Chapter Summaries

Wanqi Yin and Wanqi Rui secured the Wanqi Family’s support after receiving the inheritance, while the elders regretted failing to make Ranxi an ally. Yunxi remained trapped in the Blazing Fire Secret Realm and began a long artifact-refining apprenticeship under Hammer Bingzhuo.

• Wanqi Yin warned Wanqi Rui to keep some of their inheritance resources in reserve, and the two told Elder You that Ranxi had helped them obtain it.
• Elder You ordered them to keep the inheritance secret and increased the family’s support for them; the Wanqi Family’s elders learned what Ranxi had done and regretted their earlier treatment of her.
• Wanqi Tan rebuked Wanqi You for failing to recognize Ranxi’s strength and said Ranxi had acted to free herself from the Wanqi Family’s control with dignity.
• Wanqi Wei told Elder You that Ranxi must still be alive because the Blazing Fire Secret Realm could not trap her.
• Yunxi reached the ice house after fighting the two Ice Baihu to a draw and began learning artifact refinement from the sentient hammer, Hammer Bingzhuo.
• Yunxi spent her first hundred years studying refining materials and started practicing how to hammer impurities out of them with Hammer Bingzhuo.

Yunxi advanced through artifact-refinement training in the Secret Realm and learned why her divine-script inscriptions had failed. After Lili broke through to the immortal rank and reunited with her, the Ice Baihu couple asked whether he was her natal immortal beast.

• Yunxi trained with Hammer Bingzhuo for sixty years, mastered its weight and impurity removal, and broke through to the Daluo Golden Immortal realm.
• Yunxi spent a hundred years mastering material fusion, then ruined a sword blank by engraving it with divine script before learning the materials could not withstand its power.
• Yunxi switched to Immortal Domain runes and passed Hammer Bingzhuo's test after successfully refining fifty swords.
• Lili contacted Yunxi after becoming a third-order immortal beast, and Yunxi released him from her space.
• The Ice Baihu couple approached Yunxi and asked whether Lili was her natal immortal beast.

Yunxi learned why Bai Qiao and Bai Xiao wanted to leave the Blazing Fire Secret Realm and considered their offer to become her War Beasts for a thousand years. After checking Lili’s unstable breakthrough, she heard him offer to dissolve their contract so she could form a natal contract with the Ice Baihu.

• Yunxi defended Lili after Bai Xiao and Bai Qiao criticized his strength, and promised to help him overcome the risks of his forced breakthrough.
• Bai Qiao proposed that she and Bai Xiao contract with Yunxi as War Beasts for a thousand years in exchange for her help leaving the Secret Realm.
• Yunxi questioned their true purpose, and Bai Qiao explained that the Blazing Fire Secret Realm was a prison tied to their former master's final wish and that a contract would conceal their auras.
• Bai Qiao gave Yunxi until she left the Secret Realm to decide, then returned to the ice mound with Bai Xiao to cultivate.
• Hammer Bingzhuo advised Yunxi to rest for two days before considering the offer and beginning artifact refinement.
• Yunxi examined Lili at the Dharma House and confirmed his cultivation needed consolidating, and Lili offered to dissolve their contract for her benefit.

Yunxi spent a hundred years advancing her artifact-refining skills and strengthening Lili, then broke through to the Mid-stage Zenith Heaven Golden Immortal. As the Blazing Fire Secret Realm prepared to open, she agreed to form contracts with Bai Qiao and Bai Xiao.

• Yunxi refused to dissolve her lifebound contract with Lili and explained why she did not fully trust Bai Qiao and Bai Xiao.
• After using up the ice house’s practice materials, Yunxi dismantled artifacts and refined medicinal potions while Bai Qiao and Bai Xiao trained Lili for a hundred years.
• Lili asked Master Hammer to temper his sinews and bones, and Yunxi warned him not to overstrain himself.
• Yunxi exhausted the gorge’s Immortal Yuan Force during a fifty-year breakthrough to the Mid-stage Zenith Heaven Golden Immortal.
• Bai Qiao told Yunxi it was time to leave the Secret Realm, and Yunxi agreed to form contracts with Bai Qiao and Bai Xiao for the next thousand years.

