Chapter Summaries

After Wei Yunxi and Kun Sang thwarted Liu Moyan’s scheme, Kunyu City announced the Evil Cultivators’ plot and began searching the Liu family grounds. During Liu Moyan’s interrogation, his threat against the Wei family prompted Yunxi to summon Dian Dian and crush her jade cup.

• Kun Sang thanked Wei Yunxi for exposing Liu Moyan’s betrayal, and they returned to the City Lord’s Mansion to interrogate him while Kunyu City’s protection formation stayed active.
• City guards surrounded the Liu family grounds and displayed a notice explaining Liu Moyan’s sacrifice of his clan and urging residents to report Evil Cultivators.
• Wei Yunxi released Liu Moyan from the ice, and he admitted he had sacrificed his family for a chance to advance his cultivation.
• Liu Moyan claimed the Wei family would still die for Yunxi, so Kun Sang struck him and Yunxi summoned Dian Dian, which produced the Portable Herb Garden, before she crushed her jade cup.

Yunxi discovered that Wei Moguu had been manipulated into killing more than thirty Wei Family cultivators, including the dying Third Elder, and burned their bodies after they passed away. Kun Sang searched Liu Moyan’s soul and uncovered an evil cultivator’s plan to seize control of Kunyu City, while Yunxi’s return had exposed it before it could succeed.

• Yunxi found the Wei Family cultivators critically wounded in her Portable Herb Garden, and the Third Elder explained that Wei Moguu had attacked them after his mind was thrown into chaos.
• The Third Elder died after entrusting his Storage Pouch to Yunxi, and Yunxi used Ziyan’s purple flames to cremate the dead Wei Family members.
• Kun Sang searched Liu Moyan’s soul and learned that a veiled evil cultivator had persuaded him to sacrifice his clan for power and arranged the attack on Yunxi and the Wei Family.
• Kun Sang learned that the evil cultivators intended to use Liu Moyan to target the Feng Family and then eliminate him, allowing them to take control of Kunyu City.
• Yunxi realized that her return to Kunyu City had revealed the plot before the evil cultivators could carry it out.

After the evil cultivators’ attack, Yunxi arranged for the surviving Witch Tribe descendants to stay with the Feng Family and prepared to return to Haoran City. Two pursuers picked up her trail after she left Kunyu City.

• Yunxi told Feng Feng that the evil cultivators had targeted her and described how she had saved the Wei Family members who survived their scheme.
• Yunxi decided to leave her secret forces with the Feng Family, and Feng Feng agreed to shelter them.
• Yunxi brought the Witch Tribe descendants out of her space, taught them the Cultivation Realm’s common language, and entrusted them to Feng Feng’s care.
• Yunxi told the Witch Tribe descendants that their Ancestor had sacrificed herself to help them escape, and they grieved her death.
• Yunxi left a Storage Ring of giant-beast meat with Feng Feng, departed Kunyu City for Haoran City, and drew two pursuers.

Wei Yunxi trapped two Nascent Soul cultivators who had followed her to carry out an assassination mission and captured Xun Yue after Bao Jun abandoned her. Yunxi learned their employer had promised them passage to the Spirit Realm and tried to turn Xun Yue against her Dao Companion.

• Wei Yunxi accelerated away from Kunyu City, and Bao Jun and Xun Yue debated whether to continue following her to fulfill their mission.
• Wei Yunxi lured the pair into a blizzard domain and attacked them with countless Ice Needles.
• Bao Jun and Xun Yue tried to escape through space, but Xun Yue was injured and left behind while Bao Jun fled alone.
• Wei Yunxi captured Xun Yue and learned they had accepted a mission to kill her in exchange for passage to the Spirit Realm.
• Wei Yunxi questioned whether Bao Jun had planned to abandon Xun Yue and use her to injure Yunxi.

Yunxi spared Xun Yue after exposing her plan to kill Yunxi for Bao Jun, then confronted Xin Qiujian, the demonic cultivator tied to the Su Family Secret Realm and the plots against her. The chapter left Yunxi attacking Xin Qiujian inside her Wind Snow Domain, having shattered his Body Protection Barrier.

