Chapter Summaries

The Ten Kings of Hell arranged for Xun Kun, Yunxi, Yun Chen, and Han Lian to leave the Ghost Realm while they discussed the threat facing the Weiyu Realm. Yunxi accepted Soul Stones to continue healing her divine soul, and the group worried they would be forced to ascend before they could confront the evil cultivators.

• The Ten Kings of Hell told Judge Cui to prepare a separate route for the four, and Judge Cui agreed to make arrangements within half a day.
• Xun Kun distributed Huo Wan's Dharma robes, and Yunxi returned the companions' artifacts before accepting fifty thousand high-grade Soul Stones after he revealed that Soul Thunder still remained in her divine soul.
• Yun Chen, Han Lian, Xun Kun, and Yunxi discussed the evil cultivators' attack on Huaxian Sect and wondered whether they were targeting Longya in the Scroll of Mountains and Rivers.
• Han Lian proposed suppressing their cultivation so they could remain in the Weiyu Realm before ascending, but Xun Kun warned that fighting would break the suppression.
• Yunxi acknowledged that their cultivation could make the Weiyu Realm reject them, then offered to help.

The Ten Kings of Hell explained that escaped vicious souls and ferocious ghosts might be connected to the Evil God's return and could appear in the Weiyu Realm. Yunxi and the others accepted the task of capturing them, received Soul-Collecting Mirrors and cultivation-suppressing instructions, and were left waiting while the Ten Kings investigated a hidden passage out of the Ghost Realm.

• The Ten Kings of Hell told Yunxi and the others that brutal souls and ghosts had escaped the Underworld and asked them to help capture them.
• The Ten Kings revealed that the Evil God's dismembered body had been sealed in minor worlds, and Yunxi connected this to the evil cultivators' plans in the Weiyu Realm.
• Xun Kun surmised that the escaped souls and ghosts would be sacrifices for the Evil God, and the Ten Kings gave the four Soul-Collecting Mirrors to detect and collect them.
• The Ten Kings suppressed their divine soul power to the Void-Traversal Realm for up to a hundred years and taught them a rune to suppress their cultivation.
• Judge Cui reported a hidden passage that let fugitives escape the Ghost Realm, and the Ten Kings left with him to investigate while Yunxi and the others waited.

Yunxi and the others prepared cultivation-suppressing robes and collars before the Ten Kings of Hell sent them out of the Ghost Realm. They emerged into a passage surrounded by Evil Qi, where an unseen enemy threatened to take their bodies.

• Xun Kun, Yunxi, and Han Lian discussed what the sects knew about the evil cultivators’ attacks on the Weiyu Realm.
• Yunxi and the others inscribed cultivation-suppressing runes on Dharma robes, then combined their different powers to make a stronger robe.
• Han Lian fitted White Peak with a cultivation-suppressing collar, and Yunxi persuaded him to delay ascending and help his master.
• The Ten Kings of Hell returned and sent Yunxi, Han Lian, Yun Chen, and Xun Kun through a secret passage out of the Ghost Realm.
• The four emerged surrounded by Evil Qi as a voice threatened to take their fleshly bodies.

Yunxi and her companions returned to the Weiyu Realm through a passage into Huaxian Sect, now an evil cultivator stronghold, and fought to contain the invasion. Yunxi trapped the Central Domain behind a barrier and evacuated the uncorrupted righteous cultivators, then released the Wolf King and his mate to guard the artifact as she and Xun Kun prepared to fight.

• Yunxi, Han Lian, Yun Chen, and Xun Kun fought off the evil cultivators surrounding them in Huaxian Sect's back mountain.
• The group discovered that Huaxian Sect had become an evil cultivator base and that its Main Peak passage was bringing reinforcements from the upper realm.
• Yunxi sent Han Lian and White Peak to destroy the passage while she and Yun Chen and Xun Kun killed the Spirit Transformation evil cultivators and activated the Hong Energy Shield around the Central Domain.
• Yunxi used her divine sense to send the uncorrupted righteous cultivators out of the battlefield, while Huaxian Sect's Main Peak collapsed and White Peak roared.
• Yunxi and Xun Kun agreed to clear out evil cultivators so she could shrink the barrier, and Yunxi released the Wolf King and his mate to guard the artifact.

