Chapter Summaries

Yunxi and Cao Yi agreed to travel to the Ghost Domain to help investigate evil cultivators who were stealing ghost cultivators’ Soul Power. Yunxi suspected that part of the Evil God’s divine soul was hidden there, and the two prepared to depart the next morning.

• Haohui introduced Qianmei of the Netherworld Sect, who invited Yunxi and Cao Yi to the Ghost Domain to investigate the evil cultivators’ attacks.
• Qianmei explained that unpredictable black holes containing formations were restraining ghost cultivators and interfering with the investigation.
• Yunxi and Cao Yi accepted the invitation and arranged to leave for Chuyue City early the next morning.
• After Qianmei left, Yunxi told Haohui she suspected the evil cultivators’ Ghost Domain plot concealed part of the Evil God’s divine soul.

Yunxi and Cao Yi accepted a mission to support the Ghost Domain as rumors spread about a mysterious Secret Realm that might be a trap. Sheng Yuhong decided to go there as well, while the Lei Family debated investigating whether Yunxi’s Exotic Flame had belonged to their fallen ancestor.

• Haohui agreed to let Yunxi and Cao Yi travel to the Ghost Domain, warning them to keep in contact with the sect and seek help if necessary.
• Rumors about a moving Secret Realm in the Ghost Domain spread through the Weiling Realm, drawing curious cultivators despite warnings that it might be a trap.
• Sheng Yuhong and Zhou Lingchuan sent the unverified rumors to Haoran Sect, then learned that Yunxi and Cao Yi had already gone to the Ghost Domain on a support mission.
• Sheng Yuhong chose to go to the Ghost Domain, believing Yunxi would protect him if they encountered danger.
• The Lei Family discussed going to the Ghost Domain to determine whether Yunxi’s Exotic Flame had once belonged to their fallen Old Ancestor Lei Hongxuan, but Lei Jingxiang doubted they could reclaim it.

The Lei Family sent Lei Wanqian to approach former Haoran Sect disciples and learn about Ranxi, but Yunxi recognized her in Wugui City. The chapter ended with Zhou Lingchuan warning Sheng Yuhong that their supposed Rogue Cultivator companion was a Lei Family disciple.

• The Lei Family chose Lei Wanqian to pose as a Rogue Cultivator and approach Haoran Sect disciples in the Ghost Domain.
• Yunxi recognized Lei Wanqian when Sheng Yuhong and Zhou Lingchuan greeted her in Wugui City, then warned Zhou Lingchuan through a voice transmission to be careful.
• Sheng Yuhong and Zhou Lingchuan decided to stay in Wugui City, and Lei Wanqian joined them at the Wuya Inn.
• After activating the Isolation Formation in their room, Zhou Lingchuan told Sheng Yuhong that Lei Wanqian was a Lei Family disciple stronger than them.

Yunxi and Cao Yi arrived in Wugui City to investigate black holes that were devouring ghost cultivators, while Zhou Lingchuan and Sheng Yuhong discussed how to evade Wan Qian. The chapter ended with Cao Yi suspecting the black holes used ghost cultivators’ Soul Power as fuel and concealed their openings after feeding.

• Zhou Lingchuan told Sheng Yuhong that Venerable Ran Xi had warned him Wan Qian was from the Lei Family and had a higher cultivation than theirs.
• Sheng Yuhong and Zhou Lingchuan agreed they needed to outwit Wan Qian rather than confront her directly.
• Yunxi and Cao Yi met City Lord Li Ze in Wugui City, where he explained that black holes had been devouring ghost cultivators and resisted attempts to attack them.
• Li Ze offered Yunxi and Cao Yi temporary lodging in the City Lord's Mansion while they awaited the other invited cultivators.
• After settling into the courtyard, Cao Yi proposed that the black holes consumed ghost cultivators’ Soul Power and hid their openings once they had fed.

Yunxi suspected the Moon Gate’s stolen sect treasure might be connected to the gates she possessed, so she summoned Han Yang to learn what he knew. Meanwhile, Sheng Yuhong and Zhou Lingchuan uncovered Wan Qian’s interest in Ranxi and prepared to shake her off.