Yunxi left the Blazing Fire Secret Realm through the Moon Gate and successfully endured her Daluo Golden Immortal tribulation at the abandoned Jin Family mine. After Bai Xiao confronted several newcomers who approached during her recovery, Yunxi thawed their frozen companion and began investigating their intentions.

• Wanqi Family disciples discussed searching the Blazing Fire Secret Realm for Ranxi and the precautions taken against Evil Immortals.
• Yunxi used the Moon Gate to leave the Secret Realm and appeared at the abandoned site of the Jin Family's illegally excavated immortal mine.
• Yunxi endured all twenty-seven bolts of Purple Gold Lightning, advanced through her tribulation, and absorbed the Heavenly Dao's gift.
• When an approaching immortal tried to siphon away the gift, Yunxi sent Bai Xiao to stop him while she recovered.
• Bai Xiao froze the male immortal and kept his three late Golden Immortal companions nearby; Yunxi thawed the man and sent pink light into his sea of consciousness to investigate their plans.

After Yunxi survived her tribulation, she defeated a gang of robbers and fled before the Wanqi Family could find her. She reached Mengxia Immortal City, disguised herself, and set out to sell her refined magic treasures and buy supplies.

• Yunxi extracted the surviving robber’s Immortal Infant, destroyed his corpse, and learned that the gang traded intelligence and might report her to the Wanqi Family.
• Yunxi and Bai Xiao left the area, while Wanqi You arrived later and found signs of a successful tribulation and a recent battle.
• Yunxi traveled for a month in her Immortal Boat and reached Mengxia Immortal City near the Mengxia Mountain Range.
• Yunxi upgraded her face-changing mask and other treasures, and Master Hammer left the Secret Realm with her.
• Yunxi paid to enter the city and hired a local guide to take her to the largest Treasure Artifact Tower to sell her refined items.

Yunxi visited the Treasure Artifact Tower to sell six practice pieces she had refined, while learning about Mengxia Pills and the Immortal Domain’s Battle Ranking. The appraiser judged the pieces to be first-grade Immortal Artifacts, and Yunxi recalled why Bai Qiao and Hammer Bingzhuo had urged her to keep her work inconspicuous.

• An integrated body female cultivator guided Yunxi toward the Treasure Artifact Tower and explained where to buy Mengxia Pills and how wealthy families used them to help their juniors pass trials.
• The guide described the Immortal Domain’s six-hundred-year grand competition and its Silver, Gold, and Purple Battle Rankings, prompting Yunxi’s interest.
• Yunxi arrived at the Treasure Artifact Tower and told its attendant that she wished to sell artifacts she had refined herself.
• A beautiful appraiser examined Yunxi’s sword, formation disk, mirror, black hammers, spear, and red silk for two hours, then appraised all six as first-grade Immortal Artifacts.
• Yunxi recalled Bai Qiao and Hammer Bingzhuo’s warning that selling flawed artifacts would help her earn immortal stones without attracting dangerous attention.

Yunxi sold her practice Immortal Artifacts to the Treasure Artifact Tower after negotiating a higher price for her two finest pieces. While waiting for payment, she learned that the Weiling Realm had returned and that Evil Immortals had begun appearing across the Five Regions.

• Yunxi offered the Treasure Artifact Tower more than three hundred practice Immortal Artifacts, and its appraisers identified 312 Grade One artifacts and two Grade Two artifacts.
• Yunxi negotiated a price of sixty thousand low-grade Immortal Stones for each Grade Two artifact, and the Treasure Artifact Tower agreed to buy them all.
• Du Meisha introduced herself as a three-star appraiser and gave Yunxi her jade plaque, then tried to learn about Yunxi's background.
• Yunxi told Du Meisha a partly false story about leaving a thousand-year seclusion and asked what had changed in the Immortal Domain.
• Du Meisha explained that the Weiling Realm had returned and merged into the Five Regions, but said Evil Immortals had appeared throughout them because the ascension had brought part of the Evil God's body back.

