Chapter Summaries

Yunxi explained how the simplified formation destroyed the passage between the realms and warned Ran Yi, Ran Yang, and Ran Rui that the Evil God's body was sealed in the Weiyu Realm. She then met with Wei Zonghao, Wei Chenyin, and Feng Jiaqing to discuss the families' contributions during the war and what came next.

• Yunxi described how seven cultivators reversed the simplified Big Dipper formation to destroy the passage's spatial nodes, and Ran Yi explained why they had survived the backlash.
• Yunxi told Ran Yi, Ran Yang, and Ran Rui that the Evil God's body was sealed in the Weiyu Realm, and Ran Yi agreed to study the formation while keeping the news secret.
• Yunxi invited Wei Zonghao, Wei Chenyin, and Feng Jiaqing to Lingxue Peak and offered to guide Wei Zonghao in medicine refining after Medicine King Valley joined Alchemy Peak.
• Wei Chenyin told Yunxi that Wei family cultivators had supported the war and described how she had prepared life-saving items for them; Yunxi gave her resources for the family and its younger members.
• Feng Jiaqing told Yunxi that the Feng Family had moved to Haoran City and supplied spirit stones during the war, while Yong and Qin had fought as Rogue Cultivators.

Yunxi rewarded the Feng Family’s efforts, arranged to refine a Body Tempering Elixir for Moyu Wan, and learned that Moyu Wan would use it to attempt a breakthrough to Spirit Transformation. After the Central Domain war ended, Haoran Sect disciples received rewards and entered seclusion, while Wei Yunqing emerged from closed-door cultivation and headed for Tribulation Peak.

• Yunxi gave Feng Jiaqing a Storage Pouch and warned him to keep strengthening the Feng Family, then told him and Old Ancestor Feng to let Yong and the others leave if they wished.
• Moyu Wan visited Yunxi and presented the spiritual plants she had gathered for a Body Tempering Elixir.
• Yunxi refined Moyu Wan’s elixir, and Moyu Wan returned to Yuxing City to enter seclusion and attempt a breakthrough to Spirit Transformation.
• The Haoran Sect’s Flying Ship returned safely from the Central Domain, and Hao Yan, Haoqing, and Haohui reported on the battle and the sect disciples’ casualties to Venerable Haoyi.
• Haoran Sect disciples received rewards for their battlefield contributions and increasingly entered seclusion to cultivate.
• Wei Yunqing emerged from his cultivation chamber and flew toward Tribulation Peak.

Han Lian, Xun Kun, and Yun Chen searched their sects for clues about the Evil God's sealed body while Yunxi detected an unknown force exploiting Wei Yunqing's Spirit Transformation tribulation. After Yunxi struck Wei Yunqing during the tribulation, she seized her by the neck when it ended.

• Han Lian told Han Mu about Weiyu Realm's crisis, then searched Jihan Sect's Hall of Records for information about the Evil God's sealed body.
• Xun Kun searched Kunmo Sect's books for clues, while Yun Chen shared what he found in Yunmen Temple's scripture repository with Yunxi and the others.
• Yunxi sensed Wei Yunqing undergoing Spirit Transformation tribulation and went to Tribulation Peak, where she detected another force smuggling in extras during the Heart Demon tribulation.
• Yunxi shot Wei Yunqing with an arrow of divine sense, disrupting her tribulation as Venerable Yuling warned her to mind her limits.
• After Wei Yunqing survived the tribulation and awoke with confused memories, Yunxi pulled her close and closed a hand around her neck.

Wei Yunxi subdued Wei Yunqing after sensing that her Heart Demon tribulation had been tampered with, then suspected Wei Yunqing could be a way to counter the false Heavenly Dao. Twenty years later, Wei Yunqing returned to the Wei Family, where Wei Lingtao’s displeasure and a powerful pressure left her pinned to the ground.

