Chapter Summaries

Yunxi destroyed the Evil Soul possessing the Shadow Gray Python and realized that she and Wei Yunqing had been trapped inside Huaxian Sect’s Scroll of Mountains and Rivers by evil cultivators. After Wei Yunqing’s luck teleported them into a vast hall, gray spirits rushed to possess them.

• Cong Shan battered the Shadow Gray Python while Yunxi’s Flower Ornament Immortal Artifact crushed the Evil Soul’s attack, revealing that a male cultivator on Wuyou Mountain had controlled it.
• Yunxi concluded that evil cultivators had trapped the Nascent Soul True Lords inside the Scroll of Mountains and Rivers, and she forced the shaken Wei Yunqing to lead the way out.
• Wei Yunqing tried to veer off course, but Yunxi’s Red Rope tied them together and they were teleported away before a Bi Fang Bird arrived and burned their former location.
• Yunxi and Wei Yunqing appeared in a vast hall, where gray spirits surged toward them and fought over their bodies; Yunxi summoned Ziyan to defend herself.

Yunxi and Wei Yunqing were trapped in a sealed hall inside the Scroll of Mountains and Rivers, where Evil Souls poured from silver pillars. They fought them off and discovered that escaping required breaking the seals without releasing the Evil Souls into the Weiyu Realm.

• Dian Dian woke and identified the hall as an evil cultivator's lair filled with dense Evil Qi.
• Yunxi used the Profound Thunder Purple Flame to repel the Evil Souls, while Wei Yunqing raised a Flame Vine barrier and reinforced it with the Nine Luminaries Star Wood Fire.
• Yunxi struck the ground with the Seven-Star Deadly Staff, spreading violet lightning that cleared part of the hall and revealed nine silver pillars carved with hideous faces.
• Yunxi inspected the hall and found sealing runes covering the ceiling, floor, and walls.
• Yunxi told Wei Yunqing they would have to break every seal to escape, but questioned whether they could risk releasing the Evil Souls into the Weiyu Realm.

Yunxi and Wei Yunqing fought off Evil Souls in a sealed hall, where Yunxi exposed Wei Yunqing’s Heart Demon and explained the danger of breaking the seal. After a Bi Fang Bird cleared the hall and the two began recovering, dozens of Nascent Soul Cultivators arrived, only for the Evil Souls to reappear.

• Yunxi provoked Wei Yunqing into revealing signs of her Heart Demon, then explained that the Evil Souls’ influence had weakened her defenses.
• A Bi Fang Bird formed from the sealing runes and burned away the Evil Qi, leaving Yunxi and Wei Yunqing to debate whether they should break the seal.
• Yunxi and Wei Yunqing began recovering their spiritual power while keeping watch over each other.
• Fifty or sixty Nascent Soul Cultivators, including Xun Kun, Yun Chen, Han Lian, and Shi Jun, were teleported into the hall.
• Wei Yunqing warned the newcomers about the Evil Souls, Yunxi urged them to disperse the gray mist, and Yun Chen used his Buddhist beads to attack it.

The Nascent Soul True Lords fought off a horde of Evil Souls after being trapped in the Scroll of Mountains and Rivers, then learned they faced a choice between breaking the seal and risking a catastrophe or being consumed. Yunxi stopped Wei Yunqing from scheming to escape and threatened to kill her if she endangered everyone.

• True Lord Huandie, Xun Kun, Shi Jun, True Lord Qingzhu, Han Lian, and the other Nascent Soul True Lords destroyed the Evil Souls surrounding them.
• Yunxi confirmed that Zhang Lingrui and Lin Keyang were missing and heard Buddha Son Yunchen, Han Lian, and the others describe how they had been trapped and teleported into the sealed space.
• Wei Yunqing explained that she and Yunxi had arrived first, and Buddha Son Yunchen warned that breaking the seal might release the Evil Souls while refusing to break it would leave them trapped.
• Yunxi saw Wei Yunqing plotting to persuade others to break the seal and placed the Cold Frost Profound Ice Needle in her Dantian.
• Yunxi rebuked Wei Yunqing for risking the Weiyu Realm and warned that she would kill her rather than let her release the Evil Souls.

Yunxi warned the Nascent Soul Cultivators that the Evil Souls could exploit their desperation, then explained why she believed the Scroll of Mountains and Rivers had been compromised. As Xianfeng considered the possibility of Huaxian Sect involvement, another group arrived and the gray mist began spreading again.