Yunxi bought refining materials from the Treasure Artifact Tower while asking Du Meisha about the Evil Immortals and the Grand Competition of the Five Regions. She learned that the Jin Family’s destruction had left the Evil Immortals’ mastermind unidentified, while Immortal Lords now guarded Secret Realm openings.

• Yunxi received a gold VIP card and a payment of Immortal Stones from Du Meisha, then selected refining materials from the Treasure Artifact Tower’s catalog.
• Du Meisha explained that the Jin Family had colluded with Evil Immortals, but its members died activating an Evil Formation, leaving the investigation without a clear trail.
• Yunxi speculated that the Five Immortal Emperors planned to ascend the Immortal Domain to the Divine Realm to shift the danger of the Evil God’s body onto its Great Powers, and Du Meisha agreed the idea made sense.
• Du Meisha told Yunxi that preliminary contests for the Grand Competition of the Five Regions would begin three years before the event, giving Yunxi one hundred years to prepare.
• Yunxi paid eight million mid-grade Immortal Stones’ worth of materials, including precious Purple Gold Sand, using High-grade Immortal Stones.

After buying a map and news, Yunxi asked about Immortal Spirit Grass and the Evil God's seal, provoking the Inquiry Pavilion Master into throwing her out without taking payment. She then chose a safe place in Mengxia City for her Spirit Pet’s tribulation, but two cultivators blocked her and her guide, Qingyun.

• Yunxi received a detailed map of the Immortal Domain from Du Meisha after their transaction.
• A female cultivator guided Yunxi to the Inquiry Pavilion, where Yunxi bought official and unofficial news from the past thousand years for one High-grade Immortal Stone.
• The Pavilion Master said Immortal Spirit Grass had gone extinct and the Jin Family’s sealed territory had been destroyed, then drove Yunxi out when she asked about the Evil God's body and returned her Immortal stone.
• Yunxi learned that the Inquiry Pavilion Master was rumored to be a Book of Answers and decided to take her Spirit Pet to a city tribulation site for safety.
• As Qingyun led Yunxi deeper into Mengxia City, a man and a woman blocked their path, and the woman claimed they had only come to greet Qingyun.

Yunxi helped Qingyun understand her family’s marriage scheme, warned her about Fan Zhizhi, and gave her medicine to aid her breakthrough. She then paid for an upper-grade tribulation peak for her Spirit Pet.

• Yunxi sent Fan Zhizhi and Lingyu away from Mengxia Immortal City and listened as Qingyun explained their families’ planned alliance and Fan Zhizhi’s wish to change Dao Companions.
• Yunxi advised Qingyun to make Lingyu bear the consequences of her choice and secretly urged Qingyun to dissolve the alliance, avoid Fan Zhizhi, and use the medicine to break through.
• Qingyun accepted the medicine and left, resolved to act on Yunxi’s advice.
• Yunxi entered the Tribulation Site, paid one hundred thousand High-grade Immortal Stones, and took a Purple Copper Token for an upper-grade peak where her Spirit Pet could undergo tribulation.

Yunxi watched Lili endure the Purple Gold Lightning and awaken as a second order immortal beast after a dangerous tribulation. After paying for the extra defensive formation, she received a Storage Pouch containing items she had left at the Treasure Artifact Tower.

• Yunxi sent Lili to the mountaintop to undergo his Thunder Tribulation and advised him to endure the earlier lightning in his beast form.
• Lili survived the accumulated tribulation lightning and took the Purple Gold Lightning in human form, while Yunxi used defensive formations to weaken some of the strikes.
• After the nine bolts, Lili remained unconscious until Yunxi urged him awake through their Contract Mark, and the Heavenly Dao Blessing descended when he opened his eyes.
• Lili recovered under the healing rain, announced that he had reached the second order of immortal beasts, and returned to Yunxi's arms before she sent him to cultivate.
• Yunxi paid the old man for the additional defensive formation, and he gave her a Storage Pouch with items she had left at the Treasure Artifact Tower.