Yunxi, Xun Kun, Han Lian, and Yun Chen returned to the Weiyu Realm and struck the Evil Cultivators’ stronghold, giving the besieged righteous cultivators a chance to turn the battle. As Yunxi and Xun Kun cut through the battlefield, Han Lian and Yun Chen confronted the Nascent Soul Evil Cultivator guarding the passage.

• Xue Li and Xue Ying guarded the core metal sphere of the Hong Energy Shield while Yunxi and Xun Kun left to kill Evil Cultivators.
• The Evil Cultivators repeatedly repaired their passage and sent increasingly powerful forces into the Central Domain, forcing the Four Regions into a costly defensive stalemate.
• The Four Regions began selecting a team to destroy the passage, but Yunxi, Xun Kun, Han Lian, and Yun Chen returned through the Underworld and arrived in the Evil Cultivators’ lair.
• Haoyan, Linlang, Master Yunyi, Han Yan, and other leaders received messages confirming the return of their allies and rallied their forces.
• The Hong Energy Shield drove righteous cultivators out of the battlefield, while Yunxi and Xun Kun swiftly killed the Evil Cultivators attacking it.
• Han Lian and Yun Chen joined forces against the Nascent Soul Evil Cultivator guarding the passage.

Han Lian and White Peak destroyed Huaxian Sect's Teleportation Formation and, with Yun Chen, killed the Nascent Soul Departure evil cultivator guarding it. As another giant palm attacked, Yunxi rallied her allies and struck back with the Seven-Star Deadly Staff.

• Han Lian and White Peak ambushed the evil cultivators emerging from the Teleportation Formation and shattered its foundation.
• Han Lian was poisoned during her fight with the Nascent Soul Departure evil cultivator, so White Peak destroyed Huaxian Sect's Main Peak while she froze the poison.
• Yun Chen trapped the evil cultivator in his Buddha's Palm Domain, and Han Lian joined him to defeat the cultivator's attempted escape.
• After another giant palm reached through the teleportation passage, Yunxi summoned Han Lian, Yun Chen, and Xun Kun's strength and struck it with the Seven-Star Deadly Staff.

Yunxi returned to the battlefield and drove off the upper-realm evil cultivator after a second strike with her companions, turning the war’s momentum in Weiyu Realm’s favor. She returned safely to Haoran Sect, where the disciples welcomed her and Zhao Jinmu reflected on his recent breakthrough.

• Yunxi struck the giant hand with the Seven-Star Deadly Staff, then pursued it with Han Lian, Yun Chen, and Xun Kun despite her injuries.
• The four wounded the evil cultivator and drove the giant hand from the sky, with Yunxi sending Soul Thunder into its palm.
• Yunxi told her companions they needed to eliminate the trapped evil cultivators and discuss the Evil God, then they agreed to return to their sects.
• Yunxi returned to Haoran Sect, greeted the disciples and Hao Yan, Haohui, and Haoqing, and entered the Dharma House with them.
• Sheng Yuhong recognized the gap between himself and Yunxi, while Zhao Jinmu recalled breaking through to the Nascent Soul Realm after taking her potion.

Zhao Jinmu resisted an Evil Soul’s attempt to exploit his grief over Hua Xuanzi and killed the Evil Cultivator behind it. Meanwhile, Yunxi learned that the Scroll of Mountains and Rivers had been stolen and suspected the Evil Cultivators were using Longya to locate the sealed Evil God’s body.

• Zhao Jinmu rejected the Evil Soul disguised as Hua Xuanzi, affirmed that Hua Xuanzi’s sacrifice had not been wasted, and killed the Nascent Soul Evil Cultivator.
• Cultivators across the battlefield either resisted the Evil Souls’ illusions or fell under their control and attacked their fellow disciples.
• Yunxi learned from Haoqing that the Scroll of Mountains and Rivers had been stolen before Huaxian Sect was breached.
• Yunxi suspected the Evil Cultivators were using Longya to find the sealed Evil God’s body, while Haohui warned that they might have sent agents out of the Central Domain.
• Haoqing described Huaxian Sect’s heavy losses and said Huaxian Sect had kept the Upper Realm Teleportation Formation despite the danger.
• Hao Yan suggested Huaxian Sect’s choices had brought catastrophe upon the Weiyu Realm, and Yunxi recalled an Evil Cultivator’s warning that the Evil God would return.

Yunxi learned that the Evil God's body was sealed in the Weiyu Realm and that the Upper Realm was in crisis, then prepared to return to her sect with the news. Han Lian and Xun Kun also shared what they had learned with their sects, as the cultivators focused on defeating the remaining evil cultivators and finding the lost Scroll of Mountains and Rivers.