• Yunxi recalled a possible connection to the Moon Gate, invited Han Yang to Wugui City, and told Cao Yi she would ask him about it.
• Wan Qian treated Sheng Yuhong and Zhou Lingchuan to a meal and questioned them about Ranxi and the Profound Thunder Purple Flame.
• Sheng Yuhong and Zhou Lingchuan told Wan Qian that Ranxi had taken the Profound Thunder Purple Flame from a Huaxian Sect cultivator, and Wan Qian secretly reported the lead to her clan.
• Yunxi learned from Sheng Yuhong that Wan Qian was targeting her and ordered Sheng Yuhong and Zhou Lingchuan to get rid of Wan Qian.
• Han Yang arrived in Wugui City, met Ranxi and Cao Yi, and gave Yunxi information that the Moon Gate’s sect-protecting treasure had been stolen by Evil Cultivators.
• Yunxi asked Han Yang for details about the Moon Gate’s stolen treasure.

Yunxi asked Han Yang to investigate the origins and possible hidden functions of Moon Gate’s sect treasure, suspecting it might be connected to the black holes in the Ghost Domain. After another black hole appeared and swallowed ghost cultivators, the Gate of Time and the Gate of Space reacted to the disturbance, lending support to her guess.

• Yunxi asked Han Yang to investigate Moon Gate’s sect treasure, and he agreed to mobilize his contacts while suggesting she also ask Xun Kun.
• Yunxi proposed that Moon Gate might possess a secret Gate of Space alongside its known Gate of Time, and she and Han Yang discussed whether evil cultivators could use it to create the Ghost Domain’s black holes.
• Yunxi gave Han Yang firsthand information about the evil cultivators’ plot to frame the Demon Realm, and he promised to expose the conspiracy across the Spirit Realm.
• Xun Kun traveled toward the Ghost Domain with Ren Tianning as cultivators from the other regions also headed there to investigate the upheaval or seek a rumored mobile Secret Realm.
• A black hole appeared above an inn in the Ghost Domain’s Outer Ring and swallowed every ghost cultivator inside before a Great Power arrived.
• Yunxi sensed the spatial disturbance and found that the Gate of Time and the Gate of Space reacted excitedly when she brought them out.

After a black hole swallowed cultivators in Wunian City, Yunxi and Cao Yi set out to investigate and seek a way to lure it out. Xun Kun and Ren Tianning joined them, and the four traveled toward Wunian City to meet its City Lord.

• City Lord Li Ze told Yunxi and Cao Yi that a black hole had appeared in Wunian City and swallowed everyone at an inn before vanishing without a trace.
• Yunxi noted that the black hole had shifted its pattern toward the Ghost Domain’s outer cities and proposed investigating Wunian City to devise a way to attract it.
• Li Ze gave Yunxi and Cao Yi a letter of introduction, and they agreed to contact him through their Communication Jade Slip if they found anything.
• Xun Kun and Ren Tianning arrived to support the Ghost Domain, and Ren Tianning chose to accompany Yunxi and Cao Yi to Wunian City.
• Li Ze gave Xun Kun and Ren Tianning letters of introduction, and the four left the City Lord’s Mansion together.

Yunxi and her companions investigated the evil cultivators’ plans while traveling toward Wunian City, where a flock of controlled White-headed Black Crows suggested the enemy was using them to spy on the Ghost Domain. They arrived at the city and spotted Master Wuwang and Yunyi among the queue of ghost cultivators.

• Cao Yi speculated that an array had been placed inside the black hole, and Yunxi gave Ren Tianning a jade slip about the evil cultivators’ plans.
• Xun Kun told Yunxi about Ren Tianning’s Heavenly Demon Eye and her powerful background, while Yunxi described the Lei Family’s attempt to pursue her over the Profound Thunder Purple Flame.
• Yunxi and the others saw a flock of White-headed Black Crows approaching their Flying Boat, and Ren Tianning recognized that evil cultivators had controlled them.
• Cao Yi agreed that the crows might be spying on cities for the evil cultivators, and Yunxi told him to notify City Lord Li Ze and Qianmei.
• After reaching Wunian City, Xun Kun descended the Flying Boat, and Yunxi spotted Master Wuwang preaching to a Void-Traversal Realm ghost cultivator while Yunyi stood nearby.

