Chapter Summaries

Yunxi and the other seven ascended cultivators traveled to an immortal stone mine to work off their debt for damaging the Immortal Transformation Pool. At the mine, Jin Lai ordered them to surrender their storage equipment and have their Dantians sealed before beginning work.

• Yunxi had Lili swallow the others’ storage equipment, then hid the rings inside her space and gave everyone a disposable ring to carry.
• The group planned to ask Wanqi Wei how mining would affect their three years of free residence, but Wanqi Wei departed before they could speak with him.
• Yunxi gave Si Shijiu a Storage Ring, borrowed three jade slips about the Immortal Domain, and copied their contents for the others to study during the seven-day journey.
• Si Shijiu brought the eight ascended cultivators to the mine and handed them over to Jin Lai, who granted them one day to rest before work began.
• Jin Lai ordered the cultivators to surrender all storage equipment and have their Dantians sealed before entering the mine, dismissing Yunxi’s objection.

Yunxi and the others were sent to an immortal stone mine, where they suspected they had been trapped in an illegally operated operation. After reaching a newly surveyed tunnel, Yunxi discovered that the Seven-Colored Lotus had protected her Dantian from the seal.

• Tianyun warned the group that Jin Lai and his subordinates might seize any immortal stones they earned, and Yunxi urged them to investigate the mine before making a plan.
• Jin Lai sealed the eight newcomers’ Dantians, confiscated their storage items and Identity Jade Tokens, and sent them to mine under Zhu Zhen’s quota and threats of punishment.
• Hao Yan, Mingjia, and Haohui suspected the mine was not officially operated, while Yunxi concluded that the missing Identity Jade Tokens would make escape difficult but that the lack of official oversight could help them act.
• A mine guard led the group through tunnels crowded with hostile miners and assigned them to a newly surveyed tunnel, where he said they would have to leave only once a month to submit their quota.
• The eight sat down to try to break their seals, and Yunxi found that the seal covered only the outermost crimson petal of her Dantian because the Seven-Colored Lotus had protected it.

Yunxi assessed the traps facing the eight new miners and decided to let Immortal Spirit Grass secretly absorb the immortal stone vein. As the others emerged from meditation, Tianyun revealed that Merit could break the seal on their Dantians.

• Zhu Zhen and Mu Yangchen watched the newcomers and discussed using their punishment to make Yunxi submit to Zhu Zhen.
• The old miners planned to rob Yunxi's group of the immortal stones they mined so they could leave the mine and cultivate.
• Yunxi reasoned that Si Shijiu had arranged the mining task to exploit the newcomers and chose to conceal her resources and avoid drawing attention.
• Immortal Spirit Grass offered to absorb the entire vein in a day and a night, and Yunxi hid it beneath her sleeve despite the danger.
• Haoran and then the others emerged from meditation, and Tianyun said she could not break the Dantian seal before secretly telling the group that Merit could break it.

Yunxi and her companions staged a quarrel to convince the mine guards they were divided while the Immortal Spirit Grass secretly drained the mineral vein. After one day, it had absorbed half the vein’s Immortal Yuan Force and began sending purified energy to Yunxi so she could stabilize her Golden Immortal Realm cultivation.

• Tianyun argued that Ranxi and Yunxi should be sacrificed to win the mine guards’ favor, splitting the group into opposing camps until Haoran intervened.
• Yunxi and Tianyun staged a fistfight, and Hao Yan warned the others not to target her sisters.
• The group pretended to meditate while privately agreeing that Ranxi’s plan had to work within three days or they would break their Dantian seals and fight their way out.
• The Immortal Spirit Grass slipped into the vein and drained half its Immortal Yuan Force over the course of a day.
• The Immortal Spirit Grass sent purified Immortal Yuan Force through the Contract Mark, and Yunxi began cultivating to stabilize her Golden Immortal Realm.

After a mine collapse exposed the disappearance of the immortal stone vein, Jin Lai began searching miners’ souls while Yunxi and Haoran’s group prepared to resist. An unknown attacker struck Jin Lai, and an Immortal Ship appeared in the sky.

