Chapter Summaries

Yunxi and her companions helped the Underworld collect the remaining divine souls on Azure Star, then underwent tribulation and were forced to leave the small world. They entered the Ghost Realm with the Soul Reapers, where Yunxi’s Exotic Flame drew alarm before the group headed for the Judge’s Office.

• Yunxi warned Black and White Impermanence that someone was stealing divine souls, and Ox-Head and Horse-Face joined them in collecting the remaining souls.
• After memories of the Reincarnation System were erased, the group underwent a Thunder Tribulation and broke through to the Void-Traversal Realm before entering the Ghost Gate.
• Lan Lan, Daphne, Elder Nan, and Ruo Bai carried on with their lives as Azure Star returned to its proper course.
• In the Ghost Realm, Yunxi released her Profound Thunder Purple Flame to shield herself from the yin energy, alarming the four Soul Reapers.
• Yunxi recalled the flame, and the Soul Reapers led the group toward the Judge’s Office as nearby ghosts followed them.

After learning their return to the Weiyu Realm might be delayed, Yunxi and her companions worried that the evil cultivators would target them in the Ghost Realm. They retreated to the Misty Snow Region to prepare to leave their physical bodies safely stored while their divine souls traveled.

• Judge Cui met with Yunxi and the others, thanked them for resolving the Azure Star matter, and warned them to remain in their guest quarters because ghosts coveted their bodies.
• White Impermanence warned that the Underworld's investigation could delay their return to the Weiyu Realm, and Yunxi's group suspected a traitor and feared the evil cultivators would seek revenge.
• Yunxi brought her companions into the Misty Snow Region, where they discussed how to preserve their bodies while their divine souls departed.
• Han Lian offered her Ten-Thousand-Year Ice Coffin, Yunxi offered a crystal coffin, Yunchen planned to bury his body in a place with metal attributes, and Xun Kun proposed making an Ice Coffin from frost.
• White Peak dug up four blocks of Ten-Thousand-Year frost, and Yunxi gave them to Yunchen and Xun Kun while asking Han Lian to help carve formation patterns.

Yunxi and her companions entered the Ghost Realm as divine souls and went to buy Soul Artifacts and Soul Stones. At Thousand Treasures Pavilion, the shopkeeper trapped them in a formation that drained their Soul Power.

• Yunxi and the others left their bodies in Ice Coffins, concealed their souls’ Merit, and spent three days preparing before leaving their residence.
• Xun Kun explained his knowledge of the Ghost Realm and led the group toward a shop selling Soul Artifacts and Soul Stones.
• The four entered Thousand Treasures Pavilion and told the old ghost what kinds of Soul Artifacts they wanted to see.
• After leading them upstairs to a private room, the old ghost activated a formation that trapped them and began draining their Soul Power.

Yunxi and her companions exposed Old Ghost’s attempt to steal their Soul Power at Thousand Treasures Pavilion. After the Soul Bell made Old Ghost confess, Yunxi said she had further evidence, while Rong Le faced the prospect of being held responsible.

• The Nine Nether Underworld Dragon Umbrella freed Yunxi, Xun Kun, Han Lian, and Yun Chen from Old Ghost’s formation, and Yunxi learned more about Hei Yao’s origins and outlook.
• Rong Le arrived and initially trusted Old Ghost, but Yunxi accused the clerk of targeting newly arrived ghosts and proposed proving it by making him confess.
• Yunxi offered the umbrella as compensation if her accusation was false, and Han Lian demanded that Rong Le also stake something if they were right.
• Xun Kun used the Soul Bell to compel Old Ghost to admit that greed had led him to lure the four upstairs and activate the Soul Absorption Formation.
• Old Ghost claimed he had been controlled after recovering, but Yunxi told Rong Le she had more evidence.

Yunxi and her companions retaliated against Rong Le after exposing his shop’s misconduct and his refusal to keep a promise, then visited another clothing shop. There, Huo Wan’s knowledge of their arrival led Han Lian to question how information about them had spread, and Huo Wan warned them to mind their words.