• Wei Yunxi restrained Wei Yunqing, pierced her sea of consciousness, and carried her back to her Immortal Cave under a Rosy Cloud Butterfly’s watch.
• Wei Yunxi concluded that Wei Yunqing’s tribulation had been altered by the false Heavenly Dao and considered using her as a breakthrough in protecting the Weiyu Realm.
• Wei Yunqing woke three days later, vowed to defeat Wei Yunxi, and resolved to leave the sect once she stabilized her cultivation and sought her opportunities.
• Twenty years later, Wei Yunqing emerged from seclusion, chose a remote mountain peak, and returned to the Wei Family, where she learned that Wei Lingyue and Du Ruolan had died.
• Wei Yunqing questioned Wei Lingtao about whether Wei Yunxi had tried to extend her father’s life, then released her pressure and was thrown down and pinned by a stronger force.

Wei Yunxi drove Wei Yunqing from the Wei Family and sent her to the Qinghua Mountain Range to keep her from disrupting the fragile calm between righteous cultivators and hidden evil cultivators. Afterward, Wei Lingtao reassured Yunxi that she had already shown restraint toward her father, Wei Lingyue.

• Wei Yunxi suppressed Wei Yunqing and told her that Wei Lingyue had died from the Heart Demon caused by his own actions, not because Yunxi had harmed him.
• Yunxi confronted Wei Yunqing with her obsession with surpassing Yunxi, then sent her to the Qinghua Mountain Range to draw out possible signs of evil cultivators.
• Yunxi explained that the evil cultivators were lying low until she and the other three ascended, while Xiao He reported that Longya had vanished from the Scroll of Mountains and Rivers.
• Yunxi sent fourth-rank Rosy Cloud to watch Wei Yunqing and prevent her from disturbing the current balance.
• Wei Lingtao thanked Yunxi for intervening, and Yunxi asked whether he blamed her for letting Wei Lingyue die; Wei Lingtao said her inaction had protected him.

After sending Wei Yunqing away, Yunxi returned to the Haoran Sect and continued refining the Soul Thunder while waiting for news. When Yuling broke through and Yunxi agreed to take over his duties, she joined a discussion about whether cultivators should ascend to the Spirit Realm to investigate the silence there.

• Yunxi asked Xun Kun to watch Wei Yunqing and then returned to Lingxue Peak, where Dian Dian asked about her trip.
• Yunxi explained that a force was protecting Wei Yunqing and predicted that Wei Yunqing would soon bring about her own death.
• Lili alerted Yunxi that Yuling was breaking through, and Yunxi supplied ten-thousand-year frost to help his breakthrough succeed.
• Yuling thanked Yunxi for the Breakthrough Potion and arranged for her to take over his duties while he consolidated his cultivation.
• Yuling and Yunxi reported the change to Haoyi, where Mingjia asked Yunxi whether cultivators unable to suppress their cultivation should ascend to the Spirit Realm and investigate its current state.

Yunxi proposed using an array and the ascension passage to make the entire Weiyu Realm ascend, rather than sending a few cultivators to the Spirit Realm. The elders weighed her plan and its risks, and Mingjia asked what would happen if the Evil God's body was unsealed first.

• Yunxi argued that information from a few cultivators who ascended would not reveal the Spirit Realm's situation, and that the Weiyu Realm had to keep the Evil Cultivators from retrieving the Evil God's sealed body.
• Yunxi warned that the Evil Cultivators might send Void Refining-stage enemies next, which could overwhelm her and the other cultivators defending the Weiyu Realm.
• Yunxi proposed having many cultivators ascend, then revealed that her real goal was to use an array and the ascension passage to make the entire Weiyu Realm ascend.
• Yunxi explained that the Weiyu Realm might have been suppressed and drained of energy because it sealed part of the Evil God's body, leaving it vulnerable to collapse or conquest by Evil Cultivators.
• Yuling argued that the Weiyu Realm could not rely on Upper Realm cultivators to save it, while Mingjia considered the plan's chances and asked what would happen if the Evil God's body was unsealed before it succeeded.

Yunxi and the other leaders discussed preparations for collective ascension and the search for Longya, then Yunxi rushed to Doufa Peak to stop a forced contract between Lili and Mu Zijun. She rescued Lili and demanded to know where Mu Zijun got the contract formation.

• Yunxi told Mingjia that the demonic cultivators had the Scroll of Mountains and Rivers but not Longya, giving them time to prepare and search for him.
• Xiang Sizi and Haoyi urged the group to act despite the danger, and they discussed using Breakthrough Potions to prepare selected cultivators for collective ascension.
• Yunxi offered to refine potions if cultivators across the Five Regions gathered the required spirit plants, while warning that only suitable cultivators should ascend.
• Yunxi appeared on Doufa Peak after Dian Dian called for help and found Mu Zijun caught in a Master-Servant Contract formation with Lili.
• Yunxi shattered the contract formation with lightning, and Lili attacked Mu Zijun before Yunxi asked him where he had obtained it.