• Han Lian doused Wei Yunqing with water, and Buddha Son Yunchen calmed her with a Buddhist bead after the Evil Souls drove her into a rage.
• Xianfeng asked Yunxi to share her evidence, and Yunxi recounted the Haoran Sect’s warning about the Evil Cultivators and the poisoning attempt at the competition.
• Yunxi argued that the Spirit Transformation Venerables’ failure to stop the Scroll of Mountains and Rivers from pulling them in proved it was under enemy control.
• Yunxi suggested that an undetected forced binding of the unclaimed Mystic Treasure would indicate secret help from within Huaxian Sect, though Xianfeng also considered that it might have been tampered with during use.
• Illusory Butterfly asked whether Xianfeng knew the Scroll contained this place, and he denied knowing about it.
• Another group of Nascent Soul Cultivators appeared, including Lin Keyang and Zhang Lingrui, as gray mist spread through the hall and the Evil Souls began clamoring.

Yunxi and the other Nascent Soul Cultivators fought off another wave of Evil Souls in the Scroll of Mountains and Rivers. After learning the scroll may once have sealed Evil Cultivators, Yunxi warned everyone that stronger Evil Souls could appear, and the group waited to see whether defeating the next wave would let them escape.

• Lin Keyang and Zhang Lingrui joined Yunxi and helped the Nascent Soul Cultivators defeat the Evil Souls that had surrounded them.
• Wei Yunqing explained what had happened to Lin Keyang and Zhang Lingrui while Yunxi questioned Xian Qi about the Scroll of Mountains and Rivers.
• Xian Qi said Venerable Huabai had suggested using the scroll and that it might once have been a small world and an Immortal Artifact.
• Yunxi told the gathered cultivators that the scroll might have sealed Evil Cultivators and that increasingly powerful Evil Souls were awakening inside it.
• Zhang Lingrui asked Yunxi what they should do, and she said they should wait for the next wave and see whether defeating it would let them leave.

Yunxi helped the trapped cultivators plan how to survive and fight the Evil Souls, while concealing her knowledge of the seals. The group began rotating through battles from behind Yunxi’s Hong Energy Shield, and Wei Yunqing was sent to fight; another, stronger wave of Evil Souls then appeared.

• Wei Yunqing warned that the cultivators might run out of resources and be overwhelmed by powerful Evil Souls, but Yunxi urged them to make supplies and attempt breakthroughs.
• A cultivator asked whether they could escape by breaking the seals, and True Lord Xianfeng explained that their spells had not damaged the runes; Yunxi recognized the inscriptions but kept her knowledge to herself.
• Shi Jun invited Yunxi to a meeting where the regional representatives agreed to rotate fighters, support cultivation breakthroughs, and create a reserve squad.
• Yunxi contributed her Hong Energy Shield, and the Western Regions cultivators received one battle rotation off while everyone sheltered inside it.
• Yunxi ordered Wei Yunqing to join the first fight, and Wei Yunqing went out to battle the mid-Golden Core Evil Souls.
• After half an hour, a new wave of late-Golden Core Evil Souls emerged from every direction.

At Huaxian Sect, the Spirit Transformation cultivators worked to purify the Scroll of Mountains and Rivers while suspecting that Huabai or other insiders had helped the evil cultivators trap the Nascent Soul cultivators. Inside the scroll, Yunxi and the others faced another wave of stronger Evil Souls as newly arrived cultivators were attacked.

• Hao Yan and Xiang Sizi discussed the evil cultivators’ plot and suspected Huaxian Sect insiders had enabled them to seize the Scroll of Mountains and Rivers.
• Yuling arrived at Huaxian Sect, read Hao Yan’s account, and warned that the evil cultivators’ increasingly large schemes might involve Huabai and other high-level cultivators.
• A burst of blade light erupted from Huaxian Sect’s back mountain as the sect began purging someone, while Hao Yan joined Master Yunyi’s group to help purify the scroll.
• Inside the scroll, Wei Yunqing recovered after the fourth battle while Yunxi prepared to refine pills for the other cultivators.
• More cultivators were teleported into the great hall, where stronger Evil Souls immediately surged toward them.

Yunxi refined and distributed pills to prepare the trapped cultivators for increasingly powerful Evil Souls, while Xian Yao confirmed Yunxi’s suspicion about how they had entered the Sealed Land. The chapter ended with Xian Yao beginning to explain that a powerful evil cultivator had taken control of the Scroll of Mountains and Rivers.

