Chapter Summaries

Huatang learned that evil cultivators might exploit the Grand Competition of the Five Regions, while Wei Yunxi updated her sect records after advancing to the Nascent Soul Middle Stage. When Yunxi sensed a pursuer on her way to Haoran City, she confronted him and their battle escalated until someone called for her to stop.

• Haoyi told Huatang that Wei Yunxi had not contracted the new Baohua Mountain Secret Realm and that Huaxian Sect could stop watching her.
• Yunxi updated her Identity Jade Token, collected her Nascent Soul supplies, and learned that Venerable Yuling had paid her debt to the sect.
• Sheng Yuhong learned Yunxi had reached the Nascent Soul Middle Stage and realized the gap between them had grown too wide to pursue her.
• Yunxi sensed someone following her, changed course to protect the Wei Family, and confronted a white-clad Nascent Soul cultivator.
• Yunxi struck the pursuer with a divine sense attack and fought him with her Seven-Star Deadly Staff and Shadow Clones until their attacks leveled the mountain.
• The male cultivator prepared a stronger sword attack, but someone called, "Yunxi, stop!"

Yunxi returned to the Wei Family after recovering from her injuries and advancing to the Nascent Soul Middle Stage. She warned Wei Lingtao and Wei Lingkai about the demonic cultivators and laid out plans to strengthen the family, before a red figure rushed into the hall.

• Haoyi stopped Yunxi from killing a Huaxian Sect cultivator who had been sent to investigate whether she refined the Secret Realm of Baohua Mountain.
• Yunxi returned to Wei Manor, where Wei Lingtao, Wei Lingkai, and the clan elders welcomed her and learned that she had recovered and reached the Nascent Soul Middle Stage.
• Yunxi learned that Alchemy Peak had made a fair agreement with the Wei Family concerning Rejuvenation Fluid profits and the sect's protection.
• Yunxi showed Wei Lingtao and Wei Lingkai information about demonic cultivators and urged the family to increase resources, inspect its members for infiltration, and bring Feng Family disciples to Haoran City.
• Yunxi gave Wei Lingtao cultivation resources and a Nascent Soul Pill, then urged Wei Lingkai to advance as Great-Aunt Chenyin prepared to form her Nascent Soul.
• A red figure rushed into the discussion hall before Wei Lingkai could reply.

Wei Yunxi returned to the Wei Family, exposed Du Ruolan’s ignorance of her Nascent Soul breakthrough, and helped the family investigate infiltrators. She learned Wei Lingkai’s injuries still limited his cultivation and offered hope of healing him before Wei Lingyue arrived to speak with her.

• Du Ruolan barged into the council hall to ask about Wei Yunqing, and Yunxi revealed she had formed a Nascent Soul without Yunqing telling her.
• Wei Lingtao expelled Du Ruolan and ordered the elders to find the spies she had placed in the Wei Family.
• Yunxi gave Dian Dian to Wei Lingtao to help identify disciples who had recently contacted evil cultivators.
• Wei Lingkai told Yunxi that his damaged heart meridians would prevent him from advancing beyond Core Formation, and she found a medicinal formula that might heal him.
• Yunxi gave Wei Lingkai a list of the spirit plants needed for the Life Tracing formula, then greeted her arriving father, Wei Lingyue.

Yunxi confronted Wei Lingyue about her mother Feng Jiayun’s death and forced him to admit he had pushed her into a fissure. After warning him to stay away and secretly placing an Ice Needle in his Dantian, Yunxi left Wei Lingyue to return to Du Ruolan, where he blamed Du Ruolan for provoking the conflict and declared that Yunxi would inherit his branch.

• Wei Lingyue told Yunxi he had only just learned she had returned, then asked where Wei Yunqing was.
• Yunxi rejected Wei Lingyue’s call for the sisters to support each other and accused him of causing Feng Jiayun’s death.
• Wei Lingyue admitted he had accidentally pushed Feng Jiayun into a fissure while they were exploring an Immortal Cave.
• Yunxi knocked Wei Lingyue down with her Nascent Soul pressure, warned him to stay away, and secretly placed an Ice Needle in his Dantian.
• Wei Lingyue returned to Du Ruolan, rebuked her for trying to drive a wedge between Yunxi and Wei Yunqing, and said Yunxi would inherit his branch.