Yunxi stopped Mu Zijun from forcing a contract with Lili and traced the contract formation to a book at Spirit Beast Peak. She suspected the fake Heavenly Dao was using Mu Zijun as a new pawn to oppose her.

• Yunxi destroyed the contract pattern on Mu Zijun's jade pendant and warned him that the forced contract would have caused him backlash.
• Yunxi took Mu Zijun to Spirit Beast Peak and asked Peak Master Yúwù to retrieve the book containing the formation and investigate Zuoqiu's former haunts.
• Mu Zijun returned with the book, but the item hidden inside it had already disappeared, so Yunxi urged Yúwù to investigate Zuoqiu's backup plan.
• Yunxi returned to Lingxue Peak and recognized Mu Zijun as a pawn of the fake Heavenly Dao, while Lili revealed that he had damaged Mu Zijun's divine soul.

Wei Yunqing searched the Qinghua Mountain Range for treasures and potential disciples but found nothing, then visited Treasure Pavilion in Qinghua City to try its treasure-drawing event. She drew a battered azure saber and seemed to recognize something about it, leaving her response to the shopkeeper’s offer to exchange it unresolved.

• Wei Yunqing decided to seek disciples outside the sect and searched the Qinghua Mountain Range for treasures, while Stone Qilin hid the area’s valuables on another cultivator’s orders.
• Wei Yunqing left the Inner Ring empty-handed and reached Qinghua City three days later.
• An innkeeper told Wei Yunqing about Treasure Pavilion’s treasure-drawing event, and she went there the next day.
• The Treasure Pavilion shopkeeper presented high-grade boxes and offered Wei Yunqing one chance to exchange her draw.
• Wei Yunqing opened a box containing a rusty, damaged azure saber, then studied it as the shopkeeper offered to let her exchange it.

Wei Yunqing bought the damaged saber Longya and, mistaking its remaining materials for a windfall, had them fused into her Lifebound Sword, which advanced to a spirit treasure. Yunxi learned of the saber and Wei Yunqing’s actions, then set out for the Southern Region to investigate personally.

• Wei Yunqing recognized the damaged saber as Longya, but after testing it she concluded its saber spirit had vanished and decided to dismantle it for her Tianqing Waterwood Sword.
• Yunxi learned that Wei Yunqing planned to have the saber dismantled and ordered Xun Kun to monitor her movements and take care around the saber.
• Wei Yunqing hired a fifth-tier Artifact Refiner to fuse the saber’s Yin Water Stone into her Lifebound Sword, which endured five bolts of Thunder Tribulation and became a spirit treasure.
• The Artifact Refiner sent a Message Talisman after Wei Yunqing left, and Xun Kun informed Yunxi that her sword had advanced in grade.
• Yunxi told two Nascent Soul Cultivators assisting her and headed to the Southern Region to verify the situation herself.

Yunxi visited the Southern Region to investigate whether Wei Yunqing’s dismantled saber had been Longya in disguise, and Dian Dian confirmed that the scraps carried the evil artifact’s scent. As Yunxi and Xun Kun traveled to Kunmo Sect, Xun Kun wondered whether Wei Yunqing was an upper-realm Evil Cultivator’s planted chess piece.

• Yunxi told Xun Kun she suspected Wei Yunqing’s broken saber was Longya, which might have shed its damaged or exposed shell and hidden itself as a righteous cultivator’s Lifebound Magical Artifact.
• Linlang and Zhu Ye discussed inviting Yunxi to Kunmo Sect and asking her about the Weiyu Realm Ascension Plan.
• Yunxi and Xun Kun visited the Artifact Refiner Association, where Dian Dian identified the saber’s scraps and furnace residue as bearing Longya’s scent.
• Yunxi warned Yu Linlang to destroy the scraps and scorch the furnace with Exotic Flame before using it again.
• On the way to Kunmo Sect, Xun Kun suggested Wei Yunqing might have been planted by the upper-realm Evil Cultivators to suppress Yunxi and help Longya shed its shell.