• Haoran’s group argued with Tianyun over how to divide the mine tunnel, then chose digging spots after delaying for hours.
• The mine began collapsing as the eight prepared to dig, and Jin Lai stabilized it with earth-element Immortal Yuan Force.
• Jin Lai questioned the miners about their recent yields and dismissed suspicion of Yunxi’s group after learning they had not started digging.
• Jin Lai searched miners’ souls and crushed the Immortal Infant of the first man he examined, while Haoran’s group prepared to break their Dantian seals and Yunxi considered using poison.
• An unknown attacker struck Jin Lai, and an Immortal Ship emerged through the clouds above the mine.

Yunxi and her companions survived Jin Lai’s attempt to silence the miners and exposed his crimes to Wanqi You. After Wanqi You restrained Jin Lai, Yunxi explained that her group had broken their Dantian seals using their Merit.

• Wanqi You confronted Jin Lai over mining on Wanqi family territory, and Jin Lai claimed he was investigating trespassers.
• Jin Lai’s men killed more than a hundred miners to silence them, but Yunxi and seven companions remained hidden.
• Zhu Zhen and Mu Yangchen attacked Yunxi’s group; Yunxi killed Zhu Zhen, then joined her companions to kill Mu Yangchen.
• Yunxi swore a Heavenly Dao oath and accused Jin Lai of enslaving the group and silencing the miners; Wanqi You blocked Jin Lai’s attack and had him bound.
• Wanqi You questioned Yunxi about her group’s unsealed Dantians, and Yunxi said they broke Jin Lai’s seal using their Merit.

Yunxi negotiated with Wanqi You to testify against the Jin Family in exchange for protection for her companions. After they agreed, her seven companions left for Wantu Immortal City while Yunxi stayed aboard the Wanqi Family’s warship.

• Yunxi explained that the eight ascended cultivators had earned Merit by bringing the Weiling Realm with them and offered to recount how Jin Lai had guarded the mine.
• Yunxi proposed testifying alone against the Jin Family if the Wanqi Family killed every Jin Family member who had seen her companions.
• Yunxi persuaded Haoran and the others to leave for Wantu Immortal City, arguing that she was strongest and would be safer acting alone.
• Wanqi You accepted the deal after Wanqi Wei reported that Ranxi had taken a cultivation method from the Merit Hall.
• Wanqi Wei returned the others’ Identity Jade Tokens and sent them to Wantu Immortal City, where they gave Yunxi parting advice before she boarded the Wanqi Family’s warship.

Yunxi recounted the mine incident to Wanqi You and was brought to the Wanqi Family as an important witness, where she kept a low profile and cultivated. Wanqi Wei later told her that Si Shijiu had been killed and that she would face the Jin Family the next day as the Wanqi Family continued its investigation.

• Yunxi told Wanqi You how she and her companions had planned to escape, and he warned her about the dangers of spatial-temporal torrents.
• Yunxi released Lili in her cabin, then focused on cultivation while the Wanqi Family sealed the ore vein and departed.
• After ten days, the warship arrived at the Wanqi Family, and Yunxi was escorted to an independent courtyard under watch.
• Wanqi Wei told Yunxi that her companions had safely reached Wantu Immortal City and that Si Shijiu had been killed while he was sending them back.
• Wanqi Wei explained the Wanqi Family would settle matters with the Jin Family and asked Yunxi to prepare to confront them the next day.

Yunxi waited to testify against the Jin Family, but two attendants tried to ambush and frame her. After exposing them and revealing that they had poisoned her meals, she gave Wanqi Wei the Imprint Jade recording her encounter with Jin Lai to use in negotiations with the Jin Family.

