Chapter Summaries

Yunxi and Haohui discussed the escalating danger at the Ancient Battlefield before Lei Jingxiang confronted Haohui over Lei Wanqian’s death. Haohui ordered an investigation and summoned Sheng Yuhong and Zhou Lingchuan back to the sect, leaving them to face the Lei Family’s accusations.

• Yunxi explained that both sides were waiting for the missing part of the Buddha Domain to return, while the Haoran Sect prepared to hold the Ancient Battlefield’s defensive line.
• A disciple told Haohui that members of the Lei Family had requested an audience, and Yunxi left to tend to her Nominal Disciples’ breakthroughs.
• Lei Jingxiang told Haohui that Lei Wanqian had died while investigating ghost cultivator disappearances and that her final image showed two Haoran Sect disciples.
• Lei Wanjun showed an Imprint Talisman image identifying Sheng Yuhong and Zhou Lingchuan, while Lei Wanlu said the Lei Family had preserved additional evidence.
• Haohui agreed to investigate and summoned Sheng Yuhong and Zhou Lingchuan back to the sect as the Lei Family chose to wait in Chuyue City.

Yunxi helped Dian Dian endure her Fifth Order tribulation, and Dian Dian successfully advanced and began recovering in seclusion. After Haohui told Yunxi that Sheng Yuhong had claimed she ordered Lei Wanqian’s death, Yunxi proposed a face-to-face confrontation with the Lei Family.

• Yunxi guided her Nominal Disciples through breakthroughs and sent them into seclusion as Zhou Lingchuan and Sheng Yuhong returned to the sect and were taken for questioning.
• Dian Dian underwent her Fifth Order tribulation on Tribulation Peak, endured the lightning, and began taking on a human form.
• Dian Dian recovered with Spirit Rain and Merit light, then returned to Yunxi’s space to stabilize her cultivation and master her transformation.
• Haohui told Yunxi that Sheng Yuhong blamed Lei Wanqian’s death on her, while Zhou Lingchuan said she had only warned them about Wan Qian’s motives.
• Yunxi called Sheng Yuhong shameless and asked Haohui to invite the Lei Family to confront Sheng Yuhong and Zhou Lingchuan at the Haoran Sect the next day, with her present.

Lei Jingxiang brought Lei Wanjun and Lei Wanlu to Haoran Sect to confront Sheng Yuhong and Zhou Lingchuan over Lei Wanqian’s death. Yunxi appeared and questioned Zhou Lingchuan, while Sheng Yuhong blamed the killing on an order from True Venerable Haoran.

• Lei Jingxiang agreed to meet Haoran Sect, though Lei Wanjun worried the sect had prepared a countermeasure.
• Lei Wanlu showed Haohui the Imprint Talismans, revealing Sheng Yuhong had killed Lei Wanqian despite Zhou Lingchuan’s attempt to stop him.
• Yunxi appeared in the hall, pressured Sheng Yuhong to the ground, and asked Zhou Lingchuan how he and Lei Wanqian had met.
• Zhou Lingchuan recounted how Lei Wanqian followed them into the Fengdu Realm and fought them over Soul Crystals in an abandoned mine.
• Sheng Yuhong claimed True Venerable Haoran had ordered him to kill Lei Wanqian, and Zhou Lingchuan angrily challenged his story.

Yunxi used a Heavenly Dao oath to reveal that Sheng Yuhong’s memory of receiving her order to kill Lei Wanqian had been manipulated. Yan Meng’s attempt to uncover the memory’s source was interrupted when the water mirror shattered and the probing light returned to her.

• Haohui proposed that Sheng Yuhong swear a Heavenly Dao oath, and Sheng Yuhong swore that Yunxi had ordered him to kill Lei Wanqian.
• The oath triggered five bolts of lightning; Yunxi blocked the last three, and Yugeng rushed in to save the badly injured Sheng Yuhong.
• Yunxi summoned Yan Meng to examine Sheng Yuhong’s memories and determine when and how he had received the supposed order.
• Yan Meng’s water mirror showed that Yunxi had only warned Sheng Yuhong and Zhou Lingchuan to be careful in Wugui City, before the two later found a Soul Crystal and fought Lei Wanqian over it.
• As Sheng Yuhong absorbed the Soul Crystal, he seemed to remember Yunxi ordering him to kill Lei Wanqian, but the water mirror shattered and the pink light returned to Yan Meng.

Yunxi exposed the divine soul possessing Sheng Yuhong and confronted it after discovering it was tied to the Evil God and a Soul Crystal. She destroyed Sheng Yuhong’s body to force the soul out, leaving the ghostly-eyed spirit fleeing and furious.