• Yunxi recognized that Xun Yue had acted to fulfill Bao Jun’s wish and gave her Message Talismans so she could watch his reaction to her supposed death.
• Yunxi revealed that other cultivators were following Xun Yue, then withdrew her Wind Snow Domain and let her leave.
• Yunxi froze the clouds to expose Xin Qiujian, whom Dian Dian identified as the demonic cultivator from the Su Family Secret Realm.
• Yunxi accused Xin Qiujian of working with evil cultivators, supplying Liu Moyan with a token, and using evil gu to control her clansmen.
• Yunxi trapped Xin Qiujian in her Wind Snow Domain and battered him with the Seven-Star Deadly Staff, breaking his Body Protection Barrier with her fourth strike.

Yunxi defeated Xin Qiujian, captured his Nascent Soul, and left his corpse behind before returning to the Haoran Sect. After news of the fight spread, she invited Xun Kun to visit, and he asked his master Linlang for permission to travel there.

• Yunxi used her Wind Snow Domain, ice attacks, lightning, and Divine Soul Stab to defeat Xin Qiujian and destroy his sea of consciousness.
• Yunxi captured Xin Qiujian's Nascent Soul, took his sword and Storage Ring, stored his corpse, and recovered before leaving.
• A hidden male cultivator recorded that Bao Jun Xun Yue had followed Wei Yunxi, and news of the fight spread through the Western Regions.
• Bao Jun mistakenly believed Yunxi had killed Xun Yue, while Xun Yue broke with Bao Jun and continued her cultivation alone.
• Yunxi sent a message inviting Xun Kun to the Haoran Sect, and Xun Kun asked Linlang to let him travel there.
• Linlang asked Xun Kun whether he could reach the Haoran Sect safely.

Yunxi returned to Haoran Sect after dealing with Xin Qiujian and explained the events of her journey to Yuling. She planned to visit the Wei Family to report the deaths in Kunyu City and settle the remaining matters there.

• Xun Kun accepted a direction-finding treasure from Venerable Linlang and left Kunmo Sect for Haoran Sect.
• Yunxi shook off cultivators following her and returned safely to Haoran Sect.
• Yunxi told Yuling about her journey, and he explained that Wan Bowen had reported she killed Bao Jun Xun Yue and a demonic cultivator.
• Yunxi clarified that Xin Qiujian had been possessed and that she had sealed the possessing Nascent Soul, while Bao Jun Xun Yue had escaped.
• Yunxi told Yuling she had invited Xun Kun to Haoran Sect and needed to report Kunyu City's losses to the Wei Family.
• Yunxi left the sect before Wei Zonghao could meet her, and he returned to the family.

Yunxi told the Wei Family that evil cultivators had infiltrated their Kunyu City grounds and forced her to abandon them, then gave the clan resources to strengthen its younger generation. She reunited with Wei Zonghao, explained Zuoqiu’s betrayal, and was urged to accept a Substitute Puppet to protect herself.

• Yunxi returned to the Wei Family in Haoran City and told Wei Lingtao and the clan elders that evil cultivators had infiltrated their Kunyu City grounds and tried to trap and kill her.
• Yunxi announced that the Wei Family would abandon its Kunyu City grounds until its younger generation could reclaim them, and she provided resources to strengthen the clan.
• Wei Lingtao and the elders accepted Yunxi’s decision and resolved to focus on training the younger disciples.
• Wei Zonghao reunited with Yunxi and questioned her about enduring two Spirit Transformation lightning tribulations for Venerable Yuling.
• Yunxi told Wei Zonghao that Zuoqiu had tried to harm Yuling, that his divine soul had escaped, and that Wei Yunqing was under surveillance.
• Wei Zonghao gave Yunxi a Substitute Puppet and insisted she bind it so it could die in her place once.

Wei Yunxi reunited with Wei Zonghao, learned about his travels and the puppet master’s cave, and warned him about the evil cultivators and the coming Grand Competition of the Five Regions. After they learned that Ancestor Chenyin had formed her Nascent Soul and set out to visit her, a message summoned Yunxi back to the sect because Xiao He was investigating his younger sister’s supposed murder near the Su family.