Yunxi returned to the Wei Family, secured Wei Lingtao’s promise not to interfere in her dealings with Wei Lingyue, and helped uncover suspicious contacts with evil cultivators. After visiting Lord Yuhuo and collaborating with him on replacement medicinal agents, she learned the sect was investigating pills that might have been tampered with; two message talismans then arrived for her.

• Yunxi recorded Wei Lingyue admitting he caused Feng Jiayun’s death and gave the jade slip to Wei Lingtao, who agreed the Wei Family would not interfere in her future actions against Wei Lingyue.
• Wei Lingtao told Yunxi that Dian Dian had identified more than a dozen clan members who had recently contacted evil cultivators, and that they had been secretly imprisoned for questioning.
• Yunxi stayed with the Wei Family for three days while it made arrangements and contacted the Feng Family; Feng Jiayun then set out for Haoran City with selected clan members.
• Yunxi visited Lord Yuhuo to thank him for protecting the Wei Family, then worked with him for over a month to develop more than a dozen substitutes for medicinal agents made from extinct spirit plants.
• Yuhuo told Yunxi that the Law Enforcement Hall had found problems with two disciples who transported pills to the sect storehouse, prompting a screening of the low-grade pills.
• Yunxi discussed Sheng Yuhong’s cultivation with Yuhuo, and two Message Talismans flew toward her.

Yunxi received a mission to investigate a Golden Core trial Secret Realm suspected of being controlled by evil cultivators, then repaid Zhao Jinmu for his past help with a valuable sword-refining material. She met Feng Jiaqing in Haoran City and reassured him that the traitor who had attacked her was caught, before setting out on her mission.

• Old Ancestor Haoyi ordered Yunxi to investigate the troubled Golden Core trial Secret Realm and eliminate any evil cultivators controlling it.
• Yunxi met Zhao Jinmu at the sect gate and gave him a thousand-year Purple Gold Meteorite Stone and a recommendation to Xi Muran to help him refine his Lifebound Sword.
• Zhao Jinmu met Xi Muran, who brought him to True Lord Yu Lian; Zhao later refined Shuo Xi and made a name for himself at the Grand Competition of the Five Regions.
• Yunxi traveled to Haoran City and met Feng Jiaqing, telling him about her injuries and assuring him that the traitor who attacked her had been caught.
• Feng Jiaqing expressed concern about traitors in great sects, and Yunxi warned that cultivators with unstable Dao hearts could be led astray by evil cultivators.

Wei Yunxi exposed an Evil Soul possessing Feng Xiaoyan and warned Feng Jiaqing that the evil cultivators planned to use the Feng Family to infiltrate the Wei Family. She then watched a closed Golden Core secret realm for a way in, learned Wei Yunqing was recovering in seclusion, arranged to acquire a defense shield, and captured a suspicious figure near the realm entrance.

• Yunxi told Feng Jiaqing about the evil cultivators' infiltration and revealed that Feng Xiaoyan had been possessed by an Evil Soul seeking to infiltrate the Wei Family.
• Yunxi searched Feng Xiaoyan's soul and gave Feng Jiaqing a jade slip listing the Evil Soul's plans and contacts, then Feng Jiaqing summoned elders to investigate the Feng Family.
• Yunxi reached the Golden Core secret realm, found it closed for fifty years, and monitored its surroundings for over a month.
• Yunxi learned from Buddha Son Yunchen that Wei Yunqing had nearly been possessed and had entered seclusion to stabilize her Nascent Soul cultivation.
• Yunxi exchanged medicine recipes with Star Trek for a Capsule House and arranged to obtain a Hong Energy Defense Shield and supplies for a hundred years.
• Yunxi seized a black-clad figure approaching the secret realm entrance with her Lightning Strike Technique and dragged him into the Capsule House.

Yunxi captured Xiao He and learned that he had returned to the Western Regions to rescue his sister, Xiao Lei, from an evil cultivator-held Secret Realm. She persuaded him to become her informant by promising to save Xiao Lei and let the evil cultivators believe they were both dead, then sent Venerable Yuling her plan.

