Chapter Summaries

Wei Yunqing encountered Sheng Yuhong and Zhang Lingrui aboard the Flying Ship, while Zhang Lingrui and Lin Keyang agreed to keep her under strict supervision. After arriving at Jihan Sect, Han Lian brought Yunxi, Xun Kun, and their companion to the Guest Peak, then went to report to her master and found Hao Miaoling attending her.

• Wei Yunqing asked Sheng Yuhong where Wei Yunxi had gone, but he said he did not know and suggested she contact Yunxi or ask Venerable Yuling.
• Zhang Lingrui told Wei Yunqing that Yunxi had ordered them to watch over her and urged her to enter seclusion to stabilize her cultivation.
• Zhang Lingrui and Lin Keyang agreed to send Wei Yunqing into a hundred years of death seclusion after they returned to Haoran Sect.
• Han Lian escorted Yunxi, Xun Kun, and their companion to Jihan Sect's Guest Peak after the Flying Ship arrived, then left to report to her master, Han Xiao.
• Han Lian found Hao Miaoling making tea for Han Xiao and told her to withdraw so she could speak with her master privately.

After returning from the Grand Competition of the Five Regions, Han Lian rejected taking Hao Miaoling as a disciple and prepared to consolidate her cultivation and travel to the Misty Snow Region. Yunxi warned Han Lian that Hao Miaoling might exploit her status, prompting Han Lian to seek a peak of her own and become its sole master.

• Han Lian told Venerable Han Xiao she would not take Hao Miaoling as a disciple, then reported that Evil Cultivators had controlled Huaxian Sect's Scroll of Mountains and Rivers.
• Han Lian and Han Xi refused the Sect Leader's offer of a Spirit Transformation Ceremony and urged him to use the resources to compensate fallen disciples.
• Han Lian advised Han Xi to settle his state of mind and study the Four Arts before returning to cultivation.
• Hao Miaoling visited Yunxi at the Guest Peak and later approached Han Lian with an excuse, but Han Lian dismissed her and returned inside.
• Yunxi warned Han Lian that Hao Miaoling could use her connection to Venerable Han Xiao, so Han Lian decided to choose a peak and move out as its sole master.
• Han Lian invited Yunxi, Xun Kun, and Yun Chen to Jihan City to buy equipment for their journey, then went to see the Sect Leader and Venerable Han Xiao.

Han Lian moved to Youhan Peak and took Hao Miaoling as her junior sister before shopping for supplies for the Misty Snow Region with Yunxi and two others. Meanwhile, the Haoran Sect learned Ranxi had gone north, and Haoyi began to suspect Huaxian Sect knew about the Scroll of Mountains and Rivers’ danger.

• Han Lian told Venerable Han Xiao she had chosen Youhan Peak, gave Hao Miaoling an initiation gift, and left to move to her new peak.
• Han Lian and her companions went to Youye Pavilion in Jihan City to buy cold-resistant clothing and equipment for the Misty Snow Region.
• After the Haoran Sect’s Flying Ship returned to the Western Regions, Xiang Sizi, Minghong, and Shi Jun parted ways with the sect’s disciples.
• Yuling and two others brought Lin Keyang and Zhang Lingrui to meet Old Ancestor Haoyi, while Wei Yunqing returned to Spirit Beast Peak and avoided the meeting.
• Yuling told Haoyi that Ranxi had gone to the Northern Regions, and Haoyi decided to discuss Huaxian Sect’s suspected knowledge of the Scroll with Mingjia rather than investigate openly.
• Sect Master Yugeng praised Sheng Yuhong’s performance and told her to enter seclusion to consolidate her gains.

Sheng Yuhong received advice from Yugeng before entering seclusion, while Ran Yang and Ran Rui placed Wei Yunqing in a hundred years of death seclusion and delivered Ranxi’s supplies and warning to the Wei Family. The chapter left cultivators in Haoran City eagerly reading a jade slip about the Grand Competition of the Five Regions.