• Wei Zonghao gave Yunxi a Substitute Puppet, and she bound it to herself with her blood and a wisp of her divine soul.
• Zonghao recounted his travels, including exploring the puppet master’s Immortal Cave with Zong Jin and Song Ke, where Song Ke obtained the inheritance and Zonghao gathered cultivation resources.
• Yunxi told Zonghao about the Wei Family’s troubles with evil cultivators and advised him to be cautious and reconsider joining the Grand Competition of the Five Regions.
• Yunxi and Zonghao learned that Great-Aunt Chenyin had successfully formed her Nascent Soul, then returned to the sect to visit her and report the family’s circumstances.
• A Message Talisman summoned Yunxi back to the sect after she learned that Xiao He had reached the Western Regions and was investigating his younger sister’s supposed murder near the Su family.

Wei Chenyin advanced to the Nascent Soul stage and returned to oversee the Wei Family, while Yunxi prepared to travel with Xiao Lei to Qianling City. The chapter left Yunxi departing on her mission to reunite Xiao He with his sister and retrieve information from the Western Regions.

• Yunxi accepted Yuling’s order to meet Xiao He and his younger sister in the Western Regions and bring back information, then waited for Xiao Lei to finish cultivating.
• Zonghao delivered Yunxi’s congratulatory gift to Wei Chenyin and helped receive visitors celebrating her Nascent Soul advancement.
• Wei Chenyin returned to Haoran City with the Wei family disciples, warned them about the danger posed by evil cultivators, and urged them to repay Yunxi’s kindness.
• Wei Chenyin stayed with the family to guide its cultivation and plan its future, while Wei Lingkai gathered spirit plants and set out to search for the rest.
• Yunting and Zonghan left Haoran Sect for experience, while Zonghao and Zong Jin entered seclusion and Yunying continued cultivating at her own pace.
• After confirming the Wei Family was stable, Yunxi set out with Xiao Lei for Qianling City.

Yunxi reunited Xiao Lei with her brother Xiao He in Qianling City and learned that evil cultivators planned to use the Grand Competition of the Five Regions to attack the righteous cultivators. After sending the warning to the sect, Yunxi took Xiao Lei away while Xiao He asked her to repair his sister’s Meridians.

• Yunxi took Xiao Lei from Lingxue Peak to meet Xiao He, warning her not to use spiritual power while her Meridians healed.
• Yunxi learned from Xun Yue that Bao Jun had taken up with another cultivator, and Xun Yue decided to claim the resources she had saved for him.
• Yunxi found Xiao He in Qianling City, read the jade slip containing his latest mission, and reunited him with Xiao Lei.
• Xiao He told Xiao Lei to recount her capture and rescue while Yunxi discovered the evil cultivators’ plan to unleash evil creatures during the Grand Competition of the Five Regions.
• Yunxi sent the warning through the Honeycomb Jade Pendant, and Yuling hurried to inform Old Ancestor Hao Yi.
• Xiao He asked Yunxi to repair Xiao Lei’s Meridians, but Yunxi refused his offer to investigate further and said he did not need to seek information.

Yunxi advised Xiao He to keep working undercover among the evil cultivators while searching for proof about his sister and another hideout token. On her way out of Qianling City, she met Su Qingzhuo, whose master had told him to wait for a cultivator the Eye of Shattering Illusions could not see through.

• Yunxi told Xiao He to use the Su family to stage a return to the Central Domain and confront the evil cultivators if they could not prove his sister was killed by Dao cultivators.
• Yunxi showed Xiao He a Black Token and asked him to track where it appeared, then explained why the evil cultivators would keep him alive and urged him to act more hysterical.
• After thinking through Yunxi's advice overnight, Xiao He left Qianling City to continue dealing with the evil cultivators.
• Three Golden Core cultivators stopped Yunxi outside Qianling City and brought her to meet their young master, Su Qingzhuo.
• Su Qingzhuo's attempt to see through Yunxi's disguise injured his eyes, and Yunxi subdued his guards before demanding the reason for his invitation.
• Su Qingzhuo admitted that his master had told him to wait in Qianling City for the cultivator whom the Eye of Shattering Illusions could not see through.