• Xian Feng and Xian Qi led the fight against stronger Evil Souls, and the cultivators defeated them after two hours.
• Yunxi finished refining pills, gave them to the cultivators who had supplied spiritual plants, and earned their gratitude.
• Wei Yunqing asked Yunxi to refine pills, while Zhang Lingrui and Lin Keyang gave her ingredients for pills or elixirs.
• Xian Yao, Xian Xu, and Xian Feng approached Yunxi after she expanded Hong Energy Shield for the newly arrived cultivators.
• Xian Yao confirmed that a powerful evil cultivator had forcibly contracted the Scroll of Mountains and Rivers and used its Artifact Spirit to send them into the evil cultivator’s Sealed Land.

Xian Yao told Yunxi that the Scroll of Mountains and Rivers’ Artifact Spirit retained some consciousness and was trying to free the cultivators from an evil cultivator’s control. Yunxi concluded they had to destroy every sealed Evil Soul before the Artifact Spirit would let them leave, and she sought supplies from Star Trek as the battle began.

• Xian Yao explained that the Artifact Spirit had revealed the Scroll of Mountains and Rivers was controlled by an evil cultivator, while the Huaxian Sect’s Old Ancestors tried to sever that control.
• Xian Xu said the Artifact Spirit had appeared as a Bi Fang Bird, and Wei Yunqing connected it to the bird that had saved her and Yunxi from Evil Souls.
• Yunxi reasoned that the Bi Fang Bird they had encountered was the seal’s manifestation, and that the Artifact Spirit would not open the Sealed Land until every Evil Soul was destroyed.
• Evil Souls appeared against the Hong Energy Shield, and Xian Feng led the Nascent Soul Cultivators out to fight them.
• Yunxi set an isolation barrier and privately asked Star Trek for energy potions and the promised Hong Energy Blocks.

Yunxi received Hong Energy Blocks and energy recovery potions from Star Trek, then used the potions to help her exhausted companions. She joined Shi Jun, Green Bamboo, Illusory Butterfly, and Jiu Yue in battle against Nascent Soul Evil Souls, whose repeated recoveries kept the fight going.

• Yunxi received three crates of Hong Energy Blocks and a first batch of energy recovery potions from Star Trek before leaving the space.
• Yunxi gave Wei Yunqing a potion that quickly restored her spiritual power, then handed her ten more vials and returned Zhang Lingrui and Lin Keyang’s Storage Pouches with potions inside.
• Yunxi advised Xian Feng to break through to Spirit Transformation before stronger Evil Souls appeared, then joined Shi Jun’s team for their turn in battle.
• Yunxi, Shi Jun, Green Bamboo, Illusory Butterfly, and Jiu Yue formed a five-pointed star formation and fought Nascent Soul Early Stage Evil Souls outside the Hong Energy Defense Shield.
• The five used lightning, sword intent, flute soundwaves, purple butterflies, and demonic blades to scatter the Evil Souls, but the creatures repeatedly gathered themselves back together.

Yunxi and the other cultivators fought waves of increasingly powerful Evil Souls while relying on the Hong Energy Shield to survive in the Sealed Land. After Wei Yunqing returned exhausted from battle, Yunxi warned her that she would be killed if she became useless.

• Yunxi and four companions destroyed the Nascent Soul Realm Evil Souls, then returned to the Hong Energy Shield to recover their Spiritual Qi.
• Dian Dian warned Yunxi that the Evil Qi was growing denser and that it sensed a terrifying presence watching them.
• Nascent Soul Middle Stage Evil Souls attacked the shield, and Yunxi replaced its depleted Hong Energy Block while Xian Qi organized four teams to fight outside.
• Xian Feng began breaking through to Spirit Transformation as four teams battled the Evil Souls; Wei Yunqing struggled, while Zhang Lingrui and Lin Keyang fought in coordination.
• After the battle, Wei Yunqing returned with her Defense Bracelet shattered and asked Yunxi to let her stop fighting, but Yunxi threatened to kill her if she became useless.

Yunxi forced Wei Yunqing to confront her weak foundation, and Wei Yunqing swallowed her last Wall-Breaking Pill to attempt a breakthrough. As stronger Evil Souls appeared and injured the defenders, Yunxi and Buddha Son Yunchen suspected the evil cultivators sought a powerful evil artifact and began planning to reach Spirit Transformation to confront it.

• Yunxi stopped the Mysterious Ice Needle from piercing Wei Yunqing’s Nascent Soul and warned her that she would kill her if an Evil Soul possessed her.
• Wei Yunqing took her last Wall-Breaking Pill and began breaking through to the Nascent Soul Middle Stage.
• Xian Feng successfully reached pseudo Spirit Transformation, inspiring Nascent Soul Late Stage cultivators to consider forced breakthroughs.
• A new group of twice as many Nascent Soul Middle Stage Evil Souls appeared, and the combat squads went out to fight them.
• Xian Xu was struck by a black axe, and Xian Feng pulled him behind the Hong Energy Shield and expelled the Evil Qi from his wound.
• Buddha Son Yunchen told Yunxi that his natal Buddhist treasure sensed an evil artifact, and they discussed breaking through to Spirit Transformation and confronting it with Xian Feng.

Yunxi and Buddha Son Yunchen tried to save Xian Xu after an Evil Soul’s black saber contaminated him, but they discovered that the Evil Qi had reached his Nascent Soul. Knowing he would eventually turn, Xian Xu left the protective barrier to face the Evil Souls while he still had control of himself.

• Wei Yunqing broke through to the Nascent Soul Middle Stage after taking a fourth-grade medicinal pill.
• Xian Feng summoned Yunxi and Buddha Son Yunchen to treat Xian Xu, whose wound was spreading Evil Qi through his body.
• Buddha Son Yunchen used his prayer beads to suppress Xian Xu, while Yunxi sent Ziyan into him and burned away the Evil Qi in his Meridians.
• Yunxi stopped when she realized Xian Xu’s Nascent Soul was contaminated and further treatment would likely kill him.
• Xian Xu identified the weapon as a black saber with dragon patterns and asked Xian Feng to release him so he could keep the Evil Souls from using his body.
• Xian Feng recalled the Huaxian Sect cultivators into the Hong Energy Shield, and Xian Xu left the barrier despite Xian Yao trying to stop him.

After Xian Xu sacrificed himself to destroy the Evil Souls in the hall, the trapped cultivators faced a stronger wave and prepared for a desperate fight. Yunxi questioned Wei Yunqing about her hostility and blamed her for the predicament they shared.

• Xian Xu self-destructed, and a Bi Fang Bird formed from the sealing talismans to burn away every Evil Soul in the hall.
• Yunchen and Yunxi searched for the evil artifact Xian Xu had mentioned but could not find it, while Yunchen explained that an evil artifact had caused Xian Xu's fatal corruption.
• Xian Feng urged the cultivators to endure until the Old Ancestors freed them from the evil cultivators' control of the Scroll of Mountains and Rivers.
• Two hours later, a wave of three times as many Nascent Soul Middle Stage Evil Souls attacked, and half the cultivators charged out to fight while Yunchen, Han Lian, and Xun Kun attempted to break through to Spirit Transformation.
• Wei Yunqing asked Yunxi whether she feared death and whether she knew another way out; Yunxi said they had to destroy the Evil Souls and reseal the artifact, then accused Wei Yunqing of causing her own predicament.
• Yunxi challenged Wei Yunqing to explain her hostility and reminded her that Wei Yunqing had first tried to claim the belongings Yunxi's mother had left behind.

Inside the Scroll of Mountains and Rivers, Xunjin sacrificed himself to end a battle, and Yunxi began breaking through to Spirit Transformation as Dian Dian sensed a dangerous enemy. Outside the scroll, the Spirit Transformation Venerables weakened its Evil Qi, while Yunxi confronted a powerful evil soul wielding a Dragon Patterned Long Saber.

• Xian Feng tried to save the wounded Xunjin, but Xunjin detonated his Nascent Soul to help end the battle, and Xun Kun began breaking through to Spirit Transformation.
• Dian Dian warned Yunxi that a dangerous presence had appeared, so Yunxi urged the Haoran Sect cultivators to conserve resources and began her own breakthrough.
• At the Huaxian Sect's Western Regions Guest Peak, Sheng Yuhong and Zhao Jinmu worried about the Nascent Soul cultivators trapped in the scroll.
• The nine Spirit Transformation Venerables accelerated their purification after the Scroll of Mountains and Rivers began trembling and its Evil Qi weakened.
• Yunxi, now at Spirit Transformation but not yet tested by tribulation, fought a Deity Transformation evil soul wielding a Dragon Patterned Long Saber, and sent Dian Dian into her space for safety.

Yunxi battled a Deity Transformation evil soul wielding the Dragon Patterned Saber while protecting the cultivators in the hall. She destroyed the evil soul and scattered the attacking Nascent Soul evil souls, but the saber vanished, and Yunxi collapsed from exhaustion as new spiritual power fluctuations appeared.

• Yunxi blocked the Dragon Patterned Saber’s attack and drew the Deity Transformation evil soul away from the other cultivators, while Lin Keyang stopped Xian Yao from disturbing Xian Feng.
• Yunxi ordered the other cultivators behind the protective shield and sent Hei Yao and the Nine Nether Underworld Dragon Umbrella to destroy the swarm of Nascent Soul evil souls.
• Yunxi combined the Seven-Star Deadly Staff, Ziyan, and lightning attacks to reduce the Deity Transformation evil soul to dust, but the Dragon Patterned Saber disappeared in gray Evil Qi.
• Yunxi searched the hall for the saber, then returned to the shield and collapsed; Zhang Lingrui helped her back to meditate and recover.
• Wei Yunqing recognized Yunxi’s greater combat strength and felt dejected, while spiritual power fluctuations appeared inside the protective shield again.

Yunxi learned that Longya was an ancient evil artifact controlling the sealed Evil Souls, and Ethereal Immortal explained that destroying her protective Immortal Artifact could injure Longya but would kill everyone nearby. Unwilling to sacrifice her companions, Yunxi sought another way to survive and told Han Lian she had a potion that might help cultivators break through.

• Han Lian advanced to the Spirit Transformation stage, easing the pressure on the Hong Energy Shield.
• Yunxi contacted the Chat Group, received supplies from Star Trek, and asked Ethereal Immortal about the Dragon Patterned Saber.
• Ethereal Immortal identified the saber as Longya and said an Immortal Artifact's self-destruction could injure its Artifact Spirit while killing everyone in the Sealed Land.
• Yunxi rejected that option because she would not sacrifice her companions and returned to speak with Han Lian.
• Yunxi warned Han Lian that stronger Evil Souls could overwhelm their three Spirit Transformation cultivators and revealed she had a potion formula that could stimulate breakthroughs.

Yunxi distributed gene enhancement medicine to cultivators from every region so they could attempt to reach Spirit Transformation and survive the Evil Souls, while warning them of its risks. As they began taking the medicine, Han Lian fought the Deity Transformation evil soul outside the protective barrier.

• Yunxi told Han Lian that the medicine could help cultivators advance early but might prevent further progress beyond Spirit Transformation, and that they would still have to withstand tribulation lightning.
• Yan Xiguang accepted a vial, drank it, and began refining its effects as the Evil Souls reformed and attacked the barrier.
• Han Lian and cultivators from several regions left the barrier to fight the Evil Souls, while Xian Feng obtained ten vials for the Central Domain.
• Xunyan collected a vial for the Southern Region, Yunxi supplied medicine to the Buddhist cultivators of Yunmen Temple, and Wei Yunqing, Zhang Lingrui, and Lin Keyang took doses.
• Yunxi supplied medicine to Shi Jun, Illusory Butterfly, Green Bamboo, and Jiu Yue as Nascent Soul Cultivators began attempting breakthroughs.
• Han Lian fought the Deity Transformation evil soul wielding the Dragon Fang Saber in an evenly matched battle outside the barrier.

Yunxi and the cultivators fought off the Evil Souls while the Gene Enhancement Potion helped many cultivators advance into the Spirit Transformation Realm. After discovering that Longya was tied to the carved pillars, Yunxi proposed a way to escape the Sealed Land: kill every Evil Soul, with Longya’s help.

• Han Lian and Xian Feng joined forces to suppress the Spirit Transformation evil soul and Longya while the other cultivators fought the remaining Evil Souls.
• Yan Xiguang and other potion users began breaking through into the Spirit Transformation Realm, and Yunxi supplied them with the potion while refusing repeat doses to those who had already taken it.
• Yunxi, Han Lian, and Xian Feng searched the hall and found carvings on the pillars that resembled the Evil Souls and the Dragon Patterned Saber.
• Xian Feng stopped Han Lian from attacking the pillar, warning that doing so might help the Evil Souls break their seals.
• Yunxi returned to the protective barrier and told Xian Feng and Han Lian that she believed killing every Evil Soul would let them leave, and that Longya would help them.