• Yunxi woke Xiao He and searched his Storage Ring, finding a Black Token that he warned would trigger a restriction if its imprint were forcibly erased.
• Xiao He admitted the Black Token belonged to an evil cultivator he had killed and granted entry to a Secret Realm where Xiao Lei was imprisoned.
• Xiao He explained that the evil cultivators had captured Xiao Lei to control him, and Yunxi offered to rescue her in exchange for his service as an informant.
• Yunxi proposed destroying the Secret Realm and faking Xiao Lei's death to preserve Xiao He's standing among the evil cultivators.
• Xiao He swore a Heavenly Dao oath not to betray Yunxi, then told her how he had tracked Xiao Lei and secretly returned to the Western Regions.
• After verifying Xiao He's account, Yunxi sent her plan to Venerable Yuling, who left the Honeycomb after reading it.

Yunxi entered the Secret Realm in disguise and began attacking the evil cultivators, while the captured Xiao Lei struggled to resist being turned into a puppet. The chapter ended as an evil cultivator released the blood-pool captives and sent the converted puppets to confront Yunxi.

• Hao Yi approved Yunxi’s plan to infiltrate and eliminate the evil cultivators while protecting the Secret Realm.
• Yunxi sent Xiao He back to the Central Domain and prepared to enter the Secret Realm in disguise with Dian Dian.
• Yunxi entered the Secret Realm and killed several evil cultivators with Dian Dian’s guidance and her magical weapons.
• Xiao Lei endured the Evil Qi in the blood pool as she hoped her brother would rescue her.
• An evil cultivator released the blood-pool captives and sent the converted puppets toward Yunxi.

Yunxi rescued Xiao Lei from the blood pool, destroyed the evil cultivator, and cleansed the Secret Realm of Evil Qi. She purged the Evil Qi from Xiao Lei and left her unconscious but alive.

• Yunxi evaded the puppets' Golden Core explosions by taking Xiao Lei into her space, while the blasts destroyed the blood-pool cavern.
• Yunxi awakened Ziyan to burn away the scattered Evil Qi as she searched the Secret Realm for the fleeing evil cultivator.
• Ziyan found the evil cultivator, and Yunxi's Profound Thunder Purple Flame reduced him to ashes and cleansed the Secret Realm.
• Yunxi spread spirit seeds across the scorched earth, then brought Xiao Lei out of her space while Ziyan's flames purged the Evil Qi from her body.
• Yunxi told Xiao Lei that her brother had infiltrated the evil cultivators to save her, and Xiao Lei endured the burning until she could safely fall unconscious.

Yunxi agreed to save the Demon Beasts living in the unstable Secret Realm and moved them all into her Portable Space. After she escaped with Xiao Lei, the Secret Realm vanished from the Weiyu Realm, alarming the arriving Nascent Soul Cultivators.

• Yunxi met a fourth-rank red panda, who told her that evil cultivators had killed Spotted Tiger, harmed its companions, and drained the Secret Realm of its vitality.
• The red panda asked Yunxi to contract its companions and take them away before the Secret Realm collapsed, offering to acknowledge her as its master if she saved them all.
• Yunxi agreed, then used her divine sense to send every living thing in the Secret Realm into her Portable Space.
• Yunxi put away the Capsule Dharma House, collected the unconscious Xiao Lei, and used the Black Token to leave the Secret Realm.
• A quarter of an hour later, the Secret Realm shook and vanished from its location, and nearby Nascent Soul Cultivators arrived to investigate.

Yunxi watched the vanished Secret Realm and discovered that a demonic cultivator had inspected its entrance before returning to rescue Xiao Lei. She explained Xiao He's infiltration plan and the bargain that saved Xiao Lei, then took the unconscious girl away.

• Su Quan told the gathered cultivators that the Secret Realm had sealed itself away to recover, then left as they questioned his calm response.
• A black figure inspected the empty entrance at midnight, and a cultivator in Wuyou Mountain received a message and condemned its senders as idiots.
• Yunxi identified the figure's aura as belonging to a demonic cultivator and asked Dian Dian to remember it.
• Yunxi returned to the concealed Immortal Cave and found Xiao Lei awake and attacking the restriction.
• Yunxi told Xiao Lei that Xiao He had joined the evil cultivators to avenge their father, but had agreed to remain undercover in exchange for Xiao Lei's rescue and future cultivation.
• Xiao Lei lost consciousness, and Yunxi swept her away with Sleeve Universe.