• Yunxi used the Soul-Collecting Mirror to remove Sheng Yuhong’s original divine soul and revealed that another soul had possessed his body.
• Yugeng trapped Zhou Lingchuan in a formation while Haohui sealed the hall, and the Lei Family guarded its remaining disciples.
• Yunxi recognized the possessor as an enemy connected to the Fengdu Realm and the Evil God, then took the Soul Crystal from Zhou Lingchuan’s Storage Ring.
• Yunxi fought the possessor with her Wind Moving Thunder Roaring domain and learned it had used Sheng Yuhong’s feelings to manipulate him into killing a Lei Family cultivator.
• Yunxi destroyed Sheng Yuhong’s body with the wind and lightning laws, forcing the divine soul to flee and curse her.

Yunxi destroyed the divine soul possessing Sheng Yuhong and confronted the Lei Family over Lei Wanqian’s death, sending them away with evidence of the investigation. She then extracted Zhou Lingchuan’s divine soul and began purging his body, leaving its fate unresolved.

• Yunxi used Ziyan to burn Sheng Yuhong’s divine soul until it was nearly destroyed, while the soul’s main body in the Divine Realm collapsed after sensing the loss.
• Yunxi explained to the Lei Family that evil cultivators had manipulated events and asked whether they accepted the outcome; Yugeng warned them not to press the matter further.
• Lei Jingxiang accepted Yunxi’s Imprint Jade and led Lei Wanjun and Lei Wanlu away to report to their clan’s Old Ancestor.
• Yunxi extracted Zhou Lingchuan’s divine soul into a Soul-Collecting Mirror and sent purple fire through his body.
• As Zhou Lingchuan’s body began to break down, Yunxi used ice-element origin power to stop it from collapsing.

Yunxi returned Zhou Lingchuan’s divine soul to his body, arranged for Sheng Yuhong to be reincarnated, and then sought help investigating the Soul Crystal. True Venerable Canglou arrived at Haoran Sect to examine it, leaving Yunxi to welcome her old acquaintance.

• Yunxi restored Zhou Lingchuan’s divine soul, and Yugeng took him away to break through in seclusion.
• Yunxi and Yugeng agreed to send Sheng Yuhong into reincarnation, and Yunxi erased his memories before handing him to Ox-Head and Horse-Face.
• Ox-Head and Horse-Face later told Yunxi that Sheng Yuhong had been reborn in the animal realm of a world without spiritual energy.
• Yunxi sealed the Soul Crystal and invited True Venerable Mingyou to examine it, suspecting it held a wisp of the Evil God’s soul.
• True Venerable Mingyou sent True Venerable Canglou to Haoran Sect, and Yunxi greeted him three days later.

Yunxi learned how the Fengdu Realm’s ghost cultivators had used the poison Ying Ruo against the Evil Souls and realized an Evil God soul thread had tried to possess Sheng Yuhong. She secured some Ying Ruo for study, destroyed the soul crystal, and sent the captured soul thread to Ethereal Immortal while Cang Lou left to warn Ming You and investigate the Fengdu Realm.

• Yunxi showed Cang Lou the evidence from the Haoran Sect disciples’ trial and explained her concern that soul crystals could let Evil Souls cause trouble in the Ghost Domain.
• Cang Lou explained how Fengdu Realm ghost cultivators had used Ying Ruo to poison Evil Souls, forcing some to sever parts of their souls, and how the surviving Evil Souls later hid in an abandoned mine.
• Yunxi concluded that an Evil God soul thread had entered Sheng Yuhong through the soul crystal and intended to replace him, while its weakened state explained why it had not possessed Zhou Lingchuan.
• Cang Lou gave Yunxi a poison sac containing Ying Ruo, warning her that he knew of no antidote.
• Yunxi shattered the remaining soul crystal, collected its unconscious soul thread in the Soul-Collecting Mirror, sent it to Ethereal Immortal, and burned the fragments with Profound Thunder Purple Flame.
• Cang Lou departed to inform Ming You and inspect the Fengdu Realm’s Soul Stone veins, and Yunxi escorted him out before returning to Lingxue Peak.

After years of peaceful training, Yunxi learned that Situ Xuanming had brought his eldest sister, the ninth-grade artifact refiner Situ Xuanwu, to discuss making a powerful formation disk. Situ Xuanwu proposed a cautious two-stage refinement plan, and Yunxi agreed to host the work at the Haoran Sect.

