Chapter Summaries

Yunxi helped Xia Mengmeng use the shattered bell and her returning memory loss to lure Xiao Ruixiang and Master Yu into meeting them. While Xia filmed, Yunxi learned that she had arrived on Planet Weilan in 2090, a technology-driven world where supernatural incidents were often dismissed as rumors.

• Xia Mengmeng called Xiao Ruixiang and pretended that the bell had shattered and her memory loss had returned, prompting him to contact Master Yu.
• Xia Mengmeng resumed filming and arranged for her assistant Lan Lan to give Yunxi a phone and a dress.
• Yunxi searched the phone and discovered that the date was July 25, 2090, and that she was on Planet Weilan.
• Yunxi learned about Planet Weilan’s global integration, a mysterious organization handling unexplained problems, and the rise of supernatural films.
• Yunxi discovered that Xia Mengmeng had hired Master Yu through Xiao Ruixiang for a protective bell after experiencing blackouts and memory loss.

After Yunxi saved Xia Mengmeng from a ghostly attack linked to Master Yu’s protective bell, she accompanied Xia to meet Master Yu and Xiao Ruixiang. Yunxi exposed another suspicious bell, and a piercing scream rang out as it shattered.

• Yunxi told Xia Mengmeng and Lan Lan she would accompany Xia to meet Master Yu, disguised herself as Lan Lan’s cousin, and accepted Lan Lan’s new phone.
• On the drive, Xia worried that Xiao Ruixiang had been deceived by Master Yu, and Yunxi challenged her to face what she already suspected about their relationship.
• At Master Yu’s antique residence, Xia reunited with Xiao Ruixiang and explained how the bell had broken during the night shoot.
• Master Yu offered Xia a newly refined brown bell, but Yunxi crushed it, causing all four people to hear a piercing scream.

Yunxi exposed Xiao Ruixiang’s plot against Xia Mengmeng and defeated Master Yu’s ghostly forces at his mansion. As she left to investigate the world’s laws, a convoy stopped in front of her and a suited man stepped out.

• Yunxi used her power to make Xiao Ruixiang confess that he had planned to control Xia Mengmeng, take her assets, and use a female ghost to manipulate her.
• Xia Mengmeng left with Xiao Ruixiang to recover her company and properties.
• Master Yu unleashed ghosts and soul puppets against Yunxi, but she fought them with the Nine Nether Underworld Dragon Umbrella and lightning.
• Yunxi dispelled the black mist from the soul puppets, collected the restored ghosts in a jade bottle, and left Master Yu’s mansion.
• Yunxi walked down the secluded road while considering the world’s Heavenly Dao laws, and a convoy of nine black SUVs stopped beside her.

Ranxi was taken by the Special Department after confronting Master Yu, but she agreed to go with them to learn how the authorities handled Soul Reapers and captured ghosts. At their headquarters, she accused Master Yu of creating soul puppets and discovered that he had submitted only surveillance footage that favored himself.

• Ranxi denied responsibility for the disturbance at Master Yu's residence, then challenged the Special Department's authority to appoint Soul Reapers and agreed to accompany them.
• Ranxi told Xia Mengmeng she had dealt with Master Yu and asked her to hold the payment until she needed it.
• At the Special Department's headquarters, Ranxi warned that the twin brothers' divine-soul cultivation was an evil art that could eventually make them lose control.
• Ranxi questioned the middle-aged man about Soul Reaper qualifications and the handling of captured ghosts and divine souls.
• Ranxi accused Master Yu of refining soul puppets, and the suited man admitted that Master Yu had submitted only footage favorable to himself.

Yunxi challenged the Special Department over its authority to appoint Soul Reapers and the treatment of captured ghosts, then learned from Lili that the officials’ souls had been forcibly placed in their bodies unpurified. After returning the ghosts, Yunxi warned that Azure Star would become a Ghost Domain within a hundred years and left to find her companions and a way back to the Weiyu Realm.

• Yunxi questioned the middle-aged man about the Special Department’s Soul Reapers and demanded to know how captured ghosts were handled, but he refused to answer until she released them.
• Lili emerged from Yunxi’s Spirit Beast Bag and observed that the five officials’ souls were filthy and worn because they had been forced into their bodies without purification.
• Yunxi released the thirty-two ghosts, and Lili confirmed their souls had been cleansed; Yunxi explained she had used heavenly lightning to free them from being soul puppets.
• The twin brothers collected the ghosts in black metal boxes, and Yunxi again asked the middle-aged man about the department, but he refused, citing classified information.
• Yunxi said Azure Star’s supernatural incidents, shortening lifespans, and mental problems were connected, then predicted it would become a Ghost Domain within a hundred years.
• Yunxi carried Lili toward the elevator to find her companions and seek a way back to the Weiyu Realm.