Xiao He learned that Xiao Lei had supposedly been killed and received a new task from the hooded man, while Yunxi secretly brought the rescued Xiao Lei to Haoran Sect to heal. Xiao Lei awakened at Lingxue Peak, where Yunxi asked her to contact her brother without alerting the evil cultivators.

• Xiao He confronted the hooded man after learning that Xiao Lei had supposedly died, then accepted a jade slip with a new task so he could investigate the Secret Realm's disappearance.
• Yunxi told Old Ancestor Hao Yi that evil cultivators' detonations had damaged the Secret Realm, and Hao Yi instructed her to heal Xiao Lei and arrange contact with Xiao He.
• Yunxi used Hao Yi's authorization to bring Xiao Lei into Qingye Pool, where she monitored Xiao Lei's recovery and sent mission discoveries to the Honeycomb.
• After seven days, Xiao Lei awakened, and Yunxi brought her to Lingxue Peak and gave her cultivation resources.
• Yunxi asked Xiao Lei to message Xiao He that she was safe while avoiding the evil cultivators' suspicion.

Xiao Lei and Xiao He confirmed they were safe and arranged to meet, while Yunxi warned Xiao Lei about the lasting harm her brother’s past choices had caused. As Yunxi prepared for the siblings’ meeting and planned her next steps, her master Yuling supported her appointment as Lingxue Peak’s next Peak Master.

• Xiao He received Xiao Lei’s message confirming she had reached Haoran Sect, then disguised himself and boarded a Flying Ship back to the Western Regions with information for True Lord Wei.
• Xiao Lei told Yunxi that Xiao He wanted to deliver important information in person, and Yunxi agreed to let the siblings meet while keeping safeguards in place.
• Yunxi reminded Xiao Lei that Wei Lingkai’s life force and immortal path had been damaged by the Evil Formation, forcing Xiao Lei to confront the consequences of her brother’s choices.
• Yunxi sent Dian Dian into her space to check on the Secret Realm Demon Beasts and Witch Tribe descendants, then received Feng Jiaqing’s Message Talisman.
• Yuling told Sect Leader Yugeng that Yunxi was capable of becoming Lingxue Peak’s Peak Master, despite Yufeng’s concern that the appointment was too soon.

Yuling told Yunxi that Old Ancestor Hao Yi wanted him to lead the Honeycomb, so he asked her to choose between becoming Lingxue Peak's Peak Master and the Bee King. Yunxi agreed to inherit the peak after the Grand Competition of the Five Regions and then set out for Kunyu City to investigate the evil cultivators there.

• Yuling explained to Sect Master Yugeng that he would take charge of the Honeycomb and discussed reports of the Five Regions' purges of evil cultivators.
• Yugeng and Yuling discussed Venerable Xiang Sizi's crackdown on suspected evil cultivators in the Rogue Cultivator Alliance and Yuling's response to rumors about her.
• Yuling offered Yunxi the position of Lingxue Peak's Peak Master and revealed that she could instead become the Bee King.
• Yunxi asked to delay taking over Lingxue Peak until after the Grand Competition of the Five Regions, and Yuling agreed.
• Yunxi told Yuling she planned to investigate Kunyu City, then met Feng Jiaqing in Haoran City and departed that night.

Yunxi returned to Kunyu City and joined Old Ancestor Feng to search the Feng and Wei Families for Evil Cultivators. After capturing suspects, she exposed Feng Jiarong’s Dao Companion Qinan as an Evil Cultivator, leaving Feng Jiarong pleading for his rescue.

• Yunxi met Old Ancestor Feng secretly and warned him that Evil Cultivators might have infiltrated the Feng Family.
• Yunxi gave Feng Feng a list of Feng Family disciples who had contact with the earlier infiltrator, and they began investigating the clans.
• Yunxi followed Dian Dian’s directions around the Feng Family and captured two people who were dual cultivating.
• Feng Feng ordered the Feng Family members to stay in their courtyards while Yunxi and the elders questioned the suspects.
• Feng Jiarong defended Qinan, so Yunxi struck him with Profound Thunder Purple Flame and revealed his vicious nature as he screamed in pain.