Yunxi received Qingyun’s Black Token and treasure map, then trained in the Mengxia Mountain Range with Lili while collecting immortal plants. After entering the Inner Ring, she followed Dian Dian to a cliffside crack that seemed to conceal something valuable, unaware that two people were following her.

• Yunxi found a sixth Black Token, a treasure map marking a location in the Mengxia Mountain Range, and Qingyun’s message explaining the gifts.
• Yunxi left Mengxia Immortal City and spent a year in the mountain range’s outer ring training Lili and gathering immortal plants.
• Lili said she was ready to enter the Inner Ring, and Yunxi took her there through the child ring.
• Two concealed people decided to follow Yunxi into the Inner Ring and hoped to profit if immortal beasts attacked her.
• Dian Dian led Yunxi to an abandoned bird’s nest and traced a pleasant scent to a crack in the cliff face, which Yunxi broke open.

Yunxi discovered a cavern of liquefied Immortal Yuan Force essence and collected its essence and paste before accidentally emerging in the Six-Armed Apes' territory. As she escaped their pursuit using a wind secret art, Bai Tong jumped into her arms, and the apes set out to find him.

• Yunxi found a pool of liquefied Immortal Yuan Force essence and collected ten bottles of it along with the denser paste at the bottom.
• Yunxi left the cavern and was confronted by a Sixth Order Six-Armed Ape for trespassing in the clan's territory.
• Yunxi tried to explain the misunderstanding and flee, but the Six-Armed Ape and more than a hundred others pursued her.
• Yunxi returned Dian Dian to her ring and activated Nowhere to Hide, while Bai Tong unexpectedly darted into her arms before she vanished as a breeze.
• Yuan Wu and Yuan Liu argued over Bai Tong's disappearance until the Ape Ancestor ordered them to pursue Yunxi and find him.

Yunxi discovered that the frail Six-Armed Ape cub Bai Tong had followed her out of his clan territory, and used a merit light point to stabilize him. When she reunited him with Yuan Wu and Yuan Liu, Bai Tong asked her to visit his clan, and the apes invited her to return with them.

• Yunxi learned from Dian Dian that Bai Tong had left his clan territory because he wanted to see the outside world and believed she was kind.
• Yunxi saw a merit light point near Bai Tong's heart and gave him merit, steadying his breathing before waiting for his clan to find them.
• Yuan Wu and Yuan Liu arrived with six Six-Armed Apes, and Yunxi explained that Bai Tong had climbed into her arms on his own.
• Yunxi agreed to return Bai Tong and told him to speak with his elders before leaving the clan territory again.
• Bai Tong asked Yunxi to visit the Six-Armed Apes' clan territory, and Yuan Wu and Yuan Liu invited her to come with them.

Yunxi returned to the Six-Armed Ape clan with Bai Tong after Yuan Wu and Yuan Liu swore not to harm or detain her. The Ape Ancestor explained that Bai Tong had spent his life force saving the clan, and asked whether Yunxi could ensure he survived another trip outside.

• Yunxi agreed to return with the Six-Armed Apes after Yuan Wu and Yuan Liu swore an oath to protect her and let her leave freely.
• Yunxi and the Apes reached the clan territory, where the Ape Ancestor welcomed her and Bai Tong returned to his side.
• The Ape Ancestor explained that Bai Tong was the clan's Seer and had weakened himself using his innate ability to avert the clan's destruction.
• Yunxi realized the Merit light mote she had given Bai Tong was temporarily sustaining him and agreed to stay in the clan territory for a while.
• Yunxi suggested fulfilling Bai Tong's wish to see the outside world, and the Ape Ancestor asked whether she could guarantee Bai Tong would return alive.

Yunxi negotiated with the Ape Ancestor over Bai Tong’s lifespan and waited for him to decide whether Bai Tong could leave the clan territory. After Bai Tong was allowed to travel with Yunxi and a group of Six-Armed Apes, Yunxi watched their selection matches and surprised them with her strength.