Yunxi and Xun Kun considered how the Weiyu Realm’s past collapse might have been reset, and Yunxi resolved to stop the evil cultivators and pursue the realm’s ascension. After monitoring Mu Zijun for a year, she asked Ethereal Immortal for advice about a cultivator who kept finding good fortune despite having poor luck.

• Yunxi concluded that Wei Yunqing and Sheng Yuhong may have aided the fake Heavenly Dao in a previous timeline, and resolved to make the Weiyu Realm ascend.
• Yunxi asked Xun Kun to watch Wei Yunqing and help locate the Evil God’s sealed body, which they planned to suppress with the Heavenly Dipper Evil-Slaying Formation.
• Yunxi visited Kunmo Sect to discuss ascension with Linlang, then returned to Haoran Sect and ordered the Law Enforcement Hall to monitor Mu Zijun after he found a Soul Replenishing Pill hidden in an empty bottle.
• A year later, Yunxi contacted Ox-Head and Horse-Face about the missing evil spirits, then asked Ethereal Immortal about Mu Zijun’s inexplicable good fortune.
• Ethereal Immortal asked whether the cultivator obtained good things alone or while other cultivators were nearby.

Yunxi learned that Mu Zijun possessed a Luck-Seizing Body that let him take the luck of people who trusted him, and she decided to seal it. As she reached Mu Zijun’s Immortal Cave to act, he felt an impending calamity and his spiritual power briefly stagnated.

• Yunxi told Ethereal Immortal that Mu Zijun often teamed up with two Haoran Sect disciples and a Rogue Cultivator, and Ethereal Immortal explained the Luck-Seizing Body.
• Yunxi recognized the sealing inscription from the Shaman Clan inheritance and resolved to seal Mu Zijun’s constitution without alerting him.
• Mu Zijun recalled gaining rewards by earning the trust of companions he favored, including benefits that helped him advance to late Golden Core stage.
• Yunxi appeared outside Mu Zijun’s Immortal Cave while he meditated, and he sensed danger as his spiritual power briefly stagnated.

Yunxi sealed Mu Zijun’s Special Constitution and continued monitoring him while Wei Yunqing’s hunt for a Fifth Order Lingli ended with her Dantian severely damaged. Yunxi recognized the injury as an opportunity, and Wei Yunqing’s awakened Lifebound Sword carried her unconscious body away over the sea.

• Yunxi returned to the Honeycomb after implanting sealing inscriptions in Mu Zijun and kept Law Enforcement Hall cultivators watching him.
• Over five years, Wei Yunqing hunted Demon Beasts in the Qinghua Mountain Range, and her Lifebound Sword awakened a sword spirit.
• Wei Yunqing attacked a late Fifth Order Lingli to capture its cubs, but it overpowered her and severely damaged her Dantian.
• Wei Yunqing used a Myriad-Mile Teleportation Talisman to escape, and her Lifebound Sword carried her unconscious body over the sea.
• Stone Qilin hid its cubs underground, while Yunxi realized the Ice Needles in Wei Yunqing’s Dantian had been driven into her Meridians.

Yunxi and her allies searched the Weiyu Realm for the missing Wei Yunqing but found no trace of her, even through a bloodline technique. Wei Yunqing eventually woke in a dark, sea-smelling cave, with her whereabouts still unknown.

• Yunxi asked Xun Kun to find the injured Wei Yunqing, but he searched the Southern Region without success.
• Yunxi searched the Western Regions and asked Yun Chen, Han Lian, Xian Feng, and Xian Yao to search their territories, but none found Wei Yunqing.
• At Haoyi's suggestion, Yunxi used the Bloodline Tracing Technique, but it traced other Wei Family members and not Wei Yunqing.
• Yunxi and the others concluded that they could only wait for Wei Yunqing to appear, while Yunxi agreed to refine a Breakthrough Potion and noticed one of her cultivation-suppressing runes had weakened.
• Wei Yunqing woke in a dim cave, remembered fleeing the Lingli, and wondered where she was.

Wei Yunqing survived with a damaged Dantian and, guided by Longya disguised as her Lifebound Sword’s spirit, reached a sealed cavern beneath the sea. After spending thirty years dismantling the formations around an Undying Tree, she prepared to break the final layer while Yunxi set out to search for her.