Yunxi reunited with Yunyi and joined a group of cultivators investigating the Wunian City incident, where they found evidence that an evil cultivator had been involved. The group returned to the City Lord’s Mansion without a trail to follow, while evil cultivators at Pure Land Abyss planned to gather more Soul Power for the God Venerable.

• Ranxi reunited with Yunyi, met Master Wuwang, and turned down his invitation to join Bore Temple.
• Yunxi and the others met City Lord Puyang and went with him to investigate the inn where the incident had occurred.
• Ren Tianning, Dian Dian, and Master Wuwang found signs that an evil cultivator had stayed in the inn’s rear courtyard.
• Cao Yi preserved the scent in a formation disk but could not identify its owner or determine where the cultivator had gone.
• Puyang led the group back to the City Lord’s Mansion to organize their findings.
• At Pure Land Abyss, evil cultivators discussed gathering more Soul Power because the God Venerable’s soul had not awakened.

Evil cultivators in Pure Land Abyss changed their plans after alerting the Ghost Domain’s Great Powers, while Yunxi and the others devised a way to lure out the black hole. The chapter ended with the group considering a Dao Companion Ceremony in Wunian City as bait.

• A female evil cultivator ordered her allies to target cities in the Mid-ring and Outer Ring while the gate gathered power for another attack.
• At Wunian City’s City Lord’s Mansion, Puyang, Wuwang, Ren Tianning, Yunxi, Xun Kun, and Cao Yi discussed how to predict the black hole’s next appearance.
• Yunxi asked Puyang about You Ming, the Joyful Funeral Ghost, whose many Dao companions had disappeared after leaving his territory.
• Puyang identified You Ming as a Void Refining Mid-stage ghost cultivator who traveled through the Mid-ring and Outer Ring in search of resources and Dao companions.
• Yunxi proposed bringing You Ming to Wunian City for a large Dao Companion Ceremony to attract the evil cultivators and draw out the black hole.
• Wuwang questioned whether the plan would work, and Yunxi said the evil cultivators might strike Wunian City again because they would expect the group to anticipate a different target.

Yunxi’s proposal to lure the Evil Cultivators into revealing the black hole gained support, and she secretly captured one of their scouts. The plan to use You Ming as bait moved forward with True Venerable Mingyou’s approval.

• Ren Tianning and Yunyi supported Yunxi’s plan, and Cao Yi’s calculations showed that the black hole appeared at intervals of twenty to forty days.
• City Lord Puyang agreed to consult True Venerable Mingyou and the other City Lords about locating You Ming and preparing the bait.
• Yunxi and Cao Yi searched the sealed inn while tracking an Evil Cultivator’s lingering aura, and Yunxi used Dian Dian to find the disguised scout.
• Xiao Meng drew the Void Refining-stage scout into the Dream Realm, where Yunxi marked him and had him believe he should hide in Wunian City.
• Yunxi and Cao Yi pretended their investigation had found no clues, and the City Lord’s Mansion reopened the inn the next day.
• True Venerable Mingyou approved Yunxi’s plan and ordered Puyang to cooperate, while You Ming sensed danger and slipped into an alley.

In Wunian City, Yunxi and the other cultivators used You Ming’s Dao Companion Ceremony as bait to draw out the evil cultivators behind a string of disappearances. After an evil cultivator returned in disguise and sent a White-headed Black Crow to deliver a message, the group chose Yunxi to pose as You Ming’s Dao Companion, with Ren Tianning as backup.

• Ghost Cultivators in Wunian City spread rumors about You Ming’s ceremony, and a hidden evil cultivator bought information about him before leaving the city; a White-headed Black Crow also flew out.
• Wuwang, Ren Tianning, Han Baifeng, and Hu Yingjun assessed You Ming as unstable, while Cao Yi used a formation disk to draw in and contain a thread of his Soul Power.
• City Lord Puyang explained that he had spread mixed rumors to lure the evil cultivators, and Yunxi revealed that the marked evil cultivator had returned in disguise and sent a White-headed Black Crow.
• The group discussed who should pose as You Ming’s Dao Companion and tentatively chose Yunxi, with Ren Tianning as backup.
• Xun Kun gave Yunxi a jade slip containing the information she had requested.