• Yugeng told Sheng Yuhong that his steady cultivation path did not need to be compared with Ranxi’s perilous one, and Sheng Yuhong accepted the advice before seeking Zhou Lingchuan.
• Ran Yang and Ran Rui escorted Wei Yunqing into a sealed Immortal Cave for a hundred years of death seclusion, despite her reluctance.
• Ran Yang and Ran Rui visited the Wei Family in Haoran City, delivered Ranxi’s Storage Ring and message to Wei Chenyin, and explained the evil cultivators’ attack at the Grand Competition of the Five Regions.
• Wei Chenyin saw Ran Yang and Ran Rui off, prompting nearby cultivators to speculate about the Wei Family’s powerful connections and Wei Yunxi’s role in stopping the evil cultivators.
• A Golden Core cultivator offered a jade slip recording the Grand Competition, and the gathered cultivators began reading it before asking where the rest of the account was.

Zhang Lingrui and Lin Keyang uncovered a misleading information jade slip that exaggerated Ranxi’s role in the competition, then warned the Feng Family and Haoran Sect about the scheme. The chapter ended with Sect Master Yugeng recognizing that the Imprint Jade they brought back might help identify who was behind it.

• Zhang Lingrui confronted a Golden Core cultivator selling Wan Bowen’s information jade slips and ordered him to correct the exaggerations and warn Wan Bowen against stirring regional conflict.
• Zhang Lingrui and Lin Keyang discussed how the jade slip’s praise of Ranxi erased the contributions of cultivators who had died in the Scroll of Mountains and Rivers.
• Zhang Lingrui and Lin Keyang visited the Feng Family, delivered Ranxi’s gifts, and urged Feng Jiaqing to move the family to Haoran City and prepare for the evil cultivators’ return.
• Ran Yang and Ran Rui returned to Haoran Sect and showed Sect Master Yugeng the jade slip, prompting him to suspect a deliberate attempt to target Ranxi and mention the Imprint Jade.

After the Grand Competition, Haoran Sect elders prepared to expose the truth about the Scroll of Mountains and Rivers and protect Ranxi from those seeking her breakthrough potion formula. In the Northern Regions, Ranxi finished shopping and returned to the Jihan Sect, where Han Lian confronted Hao Miaoling at the Guest Peak.

• Yugeng warned Yuhuo that rumors praising Ranxi were meant to pressure her into giving up her potion formula, and told him the sect would protect her from coercion.
• Yugeng cautioned Yuhuo that his disciples might be targeted, prompting Yuhuo to message them not to reveal they belonged to the Haoran Sect while away.
• Xiang Sizi told Haoyi that the information jade slips had been distributed across the regions, including to the Huaxian Sect, to reveal the truth about the competition and the battle inside the Scroll of Mountains and Rivers.
• Ranxi, Han Lian, Yun Chen, and Xun Kun shopped in the Northern Regions, bought several treasures, and received Supreme purple crystal Cards from the shopkeeper.
• Back at the Jihan Sect's Guest Peak, Yunxi and the others avoided Hao Miaoling, while Han Lian approached her and asked why she had come.

Han Lian learned that Hao Miaoling had tried to use her to obtain Ranxi’s Breakthrough Potion formula, but chose not to kill her and arranged for the Jihan Sect to buy the formula. Han Lian warned Han Xiao that the ingredients might be impossible to gather and declared she would stand by Ranxi if asked to repay her life debt.

• Hao Miaoling told Han Lian that the Sect Old Ancestor wanted the Jihan Sect to obtain Ranxi’s Breakthrough Potion formula, and Han Lian knocked her unconscious in anger.
• Yun Chen and Ranxi stopped Han Lian from killing Hao Miaoling, and Ranxi agreed to sell the formula if the sect gathered every required ingredient.
• Han Lian took Hao Miaoling to Han Xiao and accused her of deliberately using their conversation to pressure Ranxi into helping the Jihan Sect.
• Hao Miaoling admitted by her silence that she had intended to achieve her goal indirectly, while Han Lian explained that Ranxi would refine the potion only if the ingredients could be found.
• Han Lian told Han Xiao that Ranxi’s medicine had saved the survivors of the Scroll of Mountains and Rivers and that she would stand with Ranxi to repay that debt.

Han Lian apologized to Ranxi for the Jihan Sect’s attempt to obtain the Breakthrough Potion formula, and Ranxi reaffirmed that the sect could buy it while offering to make one potion free. After leaving the sect, Yunxi met Xiao He in a hidden painting and asked why he had come to the Northern Regions.

• Han Lian left Han Xiao’s Immortal Cave to apologize to Ranxi and told Han Xiao she would pass on the Jihan Sect’s decision about buying the formula.
• Han Xiao questioned Hao Miaoling about who had discussed the Breakthrough Potion with her, and Hao Miaoling named several disciples.
• Han Lian apologized to Ranxi, who said the Jihan Sect could buy the formula and promised to make it one Breakthrough Potion free of charge.
• Ranxi, Han Lian, Yun Chen, and Xun Kun toasted the cultivators who had died in the Sealed Land, then agreed on a departure time.
• Yunxi received Xiao He’s meeting address, disguised herself, and entered the Waterfall Torrent Painting in a Tea House.
• Xiao He mistook Yunxi for Hao Miaoling and attacked her, but stopped when she revealed her face; Yunxi then asked why he had come to the Northern Regions.

Xiao He told Yunxi how he escaped to the Northern Regions and reported that Hao Miaoling carried a Black Token and was connected to the evil cultivators. Yunxi tasked him with infiltrating their ranks, then offered Jihan Sect the Breakthrough Potion formula for a mid-grade ice-element Spiritual Vein.

• Xiao He explained that Huaxian Sect's purge forced him to flee the Central Domain with Haoran Sect's help.
• Xiao He described Hao Miaoling's Black Token, and Yunxi concluded that Hao Miaoling was connected to the evil cultivators.
• Yunxi gave Xiao He a Gene Enhancement Potion and ordered him to infiltrate the evil cultivators and report any abnormalities.
• Xiao He asked about Xiao Lei, and Yunxi said she was cultivating safely at Lingxue Peak.
• Han Lian told Yunxi that Jihan Sect still wanted the Breakthrough Potion formula, and Yunxi offered it for a mid-grade ice-element Spiritual Vein.

Yunxi set a trap for Hao Miaoling by poisoning her, then offered to cure her in exchange for the Black Token. When Hao Miaoling tried to flee by abandoning her body, the cultivators trapped her divine soul, and Yunxi revealed that she recognized her as Zuoqiu.

• Han Lian gave Han Xiao the medicinal formula Ranxi had provided, and Han Xiao found that many of its ingredients were difficult or impossible to obtain.
• Hao Miaoling suddenly vomited black blood and accused Ranxi of poisoning her, while Han Xiao and Han Ying struggled to identify the poison.
• Han Lian brought Yunxi to Han Xiao's Immortal Cave, where Yunxi examined Hao Miaoling and demanded the Black Token as payment for a cure.
• Hao Miaoling abandoned her body and tried to flee, but three spells trapped her divine soul inside the Immortal Cave.
• Yunxi examined Hao Miaoling's blackening divine soul and called her Zuoqiu.

Yunxi revealed how she had baited Zuoqiu into exposing himself and captured his divine soul. After searching his memories, she learned that the demonic cultivators had sent him to infiltrate Jihan Sect and target the Misty Snow Region.

• Yunxi explained that she had poisoned Hao Miaoling and planted soul-eroding poison in the jade slip to lure out whoever sought the Breakthrough Potion formula.
• Zuoqiu abandoned Hao Miaoling's body and tried to escape, but Yunxi and the others trapped his divine soul.
• Yunxi told Han Lian, Han Xiao, and Han Ying that Zuoqiu had betrayed Haoran Sect after his plot against Venerable Yuling failed.
• Yunxi taunted Zuoqiu about his rivalry with Leng Ruohan, and Zuoqiu fell silent when she challenged his claims of superiority.
• Han Lian opened the restriction, allowing Yunxi to search Zuoqiu's soul and discover the demonic cultivators' plan to infiltrate Jihan Sect and target the Misty Snow Region.

Yunxi exposed Zuoqiu, who had possessed Hao Miaoling, and took back the Black Token and potion formula despite Han Xiao’s objections. After returning to Guest Peak, she explained to Han Lian why she had kept the plan secret, while Han Lian questioned her use of poison and her lack of trust.

• Han Xiao ordered Han Lian to put away Hao Miaoling’s body, but Zuoqiu’s soul melted away and left his Storage Bracelet behind.
• Yunxi took a Black Token from the bracelet and told Han Xiao that the Jihan Sect had no claim to the items Zuoqiu had stolen from the Haoran Sect.
• Yunxi gave Han Xiao the antidote, retrieved the potion formula, and left; Han Lian collected Hao Miaoling’s remains and followed her.
• Han Xiao complained to Han Ying about Yunxi’s conduct, while Han Ying pointed out that exposing the possessed Hao Miaoling had prevented a greater danger to the Jihan Sect.
• At Guest Peak, Han Lian challenged Yunxi for poisoning Hao Miaoling and withholding her plan, and Yunxi explained that she had feared Han Xiao might know Hao Miaoling’s identity or use the accusation against Han Lian.