• Yunxi learned that the Jin Family denied Jin Lai's involvement and rejected her testimony as a Wanqi Family fabrication.
• Attendant B attacked Yunxi with black lightning, but Yunxi dodged and struck her down; Attendant A sent a distress signal and accused Yunxi of trying to escape.
• Yunxi played the Imprint Jade recording to expose Attendant A's lie, and Wanqi Wei stopped her from taking her own life before ordering both attendants taken away for interrogation.
• Yunxi showed the Wanqi Family disciples the untouched meals she said the attendants had poisoned for three days and explained that her medicine and poison training let her detect the poison.
• Yunxi gave Wanqi Wei the Imprint Jade recording of her encounter with Jin Lai so he could negotiate with the Jin Family, and he promised the Wanqi Family would answer for the attack.

Yunxi’s Imprint Jade recording exposed Jin Lai’s crimes and the Jin Family’s role in secretly mining the Wanqi family’s territory. Jin Long left with evidence to report to his clan, while Wanqi You urged Xue Ling to suspect that the Jin Family had committed similar acts before.

• Yunxi waited inside the Wanqi family’s trapping formation after Wanqi Wei failed to take her seriously.
• Wanqi Wei brought Yunxi’s Imprint Jade recording to the negotiations, revealing her sale into the mine, Jin Lai’s soul-searching, and the killing of two Immortal Practitioners.
• Xue Ling verified the recording’s authenticity, and Jin Long admitted the Jin Family had acted without thoroughly investigating Jin Lai’s account.
• Wanqi You had Wanqi Wei give copies of the recording to Jin Long and Xue Ling, then Jin Long returned to the Jin Family’s grounds to inform his clan.
• Wanqi You suggested that the Jin Family might have secretly mined other veins and silenced witnesses, prompting Xue Ling to caution him against spreading unverified claims.

Wanqi You investigated the Jin Family’s theft of the Wanqi Family’s immortal stone mine, while Jin Long planned to sacrifice Jin Lai and relocate his branch to shield the family. Five days later, City Lord Kuang Mei heard the dispute and decided to support the Wanqi Family.

• Wanqi You ordered Wanqi Wei to investigate the two maidservants, move their families out, and try to befriend Ranxi rather than seize her cultivation method.
• Jin Long and two Jin Family Elders discussed making Jin Lai take the blame, rewarding his branch privately, and relocating it to a remote region.
• Yunxi testified five days later at the City Lord’s Mansion, where Kuang Mei personally heard the dispute between the Jin and Wanqi Families.
• Kuang Mei condemned the Jin Family for secretly mining the Wanqi Family’s land and said he would help the Wanqi Family seek compensation.

Yunxi asked City Lord Kuang Mei to punish Jin Lai and return the Identity Jade Tokens he had taken from ascended cultivators. The Jin Family accepted responsibility for Jin Lai’s crimes, agreed to compensate the Wanqi Family and Yunxi, and faced Jin Lai’s execution in three days.

• Xue Ling and Kuang Mei agreed to expose Jin Lai’s wrongdoing if needed, and Yunxi recounted her story before Kuang Mei and Jin Long.
• Jin Long admitted Jin Lai was responsible and said the Jin Family had expelled his branch and would pay compensation to the Wanqi Family.
• Wanqi You asked that the Jin Family also compensate Yunxi, who requested Jin Lai’s execution and the return of her Identity Jade Token.
• Wanqi Wei presented the collected Identity Jade Tokens, and Kuang Mei returned Yunxi’s token before learning that 1,148 tokens remained.
• Jin Long agreed that Jin Lai and his subordinates should be executed and offered Yunxi compensation, which she accepted with Kuang Mei’s approval.
• Xue Ling ordered the Jin Family to pay the Wanqi Family within three days and Jin Lai to be executed then; Jin Long left the City Lord’s Mansion and spat blood outside.

After Jin Long left injured, Wanqi You warned City Lord Kuang Mei to guard against the Jin Family, while Wanqi Wei explained the sisters’ coercion and urged Yunxi to stay with the Wanqi Family for protection. Yunxi agreed to consider joining after Jin Lai’s execution, and she and Lili suspected the family wanted her God Rank cultivation method.

