Chapter Summaries

Yunxi and the True Venerables discussed how the poison had slowed the Evil Insects and planned a counterattack, while Xiang Sizi asked Yunxi to refine a dose of Lingering Affection so she could risk a breakthrough. Meanwhile, Situ Xuanming and Cao Yi struggled to get Nanyue to forge formation disks strong enough to hold their inscriptions.

• Du'e said the poison had bought the garrison time, and Yutang Fengxin ordered the front lines held while the formation disks were prepared for a counterattack.
• Xiang Sizi told Yunxi she wanted to use Lingering Affection to break through to the Void Refining stage and pursue a chance to refine an Immortal Bone.
• Yunxi agreed to refine one dose for Xiang Sizi after warning her that the poison had no antidote, and Xiang Sizi swore to keep their discussion secret.
• Yunxi checked the formation around Yuling's secluded cultivation site, confirmed it was stable, and returned to her residence.
• Situ Xuanming and Cao Yi asked Nanyue to forge high-level formation disks, but Nanyue protested that their required strength was only possible with Immortal-grade materials.
• Cao Yi explained that a formation disk had shattered when they tried to inscribe it, and Situ Xuanming showed Nanyue the fragments of a ninth-grade disk that had lasted less than five breaths.

Yunxi proposed using materials salvaged from damaged divine and Immortal weapons to make a formation disk capable of bearing her formation patterns, and Nanyue and Situ Xuanming began gathering them. At Wuwang Ruins, a mysterious figure killed the poisoned Evil Venerable and crushed his Nascent Soul, prompting a question about who would suppress the Spirit Realm cultivators.

• Nanyue concluded that he could not refine a formation disk beyond the ninth grade, so Cao Yi went to invite Yunxi for help.
• Yunxi agreed that the formation patterns required an Immortal-grade disk and suggested salvaging materials from damaged weapons and formation disks in the Ancient Battlefield.
• Nanyue and Situ Xuanming announced that they would exchange for damaged weapons and formation disks, drawing cultivators to their temporary residence.
• Yunxi urged Cao Yi to obtain Immortal-grade formation disks, including damaged ones, while she left the Artifact Refining Room with him.
• At Wuwang Ruins, a mysterious figure beheaded the poisoned Evil Venerable and crushed his Nascent Soul, then asked Li Ning who would suppress the Spirit Realm cultivators.

Li Ning explained why he destroyed the Evil Venerable and revealed that a new puppet had matured as the blood pool stirred. At the Spirit Realm encampment, Yunxi helped Xiang Sizi prepare for seclusion, then heard her companions describe an ominous unease.

• Li Ning burned the Evil Venerable's Nascent Soul and explained that the God Venerable's remnant soul had built a passage out of the Wuwang Ruins, but the Heavenly Dao had blocked their escape.
• Li Ning revealed that the Evil Venerable had been a disposable puppet and that a new puppet had matured, while a hazy figure emerged from the churning blood pool.
• Yunxi watched the Spirit Realm forces hold their defensive line and gave Xiang Sizi a less toxic dose of Entwine before Xiang Sizi entered seclusion to attempt a breakthrough.
• Xiang Sizi gave Yunxi the Lingering Affection formula and offered her Portable Herb Garden, but Yunxi refused the garden.
• Ren Tianning, Cang Feng, Wuwang, and Han Baifeng visited Yunxi, and each described lingering dread or an urge to break through despite their recent recovery and progress.

Yunxi warned the others about the Soul Thunder punishment awaiting them and agreed to seek breakthroughs on the front lines. When a New Evil Venerable appeared bearing Huajian’s face, Yunxi flew into a rage and attacked her, leaving their battle underway.

• Yunxi explained that using the forbidden inscription Defying Heaven had brought Soul Thunder upon her, and Wuwang said Merit might help the others endure it.
• Yunxi urged the group to raise their cultivation, and Han Baifeng and Ren Tianning agreed to seek breakthroughs through battle and form a team with her.
• A black lotus appeared over the battlefield, revealing a female New Evil Venerable whose face resembled Huajian’s; Yunxi teleported to confront her.
• Master Ruohuai warned Yunxi not to fall for the evil cultivators’ scheme, while Ren Tianning identified the newcomer as the New Evil Venerable and Cang Feng joined Yunxi’s side.
• Yunxi froze and destroyed waves of evil cultivators and creatures, while Master Ruohuai cleared the battlefield and She Baihui watched over her.
• The New Evil Venerable caught Yunxi’s Seven-Star Deadly Staff with her black flower whip as Hei Yao’s nine forms attacked her black lotus, and Yunxi brought the staff down with a thunderous blow.

Yunxi fought the newly emerged female Evil Venerable, whose face resembled Goddess Huajian, and broke through to the Mahayana stage during their battle. She shattered the Evil Venerable’s protective barrier and ended the chapter as Ziyan devoured her face.

• Yunxi and the female Evil Venerable exchanged fierce attacks while Han Baifeng, Wuwang, and others fought the evil creatures on the battlefield.
• Yunxi sent a Divine Sense Thorn at the Evil Venerable, and Yan Meng slipped into her sea of consciousness after the Flower Ornament blocked the attack.
• Yunxi activated the Seven-Star Deadly Staff’s five stars and trapped the Evil Venerable inside a staff domain as her allies cleared the battlefield.
• Du'e and True Venerable Xiao He arrived, and Du'e realized that Yunxi was breaking through in battle.
• Yunxi reached the Mahayana stage and shattered the Evil Venerable’s Body Protection Barrier with a blow from her staff.
• Yunxi warned the Evil Venerable never to appear wearing that face again, and Ziyan devoured the Evil Venerable’s face.

Yunxi broke through to the early Mahayana stage while fighting the female Evil Venerable and spent a month consolidating her cultivation. She explained to the True Venerables that the Evil Venerable had worn the face of Goddess Huajian, whom Yunxi had seen through the immortal bone, and that discovery had provoked her attack.

• A black hand from Wuwang Ruins seized the female Evil Venerable and dragged her inside, while Yunxi retreated to the True Venerables and began breaking through.
• Du'e and She Baihui guarded Yunxi as she refined the battlefield’s spiritual power and stabilized her early Mahayana cultivation over a month.
• After Yunxi awoke, She Baihui asked why she had confronted the female Evil Venerable, and Yunxi explained the goddess’s stolen face and her vow to destroy it again.
• She Baihui brought Yunxi to the True Venerables, who praised her breakthrough and asked why she had attacked so furiously.
• Yunxi told the True Venerables that she had seen Goddess Huajian through the immortal bone and recognized her face on the female Evil Venerable.

Yunxi warned the True Venerables that the Evil Cultivators would not abandon their passage and proposed destroying it during the Spirit Realm’s ascension, with the Ancient Battlefield’s sleeping power as a last safeguard. The True Venerables accepted that the plan might cost the battlefield and recognized the fallen God Soldiers and Immortal Generals’ final mission.

• She Baihui asked Yunxi about the black hand, and Yunxi said it was likely the same person both times and had stirred a powerful force within the Ancient Battlefield.
• Yutang Fengxin and the other True Venerables reasoned that the battlefield’s golden power suppressed the Immortal-level Evil Cultivators, while Xiao He said a formation disk might destroy their passage.
• Yunxi argued that the Evil Cultivators would fight to preserve the passage and that destroying it with a formation disk alone would not end the threat.
• Yunxi proposed attacking the passage with the formation disk as the Spirit Realm ascended, then awakening the battlefield’s sleeping power if the Evil Cultivators retaliated.
• Yunxi identified the sleeping power as the last strength of fallen God Soldiers and Immortal Generals, and Du'e said they could help the fallen complete their final mission.

Xiao He proposed using the Ancient Battlefield to help Body Integration Cultivators temper themselves and reach the Mahayana stage, while Yunxi remained on the front line with She Baihui and Master Bukou. When the female Evil Venerable returned, Yunxi fought her and drove her back toward the Wuwang Ruins, suspecting she was weaker than the previous opponent.

• Xiao He proposed that the cultivators take turns guiding Body Integration Cultivators in combat, and the others agreed.
• Yunxi, She Baihui, and Master Bukou stayed at the front line while four cultivators went to guide the regional encampments.
• Yunxi shared Xueling Wine with She Baihui and Master Bukou, then discussed conflict, cultivation, and ambition with She Baihui.
• After a month, the female Evil Venerable returned, and Yunxi challenged her with the Seven-Star Deadly Staff.
• Yunxi dragged the Evil Venerable into her Wind Moving Thunder Roaring domain and sent her flying back toward the Wuwang Ruins.
• Yunxi noticed that the female Evil Venerable seemed much weaker than the previous Evil Venerable.

Yunxi learned that a mysterious force in the Wuwang Ruins was suppressing the female Evil Venerable, and the city’s cultivators prepared to use the approaching end of the battle to strengthen their juniors. In the Wuwang Ruins, the female Evil Venerable rebuked Li Ning for provoking the Spirit Realm and warned him about their past defeat by the divine race.

• Yunxi returned to her Dharma House and told She Baihui and Master Bukou about the mysterious force that weakened the female Evil Venerable.
• She Baihui and Master Bukou confirmed the force was suppressing the Evil Venerable, while She Baihui warned Yunxi not to underestimate her.
• Yunxi entered meditation to recover and consolidate her new Mahayana cultivation, while She Baihui and Master Bukou shared the discovery with the other True Venerables.
• Yutang Fengxin urged Ren Tianning and Yutang Ruofeng to seek breakthroughs and said they would join her on the next battlefield rotation.
• The female Evil Venerable scolded Li Ning for his impulsive actions and reminded him that the divine race had left contingencies after their past conflict.
• Li Ning insisted that he could not accept the divine race’s superiority, despite the female Evil Venerable recounting how Divine Venerable Xihe had nearly destroyed them.

Murong Zhi vanished after questioning Li Ning’s loyalty to the God Venerable, while Yunxi sensed that the Wuwang Ruins passage was growing unstable. Back at the encampment, cultivators made a wave of breakthroughs, and Yunxi faced the female Evil Venerable again as Hei Yao attacked her.

• Murong Zhi told Li Ning that their side had lost because their war had brought chaos and suffering to the Three Realms, then dissipated in the Wuwang Ruins.
• Yunxi and She Baihui discussed the unstable passage and the growing mysterious power in the Ancient Battlefield before Yunxi returned to guard Yuling during his breakthrough.
• Ye Yuchen, Ye Yirui, Yutang Ruofeng, Xun Kun, Han Baifeng, and Xiang Sizi advanced their cultivation, and Yunxi gave Xiang Sizi an antidote to help refine the poison in her Nascent Soul.
• Yunxi returned to the front lines and confronted the female Evil Venerable, who had reached mid-Mahayana stage and attacked with her black flower whip.
• Hei Yao transformed into a hundred-meter Nether Dragon, damaged the flower whip, and coiled around the female Evil Venerable.

Yunxi defeated the female Evil Venerable and noticed that the Wuwang Ruins passage was concealing itself more slowly, suggesting something had changed inside. After five years of conflict, she and the others left the Ancient Battlefield, where Yunxi immediately faced Tribulation Lightning.

• Yunxi fought the female Evil Venerable with Hei Yao and the Nine Nether Sword, wounded her face, and forced her to retreat into the Wuwang Ruins.
• Yunxi told Du'e that the passage took two breaths longer to conceal itself, and Du'e advised her to avoid confronting the Evil Venerable for a while.
• Over the next five years, the righteous and evil sides continued fighting, and the female Evil Venerable reclaimed five li of the battle line while avoiding Yunxi.
• Ren Tianning, Cang Feng, and Wuwang reached the early Mahayana stage before the ten-year garrison mission ended, while Yuling remained in seclusion.
• Yunxi left a Message Talisman at Yuling's residence and departed the Ancient Battlefield with the final group of cultivators.
• Yunxi emerged onto a vast plain, where the heavens stirred and Tribulation Lightning immediately locked onto her.

Yunxi underwent her advancement tribulation on Wu Rao Mountain as Heaven's Punishment Soul Thunder struck alongside the Mahayana Tribulation Lightning. Her defenses and artifacts were being destroyed, leaving her exposed as the ordeal continued.

• Yunxi teleported to Wu Rao Mountain and entered True Venerable Haoran's nine-layer defensive formation as her tribulation began.
• Heaven's Punishment Soul Thunder struck Yunxi alongside the first waves of advancement lightning, injuring her soul and disrupting her cultivation.
• True Venerable Haoran and Du'e discussed Yunxi's condition and the forbidden art that had drawn the punishment, while Du'e urged Haoran not to interfere.
• Du'e told Haoran that Ren Tianning, Cang Feng, Wuwang, and Han Baifeng were also facing advancement and punishment lightning, though their punishment was weaker.
• Yunxi endured the repeated lightning strikes until the nine-layer formation was destroyed; Hei Yao and the Nine Nether Underworld Dragon Umbrella absorbed the seventh wave, and the Seven-Star Deadly Staff emerged to absorb Soul Thunder.

Yunxi survived the final Thunder Tribulations and witnessed memories revealing Xihe the God Monarch’s bond with Goddess Huajian and her role in sealing the Evil God. The vision ended with Xihe asking Yunxi what she would do in her place.

• Yunxi endured the final ten Thunder Tribulations as her Nascent Soul shielded her from the Soul Thunder, and the mountain peak collapsed around her.
• Du'e stopped True Venerable Haoran from approaching the crater while they waited for Yunxi to awaken and receive the Heavenly Dao's blessing.
• Yunxi witnessed Xihe the God Monarch’s history with Goddess Huajian, their estrangement, and Xihe’s rise to become a High God during the war against Huajian’s lover.
• Xihe the High God helped Huajian seal the Evil God in the Wuwang Ruins and later mourned over Huajian’s shattered Life Pearl.
• Xihe turned toward Yunxi in the vision and asked what she would do in her place.

During her Thunder Tribulation, Yunxi spoke with Xihe about Goddess Huajian and insisted that she was her own person, not merely Xihe’s reincarnation. Yunxi survived the tribulation, advanced to the late Mahayana stage, and prepared to return to the Haoran Sect to recuperate.

• Yunxi told Xihe that Goddess Huajian had made a grave mistake but had suffered enough by suppressing the Evil God, and explained why she had given Huajian a chance to begin again.
• Yunxi rejected Xihe’s claim that they were the same person and said she would resist if Xihe ever tried to erase her consciousness.
• Xihe vanished from Yunxi’s sea of consciousness, and Yunxi regained awareness as Spirit Rain and Golden Light of Merit descended.
• Haoran and Du'e saw that Yunxi had survived her Thunder Tribulation, and Yunxi stabilized her cultivation at the late Mahayana stage.
• Yunxi inspected the Soul Thunder tormenting her Nascent Soul, then thanked Haoran and Du'e for protecting her during the tribulation.
• Haoran invited Yunxi back to the sect to recuperate, and Du'e told her that Wuwang and the others had endured weaker Heaven’s Punishment Lightning.

Yunxi returned to Haoran Sect after surviving the Thunder Tribulation and spent a year suppressing Soul Thunder in her Nascent Soul. She told True Venerable Haoran about her plan to destroy the passage from the Wuwang Ruins to the Ancient Battlefield, then received a message that the Sect Master of the Moon Gate wanted to see her.

• Haoran brought Yunxi back to Haoran Sect after learning that Soul Thunder remained in her Nascent Soul, and Yunxi spent a year in seclusion suppressing it.
• Yunxi emerged as a late mahayana Old Ancestor, met with True Venerable Haoran, and recounted her experiences in the Ancient Battlefield and Wuwang Ruins.
• Yunxi explained that Cao Yi and Situ Xuanming planned to refine a formation disk that she would send through the Moon Gate to destroy the passage during the realm's ascension.
• True Venerable Haoran told Yunxi to keep her Soul Thunder secret and remain in the sect until she refined it, while Yunxi admitted she planned to stay for at least ten years.
• A Message Talisman arrived telling Yunxi that the Sect Master of the Moon Gate requested an audience with her.

Yunxi refused Yin Yue’s request to inspect the contracted door and invited Moon Gate’s Old Ancestor to challenge her for it. She then visited Feng Jiayun, told her about the Evil Insects, gave her a protective Jade Token, and learned that the Su family had repeatedly sought an audience during her absence.

• Yunxi met with Yin Yue, who claimed the door Yunxi had contracted might be Moon Gate’s stolen sect-safeguarding treasure.
• Yunxi refused to show Yin Yue the door and told her to invite Moon Gate’s Old Ancestor to Haoran Sect if she wanted to claim it.
• Yin Yue left Haoran Sect after Haohui offered her a place to stay, and Yunxi went to Alchemy Peak to visit Feng Jiayun.
• Yunxi told Feng Jiayun about the Evil Insects and gave her a Jade Token containing three late Mahayana attack spells for protection.
• Feng Jiayun told Yunxi that the Su family had repeatedly requested an audience during Yunxi’s ten years away.

Yunxi returned to Haoran Sect and began catching up on events in the Spirit Realm while preparing to hold the fort during True Venerable Haoran’s seclusion. As Su Jing and the Lei Family considered approaches to her, the chapter left the Lei elders debating whether Yunxi would accept their offer.

• Yunxi reassured Feng Jiayun that she had done well by avoiding the Su family, and Feng Jiayun returned to pill refinement after spending three days with her daughter.
• Yunxi returned to Lingxue Peak, told True Venerable Haoran she would remain there, and agreed to hold the fort while he entered seclusion.
• Haohui gave Yunxi Honeycomb’s latest intelligence, and she invited Han Yang to visit so she could learn more about the Su family.
• Han Yang received Yunxi’s message while aboard his Flying Boat and turned toward the Chuyue Mountain Range, leaving evil cultivators waiting to ambush him empty-handed.
• Su Jing, worried about Sheng Xia’s worsening condition, decided to visit Haoran Sect after Su Zisheng failed to reach Feng Jiayun or enter the sect.
• The Lei Family’s elders proposed offering Yunxi the Profound Thunder Purple Flame and the Peerless Sword Lightning Art, while Lei Jingxiang questioned whether she would forgive the family’s past grievances.

The Lei Family abandoned hopes of using Lei Hongxuan’s legacy to pressure True Venerable Ranxi and sent Lei Jingxiang, Lei Wanjun, and Lei Wanlu to investigate Wan Qian’s disappearance. Meanwhile, Yunxi took ten carefully chosen Inner Sect disciples as Nominal Disciples and began testing them for future Personal Disciple positions.

• Lei Jingxiang persuaded the Lei Family to maintain friendly relations with True Venerable Ranxi and investigate Wan Qian’s disappearance through her last known location and the Haoran Sect disciples she had met.
• Yunxi selected ten Inner Sect disciples with lightning, ice, or wind Spiritual Roots and accepted them as Nominal Disciples of Lingxue Peak.
• Yunxi warned the ten disciples to compete honorably if they hoped to become her Personal Disciples.
• Yunxi gave each disciple a jade slip and one month to gather the listed spirit plants as their first test, forbidding them from buying the plants with spirit stones.
• The ten disciples left Lingxue Peak to seek the spirit plants while ten Rosy Cloud Butterflies followed to monitor their progress.

Yunxi tested ten new disciples with painful medicinal baths that cleansed their meridians and prompted breakthroughs, then advised Song Ke on advancing his puppet arts. She reunited with Han Yang to exchange information, learned why the Su family sought her mother, and told Han Yang to have his Ice Soul Cicada take Sheng Xia away.

• Yunxi had ten disciples complete their tasks, then put them through a painful second cleansing of their meridians and marrow that led them toward breakthroughs.
• Yunxi gave Song Ke advice to treat his soul-infused puppets as disciples and companions, and Song Ke left to refine new puppets.
• Song Ke escorted Han Yang to see Yunxi, and Han Yang gave her five jade slips of news from the Spirit Realm's Five Regions.
• Yunxi declined to secure an immortal bone for Han Yang and asked him what had happened to Sheng Xia and the Su family.
• Han Yang explained that Sheng Xia's divine soul was poorly nourished and that the Su family had tried to approach Yunxi through her mother.
• Yunxi said she might help the Su family if they paid the price, but instructed Han Yang to have his Ice Soul Cicada take Sheng Xia away.

Yunxi ordered Han Yang to kill Sheng Xia and explained her plan to settle old scores with the Su family. After receiving gifts and news from the Ghost Domain, Yunxi advised Li Ze to deal harshly with the Fengdu Realm, and the Ghost Domain’s True Venerables began reorganizing it.

• Yunxi told Han Yang to act immediately, and he used the Ice Soul Cicada to kill Sheng Xia.
• Yunxi explained that she had never forgotten how the Su family had treated her mother, while Han Yang received the information he had requested and stayed on Lingxue Peak.
• Yunxi studied advanced pill-refining techniques and discussed the Lei Family’s continued pursuit of the Profound Thunder Purple Flame with Han Yang.
• Li Ze delivered gifts from True Venerable Mingyou, and Yunxi advised him to take decisive action against suspicious Fengdu Realm cultivators.
• Han Yang reported that several Ghost Domain True Venerables had joined forces to reorganize the Fengdu Realm, and Haohui questioned Yunxi about the trouble her advice might cause.