it with her Dantian.
• Yunxi asked Dian Dian and the Immortal Spirit to guard the lotus while she prepared to use it, then received Old Ancestor Hao Yi’s task to assess the potential of the sect’s Elite Disciples.
• Yunxi reviewed the histories and relationships of more than one thousand Elite Disciples and found recurring connections between them and other cultivators.
• Yunxi presented Hao Yi with her analysis of the Weiyu Realm’s suppression and a second jade slip detailing her discovery about the Elite Disciples.

Yunxi reported her discoveries about the plots surrounding the Elite Disciples, and Haoyi arranged for the Law Enforcement Hall to investigate while giving Yunxi a secluded Immortal Cave. After Yuling emerged from seclusion and learned what Yunxi had uncovered, he urged her to repair her Dantian before the Grand Competition of the Five Regions.

• Haoyi praised Yunxi's investigation and agreed to have the Law Enforcement Hall capture some suspicious cultivators openly and others secretly.
• Haoyi gave Yunxi a Jade Token to an Immortal Cave and told her to hand the Honeycomb over to her master, Yuling.
• Yuling emerged from seclusion after stabilizing his cultivation at the early Deity Transformation stage and went to meet Yunxi.
• Yunxi removed her Glazed Jade Mask, briefed Yuling on the past five years, and handed him her collected jade slips and the Bee King duties.
• Yunxi told Yuling that the Medicine Immortal Sect's inheritance contained a method to repair her Dantian, and he urged her to enter seclusion before the Grand Competition of the Five Regions in two years.

Old Ancestor Haoyi shared evidence of the evil cultivators’ conspiracy with Venerable Mingjia and urged the Famous Sword Sect to investigate and coordinate with the other regions. Meanwhile, Yunxi began fusing the Seven-Colored Lotus, and Wei Yunqing triggered her Nascent Soul tribulation.

• Yunxi returned her master's Identity Jade Token and entered seclusion, while Venerable Yuling examined the new jade slips piled in the Honeycomb.
• Old Ancestor Haoyi gave Venerable Mingjia evidence uncovered by the Haoran Sect, and he agreed to investigate the conspiracy and alert the Western Region’s sects and clans.
• Haoyi told Mingjia that Zuoqiu had escaped the Haoran Sect as a divine soul after conspiring with evil cultivators, and Mingjia resolved to investigate Li Chang’s escape and purge his sect.
• Yunxi spent seven days nourishing the Seven-Colored Lotus with her heart’s blood, then began its second refinement and fusion in her Dantian.
• Wei Yunqing triggered her Nascent Soul tribulation lightning while in seclusion at Yunmen Temple.

With Yun Ze’s help, Wei Yunqing drove out the sealed Evil Soul and entered seclusion at Yunmen Temple, where she faced a dangerous Nascent Soul tribulation. The final lightning bolt trapped her in a Heart Demon illusion as Yunxi continued repairing her Dantian with the Seven-Colored Lotus.

• Yun Ze helped Wei Yunqing expel the Evil Soul, though a thread of gray qi secretly remained in her sea of consciousness.
• Wei Yunqing broke through to the Nascent Soul Realm and endured the first two waves of tribulation lightning with pills, Dharma treasures, and an array.
• The Crimson Bracelet shielded Wei Yunqing from most of the eighth bolt, but the final black lightning struck her unconscious.
• Yun Ze recognized the tribulation as a Heart Demon tribulation, and Yunchen said Wei Yunqing had to overcome the illusion herself.
• Wei Yunqing’s illusion showed her growing jealous of the woman Sheng Yuhong rescued, and thoughts of killing her began to take hold.
• Yunxi’s red lotus petal repaired her Dantian, and she began fusing the orange petal into it.

Yunxi completed the Seven-Colored Lotus’s fusion with her Dantian, repaired its damage, and stabilized her cultivation at the peak of the Nascent Soul Middle Stage. After visiting her master, she learned that the Wei Family was secure under the Haoran Sect’s protection and that Wei Yunqing remained injured and in seclusion at Yunmen Temple.

• Yunxi absorbed Spiritual Qi after the Seven-Colored Lotus fully merged with her Dantian, then broke through to the peak of the Nascent Soul Middle Stage before choosing not to advance further.
• Haohui and Hao Yan discussed Yunxi’s rapid progress and the dangers facing the Weiyu Realm while they guarded her Immortal Cave.
• Yunxi left seclusion, greeted Haohui and Hao Yan, and went to see her master, Yuling.
• Yuling gave Yunxi jade slips about the Wei Family and Wei Yunqing, and Yunxi learned that the Haoran Sect had protected the Wei Family’s Rejuvenation Fluid business in exchange for a share of its profits.
• Yunxi read that Wei Yunqing had survived a perilous Nascent Soul tribulation at Yunmen Temple but remained badly injured and in seclusion.

Yunxi learned that Wei Yunqing had barely survived her Nascent Soul tribulation and reviewed evidence of a wider scheme targeting elite disciples across the cultivation world. After confirming that Haoran Sect was temporarily stable, Yunxi decided to prepare for the Grand Competition of the Five Regions and return to the Wei Family.

• Yunxi learned that Yun Ze had saved Wei Yunqing from an Evil Soul and a failed tribulation, leaving her Nascent Soul cultivation unstable.
• Yunxi read reports about evil cultivators manipulating disciples to harm elite disciples in Haoran Sect and the Famous Sword Sect.
• Mingjia and Haoyi investigated other regions’ leading sects and delivered warnings, ending their visit at Huaxian Sect.
• Yunxi told Yuling that she wanted to compete in the Grand Competition of the Five Regions and return to the Wei Family in Haoran City.
• Yuling gave Yunxi a reinforced Identity Jade Token, and Yunxi left Lingxue Peak.

Haoyi and Mingjia visited Huatang at Huaxian Sect to warn her that evil cultivators had infiltrated sects across the Weiyu Realm and might exploit the upcoming Grand Competition of the Five Regions. Huatang agreed to investigate and purge her sect, while the threat to the competition remained looming.

• Xian Yao escorted Haoyi and Mingjia to Huatang, who read their jade slips about the evil cultivators’ infiltration and plans.
• Haoyi told Five Poisons Hermit Xiang Sizi that the Rogue Cultivator Alliance could be targeted and that the escaped traitor Zuoqiu might seek a body to possess.
• Haoyi gave Xiang Sizi a vial of Flower Visage, and Xiang Sizi vowed to keep the Rogue Cultivator Alliance from falling into chaos.
• Haoyi and Mingjia warned Spirit Transformation cultivators across the Four Regions, prompting them to secretly search their sects for infiltrators.
• Huatang promised to investigate the threat and purge Huaxian Sect, while Mingjia warned that evil cultivators could strike during the upcoming Grand Competition of the Five Regions.