Yunxi left the Special Department and settled in the film city while she waited for answers, as the department began secretly monitoring her. Meanwhile, Xun Kun was thrown onto Azure Star and rescued from a swimming pool by Miss Daphne Sack.

• Yunxi refused to stay at the Demonic Sky Tower, called Lan Lan, and asked her to find a pet-friendly place for her in the film city.
• The middle-aged man ordered his subordinates to investigate Ranxi after learning that the thirty-two ghosts she had handled could be reincarnated without purification.
• Gongsun Jing and Gongsun Ming volunteered to monitor Yunxi, and the minister ordered them to follow her without alerting her while he returned to headquarters.
• Yunxi sent messages to Xun Kun, Han Lian, and Yun Chen, but received no replies and found that the Buddhist bead had not reacted.
• Xun Kun's protective Jade Talisman shattered when he arrived on Azure Star, and he fell unconscious into Miss Daphne Sack's swimming pool.
• Miss Daphne ordered her butler to keep Xun Kun alive until he woke so she could make him repay her for saving him.

After recovering from his severe injuries at Sack Manor, Xun Kun learned that Daphne had saved him and refused her request to remove his mask. He realized he was far from the Weiyu Realm, and the chapter ended when a scream from the villa sent Daphne and the butler rushing away.

• Xun Kun woke at Sack Manor, used pills and a demonic stone to heal himself, and discovered he could not sense Demonic Qi in the unfamiliar world.
• Daphne and her butler found Xun Kun awake, and he asked whether they had seen his missing companions.
• Daphne demanded to see Xun Kun's face as repayment for saving him, but he refused and explained that only his fated lover could remove his mask.
• The butler suspected Xun Kun belonged to the Special Department, while Xun Kun sent messages to his companions with a Message Jade Slip and concluded he was far from the Weiyu Realm.
• A scream from inside the villa made Daphne and the butler rush toward Young Master Benjamin, and Xun Kun followed after sensing the young man's unstable divine soul.

Xun Kun saved Benjamin from his self-destructive episode by purifying and healing his divine soul, then asked the Sack Family for Azure Star’s history. Meanwhile, Han Lian’s buried Ice Coffin was discovered and transported toward the capital.

• Benjamin tried to kill himself, but Xun Kun stopped him and agreed to treat him after Daphne promised the Sack Family would repay him.
• Xun Kun removed the resentment, foul miasma, and painful memory fragments from Benjamin’s divine soul, then used a grain of Merit to restore it.
• Xun Kun told Daphne that Benjamin would recover and asked the butler to gather all information about Azure Star from the past hundred years.
• Xun Kun learned that Azure Star had neither Spiritual Qi nor Demonic Qi and was a low-level plane, making it harder to find his companions.
• Han Lian used her Ice Coffin to survive her arrival on Azure Star, where drones detected it buried in the desert and it was excavated for transport to the capital.

After waking in a research base on Azure Star, Han Lian learned that she was far from the Weiyu Realm and questioned Professor Huang about her new surroundings. She went with him to his office to ask more, as alarms sounded elsewhere in the base.

• Han Lian opened the Ice Coffin and silenced the room’s alarms after the scientists debated how to handle her.
• Han Lian escaped the guards’ encirclement and caught up with Professor Huang and the other researchers.
• Professor Huang told Han Lian that her Ice Coffin had been found in the desert on Azure Star three days earlier.
• Han Lian froze the guards’ guns, then asked Professor Huang to take her somewhere private to answer her questions.
• Professor Huang led Han Lian toward his office as alarms rang through the research base again.

Han Lian learned that Azure Star’s people had invented a process to recycle souls into new bodies, creating soulless monsters when souls dissipated. Realizing the world was cut off from the Underworld, she contacted her companions and stayed at the research base while Buddha Son Yunchen arrived elsewhere on Azure Star.

• Captain Chen warned Han Lian and Professor Huang that escaped test subjects were approaching, and Han Lian killed the monsters with Ice Needles.
• Han Lian tried to read a monster’s memories, then went with Professor Huang to his office and spent the day studying Azure Star’s history and research.
• Professor Huang explained that Azure Star reclaimed souls and placed them into new mothers’ wombs, and that failed Reincarnation could produce soulless children who became monsters.
• Han Lian concluded that Azure Star was disconnected from the Underworld and that its man-made Reincarnation was causing the abnormalities.
• Han Lian sent a message to her companions and remained at the research base, while Buddha Son Yunchen landed in a scenic mountain area and was rescued by a park ranger.

After waking in a world with almost no Spiritual Qi, Yun Chen learned about the Extreme Death Sect and followed Song Hao into the mountains to stop four people from destroying their bodies and souls. He halted their self-immolation, but two mysterious arrivals captured all four souls in a metal box, stirring Yun Chen’s own divine soul.