• Yunxi showed Rong Le an Imprint Jade recording the group’s encounters with his ghost servant, but Rong Le refused to honor his promise.
• Yunxi unleashed nine black dragons from the Nine Nether Underworld Dragon Umbrella, destroying the Thousand Treasures Pavilion and knocking Rong Le unconscious.
• Yunxi told Rong Le she and her companions were staying at Wanyuan Zhai and dared him to bring his backing, then left with Han Lian, Xun Kun, and Yun Chen.
• Rong Le told the city patrol that his shop’s ghost had provoked honored guests of the Judge’s Office, and the patrol captain went after Yunxi’s group.
• At Colorful Clothes Pavilion, Huo Wan explained the protective qualities of her Dharma robes, and Han Lian challenged her for knowing the group’s origins.
• Huo Wan warned Han Lian to mind her words when she mentioned evil cultivators, explaining that news of human cultivators entering the Ghost Realm had spread immediately.

Mistress Huo asked Yun Chen and his companions to help secure Merit for her daughter’s reincarnation, offering robes and Soul Stones in exchange. After Captain Li Ze warned them that a Soul Power-draining formation was linked to a major tragedy, the four realized an entire city’s ghosts had gone missing and chose to investigate.

• Mistress Huo asked Yun Chen and his companions for one grain of Merit to protect her daughter in her next life, offering robes and Soul Stones in return.
• Xun Kun demanded one hundred thousand high-grade Soul Stones, and Huo Wan agreed to try to gather them by the next day.
• Huo Wan brought the four robes and introduced Captain Li Ze, who questioned them about smashing Rong Le’s shop.
• Yunxi gave Li Ze an Imprint Jade showing the formation, and he warned the four that the investigation was dangerous and they should stay at Wanyuan Zhai.
• The four inferred that an entire city’s ghosts had gone missing and declared they would confront the mastermind who had targeted them.

Yunxi and the others discussed the evil cultivators’ schemes in the Ghost Realm and Xun Kun’s vision that they would remain in the Weiyu Realm for a while. They resolved to prepare carefully and confront their enemies rather than wait to be attacked.

• Li Ze returned to the street and learned that his men had failed to capture the old ghost or find Rong Le, so he ordered a search for Rong Le.
• Yunxi told the others that little ghosts had followed them, and they concluded that the evil cultivators were watching them and had set the array at Thousand Treasures Pavilion to steal their Soul Power.
• Xun Kun explained that Huo Wan’s daughter was destined to become his disciple and that his lightning-tribulation visions had clarified after he saw Huo Wan.
• Xun Kun warned that all four would likely remain in the Weiyu Realm for a time and predicted a drawn-out struggle with the evil cultivators.
• Yunxi suggested they study ways to suppress their cultivation before returning, and the four agreed to seek clues and take the fight to their enemies.

Yunxi’s group linked the formation at the Thousand Treasures Pavilion to the disaster that emptied Chimei City and alerted Black and White Impermanence. The group remained in Wanyuan Zhai, where a ghostly green formation appeared over the courtyard that night.

• Black and White Impermanence went to Wanyuan Zhai after hearing that Yunxi’s group had smashed the Thousand Treasures Pavilion, and discussed the wider threat to small worlds with cut-off reincarnation paths.
• Yunxi told the messengers that an old ghost had trapped the group with a soul-siphoning formation, and Han Lian used a map to ask about the shortest route back to the Weiyu Realm.
• Black Impermanence revealed that the nearby city drained of Soul Power was Chimei City, and White Impermanence explained that the culprit had not been caught.
• Yunxi showed Black and White Impermanence the formation recorded in the Imprint Jade, and they confirmed it matched the formation seen above Chimei City before it became an Empty City.
• After the messengers left, Yunxi and her companions speculated about the Evil Cultivator’s motives, and a ghostly green formation appeared above Wanyuan Zhai that night.

Yunxi destroyed the Soul Absorption Formation that had attacked her companions, but the four realized the mastermind had extracted soul threads from Han Lian, Yun Chen, and Xun Kun. When Li Ze and the other Ghost Messengers arrived, Yunxi demanded to see Judge Cui or the First Hall Yama and challenged them over their failure to protect the group.

• A Soul Absorption Formation attacked Wanyuan Zhai, and Yunxi destroyed it with the Seven-Star Deadly Staff after Hei Yao's strike only weakened it.
• Xun Kun warned Han Lian and Yun Chen to sever their soul threads, but Yunxi saw the extracted strands pulled into a closing vortex and attacked it with Thunderous Radiance Nine Heavens.
• Xun Kun told Yunxi that strands had been taken from all three companions, and Han Lian accused the Judge's Office of enabling the ambush.
• Yunxi offered to send the others back to their bodies in the Misty Snow Region, but Han Lian, Yun Chen, and Xun Kun insisted on staying together.
• Li Ze arrived with Black and White Impermanence, the Ghost Messengers, Ox-Head, and Horse-Face, and apologized for the patrol's failure.
• Yunxi demanded an audience with Judge Cui or the First Hall Yama and challenged Li Ze over using them as bait, while a ghost soldier accused her of injuring ordinary ghost cultivators.