• Jin Long’s disciples escorted him away after the City Lord’s Mansion guards saw him injured, then the guards agreed to keep the incident quiet.
• Wanqi You warned Kuang Mei that the Jin Family might be behind the danger facing the Wanqi Family.
• Wanqi Wei told Yunxi that the sisters who poisoned her had been forced by the Jin Family, which had captured their parents and lovers.
• Yunxi explained her experience fighting Evil Cultivators in the Weiling Realm and said she had not been confident of defeating Jin Lai directly.
• Wanqi Wei urged Yunxi to remain under the Wanqi Family’s protection and consider joining after Jin Lai’s execution; Yunxi agreed to think it over.
• After Wanqi Wei left, Lili called the arrangement house arrest, and Yunxi said the Wanqi Family likely wanted her God Rank cultivation method.

Yunxi concluded that the Wanqi Family wanted her cultivation technique and decided to remain there until Jin Lai’s execution, while protecting Haoran and the others from becoming leverage. She watched Jin Lai’s public execution at the City Lord’s Mansion and left the Jin Family’s hostility unresolved.

• Yunxi reasoned that Wanqi You had drawn her into the Wanqi Family to obtain her God Rank cultivation technique and decided to stay until Jin Lai was executed.
• Yunxi refused to contact Haoran and the others, relying on her earlier warning and planning to keep a low profile for three years while they left Wantu Immortal City.
• Yunxi spent the intervening time cultivating in her room as the Wanqi Family’s disciples monitored her.
• Wanqi Wei took Yunxi to the City Lord’s Mansion, where Xue Ling presented Jin Lai’s crimes and evidence before city leaders and sect representatives.
• Jin Long glared at Yunxi, and Wanqi Wei assured her that Jin Long could not act against her at the City Lord’s Mansion.
• The executioner crushed Jin Lai’s Immortal Infant and burned his body, then handed Jin Long a box of ashes.

After Jin Long scattered Jin Lai’s ashes and paid the Wanqi Family compensation, Yunxi accepted the family’s protection and entered seclusion. In Wantu Immortal City, her companions discussed how to stay safe and decided they might leave before three years had passed.

• Jin Long scattered Jin Lai’s ashes, then gave Wanqi You the promised compensation.
• Yunxi agreed to join the Wanqi Family and entered seclusion to consolidate her cultivation and avoid the Jin Family.
• Wanqi You instructed Wanqi Wei to monitor Jin Lai’s departing branch without acting against them.
• The Jin Family withdrew behind its clan-protecting grand formation while other families investigated how it found the immortal stone vein.
• Tianyun confirmed that no one was watching Yunxi’s companions in Wantu Immortal City, and Haoran explained why Ranxi had warned them not to contact her.
• Mingjia and the others proposed learning immortal techniques, gathering information, and leaving Wantu Immortal City together before three years had passed.

The seven ascended cultivators rented Immortal Caves in Wantu Immortal City and began secluded cultivation, while the sealed Weiling Realm adjusted to its ascension and its residents prepared for what came next. Yuling and the others remained behind for now, and Xun Kun resolved to follow his own path until he could meet Ranxi again as an equal.

• Hao Yan and Tianyun discussed whether the group should return to the Weiling Realm, but Haoran said he would leave the Haoran Sect's future to Ranxi and its other leaders.
• The seven pooled their valuables to rent Immortal Caves in Wantu Immortal City and entered seclusion.
• Yuling reached the Mahayana stage, found the Immortal Crystals Yunxi had left for him, and waited for the Weiling Realm to stabilize before leaving.
• The ten Nominal Disciples worried about Lingxue Peak's future, while the Evil God's body remained sealed and cultivators across the Weiling Realm entered seclusion.
• Xun Kun chose to delay his breakthrough to stay with Liao Ziqian, who had reached the Nascent Soul Realm, and told him he intended to meet Ranxi again at the summit.

Yunxi cultivated the lightning, wind, and ice techniques in the Wanqi Family courtyard, advancing to the middle Golden Immortal Realm. Wanqi Wei then invited her to enter the Blazing Fire Secret Realm, where she learned the Jin Family might be a threat and agreed to protect the Wanqi Family disciples.