• Yunxi connected the Huaxian Sect’s escape plan to the Evil God's sealed body and learned from Haohui that the Famous Sword Sect’s Old Ancestor had warned them of trouble in the Upper Realm.
• Yunxi suffered a bout of Soul Thunder pain, concealed her damaged divine soul, and agreed with Hao Yan to return to her sect and report the situation.
• Han Lian returned to the Jihan Sect, told Han Yan and Han Ying that the Evil God's body might be sealed in the Weiyu Realm, and learned the Scroll of Mountains and Rivers had been lost before the Huaxian Sect fell.
• Xun Kun told Venerable Linlang and Zhu Ye that the Evil God's body was sealed in the Weiyu Realm, and Linlang urged them to defeat the remaining evil cultivators and search for the Scroll of Mountains and Rivers.

Xun Kun heard Linlang and Zhu Ye discuss Huaxian Sect’s loss of the Scroll of Mountains and Rivers, while Yunchen warned Yunyi that Evil Cultivators might use Longya to find the Evil God’s sealed body. At Huaxian Sect’s encampment, Xian Yao challenged the sect’s past decisions and blamed them for the war, leaving Huayu silent.

• Linlang explained that Huaxian Sect had lost the Scroll of Mountains and Rivers and that sects across the regions had searched for it; Zhu Ye and Linlang suspected Evil Cultivators from the upper realm had taken it.
• Yunchen told Yunyi and Yun Ze that the Evil God’s body was sealed in the Weiyu Realm, and Yunyi resolved to gather Spirit Transformation Old Ancestors to plan a response.
• Yun Ze reported that Evil Cultivators had taken the Scroll of Mountains and Rivers to the Qinghua Mountain Range, and Yunchen warned that Longya could help them locate the sealed body.
• Huayu reviewed Huaxian Sect’s casualties, while Xian Feng and Xian Yao urged him not to overextend the weakened sect by trying to reclaim every mountain peak.
• Xian Yao blamed Huaxian Sect’s elders for keeping the Teleportation Formation after the scroll vanished, saying their choices had caused the war and Master Huatang’s death; Huayu closed his eyes and said nothing.

After the battle, Huaxian Sect struggled with its losses and the other regions’ reluctance to keep fighting on its territory. Ranxi agreed to speak with the other regions on Huaxian Sect’s behalf, then asked Xian Yao and Xian Feng to explain how the Scroll of Mountains and Rivers had been lost and what they knew about the Teleportation Formation connected to the Upper Realm.

• Huayu urged Xian Feng and Xian Yao to preserve Huaxian Sect and suggested they ask Ranxi and her companions about the Upper Realm.
• Ranxi gathered with Han Lian, Xun Kun, and Yun Chen after they learned that the Scroll of Mountains and Rivers was missing, and they agreed to search Qinghua Mountain Range.
• The cultivators of the Five Regions contracted their battle lines over three days, allowing Ranxi to withdraw her Hong Energy Shield.
• Ranxi and her companions searched Qinghua Mountain Range but found no trace of the Scroll of Mountains and Rivers.
• Huayu sent Xian Yao and Xian Feng to ask Ranxi for help as the other regions slowed their advance through Huaxian Sect’s territory.
• Xian Yao and Xian Feng asked Ranxi to intervene, and Ranxi agreed before asking them how the Scroll had been lost and about the Teleportation Formation connected to the Upper Realm.

Yunxi told Xian Yao and Xian Feng that the Evil Cultivators sought the Evil God's sealed body, and warned them that losing the Scroll of Mountains and Rivers put the Weiyu Realm in danger. She arranged for the Wolf King and his mate to recover while preparing to exterminate the remaining Evil Cultivators, as White Peak reported that Upper Realm forces were still trying to reconnect the Teleportation Formation.

• Xian Yao and Xian Feng explained how the Evil Cultivators had entered Huaxian Sect territory through its Teleportation Formation and that the sect had lost contact with its Upper Realm ancestors.
• Yunxi revealed that the Evil God's body was sealed in the Weiyu Realm and that the Evil Cultivators had stolen the Scroll of Mountains and Rivers to search for it.
• Yunxi sent Xian Yao and Xian Feng to deliver the warning to Venerable Huayu.
• Yunxi gave Xue Ying a vial of Life Tracing and arranged for her and Xue Li to recover in the Misty Snow Region before joining the fight.
• Yunxi urged Han Lian and the others to stop delaying action against Huaxian Sect's remaining Evil Cultivators.
• White Peak told Han Lian that the Upper Realm Evil Cultivators were still trying to reconnect the damaged Teleportation Formation.