• Yunxi spent five years training her Nominal Disciple, refining Soul Thunder, and studying the similarities between Ying Ruo and Entanglement.
• Xiang Sizi visited Yunxi, exchanged poison arts with her, and returned to the Rogue Cultivator Alliance confident she could reach the Body Integration Realm.
• Eight years after Yunxi returned to the sect, she visited the Artifact Refining Peak and asked Xi Muran about repairing two badly damaged robes.
• Haohui sent Yunxi a Message Talisman saying Situ Xuanming had arrived, and Yunxi left the Artifact Refining Peak to meet him.
• Situ Xuanming introduced his eldest sister Situ Xuanwu, who explained that she would first test a blank formation disk before refining a second disk with Yunxi inscribing its patterns.
• Yunxi agreed to have the formation disks refined at the Haoran Sect, and Haohui accompanied Situ Xuanming to inspect the Artifact Refining Peak.

Yunxi and Situ Xuanwu planned to refine an Immortal-grade formation disk to destroy the passage built by the Evil God, while Situ Xuanming and Haohui prepared Artifact Refining Peak. Three days later, the group gathered to begin work, and Situ Xuanwu started by upgrading Yunxi’s robe and processing the materials.

• Situ Xuanwu explained her rivalry with Situ Xuanming, and Yunxi suggested that his sheltered upbringing had left him melodramatic.
• Haohui brought Situ Xuanming to Artifact Refining Peak, where he inspected the room and arranged preparations for a formation disk that might attract Tribulation Lightning.
• Yunxi hosted the Situ siblings at Welcoming Guest Peak, where Situ Xuanwu praised Yunxi’s artifact-refining talent and Situ Xuanming defended his choice to study formations.
• Three days later, Situ Xuanwu and Situ Xuanming arrived at Artifact Refining Peak with Yunxi, Cao Yi, and Nanyue to begin the work.
• Yunxi offered materials for Situ Xuanwu to upgrade her robe, and Situ Xuanwu began processing them with help from Situ Xuanming and Nanyue while Xi Muran observed.

Situ Xuanwu and Yunxi refined a robe with powerful formation patterns, and it survived a ten-bolt tribulation to become an Immortal-grade artifact. Yunxi promised Situ Xuanming a Breakthrough Potion to compensate him for the Immortal-grade cloak he contributed.

• Situ Xuanwu combined Lingli's scales, tiger fur, and Yunxi's robe to forge a new garment, but Yunxi's divine-script formations tore it apart.
• Situ Xuanwu incorporated threads refined from Situ Xuanming's white cloak, allowing the robe to withstand Yunxi's formation patterns.
• The completed robe drew a Thunder Tribulation, and Yunxi used her Seven-Star Deadly Staff to absorb part of the tenth bolt as the robe transformed into an Immortal-grade artifact.
• Yunxi thanked Situ Xuanwu for refining the robe and offered to compensate Situ Xuanming for his cloak.
• Situ Xuanming asked for a Breakthrough Potion, and Yunxi promised to deliver one when he left the Haoran Sect.

Situ Xuanwu refined an Immortal-grade formation disk while Yunxi listened to her rhythm of crafting and gained insight of her own. Their breakthroughs stirred Haoran Sect’s Spiritual Vein, and True Venerable Haoran moved Yunxi away to the back mountain as Situ Xuanwu continued advancing.

• Situ Xuanwu refined an Immortal-grade Tiger skin cloak with Yunxi’s formation patterns, and Yunxi used the Nine Nether Underworld Dragon Umbrella to help it withstand its final Thunder Tribulation.
• Situ Xuanming told the Situ Family that precious Ancient Battlefield materials had enabled Situ Xuanwu to refine an Immortal-grade robe, while keeping Yunxi’s role in inscribing the patterns secret.
• After meditating, Situ Xuanwu began refining an Immortal-grade formation disk with materials gathered by Situ Xuanming and Nanyue, and Yunxi brought her recovery potion during the long process.
• As Situ Xuanwu tapped the two formation disks in rhythm, Yunxi synchronized with her, and rings of Dao charm spread across Artifact Refining Peak as both women began to break through.
• True Venerable Haoran arrived, sent Yunxi to the back mountain to continue her breakthrough, and moved the onlookers out of the room while Situ Xuanwu advanced.

Yunxi and Situ Xuanwu both advanced while refining Immortal-grade formation disks, and their collaboration produced a second, stronger disk for destroying the passage between the Wuwang Ruins and the Ancient Battlefield. After the Situ siblings left, Yunxi volunteered to take the next Ancient Battlefield garrison mission so she could locate the passage.