Yunxi learned that Su Qingzhuo’s master had sent him to Qianling City to seek her help escaping a calamity threatening the Su family. She told him to secretly investigate the disappearance of the family’s Secret Realm, which she suspected was connected to evil cultivators.

• Su Qingzhuo told Yunxi that his master, True Lord Fengfen of the Tianyun Sect, had divined a disaster for the Su family and sent him to Qianling City to find his benefactor.
• Su Qingzhuo said his master had instructed him to follow Yunxi’s directions, and he revealed that her merit showed through his Eye of Shattering Illusions.
• Yunxi asked Su Qingzhuo to investigate why the Su family’s Secret Realm had disappeared five years after its last opening.
• Yunxi exchanged Communication Jade Slip auras with Su Qingzhuo and warned him to investigate secretly because evil cultivators might be targeting the Su family.
• Su Qingzhuo questioned who Yunxi really was, and Yunxi pointed out that he had only just thought to ask.

Wei Yunxi revealed her identity to Su Qingzhuo and warned him to investigate a threat to the Su family discreetly. Meanwhile, Wei Yunqing was thrown into the Qianling Mountain Range by a failed teleportation, and the Su family began investigating Xiao He after he confirmed their Secret Realm had vanished.

• Wei Yunxi told Su Qingzhuo to keep their meeting secret and investigate why the Su family might be targeted, then left Qianling City as he returned to the family residence.
• Wei Yunqing emerged from eight years of seclusion at Yunmen Temple and set out for her sect to qualify for the Grand Competition of the Five Regions.
• A malfunction in the cross-region Teleportation Formation threw Wei Yunqing into the Qianling Mountain Range, where a fourth-tier Wolf King wounded her and she counterattacked.
• Xiao He alerted the Su family to the vanished Secret Realm, then fled when the family tried to bring him in for questioning.
• Su Qifeng questioned his subordinates about why Xiao He had investigated the Su family's vanished Secret Realm and how he could have located it.

Xiao He learned that his sister Xiao Lei had nearly died in the Su Family Secret Realm and resolved to use his own value to secure her future. Back at Haoran Sect, Yunxi gave Xiao Lei medicine to heal her meridians and was asked to choose a Dao name, leaving three options for her master to decide between.

• Su Qifeng ordered his disciples to keep tracking Xiao He and bring him back, forcing Xiao He to flee to his Central Domain hideout after two clashes.
• A black-robed cultivator showed Xiao He an Imprint Jade proving Xiao Lei had been taken into the Su Family Secret Realm and nearly killed during the slaughter there.
• Xiao He tried to self-detonate his Golden Core, but the black-robed cultivator sealed his spiritual power and argued that Xiao He himself had put his sister in danger.
• Yunxi gave Xiao Lei restorative serum and told her to take one drop daily for nine days to repair her meridians.
• Yunxi met Zhou Lingchuan, the Sect Leader's second disciple, then received a jade slip of possible Dao names from Yugeng.
• Yunxi selected Ran Ya, Ranxi, and Ran Hong for her master to consider.

Yunxi discussed her future as Lingxue Peak’s Peak Master and the danger surrounding the Grand Competition of the Five Regions with Sect Master Yugeng and Yuling. Yuling chose “Ranxi” as her Dao name, while the sect prepared for the Evil Cultivators’ plans.

• Yunxi told Yugeng she wanted to take over Lingxue Peak after the Grand Competition of the Five Regions and would seek her master’s advice about participating.
• Zhou Lingchuan remarked that Yunxi seemed different from the rumors, and Yugeng explained her remarkable comprehension and self-reliant cultivation.
• Yuling told Yunxi that Old Ancestor Hao Yi had sent Venerable Haoqing to seek a secret alliance with the Famous Sword Sect, and Yunxi assessed the Evil Cultivators’ intelligence as partly true and partly false.
• Yunxi told Yuling about Su Qingzhuo and her suggestion that he investigate the Su family, whose Secret Realm had concealed Evil Cultivators.
• Yunxi reported the three Dao names she had selected, and Yuling chose “Ranxi.”