Yunxi explained how she exposed Zuoqiu’s possession of Hao Miaoling and uncovered the evil cultivators’ plan to claim the Misty Snow Region. After giving Han Lian evidence and the Breakthrough Potion formula, Yunxi departed for the Polar Gale Zone with Yun Chen and Xun Kun, where Yun Chen asked whether she still suspected Han Lian’s master.

• Yunxi and Han Lian recounted how Hao Miaoling’s actions, Yunxi’s poison, and the Black Token revealed Zuoqiu’s possession and led to his capture.
• Yunxi explained that the evil cultivators intended to enter the Misty Snow Region and contract its Realm Spirit, making it a mobile base.
• Yunxi gave Han Lian a list of Zuoqiu’s contacts and the Breakthrough Potion formula as compensation for poisoning Han Lian’s master.
• Han Lian agreed to report the matter to her sect’s Old Ancestor, while Yunxi, Yun Chen, and Xun Kun left to wait for her near the Polar Gale Zone.
• Yunxi and Yun Chen played chess aboard Xun Kun’s Black Wing Flying Boat, and Yun Chen asked whether she still suspected Han Lian’s master.

Yunxi urged Yun Chen to experience mortal life to deepen his understanding, then learned that Haoran Sect had exposed the evil cultivators’ false rumors by publishing the Sealed Land battle record. After Han Lian rejoined them and reported on Jihan Sect, the four reached the Polar Gale Zone, where a bloodied cultivator stumbled out of the gale.

• Yunxi teased Yun Chen before advising him to enter the mortal world and understand the people he hoped to save.
• Yunxi revealed that she had arranged for female cultivators to disrupt Famous Sword Sect cultivators’ mortal love tribulations, and Zhou Langchen was being fought over by Mingya and Zuo Die'er.
• Han Lian caught up with Yunxi, Yun Chen, and Xun Kun and gave them jade slips documenting the battle and casualties in the Sealed Land.
• Han Lian reported that she had delivered Hao Miaoling’s corpse and Storage Bracelet to Jihan Sect and explained what had happened.
• Yunxi, Yun Chen, Xun Kun, and Han Lian reached the Outer Ring of the Polar Gale Zone, where a bloodied cultivator fell at Han Lian’s feet.

Han Lian and her companions learned that someone was hunting cultivators in the Polar Gale Zone and entered it to investigate. Meanwhile, Xiao He decided to hide and use Ranxi’s potion to increase his cultivation as the Jihan Sect mobilized.

• Han Lian saved an injured Jihan Sect cultivator, who warned that someone was hunting cultivators in the Polar Gale Zone before dying through the Jihan Sect’s Ice Snow Dissolution technique.
• Han Lian sent messages to her sect and raised a Warning Red Lotus, while Yun Chen gave the group Buddhist beads and Yunxi linked them with Red Ropes.
• Han Lian, Yunxi, Xun Kun, and Yun Chen entered the Polar Gale Zone together to investigate the hunters and protect one another.
• Northern Region cultivators saw the Warning Red Lotus and speculated about the danger and the approaching opening of the Misty Snow Region.
• Xiao He realized the Jihan Sect’s response might help him avoid the evil cultivators’ purge, then left Jihan City to use Ranxi’s potion in a concealed Immortal Cave.
• Aboard the Jihan Sect’s Flying Ship, Venerable Hanyan asked Han Ying about the events within the sect.

Han Ying and Han Yan led Jihan Sect reinforcements toward the Polar Gale Zone while Yunxi and her companions fought their way through its outer ring. After entering the Mid-ring, they left the remaining outer-ring enemies for Jihan Sect, whose cultivators arrived and received their message.