• Yunxi told the Ape Ancestor she could fulfill Bai Tong’s final wish but warned that extending his life would require a serious sacrifice.
• Yuan Wu questioned how Yunxi would save Bai Tong, and Yunxi warned that she would not be forced to give up her lifespan without compensation.
• Yunxi told Dian Dian she had given Bai Tong a speck of Merit light, while the Ape Ancestor struggled with whether to let Bai Tong leave.
• Bai Tong asked the Ape Ancestor to let him travel outside the clan territory with Yunxi, and the Ape Ancestor agreed to select Six-Armed Apes to accompany them.
• Yunxi watched the Six-Armed Apes fight for places in the traveling group and won strength contests herself, astonishing Yuan Wu.

Yunxi fought Yuan Wu and the Six-Armed Apes, using the matches to break through a bottleneck in her Body Forging Art and earn their respect. After leaving their territory with Bai Tong and the eight selected followers, she followed Dian Dian to a cold pool, where a One-Horned Black Flood Dragon emerged to confront her.

• Yunxi explained how she had tempered her body, then accepted Yuan Wu's challenge and fought her with the Tiger Subduing Fist.
• Yunxi's injuries healed overnight, and repeated matches over the next three days helped her improve until she could trade blows with Yuan Wu.
• Yuan Wu, Yuan Liu, and six other Six-Armed Apes were selected as followers, and the eight fought Yunxi for a day before she left the territory with Bai Tong.
• Dian Dian guided Yunxi toward places they had missed, and she traveled safely with Bai Tong and the eight Six-Armed Apes accompanying her.
• Dian Dian led Yunxi to a cold pool, where her divine sense alerted a guardian; Yunxi handed Bai Tong to Yuan Liu and readied the Nine Nether Underworld Dragon Umbrella as a One-Horned Black Flood Dragon emerged.

Yunxi fought the Fifth Order One-Horned Black Flood Dragon to obtain its scales and horn for upgrading Hei Yao and her weapons. She blinded and pinned the dragon, then froze half its body, leaving the battle near its end.

• Yuan Wu and Yuan Liu withdrew from the dragon's territory with Bai Tong but stayed nearby as Yunxi challenged the One-Horned Black Flood Dragon.
• Yunxi sent Hei Yao to grapple with the dragon while she attacked its vital point and horn with the Nine Nether Sword and Seven-Star Deadly Staff.
• Yunxi used Shadow Clones and Heaven's Punishment Lightning to break the dragon's horn and strike it through the cold pool.
• The dragon crushed several Shadow Clones and coiled around Yunxi, but she stunned it with Soul Spirit Slash and blinded it with Cold frost Profound Ice Needles.
• Yunxi pinned the dragon's vital point with the Seven-Star Deadly Staff, froze half its body, and battered it until its coils loosened.

Yunxi killed the One-Horned Black Flood Dragon and claimed the Netherfire Ice Orchid and an Ice Marrow from the cold pool. After resting and letting the Six-Armed Apes search the dragon’s territory, she continued onward with them, while a group of Immortal Practitioners arrived and began tracking down whoever had taken the orchid.

• Yunxi confirmed the One-Horned Black Flood Dragon was dead, stored its corpse, and learned the cold pool concealed a treasure.
• Yunxi collected the immature Netherfire Ice Orchid and found an Ice Marrow beneath it, which she saved for her master.
• Yunxi emerged from the pool and agreed to rest while Yuan Wu and Yuan Liu’s companions searched the dragon’s territory for treasures.
• Dian Dian complained that the Six-Armed Apes were taking the dragon’s remaining spoils, but Yunxi said their help and protection made it fair.
• Yunxi set out with the group and Bai Tong after Yuan Liu said they were ready to leave.
• Several Immortal Practitioners found the Netherfire Ice Orchid and the black flood dragon missing, then used a formation disk to replay the scenes around the pool.