• Wei Yunqing healed her injuries with a Life-Giving Pill but discovered that her Dantian remained torn and unable to store spiritual power.
• Longya, hidden inside Wei Yunqing’s Lifebound Sword, had betrayed her during the battle and guided her unconscious body toward the Evil God’s sealed body beneath the sea.
• Wei Yunqing explored the sealed cavern, found a supreme-grade Spiritual Vein and an Undying Tree, and decided the tree might repair her Dantian.
• Wei Yunqing placed an Isolation Formation at the cave entrance and spent thirty years carefully unraveling the formations protecting the Undying Tree.
• Yunxi searched unsuccessfully for Wei Yunqing for thirty years, then handed over her duties and left to search in person and visit Xiao He.

After Yuling emerged from seclusion, Haoyi updated him on the Haoran Sect’s growth and Cao Yi’s progress setting up the Heavenly Dipper Evil-Slaying Formation across the Weiyu Realm. In the Mortal Realm, Cao Yi discovered that someone had tampered with one of the formations just as his group prepared to leave.

• Yuling learned that Ranxi had gone to investigate Wei Yunqing, while his own cultivation had reached the peak of mid Spirit Transformation.
• Haoyi told Yuling that Ranxi’s potions had strengthened the Haoran Sect and helped its allies, while Cao Yi had divided the Heavenly Dipper Evil-Slaying Formation into eighty-one smaller formations and begun setting them across the realm.
• Yuling and Haoyi discussed how to handle people resisting the formation work, agreeing that the Weiyu Realm needed to prepare for another attack by evil cultivators.
• Cao Yi set up formations in the Mortal Realm with Lin Keyang and Zhang Lingrui guarding him, while Lin Keyang delayed his breakthrough to protect the group.
• As the three prepared to return to the Cultivation Realm, Cao Yi said someone had tampered with one of his formations.

Zhang Lingrui, Lin Keyang, and Cao Yi followed Mingya to a mountain hollow after she claimed Zhou Langchen and Zuo Die’er were trapped by evil cultivators. They uncovered a mass grave containing evil spirits and old ghosts, killed Mingya’s disguised form and Li Chang, and stopped when a familiar figure appeared and used a mirror to absorb the spirits.

• Cao Yi dispersed the evil spirits attacking the formation, and Zhang Lingrui brought the unconscious Mingya aboard their Flying Boat.
• Mingya said Zhou Langchen and Zuo Die’er were trapped by evil cultivators, so the three took her to the mountain hollow where they had fought.
• Zhang Lingrui, Lin Keyang, and Cao Yi discovered the hollow was a mass grave where evil cultivators raised spirits and old ghosts hid.
• Zhang Lingrui struck down Mingya as she tried to ambush them, then killed Li Chang after his Nascent Soul emerged.
• Cao Yi prepared a formation to destroy the spirits, but a familiar figure appeared and a mirror drew the Evil Souls and evil spirits into itself.

Yunxi rescued Zhou Langchen and Zuo Die'er from an evil cultivator’s trap, then sent them back to the Cultivation Realm after learning what had happened. Five years later, news of a hidden estate emerging at the Cloud Sea drew Yunxi to Wei Yunqing, whose whereabouts had been revealed.

• Yunxi stopped Cao Yi and the others from destroying the Evil Souls and vicious ghosts, then treated Zhou Langchen and Zuo Die'er.
• Zhou Langchen explained that Mingya had been possessed and lured them into a trap, while Zuo Die'er revealed that she had destroyed her own Dantian to prevent possession.
• Yunxi learned how the three had encountered the evil cultivators and sent Zhou Langchen and Zuo Die'er back to their respective destinations in the Cultivation Realm.
• The Cultivation Realm dispatched Nascent Soul Cultivators to search the Mortal Realm, and the Soul-Collecting Mirrors of Xun Kun, Han Lian, and Yun Chen later detected escaped wicked souls and ghosts.
• Five years later, a hidden estate appeared to be emerging above the Cloud Sea, and Wei Yunqing revealed herself and claimed to have broken its seal.
• Yunxi arrived at the Cloud Sea and swept Wei Yunqing onto her Flying Boat.