Chapter Summaries

Yunxi arranged for Menglan Jun and Lili to check whether the Luo Family disciples had ties to Evil Immortals, then created a combat Illusion Formation to improve their fighting skills. The disciples were swiftly defeated by its Evil Souls, leaving Yunxi to make them review their failures and try again.

• Yunxi asked Menglan Jun to collect the disciples’ Sword Art questions and investigate them, with Lili helping check their divine souls.
• Menglan Jun found no immediate problems among the Luo Family disciples and reported that they lacked practical experience.
• Yunxi refined a combat Illusion Formation and sent Luo Yizhi and the other disciples into it to test their abilities.
• Luo Yi’an was the first to be expelled after being surrounded by Evil Souls, and Yunxi ordered him to review his defeat before trying again.
• More than half an hour later, all the disciples had been expelled from the formation, leaving Lili and Third Elder Luo distressed by the results.

Yunxi tested the Luo Family disciples with an Illusion Formation while Third Elder Luo investigated its strength and safety. After Yunxi’s warning led Luo San and the Luo Family Old Ancestor to suspect the Evil Immortals were targeting the Grand Competition’s participants to break the Cloud Sea seal, the Old Ancestor decided the family would not withdraw.

• Yunxi explained to Third Elder Luo that the Illusion Formation would train the Luo Family disciples, and Luo San entered it to test its power.
• Luo San remained inside the formation until Yunxi recalled it, then the Luo Family disciples entered for their second challenge.
• Luo San replaced Menglan Jun at the chessboard and told Yunxi that the Evil Immortals were plotting to reunite the Evil God's body and that the Grand Competition might face unforeseen changes.
• Yunxi noted that the Evil Immortals might be targeting the Grand Competition, prompting Luo San to hurry to the Luo Family Old Ancestor.
• The Old Ancestor deduced that the Evil Immortals wanted to use the competitors' cultivation, blood essence, and Soul Power to break the seal, but refused to withdraw the Luo Family from the competition.

Luo San reported Old Ancestor Luo’s instructions to the elders, and the family considered asking Yunxi to help build a trial tower. As Yunxi continued training the Luo disciples and warned Menglan Jun about the dangers facing the Weiling Realm, an unidentified young master tried to force his way into the Martial Arts Arena.

• Old Ancestor Luo told Luo San to let Ranxi train the Luo disciples without interference as long as their Dao hearts and Soul Spirits remained unharmed.
• Luo San told Luo Da, Luo Er, and Luo Liu that the illusion formation was lifelike but intended only for sword-practicing disciples, and Luo Liu proposed making a trial tower.
• Luo San argued that Ranxi’s formation disk showed strong artifact-refining skills, and Luo Da agreed he could ask her about building a tower using materials supplied by the Luo Family.
• Yunxi insisted the Luo disciples continue facing the illusion formation to prepare for the Grand Competition of the Five Regions, then told Menglan Jun about the grave threats that had faced the Weiling Realm.
• A commotion broke out at the Martial Arts Arena entrance when a young master tried to push past the guards, and a guard shouted that he could not enter.

Yunxi protected Lili from Feng Qinyu’s attempt to claim him and learned that the Wind Family might be preparing Qinyu as a body for its Old Ancestor to possess. The next day, Qinyu returned with Zhuo Wuhen, who said they had come because Luo Yuejue had not returned to her courtyard.

• Lili escaped the Illusion Formation after Feng Qinyu tried to force a contract on him, and Yunxi refused to give him up.
• Feng Qinyu accepted Menglan Jun’s explanation and left without claiming Lili.
• A Luo Family guard explained that Feng Qinyu was visiting to find Luo Yuejue, who was tied to him by a marriage connection.
• Menglan Jun suggested Feng Qinyu was being kept weak as a body for the Wind Family Old Ancestor’s possession, and Yunxi agreed with his suspicion.
• Luo Yuejue emerged exhausted from the Illusion Formation, thanked Yunxi for her guidance, and reviewed her attempt.
• The next day, Zhuo Wuhen accompanied Feng Qinyu to the arena and told Yunxi they were checking on Luo Yuejue because she had not returned to her courtyard.

Luo Yuejue broke through to the middle stage of Heavenly Immortal while Yunxi supervised the Luo Family disciples’ training. Yunxi and Menglan Jun uncovered Zhuo Wuhen’s plot to frame Yunxi and decided to let him remain near Qinyu as a hidden asset against the Evil Immortal’s plans.

• Yunxi helped Luo Yuejue break through by gathering Immortal Yuan Force around her, and the other Luo Family disciples meditated nearby.
• Menglan Jun met Qinyu at the Martial Arts Arena but did not relay Qinyu’s message to Luo Yuejue; Qinyu then left with Zhuo Wuhen.
• After Luo Yuejue stabilized her breakthrough, Yunxi instructed her to cultivate further and gave the other disciples a day to reflect on their failed attempts at the illusion formation.
• Menglan Jun told Yunxi that Zhuo Wuhen planned to use Qinyu to get Yunxi blamed by the Wind Family and regain entry to the Luo Family.
• Yunxi chose to let Zhuo Wuhen remain Qinyu’s bodyguard so he could protect Qinyu and help them learn about the Wind Family, while serving as an idle piece in the Evil Immortal’s plans.
• That evening, Zhuo Wuhen visited Long Zhang and Xie Yuyan after returning Qinyu to his residence.

Long Zhang and Xie Yuyan discussed Ranxi’s success guiding Luo Family disciples before Zhuo Wuhen warned them about a coming Wind Family–Luo Family expedition into a new Secret Realm. Yunxi learned of the expedition and continued preparing the Luo Family disciples, while Long Zhang and Xie Yuyan informed her directly.

• Long Zhang and Xie Yuyan acknowledged that Ranxi had helped a Luo Family disciple break through and discussed changing their own guidance plans.
• Zhuo Wuhen visited Long Zhang and Xie Yuyan, tried to stir up opposition to Ranxi, and revealed that the Wind Family and Luo Family planned to explore a new Secret Realm with disciples below the Daluo Golden Immortal Realm.
• Long Zhang and Xie Yuyan recognized Zhuo Wuhen’s attempt to sow discord, resolved to be wary of him, and decided to tell Ranxi about his visit.
• Yunxi upgraded the Illusion Formation again, keeping the Luo Family disciples’ challenge difficult, and learned from Menglan Jun that the Secret Realm expedition was expected in two months.
• Long Zhang and Xie Yuyan told Yunxi about the Secret Realm, and she thanked them after explaining that Zhuo Wuhen had already informed her.

Yunxi secretly prepared the Luo Family for the Wuwang Ruins trial, then raised the Illusion Formation’s difficulty when Luo Liu entered it. After Luo Liu escaped a stage where insect-controlled Luo Family disciples attacked him, Yunxi explained that the insects were used to turn cultivators into puppets.

• Yunxi confirmed to Long Zhang and Xie Yuyan that Zhuo Wuhen had tried to drive a wedge between them, and both sides decided to keep their distance from him.
• The Wind and Luo Families reached an agreement, and Qinyu left without meeting Luo Yuejue; Yunxi noticed that his short-lived fate had changed.
• Luo Liu entered Yunxi’s Illusion Formation, and she raised the trial to its highest difficulty while sending the other Luo Family disciples outside to watch.
• Luo Liu cleared the first two stages, then faced insect-controlled copies of Luo Family disciples and attacked the formation core when he could not bring himself to strike them.
• Yunxi withdrew the formation before Luo Liu’s attack could destroy its disk, and she explained that the Insectoid Race used the insects to feed on and control cultivators.

Yunxi explained the danger of Evil Insects and urged the Luo Family disciples to strengthen their combat skills before agreeing to discuss refining a trial Immortal Artifact with the Luo Family. After a month of planning, the Luo Family prepared to explore the newly discovered Secret Realm, while Yunxi learned the Feng Family Old Ancestor might seek body possession to prolong his life.

• Yunxi described how she had guarded the Ancient Battlefield against evil cultivators and Evil Insects, then encouraged the Luo Family disciples to reflect on their weaknesses and return to the Illusion Formation the next day.
• Luo Liu proposed that Yunxi help the Luo Family refine a trial Immortal Artifact, and Yunxi agreed to discuss the project with Third Elder Luo.
• Yunxi asked about the Wind Family's cooperation with the Luo Family to explore a new Secret Realm, and Luo Liu explained that the Feng Family Old Ancestor feared losing control of it after his death.
• Yunxi suggested that Feng Qinyu might be connected to the Feng Family Old Ancestor's plans to extend his lifespan, and Luo Liu said the Luo Family rejected body possession because of its karmic consequences and risks.
• Third Elder Luo met with Yunxi, and they spent a month revising the trial artifact plans before the Luo Family prepared to explore the Secret Realm.

Yunxi joined Luo Liu in leading the Luo Family disciples to explore the new Secret Realm, while Menglan Jun also joined the party. On the journey, the Wind Family ship caught up, and Feng Qinyu visited his aunt Luo Yuejue aboard the Luo Family ship.

• Luo Liu appointed Yunxi deputy leader, and Yunxi warned him to give the disciples a treasure that could help them escape the Secret Realm.
• Three days later, Yunxi and Menglan Jun departed with thirty Luo Family disciples, frustrating Third Elder Luo and prompting Long Zhang and Xie Yuyan to speculate about Yunxi's role.
• Luo Liu told Yunxi the clan had arranged contingencies for the disciples, while the Wind Family ship approached with Zhuo Wuhen and Feng Qinyu aboard.
• Menglan Jun went to give Luo Yuejue an item from Feng Qinyu's mother and advice, while Luo Liu allowed Feng Qinyu to board the Luo Family ship to visit his aunt.
• Zhuo Wuhen mocked Yunxi for gaining a leadership position, and Yunxi replied that her strength made it impossible to keep a low profile.

Feng Qinyu secretly told Luo Yuejue that the Wind Family Old Ancestor planned to possess his body and asked her for help. Luo Yuejue agreed to consider a way to save him, while Qinyu returned to the Wind Family's ship without arousing suspicion, and the ships later landed beside a lake.

• Yunxi calmly rebuffed Zhuo Wuhen, and Menglan Jun told her she had warned Luo Yuejue about the Wind Family.
• Luo Yuejue privately questioned Feng Qinyu about his mother’s gift, and Qinyu revealed that the Feng Family Old Ancestor was raising him as a vessel for possession when he turned eighteen.
• Luo Yuejue told Qinyu she needed time to plan, advised him to keep cultivating and avoid raising suspicion, and sent him back to the Wind Family's ship.
• Qinyu told Third Elder Feng that Luo Yuejue seemed not to like him, and Third Elder Feng explained the past conflict between Luo Yuejue and Qinyu’s mother.
• Half a month later, the two Immortal Ships landed beside a lake.

Yunxi learned that the Wind Family had set a trap in the newly discovered Secret Realm and agreed to enter it herself to protect the Luo Family disciples. The Luo elders accepted her offer while the families remained unable to openly break their agreement.

• Yunxi guided Luo Yuejue through a sword move, then released Rosy Cloud Butterflies around the lake to gather information.
• Menglan Jun told Yunxi that Luo Liu wanted to speak with her, and she went to the Dharma House to meet Second Elder Luo and Sixth Elder Luo.
• Yunxi revealed that Luo Yuejue had warned her the Wind Family planned to use the Secret Realm to wear down the Luo Family's elite disciples.
• Second Elder Luo explained that the Secret Realm had been deliberately moved into the lake and that the Wind Family's scheme was confirmed, but withdrawing could let them blame the Luo Family.
• Second Elder Luo offered Yunxi a reward to send her Shadow Clone into the Secret Realm, but Yunxi accepted the Storage Ring and chose to enter personally.

Yunxi decided to enter the Secret Realm herself under suppressed cultivation to protect the Luo Family disciples and investigate whether the Wind Family’s trap involved the Evil Immortals. She prepared to pose as Luo Yueyun, while Menglan Jun agreed to keep the Wind Family occupied if Yunxi’s Shadow Clone disappeared.

• Yunxi told Luo Er and Luo Liu she would enter the Secret Realm in person while her Shadow Clone misled the Wind Family, and Luo Er lent her a jade belt to suppress her cultivation.
• Luo Er and Luo Liu decided that Yunxi would replace Luo Yueyun, the group’s strongest disciple and leader, so she could command the others without revealing her identity.
• Luo Liu explained that Yunxi wanted to determine whether the trap came from the Wind Family or the Evil Immortals, and Luo Er agreed that her experience could help protect the disciples.
• Yunxi refined the jade belt and suppressed her cultivation to the late stage of Daluo Golden Immortal.
• Yunxi told Menglan Jun about the trap and her plan to investigate the Evil Immortals’ involvement, and he agreed to keep the Wind Family from interfering if her Shadow Clone vanished.

Yunxi disguised herself as Luo Yueyun and entered the new Secret Realm with the Luo Family disciples, using a Red Rope to keep them together during teleportation. They arrived above a sea that prevented flight, but discovered Luo Yuejue was missing and could not reach her with a Message Talisman.

• Third Elder Feng sent Qinyu back to Luoxiao City with Zhuo Wuhen before the Secret Realm opened.
• Second Elder Luo and Luo Liu told Luo Yueyun to stay behind while Yunxi took her identity, and Yunxi used a Shadow Clone to maintain her disguise.
• Third Elder Feng opened the Secret Realm entrance with a Jade Token, and Yunxi led the Luo Family disciples through the vortex.
• As the Luo Family disciples fell above the sea, Yunxi placed an Immortal Boat on the water and brought them aboard.
• Yunxi learned that Luo Yuejue had not arrived with the group, and Luo Yuechu's Message Talisman failed to contact her.

Yunxi led the Luo Family disciples through a dangerous fog that took ten of them, then fought a Fifth Order Thousand Xun Giant Eagle and searched its memories. The survivors began to question who Yueyun really was.

• Yunxi guided the Immortal Boat into dense white fog and warned the Luo Family disciples not to answer anyone calling their names.
• The fog lured some disciples with visions of people they missed, and ten of the original twenty-nine vanished before the survivors emerged.
• Luo Yi'an spotted a Thousand Xun Giant Eagle, which attacked the Immortal Boat and sent it pitching across the sea.
• Yunxi handed control of the Immortal Boat to Luo Yizhi, struck the eagle with a Divine Soul Stab, and brought it down.
• Yunxi used the Nine Nether Underworld Dragon Umbrella and read the eagle's memories while the Luo Family disciples wondered about her identity.

Yunxi revealed that she had replaced Luo Yueyun to protect the Luo Family disciples, then led them away from the sea in search of the Wind Family. The group landed on a dangerous island filled with chaotic energy and black mist.

• Yunxi contracted the Thousand Xun Giant Eagle and restored her cultivation, prompting the Luo Family disciples to question her identity.
• Yunxi confirmed that Luo Er and Luo Liu had sent her to protect the disciples, warned them to survive the Secret Realm’s dangers, and told them to keep calling her Yueyun.
• Yunxi led the Luo Family disciples away from the sea on the giant eagle, then stored it in her Thousand Illusions Flowing Scale Mother-Child Ring near an island.
• Yunxi sensed chaotic energy and black mist on the island but allowed the disciples to land and investigate while keeping their protective barriers active.

Yunxi discovered that the island’s vines were trapping the Luo Family disciples and draining the Wind Family disciples’ life force. After secretly weakening the vines with the Void Heaven Ice Flame, she waited with the others for the person behind the attack to reveal themselves.