Yunxi and Cao Yi investigated whether the Moon Gate's lost treasures were connected to the evil cultivators' activities in the Ghost Domain, while Xun Kun gathered information for her. Ren Tianning revealed that the Moon Gate's treasure had been divided into three parts, complicating Yunxi's suspicions.

• Yunxi told Xun Kun that she suspected the Ghost Domain's black hole was a teleportation passage and might be connected to the Moon Gate's Gate of Time and Jiyun City's stolen Gate of Space.
• Xun Kun agreed to have Heavenly Demon Palace disciples investigate, and he later delivered information that left Yunxi's theory unproven.
• Cao Yi reasoned that the Moon Gate's original Gate of Time and Space may have been split into two gates, and Yunxi said both gates were already in her space.
• Yunxi used a formation disk to track the aura of the two Little Crescents in case it detected matching traces.
• Ren Tianning told Xun Kun that the Moon Gate's treasure had been divided into three parts: the gate, the Time Key, and the Space Key.

Yunxi learned that the Time Key and Space Key needed the hidden “Gate” to form the Gate of Time and Space, and suspected the Evil Cultivators had taken it. As Yunxi’s group secretly returned to Wunian City, the Evil Cultivators prepared to exploit You Ming’s Dao Companion Ceremony to capture ghost cultivators, and the ceremony began with Ren Tianning’s arrival.

• Ren Tianning explained that the Moon Gate’s Old Ancestor had taken the “Gate” when he ascended, leaving the Time Key and Space Key behind, and Xun Kun sent Yunxi the corrected information.
• Yunxi realized the “Gate” was the vessel needed to unite the keys and suspected the Evil Cultivators had acquired it, so she planned to stop them.
• Puyang made Wunian City easy to enter but difficult to leave for You Ming’s ceremony, while Ranxi’s group publicly departed and secretly returned two days later.
• The Evil Cultivators discussed using the ceremony to capture more ghost cultivators, and their leader decided to assess the opportunity herself before ordering an attack.
• You Ming was forced to prepare for the ceremony while Wuwang and Yunyi acted as his ghost servants, and Ren Tianning arrived in a sedan chair and demanded that You Ming carry her.

Yunxi used her wedding to You Ming to lure out whoever was controlling the black-hole door, which swallowed the courtyard’s cultivators. After entering the door, she rescued the ghost cultivators and fought to keep the passage open as the Time Key and Space Key returned to it.

• Yunxi carried out the wedding ceremony with You Ming and dragged him into the room, where she made him cry out to lure whoever would take the bait.
• A black hole opened above the courtyard and sucked in the cultivators, while City Lord Puyang knocked unconscious the evil cultivator controlling it.
• Yunxi entered the black hole, used the Soul-Collecting Mirror to gather the ghost cultivators, and sent the Time Key and Space Key toward the shrinking door.
• Wuwang, Xun Kun, Han Baifeng, Hu Yingjun, Yunyi, and Ren Tianning followed Yunxi into the passage, and Xun Kun helped collect the ghost cultivators.
• Yunxi restrained the door as it began to close, handed the Soul-Collecting Mirror to Ren Tianning, and began drawing a contract formation with spiritual power, blood essence, and Merit.

A hooded evil cultivator returned to Pure Land Abyss to retrieve the Gate, while a ghost cultivator followed her. As Yunxi’s group tried to seize control of the Gate from the other side, purple lightning struck the evil cultivators’ formation and shattered it.

• A hooded female evil cultivator returned to Pure Land Abyss, explaining that Wunian City had been a trap and that she had used a scapegoat to cover her escape.
• The evil cultivators found their formation losing control of the Gate, then stabilized it by joining the others in channeling evil power.
• A high-level ghost cultivator followed the White-headed Black Crow into Pure Land Abyss and entered its body as black mist began to consume it.
• Yunxi completed a contract formation and sent it through the black hole as the Gate began shrinking, while Ren Tianning and Xun Kun gathered ghost cultivators and guarded their group.
• Purple lightning struck the evil cultivators’ Gate formation, shattered it, and inflicted backlash on all nine cultivators.