• Han Ying joined Han Yan and fifteen Nascent Soul Cultivators on a mission to the Polar Gale Zone, while Han Yan criticized the evil cultivators and joked about Ranxi and Han Xiao.
• Yunxi entered the gale zone disguised, evaded two evil cultivators, and sent one into the Mid-ring before warning her companions about soul-searching restrictions.
• Han Lian killed two attackers and proposed that the group clear the outer ring before advancing, and Yunxi, Yun Chen, and Xun Kun agreed.
• The four companions joined forces to wipe out nearly all the evil cultivators in the outer ring and then entered the Mid-ring.
• Han Yan and Han Ying arrived with Jihan Sect cultivators and learned that Han Lian and her friends had entered the Mid-ring, leaving the remaining outer-ring enemies to them.

Yunxi encountered a bloodied Jihan Sect cultivator in the mid-ring of the Polar Gale Zone and suspected that an Evil Soul was controlling him. After Lili confirmed the Wind Spirit Bead was likely real, Yunxi followed the cultivator into the gale to investigate the trap.

• Yunxi refined a wisp of Polar Gale into her Wind Spiritual Power while cautiously advancing through the mid-ring.
• Yunxi brought Lili out to inspect a wounded Jihan Sect cultivator, and Lili saw that a dark Evil Soul controlled his body while the original soul slept.
• The cultivator, who called himself Feng Yan, claimed his teammate had ambushed him over a Wind Spirit Bead and asked Yunxi to help kill the traitor.
• Lili noticed Feng Yan’s Heavenly Dao oath affected the sleeping soul, so Yunxi agreed to follow him and test whether the Wind Spirit Bead existed.
• Feng Yan stepped beyond the Nether Dragon Umbrella into the gale, and Lili confirmed that the original soul remained intact, suggesting the Wind Spirit Bead was real.

Yunxi freed Feng Yan from an evil soul, then confronted the evil cultivators guarding the Wind Spirit Bead. As she tried to break its barrier, a late Spirit Transformation cultivator ambushed her, shattering the barrier and letting the bead escape.

• Han Lian warned a group of five Nascent Soul cultivators that evil cultivators were hunting people in the Polar Gale Zone, then left to support her companions.
• Yunxi burned the evil soul possessing Feng Yan, awakened his divine soul, and sent him back toward the outer ring.
• Yunxi entered the evil cultivators’ trap and used Ziyan to burn the evil souls possessing the five cultivators guarding the Wind Spirit Bead.
• The Polar Gale winds attacked Yunxi as she approached the barrier, and a late Spirit Transformation cultivator struck her with a hammer.
• Yunxi’s Golden Armor blocked the attack, but she crashed into the barrier and broke it, allowing the Wind Spirit Bead to flee into the gale winds.

Yunxi lured a Spirit Transformation evil cultivator into her Wind Snow Domain and defeated him, but he destroyed his soul before she could question him. Xun Kun reached her afterward, and Yunxi told him the attacker had ambushed her.

• The evil cultivator revealed himself and attacked Yunxi, who broke his barrier and fled into the Polar Astral Gale with four unconscious people.
• Yunxi sent Lili back to her space, then used the astral gale to conceal and close her Wind Snow Domain around the pursuing evil cultivator.
• Yunxi fought the evil cultivator with her staff, domain, and Profound Thunder Purple Flame, breaking his defenses and setting Ziyan on his body and soul.
• The evil cultivator said the Evil God's return could not be stopped, then detonated his divine soul; the astral gale shredded his unprotected body.
• Xun Kun followed the Red Rope to Yunxi, who told him she was fine and that a Spirit Transformation evil cultivator had ambushed her.

Yunxi and Xun Kun searched for Yun Chen and Han Lian as the Polar Gale Zone’s winds grew violent and swept cultivators into its center. After a massive vortex dragged them into the Misty Snow Region, their cultivation was suppressed and they landed in an icy lake.

• Yun Chen and Han Lian rescued Nascent Soul Cultivators, but a female cultivator self-destructed her Nascent Soul and the resulting gale swept them into the central area.
• Yunxi sensed that something had happened to Yun Chen and followed the Buddhist bead’s signal with Xun Kun, while a green speck of light secretly followed them.
• Han Ying and Han Yan moved cultivators away from the entrance when a vortex formed and pulled people back into the Polar Gale Zone.
• Yunxi and Xun Kun were swept into the vortex, their defensive barriers were torn apart, and their cultivation was suppressed as they fell into the Misty Snow Region.
• Yunxi pulled Xun Kun from an icy lake, and they realized they had arrived in the Misty Snow Region.