• Song Hao told Yun Chen about the Extreme Death Sect, and Yun Chen sent messages to Ranxi and his other companions while recovering at the ranger’s cabin.
• After restoring himself, Yun Chen learned that people had entered the uninhabited mountains and went with Song Hao to find them.
• Yun Chen discovered four people attempting self-immolation and extinguished the flames before immobilizing the two who tried to set the others alight again.
• The two captives explained that they wanted their souls destroyed rather than placed in new bodies, and Song Hao said he had called the police.
• Two black-clad figures arrived and used a metal box to draw the souls from all four people, causing Yun Chen’s divine soul to stir.

Yun Chen confronted two ordinary people posing as Soul Reapers and agreed to go with them to the Special Department headquarters to clarify their soul-collecting practices. Meanwhile, Yunxi and Lili investigated Azure Star’s human-managed reincarnation system, and Yunxi asked Xia Mengmeng whether she had found someone.

• Yun Chen smashed a Soul Reaper’s box, gathered the escaping ghosts, and challenged the two agents’ authority to collect souls.
• Yun Chen agreed to accompany the Soul Reapers to the Special Department headquarters, and Song Hao went with them.
• Yun Chen realized why Azure Star seemed strange as Yunxi, Yun Chen, and their companions drew closer to reuniting through their separate encounters with the Special Department.
• Lan Lan explained that red pandas were nearly extinct on Azure Star, and Yunxi let her pet and photograph Lili.
• Yunxi and Lili discussed how humans managed reincarnation on Azure Star and the possible consequences for other forms of life.
• Xia Mengmeng joined Yunxi in the RV, took a photo with Lili, and Yunxi asked whether she had found the person Yunxi was seeking.

Yunxi agreed to appear in the drama “July Seventh” so her missing companions might recognize her and make contact. Her scene aired across Azure Star, but she still had not heard from them.

• Xia Mengmeng told Yunxi that the police had no records of Han Lian and the other two, and suggested Yunxi appear in a popular drama to draw them out.
• Yunxi accepted a guest role in “July Seventh” and asked to keep the filming to one day.
• Yunxi wore her red dharma robe and brought the Nine Nether Underworld Dragon Umbrella, impressing Director Lian and the crew.
• Yunxi filmed a scene in which her character captured Xia Mengmeng’s red-clad female ghost, then revealed her face to the female lead before vanishing.
• Yunxi continued waiting for her companions’ reply while the Special Department’s agents secretly monitored her.
• The episode aired across Azure Star, and Yunxi’s final shot made her famous.

Xun Kun arranged to leave Sack Manor and be reunited with Ranxi, while Han Lian decided to leave the desert research base after recognizing Ranxi on television. At Special Department headquarters, Yun Chen condemned Azure Star’s Reincarnation practices and warned that they could turn the planet into a Ghost Domain.

• Mr. and Mrs. Sack learned that Benjamin had recovered, while the butler warned Mr. Sack that Xun Kun’s identity and motives were unclear.
• Xun Kun asked the Sacks to send him to Ranxi, whom he identified as his companion, and Mr. Sack agreed to arrange his departure the next day.
• Han Lian recognized Ranxi in a supernatural drama and told Professor Huang she was leaving the research base, warning that she would fight her way out if stopped.
• Yun Chen learned how Azure Star handled Reincarnation and said the unchecked accumulation of karmic burdens was causing shortened lifespans and abnormalities.
• A middle-aged man asked whether Azure Star would become a Ghost Domain within a hundred years, and Yun Chen acknowledged that he understood the danger.

Yun Chen met Elder Nan, who asked him to help solve Azure Star’s failing reincarnation system, and went with Ruo Bai to find Ranxi. Meanwhile, Ranxi reunited with Xun Kun at the film studio, and he left Daphne a protective talisman before joining Ranxi in her RV.

• Yun Chen told Elder Nan he needed to meet Ranxi before agreeing to help, then released the divine souls he had collected.
• Elder Nan explained to his assistants that the reincarnation system was nearing collapse and hoped Yun Chen and Ranxi could find a new way forward.
• Ranxi stayed in Xia Mengmeng’s RV to avoid the crowds gathering around her, then received a message from Xun Kun and went to meet him.
• Ranxi and Xun Kun reunited at the film studio and agreed to talk in her RV.
• Xun Kun thanked Daphne Sack for helping him, gave her a protective Jade Talisman, and boarded Ranxi’s RV.

Daphne learned that Sack suspected Xun Kun had come from another time or world, while Xun Kun and Yunxi reunited in the RV and compared how they had been transported to Azure Star. Yunxi proposed returning to the Weiyu Realm by borrowing a route through the Underworld.

