Chapter Summaries

Wei Yunxi prepared to leave Kunyu City for the Haoran Sect after learning that Wei Lingyue was protecting the person behind Zhenzhu’s plot. As the Wei family’s eight chosen disciples gathered to depart with True Lord Yufeng, Feng Jiaqing gave Yunxi final advice and accepted a bottle she had prepared for the Soul Lamp.

• Wei Lingyue gave Wei Yunxi a pair of Ruby Earrings, and Feng Xiu identified them as a First-Rank Defensive Artifact and offered to have them altered.
• Wei Yunxi asked whether Wei Lingyue was protecting Zhenzhu, and Feng Xiu explained that he was shielding the person who had ordered the attack, whom Yunxi identified as Concubine Du.
• Wei Lingtao gathered the Wei family’s eight chosen disciples, gave them a speech, and distributed First-Rank Storage Pouches with basic supplies.
• Wei Yunxi and the other disciples assembled at Kunyu City’s gates, where True Lord Yufeng allowed them one quarter of an hour to say farewell before departing.
• Feng Jiaqing advised Wei Yunxi to stay cautious in the sect and said he would keep her mother’s belongings until she reached Foundation Establishment.
• Wei Yunxi gave Feng Jiaqing a porcelain bottle prepared for the Soul Lamp, and he put it away before sending her back to the Wei family group.

True Lord Yufeng brought the children to the Haoran Sect, where their first entry trial required them to cross a mountain and reach a gathering point within three days. Wei Yunting organized the candidates into groups, and the Wei siblings prepared to set out.

• True Lord Yufeng took the children aboard his Flying Boat, and Wei Yunting explained the journey and the sect-entry trial to the Wei Family children.
• Wei Yunqing envied Wei Yunxi’s apparent support from Patriarch Feng after Du Ruolan’s punishment left her without extra resources.
• After three days, True Lord Yufeng dropped eighty-six children on a mountain and announced they had to reach the Haoran Sect gathering point before sunset in three days.
• Wei Yunting calmed the crying children and urged them to form teams, while True Lord Yufeng watched her organize them.
• The Wei Family children swallowed Bigu pills, and Wei Yunxi speculated that spirit beast meat could be made into more satisfying pills before Wei Yunqing warned them about the trial.

Wei Yunxi and the other children traveled down the mountain toward the Haoran Sect, but a Weasel Rat Beast swarm attacked their group and pursued them even after they left its territory. Wei Yunting ordered the teams to scatter so they could identify which team the beasts were following.

• Wei Yunting led the children down the mountain in three teams, while Wei Yunxi walked with Wei Zonghao and gossiped about Wei Yunqing.
• After the group rested and continued walking, a Weasel Rat Beast swarm chased the children at the rear, and some children disappeared when the beasts caught them.
• Wei Yunting told everyone to keep running, but Wei Yunxi suspected Wei Yunqing might have provoked the beasts by taking something during the rest.
• When the swarm continued pursuing the lead team, Wei Yunting ordered the team leaders to split up and scatter into the forest.

Wei Yunxi and Wei Zonghao hid from the Weasel Rat Swarm and realized Wei Yunqing had likely provoked it by taking a cub. Wei Yunting forced Wei Yunqing to return the cub, but after the group regrouped, Wei Zongjin noticed that Yunxi and Zonghao were missing.

• Wei Yunxi pulled the exhausted Wei Zonghao into an Isolation Formation Disk to hide from the pursuing Weasel Rat Beasts.
• Wei Yunxi and Wei Zonghao suspected Wei Yunqing had taken something from the swarm and set off to catch up with Wei Yunting's group.
• Wei Yunting ordered Wei Yunqing to return the cub she had hidden in her sleeve, and the Weasel Rat Beasts stopped pursuing the group.
• Wei Zonghan rebuked Wei Yunqing for endangering the Wei Family disciples, and Wei Yunting warned her not to act willfully again.
• Wei Zongjin noticed that Wei Yunxi and Wei Zonghao were missing.

Wei Yunxi and Wei Zonghao secretly followed Wei Yunting’s group, and Wei Yunxi realized that Wei Yunqing’s misfortune seemed to worsen when she was no longer nearby. The chapter left the Wei family group trapped in an Isolation Formation as Green-Eyed Wolves surrounded them.

• Wei Yunting discovered that Wei Yunxi and Wei Zonghao were missing, while Wei Yunqing suggested they might have been eliminated.
• Wei Yunxi and Wei Zonghao caught up with the main group but chose to follow at a distance and surprise them near the sect gates.
• At night, Wei Yunxi spotted a Green-Eyed Wolf Pack passing beneath their tree and warned Wei Zonghao to stay put until dawn.
• The wolves surrounded Wei Yunting’s group and attacked their Isolation Formation; Wei Zonghan recognized Wei Yunqing’s firewood as Spirit Jade Wood that could attract wolves giving birth.
• Wei Yunxi reasoned that Wei Yunqing’s bad luck had fallen on her directly without Wei Yunxi nearby, then arranged for herself and Wei Zonghao to take turns keeping watch.

Wei Yunxi secretly kept the Spirit Jade Wood that had drawn the Green-Eyed Wolf Pack to Wei Yunting’s group, then led Wei Zonghao away from them. The two rested by a stream, where Yunxi gathered Weiwei grass to hide their scent as they continued through the mountains.

• Wei Yunting and Wei Zonghan extinguished the fire and used a Gale Talisman to disperse the Spirit Jade Wood’s scent before throwing the wood away to lure the wolves from their formation.
• The Spirit Jade Wood hit Wei Zonghao, and Wei Yunxi collected it, erased the traces, and hid with him as the Green-Eyed Wolf Pack searched nearby and then returned to attack the formation.
• Wei Yunting’s group spent the night defending the formation, with Wei Yunqing reluctantly contributing a low-grade spirit stone, until the wolves left at dawn.
• Wei Yunting told the exhausted group to sleep for an hour, while Wei Yunxi and Wei Zonghao slipped away and took a detour to avoid them.
• Wei Yunxi and Wei Zonghao rested by a stream, and Yunxi gathered Weiwei grass to cover their scent from animals.

Wei Yunxi and Wei Zonghao used Weiwei grass to disguise their scent as they continued toward the Haoran Sect. They freed a trapped Red-maned Horse and asked it to carry them, leaving its answer unknown.

• Wei Yunxi taught Wei Zonghao how to find Weiwei grass, and they gathered and rubbed it on themselves to mask their scent.
• Wei Yunting's group reached the stream, where Wei Yunqing was attacked by a Water Lizard before Wei Zonghan drove it away with a fireball.
• Wei Yunxi and Wei Zonghao avoided resting by the stream at midday and climbed a tree to rest instead.
• After hearing a horse neigh, Wei Yunxi and Wei Zonghao spotted a young Red-maned Horse trapped in Iron Thorns and decided to free it and ask for a ride.
• Wei Zonghao calmed the foal with sugar cubes while Wei Yunxi cut through the thorns, and after it escaped, he asked it to take them to the Haoran Sect.

Wei Yunxi and Wei Zonghao reached the Haoran Sect with help from Little Red-maned Horse and waited before its mountain gate. While other assessment groups struggled through the forest, Wei Yunxi broke through to the fourth layer of Qi Refining, and Wei Yunting’s group eventually arrived at the sect square.

• Wei Yunxi and Wei Zonghao traded Wei Zonghao’s candy for a ride on Little Red-maned Horse and reached the Haoran Sect ahead of the deadline.
• Song Ke recorded their names and rankings, then took Little Red-maned Horse back to Spirit Beast Peak as the children settled down to meditate.
• Wei Yunting’s group traveled faster after deciding Wei Yunqing should stay close and not take action, while Wei Yunqing felt rejected by the others.
• Wei Yunxi cultivated through the night and reached the fourth layer of Qi Refining, though the Flower Diadem Immortal Artifact concealed her progress by lowering her apparent cultivation.
• Wei Yunxi gave Wei Zonghao a Bigu pill and offered to stand guard while he tried to break through.
• Wei Yunting’s group arrived at the square before the sect that afternoon, where someone pointed out a person in the gathering crowd.

Wei Yunxi and the Wei family children reached the Haoran Sect and began the second entrance examination, the Heart-Peeking Mirror. Inside it, Wei Yunxi saw a vision of Wei Yunqing and a man preparing to take her Spiritual Root and Golden Core, then recognized the scene from the novel she had read before transmigrating.

• Wei Yunxi and Wei Zonghao explained how they had been separated from the others, while Wei Yunying revealed that Wei Yunqing had caused the Weasel Rat Swarm and Green-Eyed Wolf Pack incidents.
• Wei Yunxi and Wei Zonghao shared how Weiwei grass juice had helped them avoid spirit beasts, leaving Wei Yunqing isolated from the group.
• Song Ke introduced the Heart-Peeking Mirror as the second test, and Wei Yunqing entered it first, followed by the other children.
• Wei Yunxi entered the mirror and found herself chained in a dungeon, where an adult Wei Yunqing and a handsome man accused her of harming Wei Yunqing.
• Wei Yunxi recognized the scene as part of the novel and denounced the pair for planning to take her Spiritual Root, Golden Core, and aptitude.

Wei Yunxi broke the Heart-Peeking Mirror’s illusion and passed the second assessment first, then waited with the other Wei family children as they emerged. Wei Yunqing finally came out in a battered, hostile state, and Song Ke knocked her unconscious before Wei Yunting asked what had happened.

• Wei Yunxi summoned the Flower Diadem Immortal Artifact, shattered the illusion, and was expelled from the Heart-Peeking Mirror, becoming the first to pass the second assessment.
• Song Ke praised Wei Yunxi, while the observing Haoran Sect elders learned she had Three Spiritual Roots and abandoned the idea of taking her as a disciple.
• Wei Yunxi rested with Wei Zonghao and told him that she had caught Wei Yunqing trying to steal from her and fought to reclaim her possession.
• Wei Zongyu, Wei Yunying, Wei Yunting, Wei Zonghan, and Wei Zongjin emerged from the mirror and joined the others, while Wei Yunqing remained inside.
• Wei Yunqing finally tumbled out bloodied and disheveled, glaring at Wei Yunxi; Song Ke knocked her unconscious, and Wei Yunting asked what had happened to her younger sister.

Wei Yunxi and the other children began the Haoran Sect’s final assessment, entering identical gates that led to an endless Blue Stone Path. After days of walking, Wei Yunxi recovered her strength with a spirit stone and continued through a punishing rain.

• Song Ke explained that Wei Yunqing had been put to sleep after remaining too long in the Heart-Peeking Mirror, and Wei Yunxi watched over her until she woke.
• Song Ke announced the final assessment and opened three identical gates, telling the children they had to walk through one to pass.
• Wei Yunxi chose the middle gate, and Wei Yunqing followed her while the other Wei family children entered the remaining gates.
• Wei Yunxi found a seemingly endless Blue Stone Path and kept walking, resting and eating as she went.
• When she found no Spiritual Qi to meditate with, Wei Yunxi used a Low-Grade spirit stone to restore her strength and continued onward.
• Three days later, heavy rain began falling on Wei Yunxi as she pressed on without shelter.

Wei Yunxi endured the final trial and became an Outer Sect Disciple of the Haoran Sect. After the assessment, Song Ke took the successful candidates to register, and the Wei Family members prepared to move into their Outer Sect residences.

• Wei Yunxi outran a spirit beast and reached the Blue Stone Path’s exit after enduring the prolonged trial.
• Song Ke congratulated Wei Yunxi on passing and told her to rest while the assessment continued.
• Wei Yunqing also passed, and all eight members of the Wei Family qualified for the Outer Sect.
• Song Ke assigned disciples with poorer aptitude to the Service Peak and took the remaining twenty-two to the Outer Disciple Hall.
• Steward Zheng began issuing Identity Jade Tokens and told Wei Yunting to wait with the Wei Family so he could take them to their residences.

The new disciples received their supplies and settled into the Outer Sect, where Wei Yunxi reviewed her assessment while Wei Yunqing pondered the strange differences between an illusion and reality. After the Wei Family led the newcomers around the sect, a mocking Outer Sect Disciple challenged their ambitions.

• Steward Zheng gave the twenty-two new disciples their identity tokens, cultivation supplies, residences, and a one-year deadline to reach the Qi Refining third layer.
• Wei Zonghao chose two neighboring courtyards, and the Wei Family divided into groups of men and women; Wei Yunxi and the others selected rooms in the girls' courtyard.
• Wei Yunxi rested after reviewing her assessment, while Wei Yunqing recalled the Heart-Peeking Mirror illusion and decided what she should do next.
• The next morning, the eight Wei Family disciples and the other newcomers went to the Dining Hall, then Wei Yunting led them around the Outer Sect's facilities and nine peaks.
• An unfamiliar Outer Sect Disciple mocked the newcomers' ambition to cultivate on peaks with richer Spiritual Qi.

Wei Yunting and the Wei Family’s new disciples refused Chen Feng’s attempt to intimidate them into pledging themselves to a mountain and taking their resources. After Wei Yunting sent word to Wei Lingkai, the group returned to their courtyard, while Chen Feng’s fellow disciples discussed why he had started targeting newcomers.

• Chen Feng confronted the new disciples and warned them to choose a mountain to pledge themselves to, but Wei Yunting said the Wei Family had come to cultivate, not seek a backer.
• Wei Yunting sent a Message Talisman to Wei Lingkai and stood firm against Chen Feng, who left after threatening to remember their refusal.
• Wei Yunting warned the group to travel together and protect their resources, while Wei Zonghan said Wei Lingkai would visit the Outer Sect.
• The group returned to the courtyard, where Wei Yunqing failed to explain herself; Wei Yunxi began cultivating the Qi Refining Chapter of the Soul Refining Art.
• Wei Lingkai received Wei Yunting’s message and planned to visit the Outer Sect the next day.
• Chen Feng’s courtyard companions said he had targeted the newcomers for resources because he felt abandoned by Junior Sister Tang and wanted to speed up his cultivation.

Chen Feng recalled why he had endured Tang Ru’s forced concubinage and resolved to remember his grievance against the Wei family disciples. Wei Lingkai visited his nieces and nephews, promised to address Chen Feng’s harassment, and equipped them to cultivate while warning them to act cautiously.

• Chen Feng remembered that Tang Ru had submitted to a Golden Core Elder to protect their standing, and that he had been too weak to help her.
• Wei Yunxi joined the other Wei family disciples in welcoming their uncle, Wei Lingkai, who received the family’s cultivation resources and heard about their sect examination and Chen Feng’s harassment.
• Wei Lingkai praised the disciples, promised to speak with Elder Zheng so Chen Feng would not trouble them again, and warned them not to abuse their family’s backing.
• Wei Lingkai set cultivation goals for the group and gave them Nourishing Spirit Pills and a jade slip of Qi Refining spells.
• Wei Lingkai offered to take the eight disciples to the Lecture Hall and introduce them to the Outer Sect Elder.

After Wei Lingkai’s intervention drove Chen Feng into hiding, the Wei family disciples settled into separate routines at the Outer Sect. Wei Yunxi spent her days reading in the Library Tower while Wei Yunqing accompanied her and appeared to search for something, leaving Wei Yunxi suspicious of her sister’s intentions.

• Wei Lingkai’s intervention became gossip across the Outer Sect, and Chen Feng decided to wait before targeting the Wei family disciples again.
• The Wei family members chose different cultivation routines, while Wei Yunxi went to the Library Tower to study and Wei Yunqing insisted on accompanying her.
• Wei Yunxi read through the day, returned to their residence, and spent the night cultivating.
• On the next day, Wei Yunxi selected different books, while Wei Yunqing carefully read the ones Wei Yunxi had handled the day before.
• Wei Yunxi suspected Wei Yunqing was searching for something connected to the books she had read.

Wei Yunxi spent several days reading in the Library while Wei Yunqing waited for her to uncover a hidden cultivation technique. After finding a travelogue and decoding its strange sentences, Wei Yunxi discovered the Wind-root movement technique "Thousand Shadows Swaying in the Wind."

• Wei Yunxi used her strong divine sense to read and memorize books while keeping Wei Yunqing from discovering the opportunity she sought.
• Wei Yunying asked Wei Yunxi about her Library reading, and Wei Yunqing eventually stopped accompanying her to focus on cultivation.
• Wei Yunxi organized the Library's first-floor books, and the guarding Foundation Establishment cultivator directed her to a hidden travelogue beneath a bookshelf.
• Wei Yunxi read "The Romantic History of the Xuanqing Scholar," a diary-style travelogue, and later bought Spirit Flour Buns with Wei Yunying and Wei Yunqing.
• Wei Yunxi recalled the travelogue's disjointed sentences, extracted their characters into a chant, and discovered the movement technique "Thousand Shadows Swaying in the Wind."

Wei Yunxi kept the wind-element cultivation technique from Wei Yunqing and began cultivating at the Cultivation Hall, where an unexpected nap raised her cultivation. She later logged into the Wooden Token Space and considered a trade offer for the technique.

• Wei Yunxi memorized and destroyed the incantation for Thousand Shadows Swaying in the Wind, deciding to keep the technique from Wei Yunqing.
• Wei Yunqing visited Wei Yunxi's formation at night, but Wei Yunxi ignored her; the next morning, Wei Yunxi deflected her questions and said she would stop going to the Library.
• Wei Yunting, Wei Yunying, Wei Yunqing, and Wei Yunxi went to the Cultivation Hall, where each received a numbered token and entered a cultivation room.
• Wei Yunxi activated the room's Isolation Formation and fell asleep; Spiritual Qi gathered around her, and she woke to find her displayed cultivation at the second layer of Qi Refining and her actual cultivation at the fifth.
• Wei Yunxi logged into the Wooden Token Space, told the group about her new wind-element technique, and asked Survival is the Hardest Truth what they would trade for it.

Wei Yunxi arranged a three-way resource exchange between Survival is the Hardest Truth and Tribal Warrior, then tried a nourishing Milk Fruit while cultivating. After changing cultivation rooms to avoid a dispute over reserved space, she learned the trade could provide her with five hundred Milk Fruits.

• Wei Yunxi declined Survival is the Hardest Truth’s Crystal Cores and weapons, then proposed that the group members help broker a three-way resource exchange.
• Tribal Warrior offered Milk Fruit and Little Yunyan for an Energy Shield, and Survival is the Hardest Truth agreed to provide the shield and its Crystal Cores.
• Tribal Warrior sent Wei Yunxi a Milk Fruit, which she ate and found nourishing and suitable for her.
• When Wei Yunxi tried to renew her cultivation room, the disciple on duty reassigned her because an older disciple had reserved the room; Wei Yunqing and Wei Yunying later learned she had returned to cultivation.
• Wei Yunxi rejoined the chat and asked how many Milk Fruits Tribal Warrior could provide, and he offered five hundred, the limit of his tribe’s supply.

Wei Yunxi completed a three-way resource exchange for Milk Fruits, then reviewed her cultivation plans and continued practicing. Her rapid progress surprised her sisters, and the next day the Wei Family gathered to find that several of them had also advanced in cultivation.

• Wei Yunxi traded Thousand Shadows Swaying in the Wind, Survival is the Hardest Truth, an energy shield, and Crystal Cores with the Tribal Warrior and other Chat Group members for five baskets of Milk Fruits.
• Wei Yunxi assessed her cultivation, resources, and plans to study alchemy and talisman drawing, then resumed cultivating while resolving to sleep at least three shichen each day.
• Wei Yunting noticed Wei Yunxi’s progress, and Wei Yunxi explained that diligent cultivation, abundant Spiritual Qi, and a top-grade Nourishing Spirit Pill had helped her advance.
• The next day, the eight Wei Family members gathered and learned that Wei Yunting and Wei Zonghan had reached the fourth layer of Qi Refining, while Wei Zonghao had reached the second layer and Wei Zongjin and Wei Zongyu were close to it.