Yunxi claimed the Gate of Time and Space and closed the black hole, while Li Ze found the evil cultivators hiding in the Pure Land Abyss and attacked them. Stranded with her companions in a place that drained their Soul Power, Yunxi prepared to recover and strengthen Cao Yi’s formations before reopening the gate.

• The Gate of Time and Space completed its transformation, acknowledged Yunxi as its master, and vanished into her Portable Space as the black hole closed.
• Li Ze revealed that he had tracked the fleeing evil cultivators to the Pure Land Abyss and attacked the nine injured enemies.
• Puyang and Qianmei arrived with ghost cultivators to support Li Ze as the Ghost Domain began its purge of the evil cultivators.
• Yunxi told Xun Kun and Ren Tianning that she had seized the incomplete passage and needed time to recover her spiritual power before reopening it.
• Cao Yi added layers of isolation formations after Ren Tianning confirmed that the group was still losing Soul Power.

After recognizing their location as the Ancient Battlefield, Yunxi and the other cultivators planned to stop the Evil God's dormant divine soul from draining their Soul Power and trapping them. They prepared to locate and disable the recovery formation, then seal the soul, while Yunxi hinted that Ren Tianning might be its likely possession target.

• Wuwang identified their location as the Ancient Battlefield, and Xun Kun warned that the place was consuming their Soul Power to nourish the Evil God's dormant divine soul.
• The group agreed to follow Wuwang's arrangements and waited for Yunxi to recover while Cao Yi's formation disks protected them.
• After recovering, Yunxi agreed that they should seal the Evil God's divine soul before searching for an exit.
• Wuwang offered his Zen Staff to seal the soul temporarily, while Yunxi and Xun Kun planned to trap it in their Soul-Collecting Mirrors.
• Cao Yi offered to find and destroy the formation sustaining the soul, Han Baifeng and Hu Yingjun volunteered to attack it, and Ren Tianning offered to trace the energy flow.
• Yunxi suggested the Evil God would target the cultivator with the highest cultivation, leaving Ren Tianning as the likeliest possession target.

Yunxi and Cao Yi left the protective formation to locate the Formation Core while their Soul Power drained in an unexplored region of the Ancient Battlefield. Yunxi used You Ming as a living guide, and Cao Yi began tracking the direction of his draining Soul Power.

• Ren Tianning warned Yunxi that Soul Power drained faster outside the formation, and Yunxi confirmed the danger as she and Cao Yi explored.
• Yunxi used the Hong Energy Shield to protect herself and Cao Yi, stopping their Soul Power from draining and disabling Cao Yi's detection formation disk.
• Yunxi took You Ming from the Soul-Collecting Mirror and pushed him beyond the shield so Cao Yi could track his draining Soul Power with the formation disk.
• You Ming tried to rush back into the shield, but it flung him away and his Buddhist seal made his Soul Power drain faster.
• Yunxi warned You Ming to follow their instructions if he wanted to preserve his divine soul, and You Ming agreed while Cao Yi resolved not to spare him.

Cao Yi discovered that an ancient Soul Sealing Formation beneath the wasteland contained the Evil God's divine soul, and he began devising a way to destroy the evil cultivators' embedded formation disk without worsening the breach. While he worked, Yunxi sensed Yun Chen and Han Lian being pursued by evil cultivators and went to rescue them.

• You Ming's Soul Power drained as he scouted the wasteland, and Yunxi sealed him in the Soul-Collecting Mirror before returning to the group with Cao Yi.
• Cao Yi explained that the evil cultivators had embedded a formation disk in the Soul Sealing Formation to nourish the Evil God's divine soul through a crack.
• Yunxi proposed transferring the Evil God's divine soul into the Soul-Collecting Mirror and later sending it to the Underworld, while Cao Yi set out to deduce how to remove the embedded disk safely.
• The group waited under Yunxi's Hong Energy Shield for three days as Cao Yi neared the end of his deductions.
• Golden light and a blizzard appeared nearby, and Yunxi recognized Yun Chen and Han Lian among those pursued by evil cultivators.
• Yunxi left to rescue Yun Chen and Han Lian while Master Wuwang stayed to guard Cao Yi and the others.