Yunxi helped Old Ancestor Feng expose Feng Jiarong’s betrayal and Zhao Qinan’s scheme, then took a token linked to the evil cultivators. After returning to the Wei family mansion, she learned that something was wrong with the Wei Family.

• Yunxi stopped the divine soul escaping from Zhao Qinan and let Old Ancestor Feng search it, revealing Feng Jiarong’s betrayal of the Feng Family.
• Feng Feng told Feng Jiarong that Zhao Qinan had been raising her as a cauldron, and Yunxi found an evil-cultivator token among Zhao Qinan’s belongings.
• Dian Dian identified the token as having passed through the hands of the demonic cultivator who had investigated the Su Family Secret Realm, and Yunxi took it to bring back to her sect.
• Feng Jiarong realized Zhao Qinan had used an evil cultivation method to plunder her cultivation, so Old Ancestor Feng reversed her Meridians and sent her to the Mortal Realm.
• Feng Jiarong insulted Yunxi, who snapped her neck; Old Ancestor Feng burned her body to ash and defended Yunxi’s actions.
• Yunxi returned to the Wei family mansion, where Dian Dian warned her that something was wrong with the Wei Family.

Yunxi discovered that evil cultivators had laid the array that destroyed the Xiao Family around Wei Manor, intending to trap her. She informed Feng Feng and then City Lord Kun Sang of her plan to seal Kunyu City and eliminate the infiltrators, ending as she asked Kun Sang to secretly seal the city after she returned to Wei Manor.

• Yunxi and Dian Dian identified the evil cultivators’ array around Wei Manor as the same kind that had destroyed the Xiao Family.
• Yunxi told Feng Feng that the trap was meant for her and warned him to restrain the Feng Family and activate its protective formation when she made her move.
• Yunxi went to Kun Sang at the City Lord’s Mansion and gave him a jade slip describing the evil cultivators’ threat to Kunyu City.
• Kun Sang vowed not to let the evil cultivators take over the city, and Yunxi asked him to secretly seal Kunyu City after she returned to Wei Manor.

Wei Yunxi arranged with Kun Sang to seal Kunyu City and began moving the Wei family members in the city to Haoran City. After uncovering infiltrators who activated a Spirit Absorption Formation at Wei Manor, she escaped the trap, captured the evil cultivators behind it, and sealed Kunyu City.

• Kun Sang agreed to prevent evil cultivators from escaping Kunyu City, and Yunxi returned to Wei Manor.
• Yunxi told the Wei family members to pack and relocate to Haoran City because evil cultivators had targeted them.
• Yunxi and Dian Dian discovered infiltrators among the Wei family; Dian Dian carried the uninvolved clansmen to the City Lord's Mansion in the Portable Herb Garden.
• The infiltrators activated a Spirit Absorption Formation around Wei Manor, but Yunxi soul-searched one of them and escaped the formation.
• Yunxi captured the cultivators controlling the formation and brought them to the City Lord's Mansion as the City Protection Grand Formation sealed Kunyu City.

Yunxi hunted hidden evil cultivators in Kunyu City, then exposed Liu Moyan as the master of a Spirit Absorption Formation. She destroyed the formation and escaped with Kun Sang, but the Liu Estate was empty and no Liu family members had survived.

• Yunxi used her overwhelming pressure and Cold Frost Profound Ice Needles to kill cultivators seized by evil cultivators, while Kun Sang's guards detained those who confessed to helping them.
• Yunxi went to the Liu family's residence, accused them of hiding an evil cultivator, and persuaded Liu Moyan to let her and Kun Sang enter.
• Liu Moyan trapped Yunxi and Kun Sang inside a Spirit Absorption Formation, then fled to attack a weak point in Kunyu City's protective formation.
• Yunxi escaped the trap, shattered Liu Moyan's Dantian, and revealed that he had powered his cultivation with the lives of his clansmen.
• Yunxi used her Seven-Star Deadly Staff to call down lightning and destroy the Spirit Absorption Formation, freeing Kun Sang.
• Kun Sang confirmed that no one from the Liu family had survived, and Yunxi faced the empty Liu Estate.