Han Lian and Yunxi sought a way to destroy the passage Evil Cultivators were trying to repair, while Xian Feng and Xian Yao told Huayu the Evil God's body had been sealed in the Weiyu Realm. Yun Chen learned of a Buddhist formation that could destroy the passage, and Yunxi heard how Medicine King Valley had suffered a devastating attack.

• Han Lian told White Peak to guard the damaged formation base through the night and asked Yunxi to help eliminate the passage.
• Xian Yao and Xian Feng informed Huayu that the Evil God's body was sealed in the Weiyu Realm, and Huayu urged them to cultivate and prepare for the sect's future.
• Yunyi told Yun Chen about the Heavenly Dipper Evil-Slaying Formation and offered Yunmen Temple's Buddhist cultivators to help activate it.
• Yun Chen went to Yunxi's Dharma House to discuss the formation and found her meeting Ye Yirui and Ye Yuchen.
• Ye Yirui told Yunxi that Medicine King Valley had been attacked by Spirit Transformation Evil Cultivators, and that Old Ancestor Ye had died protecting it.

After the righteous cultivators defeated the remaining evil cultivators at Huaxian Sect, Yunxi and her allies prepared a formation to destroy the teleportation passage. The passage began rebuilding at the chapter’s end, as they waited to activate the Heavenly Dipper Evil-Slaying Formation.

• Ye Yuchen and Ye Yuchen’s sister asked to bring the remaining Medicine King Valley disciples into Haoran Sect, and Yunxi gave them a jade slip for Venerable Haoqing.
• Yun Chen explained the plan for destroying the teleportation passage to Han Lian and Xun Kun.
• The allied cultivators stormed Huaxian Sect and slaughtered the remaining evil cultivators, while Ranxi, Han Lian, Yun Chen, and Xun Kun prevented their attempted self-detonations.
• Han Lian reunited with White Peak, which had twice destroyed the evil cultivators’ efforts to rebuild the teleportation passage.
• Yunxi, Han Lian, Yun Chen, Xun Kun, White Peak, the Buddhist cultivators, and the Wolf King and his mate formed the Heavenly Dipper Evil-Slaying Formation and waited for the passage to reconnect.
• At moonrise on the second night, the formation base began repairing itself as Yunxi watched.

Yunxi and the others destroyed the teleportation passage connecting the Weiyu Realm to the Upper Realm, but a concealed Void-Traversal evil cultivator attacked them while they were depleted. Yunxi fought the attacker inside a poisonous mist and recognized him as the wielder of the Three-edged Sword.

• Yunxi, Han Lian, Yun Chen, Xun Kun, and the others reversed the Heavenly Dipper Evil-Slaying Formation and tore apart the teleportation passage.
• Yunxi and the others used the Starlight Force to destroy the spatial node linking the two realms, then began recovering their depleted spiritual power.
• A hidden evil cultivator attacked the Formation Core guards with black balls, and Yunxi engaged him while Han Lian and the others recovered.
• Xiang Sizi identified the spreading gray mist as poisonous, and the Spirit Transformation cultivators built a barrier to contain it.
• Yunxi fought by sight and hearing inside the mist, blocked a strike from the Three-edged Sword, and recognized her opponent.

Yunxi fought a Void-Traversal evil cultivator who recognized her, replenishing her spiritual power from her space and trapping him in her Wind Snow Domain. She and her companions attacked him together, but his armor endured most of their strikes as the battle continued.

• Yunxi evaded the evil cultivator's attacks and drew Spiritual Qi from her space to restore her depleted power.
• After the cultivator damaged her robe, Yunxi unfolded her Wind Snow Domain and forced him inside it.
• Yun Chen, Han Lian, and Xun Kun joined Yunxi, while she sent the Wolf King, his mate, and White Peak into the domain to help capture the cultivator alive.
• Yunxi changed into a spare robe, dispersed the poisonous mist, and told Hao Yan and Xiang Sizi that a suppressed Void-Traversal cultivator was trapped in her domain.
• Yunxi and her companions attacked the cultivator together with ice techniques, but his blackish-red armor blocked most of their strikes.