• Sack told Daphne that Xun Kun had left no records in Azure Star and might not be from the year 2090, and he urged her to stop dwelling on him.
• Gongsun Jing and Gongsun Ming treated Xun Kun's meeting with Ranxi as a priority and sent his photographs to the analysis department.
• Xun Kun learned from Yunxi that Lili was a fourth-rank red panda who could see his merit light and black-gold divine soul.
• Yunxi explained that she had angered the evil cultivators by contracting with the Misty Snow Region's Realm Spirit and had accidentally pulled Xun Kun, Han Lian, and Yun Chen into the black hole.
• Yunxi told Xun Kun that the Misty Snow Region Secret Realm was temporarily inaccessible and proposed using a route through the Underworld to return to the Weiyu Realm.

Yunxi and Xun Kun discussed how Azure Star’s broken reincarnation system might be repaired, then reunited with Han Lian and learned more about the soulless monsters created by its manipulation of life and death. Lili revealed that the soldiers guarding Han Lian had clean but unnaturally thin divine souls, leaving the group facing a worsening crisis.

• Yunxi explained that she could summon the Black and White Impermanence with Soul Incense, while she and Xun Kun discussed the severed connection between Azure Star and the Underworld and the damage to reincarnation.
• Yunxi and Xun Kun received Han Lian’s message two days later and met her under military guard.
• Yunxi, Xun Kun, and Han Lian left in an RV, where Yunxi activated an Isolation Formation Disk and Han Lian shared what she had learned about Azure Star.
• Han Lian showed a recording of herself fighting soulless monsters from a laboratory, and Xun Kun concluded that the creatures could be turned into Evil Puppets.
• Han Lian warned that the monsters could spread as divine souls were Annihilated, and Lili said the soldiers’ divine souls were clean but thin and could not be reincarnated.

Yunxi and her companions concluded that Azure Star selectively purified some reclaimed divine souls to preserve powerful institutions, and they waited for the Special Department to reveal more. After learning that Yun Chen was at the department, they agreed to go there and reunite with him.

• Yunxi explained that the military personnel's purified souls suggested Azure Star selectively purified souls for people in important positions, and Han Lian said she wanted to investigate the method.
• Xia Mengmeng said her filming had ended, and Yunxi arranged for Lan Lan to serve as her driver until another friend arrived.
• The Gongsun brothers and Captain Chen discovered that the Special Department and military were both monitoring Han Lian and her companions, while the brothers reported their findings to Ruo Bai.
• Ruo Bai showed Yun Chen photos of Xun Kun and Han Lian, and Yun Chen recognized them as his companions and asked the minister to invite them to meet.
• The Gongsun brothers visited Yunxi and showed her that Yun Chen was at the Special Department, prompting Han Lian and Xun Kun to accuse them of threatening the group.
• Yunxi, Han Lian, and Xun Kun agreed to go to the Special Department to meet Yun Chen and hear the minister's answers.

Yunxi, Han Lian, Xun Kun, and Yun Chen reunited at the Special Department, where Minister Ruobai explained how artificial Reincarnation began on Azure Star. The account ended with the scientist who pioneered it losing both his wife’s soul and his sanity.

• Yunxi and her companions traveled with Lan Lan and Captain Chen’s group to the Special Department’s skyscraper.
• Yunxi, Han Lian, and Xun Kun speculated that Yun Chen had encountered Soul Reapers while investigating Azure Star.
• Yunxi and the others reached the top floor and reunited with Yun Chen, then sat down with Minister Ruobai to talk.
• Yunxi insisted that Lan Lan stay in the office, while the Gongsun brothers and Captain Chen’s group waited outside.
• Minister Ruobai said Reincarnation problems had grown more common over the past twenty years, and Xun Kun asked how Azure Star had gained control over Reincarnation.
• Minister Ruobai traced the practice to a scientist surnamed Xie, whose attempt to revive his dead wife through a clone ended with her soul vanishing and both of them going mad.

Minister Ruobai explained how Azure Star developed and controlled artificial Reincarnation, and how the scarcity of Purification Crystals had put the planet on a path toward extinction. Yunxi learned that Elder Nan believed only she and her companions could help, and asked Lan Lan whether they should intervene.

• Yunxi and the others privately discussed the origins of the Reincarnation technology while Minister Ruobai recounted how Xie's assistant perfected it.
• Minister Ruobai explained that Azure Star established the Reincarnation System to control population growth and used it to implant souls into infants.
• Minister Ruobai revealed that dwindling Purification Crystals forced the department to purify some souls only partially, and that Azure Star could become a dead planet within a hundred years.
• Yun Chen explained that Elder Nan led the Reincarnation Department and was nearing the end of his life, while Minister Ruobai said Elder Nan had asked him to cooperate with Yunxi's group.
• Yunxi asked Lan Lan whether they should help Azure Star and warned that her family might have to pay a very great price; Lan Lan realized this was why Yunxi had hired her temporarily.