• True Venerable Haoran moved Yunxi to the back mountain, where she stabilized her cultivation at peak late Mahayana and was reprimanded for breaking through without caution.
• Situ Xuanwu broke through to late Mahayana while completing the first formation disk, and Situ Xuanming agreed that the Situ Family would replenish the Spiritual Vein consumed by her breakthrough.
• The Situ Family's Second Elder delivered a high-grade Spiritual Vein, while Yunxi spent a year refining Soul Thunder, teaching her Nominal Disciples, and inscribing the first disk with divine script.
• Situ Xuanwu and Yunxi worked together to refine a second formation disk, which survived ten bolts of Thunder Tribulation and reached a more stable Immortal-grade rank.
• The Situ siblings left the Haoran Sect, and Yunxi gave Situ Xuanming the requested Breakthrough Potion.
• When True Venerable Haoran prepared to take the next Ancient Battlefield garrison mission, Yunxi asked to go instead so she could find the passage's exact location.

Yunxi persuaded True Venerable Haoran to let her enter the Ancient Battlefield to plant a formation disk, then spent a year preparing her disciples and arranging matters with Feng Jiayun. As Yunxi entered the battlefield, she learned that several powerful figures and Su Jing and Su Miao would be there, and she reunited with Yuling, whose cultivation had advanced.

• Yunxi explained why she had to plant the formation disk herself and swore a Heavenly Dao oath before True Venerable Haoran approved her entry and promised to enlist other cultivators' help.
• Yunxi told her six disciples she would leave for the Ancient Battlefield in a year, and she warned Feng Jiayun that Sheng Xia had died.
• Su Miao suspected Yunxi had tampered with Sheng Xia's soul, but Su Jing dismissed the accusation and told him to remain home; Su Miao later insisted on joining Su Jing's mission to the Ancient Battlefield.
• Han Yang sent Yunxi a report naming the Spirit, Demon, Buddha, and Ghost Domain forces headed to the battlefield and warning that the Wuwang Ruins' old monsters might act.
• Yunxi entered the Ancient Battlefield and saw Yuling, whose source power had recovered and whose cultivation had reached the Integrated Body Middle Stage.

Yunxi reunited with Yuling after ten years in the Ancient Battlefield, where he warned her that a mysterious force was accelerating cultivation and stirring up the Evil Cultivators and evil creatures. As the powerhouses assembled for a dangerous new garrison mission, Yunxi prepared to remain in the battlefield while Yuling returned to guide her disciples and pursue his own breakthrough.

• Yunxi congratulated Yuling on restoring his source power and advancing to the Integrated Body Middle Stage, and he questioned how quickly she had reached the peak late Mahayana stage.
• Yuling warned Yunxi that the Ancient Battlefield's mysterious power was hastening cultivation and that the increasingly frenzied Evil Cultivators and evil creatures made the mission more dangerous.
• Yunxi told Yuling to return to the sect, guide her ten Nominal Disciples, and cultivate toward the Mahayana stage while she stayed in the Ancient Battlefield for the coming conflict.
• Yuling left with the returning cultivators, and Yunxi gave him two Defensive formation disks to help him survive his upcoming Thunder Tribulations.
• Su Jing warned Su Miao to stay with a team and avoid acting arrogantly in the battlefield.
• Yunxi greeted the gathered powerhouses, and Demon King Feng Ling praised her cultivation while Mingyou thanked her for helping him in the Ghost Domain.

Yunxi rejoined the Ancient Battlefield garrison and faced the female Evil Venerable, using the Punishing Thunder stored in her staff to drive her toward the Wuwang Ruins passageway. As the passageway began to close, Yunxi struck it with lightning, but a black hand reached out from within.

• Yunxi told the assembled cultivators how Xiang Sizi had developed Lingering Affection from her poison Entangle to fight the Evil Insects.
• Wuwang reassured Yunxi that Yun Chen was cultivating Seven-Colored Lotus in Bore Temple's small Secret Realm to repair his Dantian.
• Mingyou divided the eight True Venerables into rotating groups, and Yunxi joined Feng Ling, Wuwang, and Lanyue on the front lines.
• Three days later, Yunxi charged the female Evil Venerable, and Wuwang, Lanyue, and Feng Ling evacuated the Spirit Realm cultivators from the battlefield.
• Yunxi's staff channeled violet Punishing Thunder as she pressed the female Evil Venerable toward the passageway, forcing her to retreat inside.
• Yunxi blasted the passageway entrance with lightning and heard a crack, but a black hand reached out before it vanished.

Yunxi confronted the Evil Venerable at the passage entrance and concluded that the power sustaining the passage was weakening. As the group discussed how to contain the threat and buy time for the Spirit Realm, Yunxi worried that her lightning strike had damaged the passage and hoped the black hand had not noticed.

• Yunxi struck the black hand with the Seven-Star Deadly Staff, forcing it to withdraw as the passage entrance vanished, and said the Evil Venerable would not attack again for three days.
• Wuwang ordered the Spirit Realm cultivators to activate the camp's Defensive Formation and rest while cultivators speculated about the danger posed by the Wuwang Ruins.
• Ming You, Yuan Shuang, Chen Yebai, and Su Jing reviewed Yunxi's battle, and Chen Yebai proposed letting Yunxi provoke the enemy while the others avoided revealing their strength.
• Yunxi told Feng Ling, Lan Yue, and Wuwang that the Evil Venerable's cultivation seemed unstable and that the black hand posed less danger than before.
• Yunxi explained that the passage's stabilizing power was weakening and that her lightning attack had slightly damaged its entrance, then worried the black hand might have noticed.

Yunxi explained how her attack damaged the passage and wounded Li Ning with stored Soul Thunder, then discussed the Moon Gate with Lan Yue. Lan Yue declined both ways of reclaiming it, leaving Yunxi's offer of a mission to destroy the passage unresolved.

• Yunxi told Feng Ling, Lan Yue, and Wuwang that her attack had damaged the passage and that the black hand was weakening, then revealed she had struck it with stored Soul Thunder.
• Li Ning roared in pain inside the Wuwang Ruins, but a cold male voice stopped him from rushing out, and he began refining the Soul Thunder.
• When the passage opened again, only evil creatures emerged, so Yunxi and Lan Yue stayed at the encampment while Feng Ling led the response.
• Lan Yue visited Yunxi, apologized for Yin Yue, and asked to see the Moon Gate; Yunxi showed it to her and offered a duel or the task of destroying the passage in exchange for ownership.
• Lan Yue said she could not safely complete either option because her Time Law let her foresee only matters concerning herself, and she expected the passage mission would kill her.

Yunxi and Lan Yue discussed the dangers of the Moon Gate and the price its former master paid to change her daughter’s fate. As Lan Yue entered seclusion, Yuling returned to the Haoran Sect and learned about Yunxi’s mission in the Ancient Battlefield.

• Lan Yue warned Yunxi that revealing the Moon Gate could put the sect in danger, and Yunxi agreed to keep its secret protected.
• Lan Yue told Yunxi how a former Moon Gate Old Ancestor used the treasure to save her daughter, sacrificing her cultivation and life in the process.
• Lan Yue explained that the treasure had been divided to keep others from using it to undo regrets, and agreed to warn Yin Yue not to speak carelessly.
• Lan Yue entered seclusion, while Yunxi sensed the Ancient Battlefield’s spiritual energy growing purer and mourned the fallen God Soldiers and Immortal Generals.
• After passing his advancement Thunder Tribulation, Yuling returned to the Haoran Sect, reviewed the information gathered while he was away, and learned from Old Ancestor Haoran about Yunxi’s Ancient Battlefield mission.

Yuling arranged cultivation for Ranxi’s ten Nominal Disciples before entering seclusion, while Haoyi, Hao Yan, and Haoqing left to guard the Cloud Sea. As the Buddha Kingdom returned, the True Venerables in the Ancient Battlefield debated whether to break through to the immortal rank to face the Wuwang Ruins, despite being unable to leave afterward.

• Yuling reassured True Venerable Haoran that Ranxi had chosen to take responsibility for destroying the passage, then returned to Lingxue Peak and arranged the ten Nominal Disciples’ cultivation before entering seclusion.
• After five years, Haoyi, Hao Yan, and Haoqing emerged from seclusion, and Haohui persuaded Hao Yan to take over temporarily as Sect Master while the three men departed on a ten-year mission to guard the Cloud Sea.
• The Buddha Kingdom returned to the Buddha Domain, and nine Great Power Buddhist cultivators helped it merge before sealing it off and entering.
• Yunxi and the other True Venerables sensed the Buddha Kingdom’s return and discussed the danger of a counterattack from the Wuwang Ruins.
• Yunxi revealed that she had been suppressing her cultivation to avoid an immortal-rank breakthrough, while Su Jing warned that breaking through would trap them in the Ancient Battlefield; Yuan Shuang asked Yunxi for help with her own surging cultivation.