Yunxi trapped the evil cultivator in her Wind Snow Domain and learned he had come to the Weiyu Realm amid a war between the Spirit Realm and evil cultivators. After revealing that the Huaxian Sect had fallen, he destroyed his own divine soul to prevent Yunxi from searching it.

• Yunxi realized Ziyan had entered the evil cultivator’s body and was burning away his Evil Qi, while she kept him confined in her domain.
• The evil cultivator’s divine soul suffered another bout of pain, and Yunxi recognized that the Seven-Star Deadly Staff was involved.
• Yunxi recognized him as the attacker behind the giant hand that had twice targeted her and Longya, then battered him with her staff and Shadow Clones.
• Yunxi threatened to use the Soul-Collecting Mirror to seize his divine soul and questioned him about the Spirit Realm and the Huaxian Sect.
• The evil cultivator said the Wuwang Ruins had opened a passage to the Ancient Battlefield and that the Spirit Realm was at war, then claimed the Huaxian Sect had been defeated.
• Yunxi pierced his Dantian and began a soul search, but the evil cultivator self-destructed his divine soul.

Yunxi and the others discussed the upper realm’s war and the danger to the Evil God’s seal, then warned Huayu that Huaxian Sect in the Weiling Realm had been occupied by evil cultivators. Yunxi returned to Haoran Sect and was greeted by Haoyi.

• Han Lian, Yun Chen, Xun Kun, and Yunxi concluded that an upper-realm evil cultivator had died after being caught in Ranxi’s domain, and they discussed the threat to the Weiyu Realm.
• The four agreed to inform Huayu about Huaxian Sect’s occupation and considered how to prevent evil cultivators from breaking the Evil God’s seal, but they found no clear solution.
• Yunxi warned Huayu not to trust any upper-realm contact or offer to rebuild a passage, and Huayu told the Huaxian Sect disciples they would have to reclaim their sect themselves.
• Yunxi and the others left the Central Domain, while the evil cultivators hiding there were too intimidated to attack.
• Yunxi arrived at Haoran Sect with the Wolf King and his mate, and Haoyi welcomed her back.

Yunxi reunited with Haoyi and Yuling, brought Xue Li and Xue Ying to stay at Lingxue Peak, and explained her return from Azure Star and the threat of the Evil God's sealed body. With no leads to its location and only a century before she and her companions must ascend, she urged the sect to take the danger seriously before returning to Lingxue Peak.

• Yunxi introduced Xue Li and Xue Ying to Haoyi, who agreed to let them stay temporarily at Lingxue Peak.
• Yuling welcomed Yunxi back and recognized how much her cultivation had advanced.
• Yunxi told Haoyi and Yuling how she and her companions reached Azure Star, opened the Ghost Gate, and returned through the Underworld, then warned them that the Evil God's body was sealed in the Weiyu Realm.
• Haoyi and Yuling found no clues to the sealed body's location, since the Scroll of Mountains and Rivers and its Longya had been lost.
• Yunxi explained that she and her companions had only a hundred years before they must ascend, and Haoyi promised the Weiyu Realm would share responsibility for resisting the evil cultivators.
• Yuling told Yunxi she would inherit Lingxue Peak, and she returned there, where Xue Li and Xue Ying saw Xiao Lei in the courtyard.

After returning to Lingxue Peak, Yunxi sealed Xiao Lei’s residence to keep her hidden from visitors and settled in at the summit while her companions recovered in her space. When her former teammates visited, she gave Ran Yi the Heavenly Dipper Evil-Slaying Formation diagram and asked whether Weiyu Realm could establish it in full.

• Yunxi met Xiao Lei, learned she had formed her Core, and told her she could leave Lingxue Peak after reaching the Nascent Soul stage.
• Yunxi sealed Xiao Lei’s residence, moved into the great hall at the summit, and meditated while refining Soul Thunder with a Soul Stone.
• Xue Li and Xue Ying reunited with their cub in Yunxi’s space, while Lili returned to his territory and the other creatures continued recovering or cultivating.
• Ran Yang, Ran Rui, and Ran Yi visited Yunxi two days after her return and congratulated her on her breakthrough.
• Yunxi gave Ran Yi a jade slip containing the Heavenly Dipper Evil-Slaying Formation and explained that she and others had reversed it to destroy an evil-cultivator transmission passage.
• Ran Yi reacted in disbelief when Yunxi asked whether Weiyu Realm could set up the complete formation.