• Yunxi studied the Thousand Shadows Wind Swaying Divine Art and the Bright Moon Cold Ice Divine Art, while the Immortal Spirit Grass supplied her with Immortal Yuan Force.
• After fifty years of secluded cultivation, Yunxi stabilized her cultivation at the middle Golden Immortal Realm before Wanqi Wei interrupted her.
• Wanqi Wei told Yunxi that the Blazing Fire Secret Realm would open in ten days and that she had five days to prepare before traveling with the Wanqi Family group.
• Wanqi Wei warned Yunxi that the Jin Family had been targeted by Evil Immortals and might send young disciples into the Secret Realm.
• Yunxi said she would leave the Jin Family disciples' lives to her and promised to bring the Wanqi Family disciples safely out of the Secret Realm.

Yunxi was ordered to join the Wanqi Family’s trial team in the Blazing Fire Secret Realm and protect its disciples while confronting the Jin Family. She left seclusion and used her untouched compensation to buy reference books and cultivation materials in Wanhao Immortal City.

• Wanqi Wei told Yunxi to protect the Wanqi Family’s trial disciples and deal with the Jin Family’s younger disciples in the Blazing Fire Secret Realm, and she agreed.
• Wanqi You had ordered Yunxi added to the trial team because the Jin Family would also send disciples to the Secret Realm, despite Wanqi Wei’s objections.
• Yunxi left the Wanqi Family residence and went to Wan Shu Ge to learn more about the Immortal Domain.
• Yunxi selected books and slips on Immortal Domain history, beasts, plants, pill refining, and formation engraving, rejecting the talisman book.
• Yunxi paid one hundred thousand mid-grade immortal stones for her purchases, and the shopkeeper gave her several books as gifts.

Yunxi visited Treasure Artifact Tower to buy an Immortal Beast Ring and protective treasures for the Blazing Fire Secret Realm. After bargaining with shopkeeper Feng Peng, she paid five hundred thousand mid-grade Immortal Stones and offered her Storage Ring for appraisal.

• Haitang directed Yunxi to Treasure Artifact Tower and offered her a ten percent discount through the referral.
• Yunxi chose the Thousand Illusions Flowing Scale Mother-Child Ring, which could support an Immortal Beast, disguise its rank, help bear tribulation, and let it return to its owner.
• Yunxi decided to buy protective treasures for the Blazing Fire Secret Realm and considered how her Spirit Beasts had grown stronger after she reached the Immortal Rank.
• A female attendant showed Yunxi an Immortal robe, a damaged Ice Soul Pearl, and a Silver Moon Star Seal, and Yunxi chose all three along with the Immortal Beast Ring.
• Yunxi bargained with Feng Peng until they settled on five hundred thousand mid-grade Immortal Stones, then offered him her Storage Ring to price because she needed to save money.

Yunxi prepared for the Blazing Fire Secret Realm, discovered the Ice Soul Pearl’s connection to her Seven-Star Deadly Staff, and joined the Wanqi Family’s expedition. After meeting the four disciples entering the realm with her, she reacted to Wanqi Ye and Wanqi Li scrutinizing her.

• Yunxi returned to her courtyard, where the Ice Soul Pearl repaired itself after absorbing her blood essence and joined the Seven-Star Deadly Staff, lighting its fifth star.
• The Deadly Staff told Yunxi that the pearl had faked its crack to conserve its origin power and confirmed that it had once been embedded in the staff.
• Yunxi studied jade slips about immortal beasts and plants for four days before following a paper crane to the Wanqi Family’s departure plaza.
• Wanqi Wei introduced Yunxi to Wanqi Ye, Wanqi Li, Wanqi Rui, and Wanqi Yin, explaining that she would help only if they faced a life-or-death crisis.
• Wanqi Ye and Wanqi Li scrutinized Yunxi, and the Forehead Ornament between her brows flashed as their gazes became unfocused.