Yunxi declined a ceremony for her Dao name and secured a place in the Grand Competition of the Five Regions, then spent time preparing at Lingxue Peak. While sorting her treasures, she discovered that a golden gemstone could strengthen the Seven-Star Deadly Staff, leaving her eager to learn more about its power.

• Yunxi declined a Dao-name ceremony, and Yuling agreed to register her name without one.
• Yuling told Yunxi she could enter the Grand Competition of the Five Regions directly and gave her the rules and past battle records.
• Yunxi asked Yuling about her Wind Snow Domain, and she revealed that her Water Spiritual Root had mutated into an Ice Spiritual Root.
• Yunxi returned to Lingxue Peak and spent half a month studying and preparing supplies for the competition.
• Yunxi found the golden gemstone Qin had given her, and the Seven-Star Deadly Staff absorbed it into Yuhang Star, gaining gold-element power.

Yunxi continued investigating the Seven-Star Deadly Staff while cultivating to light more of its stars. Wei Yunqing returned to the Wei Family and learned that Wei Chenyin and Yunxi had both advanced to the Nascent Soul stage, with Yunxi already at the Middle Stage.

• Yunxi deduced that pure attribute treasures could light the Seven-Star Deadly Staff's stars and grant her powers from Spiritual Roots she did not possess.
• Wei Yunqing returned to Haoran City after surviving the fourth-tier Wolf King's pursuit and collecting treasures in the Qianling Mountain Range.
• Wei Yunqing released her pressure at Wei Manor, but Wei Chenyin's stronger pressure rebounded it, and Wei Lingtao escorted her to meet the family ancestor.
• Wei Chenyin reprimanded Wei Yunqing for injuring family members with her pressure and warned her not to blame Yunxi for the evil cultivators' retaliation.
• Wei Chenyin told Wei Yunqing that Yunxi had awakened, reached the Nascent Soul Middle Stage, and completed several Sect Missions, leaving Wei Yunqing shaken.

Wei Yunqing returned to the Haoran Sect, where Yunxi confronted her about her master Zuoqiu’s crimes. Venerable Haoyan took Wei Yunqing to the Law Enforcement Hall for questioning, while Elder Han learned that Zuoqiu had betrayed the sect.

• Wei Yunqing reunited with Du Ruolan, learned that the Liu family had been destroyed after siding with evil cultivators, and returned to the Haoran Sect.
• Honeycomb alerted Yunxi to Wei Yunqing’s return, and Yunxi asked Dian Dian’s contacts to watch her movements.
• Yunxi met Wei Yunqing at the Inner Sect Disciple Hall and told her that Zuoqiu had harmed fellow sect members and betrayed the sect.
• Venerable Haoyan stopped Wei Yunqing as she tried to leave and took her to the Law Enforcement Hall for questioning.
• Elder Han asked Yunxi whether Zuoqiu had betrayed the sect, and Yunxi confirmed that the Law Enforcement Hall had been investigating him.

Yunxi arranged for Elder Han to register her for the Grand Competition and let the sect hear that Wei Yunqing had been taken to the Law Enforcement Hall, while keeping Zuoqiu’s betrayal quiet. Under questioning, Wei Yunqing described her dealings with Zuoqiu and surrendered his gifts, but a new rumor soon accused her of stealing a fellow disciple’s treasures.

• Yunxi registered for the Grand Competition as Ranxi and told Elder Han not to publicize Zuoqiu’s betrayal, though he could confirm that Wei Yunqing had been taken for questioning.
• Elder Han recounted the events in the inner hall to curious disciples, and news of Wei Yunqing’s questioning spread through the sect.
• Yunxi praised Elder Han for spreading suspicion about Wei Yunqing while she listened to gossip on Lingxue Peak.
• Hao Yan questioned Wei Yunqing, who explained how Zuoqiu had sought her out and handed over everything he had given her.
• Hao Yan took Wei Yunqing to the Law Enforcement Hall dungeon to see Zuoqiu.
• Ye Tianhua sent out Message Talismans, and a rumor spread that Wei Yunqing had embezzled a fellow disciple’s Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures.