Chapter Summaries

Wei Yunxi and her companions defeated a second-tier Sand Rat through coordinated attacks and Yunxi’s hidden Thunderburst Talisman. They escaped to the beast’s nest to recover, where Yunxi explained how she delivered the decisive talisman.

• Wei Yunxi unleashed her saved second-tier talismans, badly injuring the second-tier Sand Rat while her companions killed the remaining first-tier Sand Rat and replenished their spiritual energy.
• Wei Yunxi realized the Sand Rat was pretending to be unconscious and secretly told Hua Xuanzi, who passed the warning to Senior Brother Zhao.
• As the group approached, the Sand Rat broke free and swept all four away, while Yunxi’s Ice Needle carrying a Thunderburst Talisman struck its rear and detonated inside it.
• The Sand Rat’s cries incapacitated the others, but Yunxi pretended to be affected; after it died, Hua Xuanzi collected its corpse and the group hurried away.
• Senior Brother Zhao led the exhausted group to the Sand Rat’s former nest, where Hua Xuanzi concealed the entrance with a formation disk.
• Hua Xuanzi asked what Yunxi had fired into the Sand Rat, and Yunxi revealed that she had sealed a second-tier middle-grade Thunderburst Talisman inside an Ice Needle and shot it through its anus.

Wei Yunxi, Wei Zonghao, Hua Xuanzi, and Senior Brother Zhao agreed on an account of their team’s deaths, divided the rewards, and returned safely to the sect. Yunxi and Zonghao reflected on the dangerous mission before someone stopped them outside their courtyards.

• Yunxi explained how she killed the second-tier Sand Rat, and Hua Xuanzi and Senior Brother Zhao thanked her and Zonghao for saving them.
• The four agreed to say the missing teammates had been swallowed by the Sand Rat, then divided the mission rewards and recovered overnight.
• The group returned to the sect, turned in the mission, and split the spirit stones from the second-tier Sand Rat.
• Yunxi and Zonghao discussed the dangers of the mission and revealed they had kept additional spirit stones from the Storage pouches they had seized.
• Someone called out to Yunxi and Zonghao as they were about to enter their courtyards.

Wei Yunqing’s dispute over a cultivation courtyard drew Wei Zonghao and other Wei family disciples into a team challenge. Yunxi urged them not to let Wei Yunqing exploit the family’s support, and the group gathered at the arena to face the opposing disciples.

• Wei Yunying told Yunxi and Wei Zonghao that Wei Yunqing had challenged senior disciples over a courtyard and needed two Wei family fighters for a three-on-three arena match.
• Wei Zonghao initially refused to help, but Yunxi persuaded him to go while warning Wei Yunying that Wei Yunqing should not be allowed to use the Wei family as her shield.
• At the arena, Yunxi and Wei Zonghao joined Wei Yunting and Wei Zonghan, and Wei Zonghao said he would fight for the Wei family rather than for Wei Yunqing.
• Yunxi urged Wei Yunting not to let Wei Yunqing claim the courtyard even if the Wei family won, and Wei Yunting agreed with her reasoning.

Wei Yunqing lost her first match to Senior Sister Mu, exposing her poor fighting skills despite her higher cultivation. Wei Zonghao then won for the Wei Family, and Yunxi volunteered to face the next opponent, a young girl at the sixth layer of Qi Refining.

• Wei Yunqing challenged Senior Sister Mu but was knocked off the arena after her defensive artifact failed to protect her.
• Wei Yunting asked Wei Yunqing to admit her defeat, and Wei Yunqing stood aside without receiving help from the Wei sisters.
• Wei Zonghao defeated Zhang Yan in a close match and earned the Wei siblings' praise.
• Yunxi volunteered to fight the next young opponent, and Wei Yunting urged her to do her best without getting hurt.

Wei Yunxi defeated Zhen Tongshuang in an arena match, helping the Wei Family disciples settle their dispute with Senior Sister Mu without taking her courtyard. Yunxi made a new friend, then returned to the Disciple Courtyard to cultivate while Wei Yunqing raged alone.

• Wei Yunxi used ice spells and swift footwork to defeat Zhen Tongshuang, then showed restraint and thanked her for the match.
• Wei Yunting told Senior Sister Mu that the Wei Family would not claim her courtyard, and Wei Yunqing admitted defeat and left to find another place to live.
• Zhen Tongshuang befriended Yunxi and exchanged Message Talismans with her.
• Yunxi and Zonghao returned to the Disciple Courtyard and hung signs announcing their seclusion.
• The Wei Family's Golden Core Elder watched the recorded battle, criticized the family's favored disciples, and sent a Message Talisman.
• Wei Yunqing shut herself in her new courtyard and smashed things while cursing Yunxi and the others.

Wei Yunqing withdrew after alienating the Wei family disciples, while Wei Yunxi focused on cultivation and logged back into the Space Chat Group. Tribal Warrior thanked Yunxi for helping his tribe survive the cold season and sent her Milk Fruit, which she accepted while proposing future equivalent exchanges.

• Wei Yunqing reflected on her conduct, decided to keep a low profile, and planned to build ties with Senior Brother Ye at the Outer Sect's Alchemy Peak.
• Wei Yunxi resumed her cultivation routine, and a month later Wei Yunting and Wei Zonghan failed to gather the Wei family disciples to reconcile them with Wei Yunqing.
• Wei Zonghan told Wei Yunting that the gathering would wrongly imply Wei Yunqing had done nothing wrong, so they let the matter drop.
• Wei Yunxi entered the Space Chat Group and told Tribal Warrior about her recent mission, arena fight, and seclusion.
• Tribal Warrior said his tribe had survived the Cold Season and Melt Season with all its young preserved, then sent Yunxi ten baskets of Milk Fruit in gratitude for her pills.
• Wei Yunxi accepted the Milk Fruit and asked that they continue making equivalent exchanges in the future.

Yunxi asked Ethereal Immortal for cultivation advice and decided to delay Foundation Establishment while strengthening her body and seeking new skills. After cultivating with the Mutated Immortal Spirit Grass, she unknowingly caused the surrounding cultivation rooms to lose their Spiritual Qi.

• Yunxi asked Ethereal Immortal whether she should pursue the tenth Qi Refining layer and temper her body with heavenly thunder, and the senior warned her to delay Foundation Establishment and focus on body tempering.
• Yunxi planned to seek lightning-element techniques, gain combat experience, and learn alchemy before leaving the Chat Group.
• Yunxi brought the Mutated Immortal Spirit Grass into her cultivation room, cultivated beside it for four hours, and saw her Spiritual Qi become unusually pure.
• Yunxi kissed the grass, unknowingly let a drop of blood be absorbed by it, and then began replenishing her talisman stock.
• Yunxi discovered that the Spiritual Qi in her cultivation room had not recovered and joined other disciples asking the steward disciples about the problem.

Yunxi learned that the Immortal Spirit Grass had drained the Cultivation Hall’s Low-grade Spirit Vein, but the year-long investigation did not implicate her. Over the next three years, she cultivated, refined pills, and carefully tempered her body while advancing to the seventh level of Qi Refining.

• Elder Deng closed the Cultivation Hall and promised to refund the disciples after discovering a problem there.
• Yunxi asked the Immortal Spirit Grass what had happened, and it admitted to absorbing the Spiritual Vein; it also promised not to act without consulting her again.
• Yunxi avoided the Cultivation Hall, while the sect spent a year investigating every Outer Sect Disciple who had been there.
• Yunxi cultivated and took missions while learning pill refinement, using spirit plants supplied by Wei Zonghao and selling improved Bigu pills.
• Over three years, Zonghao advanced to the eighth level of Qi Refining, Yunxi reached the seventh, and Zong Yu and Zong Jin reached the sixth.
• Yunxi refined Nourishing Spirit Pills, released the Immortal Spirit Grass to aid her cultivation, and continued tempering her meridians and internal organs instead of breaking through.

Yunxi decided to leave the sect to find an unclaimed Spiritual Vein before advancing to Foundation Establishment, and asked Hua Xuanzi to help her take an outside mission. She chose a search mission in the distant Baohua Mountain Range, where a missing junior senior sister she knew was among the disciples to be found.

• The Immortal Spirit Grass told Yunxi their stored Spiritual Qi was running low and suggested they search outside the sect for an unclaimed Spiritual Vein, so Yunxi planned to leave before her Foundation Establishment Thunder Tribulation.
• Yunxi paid Senior Brother Chu for the Pill Refining Room with her mid-grade pills, and he offered to guide her next time; she suspected he was targeting her and suspected Wei Yunqing was behind it.
• Yunxi recalled that Wei Yunqing had discovered her pill-refining skill and arranged for disciples to watch her, apparently coveting the spirit stones Yunxi had earned.
• Yunxi asked Hua Xuanzi to help her accept a mission outside the sect because someone had set their sights on her.
• Yunxi chose a mission to find missing fellow disciples in the Baohua Mountain Range, and Hua Xuanzi worried about the distance and danger; Yunxi said a junior senior sister she knew was among the missing.

Yunxi arranged a deception with Wei Zonghao, then left the Haoran Sect alone to pursue a lightning-element cultivation art and other goals. She reached Baohua City by Teleportation Formation, where a young boy offered her a Green Orange Sachet.

• Hua Xuanzi claimed the group mission for Yunxi, and Yunxi decided to travel alone.
• Yunxi told Wei Zonghao about her plans and enlisted him to help mislead Yunqing's watchers.
• Yunxi pretended to settle into a rented Herb Field, then handed it to Zonghao and left the Haoran Sect before dawn.
• Yunxi disguised her cultivation and appearance, spent all her spirit stones on a teleport to the Baohua Mountain Range, and arrived at Baohua City.
• Yunxi became nauseated after the teleport, and a young boy offered her a Green Orange Sachet.

After arriving in Baohua City, Yunxi hired Jiaozi to guide her to shops selling pills and talismans while disciples searched for her. Back at the sect, Zonghao and Hua Xuanzi concealed her trail, and the Wei family learned that Yunxi had left on a mission to search for Zhen Tongshuang.

• Yunxi bought a Green Tangerine sachet from Jiaozi, then hired him to guide her around Baohua City.
• Disciples tracked Yunxi to Haoran City as the Baohua Mountain search mission was raised to Foundation Establishment rank.
• Hua Xuanzi removed Yunxi's name from the mission list and told Zonghao to warn her that people were still watching her.
• Zonghao broke through to Qi Refining Layer 9 while cultivating in Yunxi's rented Herb Field.
• Wei Yunqing staged a search for Yunxi, and the Wei family disciples found Zonghao at the Herb Field.
• Zonghao told the Wei family that Yunxi had left on a mission to find Zhen Tongshuang and had entrusted him with the Herb Field.

Wei Yunqing accepted Ye Shaotian’s plan to restore a damaged Foundation Establishment Grass in exchange for help obtaining Foundation Establishment Pills, while Pill Refining Hall disciples pursued Yunxi after she left the sect. Yunxi evaded them, sold pills and talismans in Xiziwu, and reached a cave-rental shop in Baohua City to prepare for a breakthrough.

• Wei Zonghao sent the Wei family guests away to consolidate his cultivation, while Wei Yunying remained on the Outer Nine Peaks and Wei Yunqing resented Zonghao’s progress.
• Wei Yunqing sought comfort from Ye Shaotian, who advised her to reach Qi Refining Layer 9 and offered to arrange Foundation Establishment Pills if she revived the damaged Foundation Establishment Grass.
• Pill Refining Hall disciples learned that Yunxi had left the sect and decided to follow her, hoping to capture her and make her refine pills for them.
• Yunxi used a Teleportation Formation to leave Haoran City, causing the pursuing disciples to lose her trail and avert the danger.
• Yunxi sold nearly half her stored pills and talismans in Xiziwu, then asked Jiaozi to guide her to a safe, affordable place to cultivate and break through.
• Yunxi reached a Cave Rental shop in Baohua City after restoring her peak Qi Refining Layer 9 cultivation, intending to rent an Immortal Cave.

Yunxi rented a low-tier cave dwelling in Baohua City and used the Immortal Spirit Grass’s Spiritual Qi to break through to Foundation Establishment. A Thunder Tribulation then struck, and she began refining its lightning power to strengthen her Lightning Spiritual Root.

• Yunxi paid five hundred low-grade spirit stones to rent Bingsi Cave Mansion, low tier, and activated its formations.
• Yunxi set up her Third-Grade Formation Disk and brought out the Immortal Spirit Grass, which agreed to help her establish her foundation.
• The Immortal Spirit Grass supplied Spiritual Qi and secretly drew more from the Spiritual Vein as Yunxi broke through into the Foundation Establishment Realm.
• A Tribulation Cloud formed over the cave dwelling, and Yunxi went outside to keep the lightning from damaging someone else's property.
• Yunxi refined the first bolts of Tribulation Lightning through her Meridians and into her Lightning Spiritual Root, then endured the final three bolts descending almost at once.

Wei Yunxi survived her tribulation and reached Foundation Establishment, then learned that her brief vision of a woman in red showed a possible future. After consolidating her cultivation and leaving the Immortal Cave, she set out for the Haoran Sect’s outpost in Baohua City.

• Wei Yunxi endured the final bolts of Tribulation Lightning while the old man sent away people watching her tribulation.
• Spirit Rain repaired Wei Yunxi’s body, and a vision left her with the image of a sorrowful girl in red robes.
• The Immortal Spirit Grass explained that Wei Yunxi had glimpsed possible future scenes through her Shaman Clan bloodline and warned her not to interfere with the Heavenly Dao.
• Wei Yunxi stabilized her Foundation Establishment Early Stage cultivation and practiced basic spells and divine-sense control in the Immortal Cave.
• Wei Yunxi thanked the old man for protecting her, settled her bill, and bought two replacement sets of robes.
• Wei Yunxi changed into light-gray robes and headed for the Haoran Sect’s outpost in Baohua City.

Wei Yunxi went to the Haoran Sect outpost intending to search for her friend Zhen Tongshuang, but learned the mission had been raised to a level beyond her cultivation. She prepared to enter the Baohua Mountain Range with other disciples and watched Sheng Yuhong arrive, leaving him turning toward her intrusive gaze.

• Wei Yunxi learned that the mission to search for missing disciples had become an Inner Sect mission for Foundation Establishment cultivators, so the outpost’s Foundation Establishment cultivator advised her to travel with fellow disciples instead.
• Wei Yunxi asked about the missing disciples and learned that Zhen Tongshuang’s group had vanished after sending an SOS Talisman, and that more disciples disappeared during the search.
• Wei Yunxi decided to wait for Senior Brother Sheng before entering the mountains and spent five days buying supplies and drawing second-grade talismans.
• Sheng Yuhong arrived at the outpost, explaining that he had been delayed after dealing with an evil cultivator on the road.
• Wei Yunxi recognized Sheng Yuhong as the male lead from her illusion and watched him from the crowd, prompting him to turn toward her gaze.

Wei Yunxi joined Long Daoyu’s plan to follow Sheng Yuhong’s search party into the Baohua Mountain Range, using training missions as cover. As they headed toward the place where the missing disciples sent their SOS Talisman, Yunxi questioned Long about the Fire Dragon Grass gathering grounds in the southwest.

• Wei Yunxi hid from Sheng Yuhong’s gaze and pretended to admire him while speaking with Long Daoyu.
• Long Daoyu proposed that he and Yunxi follow Sheng Yuhong’s group into the mountain, and Yunxi agreed.
• Wei Yunxi and Long Daoyu accepted missions to search for spirit plants and hunt Tier 1 demonic beasts as an excuse to enter the mountain.
• The next morning, Long Daoyu found Yunxi, and they followed the crowds from Baohua City toward the Baohua Mountain Range.
• Wei Yunxi learned that Sheng Yuhong’s party planned to visit the SOS Talisman location first, somewhere in the southwest where the missing disciples had sought Fire Dragon Grass.

Yunxi and Long Daoyu searched for Zhen Tongshuang and found the Fire Dragon Grass site, while Sheng Yuhong uncovered that a Three-Headed Snake had abducted Haoran Sect disciples. After Yunxi and Long Daoyu gathered herbs, a snake’s tail dragged Yunxi underground, leaving Long Daoyu to summon help.

• Yunxi reasoned that Zhen Tongshuang would likely gather Fire Dragon Grass near the Inner Ring, so she and Long Daoyu hurried toward that area.
• Zhen Tongshuang and Mu Ningzhu remained trapped in a cavern, forced by a Second-Order Three-Headed Snake to channel Spiritual Qi into its eggs while awaiting rescue.
• Sheng Yuhong used the Retrospection Mirror to see that the Three-Headed Snake had abducted Haoran Sect disciples, then recovered and led his group to search for its lair.
• Yunxi and Long Daoyu found the damaged Fire Dragon Grass patch and gathered the older herbs, dividing them between themselves.
• A snake’s tail burst from underground, seized Yunxi, and dragged her below; Long Daoyu’s attack failed, so he sent up an SOS signal.

Yunxi was captured by a Three-Headed Snake and forced to join the Haoran Sect disciples it had trapped in its lair to incubate its eggs. After learning the eggs had shown no signs of hatching for more than half a month, Yunxi examined one and concluded they would never hatch.

• Yunxi was dragged underground by the Three-Headed Snake, which gave her an egg and demanded that she incubate it.
• Yunxi found Zhen Tongshuang, Mu Ningzhu, Zhang Yan, and four other Haoran Sect cultivators in the cavern, each holding a snake egg.
• Yunxi explained how she had followed the search mission to Baohua Mountain and said Long Daoyu and Sheng Yuhong might be able to find them.
• Zhen Tongshuang and Mu Ningzhu explained that the Three-Headed Snake had used Fire Dragon Grass to lure cultivators into its trap and make them incubate its eggs.
• Yunxi learned that the eggs had shown no signs of hatching despite the captives' efforts for more than half a month.
• After examining her egg with spiritual energy and divine sense, Yunxi said the eggs would never hatch.

Wei Yunxi realized the Three-Headed Snake's eggs could not hatch because they had not been fertilized, while she and the other captives waited for rescue and secretly searched the cave. Sheng Yuhong led a search underground and encountered the snake, leaving the rescue party facing the beast.

• Wei Yunxi explained that the Three-Headed Snake's eggs were unfertilized, and the captives rejected telling the snake why they could not hatch.
• Wei Yunxi and the others stopped feeding spiritual power into the eggs and meditated while waiting for rescue.
• Long Daoyu told Sheng Yuhong that Wei Yunxi had been dragged underground near the Fire Dragon Grass, and Sheng Yuhong led the group back to search.
• Du Yuling found loose, foul-smelling soil, and Sheng Yuhong located the passage leading underground.
• Sheng Yuhong's group split up to search the cave, and his party encountered the Second-Order Three-Headed Snake.

Sheng Yuhong's group fought the Three-Headed Snake while Du Yuling and the others freed the captured Haoran Sect disciples. Yunxi escaped deeper underground, found a mid-grade Spiritual Vein, and passed through a concealed formation just before the cavern collapsed.

• Sheng Yuhong and the other Foundation Establishment disciples attacked the Three-Headed Snake as Long Daoyu assisted with talismans.
• Du Yuling and her companions reached the prisoners and helped blast open the restriction, reuniting the Haoran Sect disciples.
• Mu Ningzhu and Du Yuling sent the Qi Refining disciples away with Earth Escape Talismans and went to support Sheng Yuhong.
• Yunxi tunneled deeper underground and discovered a mid-grade Spiritual Vein, where she dug up about a thousand mid-grade spirit stones.
• The Immortal Spirit Grass absorbed the Spiritual Qi, disabling a Concealment Formation, and Yunxi rushed through the revealed rock wall as the cavern collapsed and the Three-Headed Snake went berserk.