Yunxi and her companions reached the Judge's Office after surviving the Soul Absorption Formation, and Yunxi demanded answers from Judge Cui about the loss of her companions' soul essence. The First Hall Yama intervened and ordered an investigation, which identified Rong Le of the Thousand Treasures Pavilion as the suspected mastermind.

• Li Ze admitted that Yunxi and her companions had been outmatched, then ordered his subordinates to investigate ghost cultivators affected by Yunxi's attack and determine when the formation was set up.
• Yunxi contacted Ox-Head and Horse-Face through the Space Chat Group, explained the ambush and the loss of her companions' soul essence, and was told that subordinates would meet her at the Judge's Office.
• Yunxi confronted Judge Cui, explaining that the group had fulfilled their agreement but had been ambushed and that three companions had lost a strand of soul essence.
• The First Hall Yama arrived, rebuked Judge Cui for failing to protect the living souls, took Yunxi and her companions with him, and ordered an investigation.
• Li Ze reported that an expert had set up the Soul Absorption Formation above Wanyuan Zhai and that Rong Le of the Thousand Treasures Pavilion was the suspected culprit.

Yunxi and the others were taken to the First Hall Yama’s Hall of Yama, where they learned that evil ghosts had escaped from the Eighteen Levels of Hell. As their Soul Power began draining, they rushed to help seal Hell’s entrance, where the First Hall Yama was fighting an Evil Cultivator.

• Li Ze reported that Rong Le had activated the Soul Absorption Formation and vanished after his Soul Power was drained, but the investigation had uncovered no clues about the mastermind.
• Black and White Impermanence discussed how Lord Yama’s involvement and Judge Cui’s agreement with Ranxi might put the Judge in danger.
• Yunxi and the others waited in the Hall of Yama and drank Soul Nourishing Tea while the First Hall Yama dealt with urgent matters.
• The hall trembled, and a little ghost soldier announced that an Evil Soul had broken through the barrier of the Eighteen Levels of Hell and that Lord Yama needed their help sealing the entrance.
• Xun Kun realized that the mastermind had used his and the others’ Soul Power to break the barrier; Yunxi took the ghost soldier and led the group toward Hell’s entrance.
• At the entrance, Yunxi’s group saw evil ghosts and Evil Souls pouring out as the First Hall Yama fought a black-shadowed Evil Cultivator, who raised a mirror against him.

Yunxi arrived at the Eighteen Levels of Hell as First Hall Yama dealt with an intruder and explained that the Boundary-Breaking Formation was draining her companions’ soul power. After rejecting the options of sacrificing them or forcibly destroying the formation, Yunxi began searching for another way to save them.

• First Hall Yama crushed the intruder’s mirror, killed the shadowy figure, and turned to repair the damaged barrier.
• Yunxi reached First Hall Yama with Han Lian, Xun Kun, and Yun Chen, whose soul power the Boundary-Breaking Formation was draining.
• First Hall Yama offered to annihilate the three companions’ divine souls or let Yunxi reclaim their soul power from the formation.
• Yunxi asked why Yama could not destroy the formation, and he explained that doing so would harm her companions and worsen the breach.
• An unfamiliar voice advised Yunxi to use a formation to siphon the soul power back, so she searched the Beastskin Booklet for a solution.
• Yun Chen, Xun Kun, and Han Lian discussed their final wishes, but Yunxi refused to let their divine souls be annihilated and took out their Ice Coffins.

Yunxi used the Heaven-Reversing inscription to reverse the Boundary-Breaking Formation and restore Han Lian, Yun Chen, and Xun Kun’s Soul Power. After they helped her withstand the final Soul Thunder strikes, the First Hall Yama carried the four away to aid them.

• Yunxi began carving the Heaven-Reversing inscription with her essence blood, Soul Power, spiritual power, and Merit while Han Lian, Yun Chen, and Xun Kun lent her their treasures.
• The First Hall Yama warned Yunxi that the Ghost Realm’s Soul Thunder had locked onto her as violet-red clouds gathered overhead.
• Yunxi sent the completed inscriptions into the three Ice Coffins, reversing the Boundary-Breaking Formation and restoring the trio’s Soul Power.
• The First Hall Yama sealed the foreign Soul Power, and the Boundary-Breaking Formation collapsed as lightning struck Yunxi and her artifacts.
• Han Lian, Yun Chen, and Xun Kun emerged from the coffins and joined forces to block the final two lightning bolts aimed at Yunxi.
• The First Hall Yama repaired the barrier of the Eighteen Levels of Hell, then carried the injured four away to help them.

After helping stop the Boundary-Breaking Formation, Yunxi and her companions were allowed to heal their injured divine souls in a Soul Stone vein, where they entered a Soul Liquid Pool to fight the Soul Thunder. Meanwhile, the Ghost Realm began hunting the escaped evil souls and vicious ghosts, and the Yamas discussed signs that evil cultivators had infiltrated their realm.

• First Hall Yama brought Yunxi, Han Lian, Xun Kun, and Yun Chen to the Soul Stone vein and granted them a month to heal with unlimited access to its energy.
• Ghost King Shentu led the four to a Soul Liquid Pool, where Yunxi raised a Hong Energy Shield and Lili helped guard their bodies as their divine souls entered the pool.
• Yunxi, Han Lian, Xun Kun, and Yun Chen began using the Soul Liquid to resist the Soul Thunder, while Lili watched over them and Shentu kept guard outside their barrier.
• Ghost King Shentu learned what had happened and returned to watch the barrier without disturbing their recovery.
• The Ghost Realm ordered its Ghost Messengers to capture the escaped evil souls and vicious ghosts, offering rewards for captures and information.
• The Yamas gathered and discussed the breached barrier, the tampered Death Star, and the possibility that evil cultivators had infiltrated the Ghost Realm.

The Ten Yamas discussed the evil cultivators’ plans and the possible return of the Evil God, then prepared to hunt down their agents in the Ghost Realm. Huo Wan learned that Ranxi and her companions were safe at the Judge’s Office, leaving her free to continue her arrangement with Xun Kun.

• First Hall Yama explained why he had spared Ranxi and the other three cultivators, and the Ten Yamas discussed the missing escaped ghosts and the evil cultivators’ intentions.
• Tenth Yama reported that the Evil God might be returning, prompting the Ten Yamas to plan a search for the evil cultivators’ agents under the pretext of hunting escaped ghosts.
• Huo Wan visited the ruins of Wanyuan Zhai and learned that the Ghost Messengers had taken nearby cultivators for questioning.
• Huo Wan bribed a Ghost Messenger, who told her that Ranxi and her companions were safe at the Judge’s Office and advised her to keep making their robes.
• Huo Wan confirmed that her deal with Xun Kun could continue and resolved to use the time to gather Soul Stones.

Huo Wan helped the Ghost Messengers capture vicious souls and malevolent ghosts, earning the Soul Stones she needed to send Merit to her daughter before reincarnation. Meanwhile, Yunxi and her companions endured Soul Thunder in the Soul Pool, while Yuling and Linlang noticed that Yunxi’s and Xun Kun’s Soul Fires had shrunk as the search for the Scroll of Mountains and Rivers continued.

• Huo Wan spotted Rong Le meeting another ghost cultivator at the Thousand Treasures Pavilion and alerted a Ghost Messenger, prompting Black and White Impermanence and others to surround the place.
• Rong Le and the ghost cultivator released vicious souls and malevolent ghosts as a distraction and fled, while Ox-Head and Horse-Face pursued them and Black and White Impermanence captured the remaining spirits.
• Huo Wan helped capture two vicious souls and malevolent ghosts, earning enough Soul Stones to reach the hundred thousand Xun Kun had requested.
• Yunxi asked Ox-Head and Horse-Face about the Soul Thunder and learned that using the Shaman Clan’s Defy Heaven inscription had drawn its punishment; she then continued refining the Thunder in the Soul Pool with her companions.
• Yuling noticed that Yunxi’s Soul Fire had shrunk and warned Old Ancestor Hao Yi that something felt wrong, then discussed the Qinghua Mountain Range search for the Scroll of Mountains and Rivers.
• After Yuling asked Haoqing and Haohui to check on Xun Kun’s Soul Lamp, Linlang found that Xun Kun’s Soul Fire had also shrunk and asked whether something had happened to Ranxi’s Soul Lamp.

Linlang and the other sect elders joined forces with Huaxian Sect disciples to search the Qinghua Mountain Range for the Scroll of Mountains and Rivers before its power failed and Longya escaped. Xian Yao and Xian Feng fought an evil-corrupted red fox, then were caught in an explosion caused by a hidden Evil Cultivator.

• Linlang and Haoqing agreed to prioritize recovering the Scroll of Mountains and Rivers, while Linlang vowed to settle accounts with the Huaxian Sect after Xun Kun returned safely.
• The elders met Xian Yao and Xian Feng, examined their tracking compass, and concluded that the Scroll was somewhere in the inner region but had blocked its own aura.
• The sects split into pairs to search for the Scroll, while a Spirit Transformation Evil Cultivator followed Xian Yao and Xian Feng.
• Five days later, Xian Yao and Xian Feng fought a frenzied, evil-corrupted Fifth-Order red fox and suspected it was being controlled.
• The hidden Evil Cultivator attacked the two disciples and the fox with an explosion, and several Escape Lights rushed toward the blast site.

Haoqing and Haohui joined Minghong, Mingxian, Linlang, and Zhu Ye in battling evil cultivators after Xian Feng and Xian Yao were ambushed. Xian Feng killed a corrupted red fox, and Haohui helped Xian Yao begin purging the Evil Qi from her body; the chapter ended when the trapped evil cultivator self-destructed.

• Haoqing, Haohui, Minghong, and Mingxian arrived to find Linlang and Zhu Ye fighting a Spirit Transformation evil cultivator while Xian Feng battled a corrupted red fox and Xian Yao hung unconscious from a tree.
• Minghong and Mingxian spread their sword domain to contain the evil cultivator, while Haohui assisted Xian Feng and Haoqing rescued Xian Yao.
• Haohui burned away the red fox's gray tail with light-element magic, and Xian Feng stabbed the weakened fox through its forehead, losing their chance to learn the Scroll of Mountains and Rivers' location.
• Haoqing warned Xian Feng not to give Xian Yao a Life-Giving Pill until Haohui's purification arrays drove the Evil Qi from her body.
• Xian Feng helped Xian Yao channel spiritual power to expel the Evil Qi, and she regained consciousness and began purging it herself.
• Haoqing and Haohui raised a protective barrier around themselves and the Huaxian Sect cultivators when the trapped evil cultivator self-destructed.

A Spirit Transformation evil cultivator self-destructed after being cornered, and the gathered cultivators suspected the Scroll of Mountains and Rivers was connected to the ambush. News then arrived that Huaxian Sect was under attack by a large force of Spirit Transformation evil cultivators, prompting cultivators across the Five Regions to rush to its aid as the War of Good and Evil began.

• Linlang, Zhu Ye, Minghong, and Mingxian contained the evil cultivator's self-destruction, while Haohui purified the leaked Evil Qi.
• Xian Feng reported that upper-realm evil cultivators had used Huaxian Sect's passage to enter the Weiyu Realm, and the sect's Old Ancestor had trapped them inside the sect.
• Haohui, Haoqing, Linlang, Zhu Ye, Minghong, Mingxian, and Xian Feng set out for Huaxian Sect to provide aid.
• Huatang evacuated Huaxian Sect's low-level disciples, activated the sect-protecting grand formation as a trapping formation, summoned the Old Ancestors, and raised an alarm across the Central Domain.
• Huaxian Sect's disciples split into five groups to spread news and seek help, while Spirit Transformation cultivators across the Five Regions began heading for the Central Domain.

Yunxi ended her healing in the Soul Liquid Pool after learning that evil cultivators had invaded the Weiyu Realm, and the Ten Kings of Hell escorted her group from the Soul Stone mine vein. The group prepared to return to the Weiyu Realm, where a hundred Spirit Transformation evil cultivators had entered.

• Yun Chen, Han Lian, and Xun Kun raised their divine souls to the Void Refining stage while Ranxi continued refining Soul Thunder in the pool.
• The Ten Kings of Hell told the group that evil cultivators had invaded the Weiyu Realm and that a hundred Spirit Transformation cultivators had entered through an incompletely sealed passage.
• Yunxi ended her healing, returned to her physical body, and asked the Ten Kings of Hell to send the group back to the Weiyu Realm.
• A ghost cultivator attacked Yunxi as the group left the mine vein, but her Vajra Bodhi bracelet repelled him and the Ten Kings of Hell scattered his soul.
• At the Judge's Office, Xun Kun collected the magical robes and Soul Stones from Huo Wan and gave her the remaining payment.