• Yunxi split the Luo Family disciples into groups to investigate the island and used the Earth Spirit Bead to discover something beneath the ground.
• The vines dragged Yunxi and the Luo Family disciples into an underground cavern, where Yunxi’s Void Heaven Ice Flame protected her from the flower’s attack.
• Yunxi saw that white flowers were draining the Wind Family disciples’ vital blood and Immortal Yuan Force, while Luo Yuejue and ten other Luo Family disciples sheltered inside an array.
• Yunxi sent the Void Heaven Ice Flame into the cavern’s enormous root pillar, weakening the vines, and told the Luo Family disciples to pretend they had been defeated.
• The vines stopped attacking, and Luo Yuejue remained on guard as she worried that the flowers embedded in her clansmen’s chests would soon turn completely red.

Wei Yunxi revealed herself and confronted Zhou Yeqiu, the Wind Family’s powerful ally who was keeping someone alive inside the pillar-shaped roots. After Yunxi trapped them all within her Thunderclap Sword Domain, Zhou Yeqiu recognized her and realized Yunxi’s cultivation matched her own.

• Yunxi broke free of the vines and confronted Zhou Yeqiu about conspiring with the Wind Family and using an evil immortal plant to keep someone alive.
• Zhou Yeqiu attacked Yunxi and the Luo Family disciples, while Yunxi and Hei Yao protected them and drove them behind the pillar-shaped roots.
• Yunxi opened her Thunderclap Sword Domain around Zhou Yeqiu, the pillar, and the Luo Family disciples.
• The Luo Family disciples recognized Yunxi as Elder Ranxi after she enclosed them within the sword domain.
• Yunxi restored her appearance and identified herself as Ranxi, and Zhou Yeqiu recognized her as Wei Yunxi and reconsidered fighting her.

Yunxi fought Zhou Yeqiu while the Luo Family disciples rescued the bound Wind Family disciples, then revealed she had frozen Zhou Yeqiu’s son to stop him from draining others’ life force. Zhou Yeqiu asked what Yunxi wanted in exchange for sparing him.

• Yunxi attacked Zhou Yeqiu with lightning sword moves while the Luo Family disciples freed the Wind Family disciples and avoided the white flowers on their chests.
• Zhou Yeqiu abandoned her defense to protect the evil plant’s roots, but Yunxi’s Thunder Slash damaged her blue ribbon and her Thunder Sword Rain left her injured.
• Zhou Yeqiu retrieved the pillar-like root and threatened to kill Yunxi and the Luo Family disciples, but Yunxi withdrew her sword domain and returned everyone to the cavern.
• Yunxi cleaved open the cavern, carried the Luo and Wind Family disciples onto the island, and sent the Luo Family disciples away on the Thousand Xun Giant Eagle.
• Yunxi revealed she had frozen Zhou Yeqiu’s son and warned that breaking the ice seal would make her Ice Flame destroy him.
• Zhou Yeqiu asked Yunxi what it would take for her to spare her son.

Yunxi learned that Zhou Yeqiu had contracted with the Life and Death Vine to revive her son, using cultivators’ divine souls as nourishment, and that the Wind Family had helped her seize the Secret Realm. Yunxi negotiated a meeting with Zhou Yeqiu’s son in exchange for letting the Luo Family disciples leave, and Zhou Yeqiu opened an exit passage.

• Yunxi questioned Zhou Yeqiu and learned that the Life and Death Vine was repairing her son’s divine soul by consuming the souls of cultivators who entered the Secret Realm.
• Zhou Yeqiu revealed that the Wind Family had promised to send disciples to help her son recover in exchange for her killing the Luo Family disciples and moving the Secret Realm.
• Zhou Yeqiu disclosed that her son, not she, had formed a contract with the Secret Realm’s Realm Spirit.
• Yunxi offered to let Zhou Yeqiu meet her son if she sent the Luo Family disciples out of the Secret Realm, and Zhou Yeqiu agreed after Yunxi made the Void Heaven Ice Flame spread inside her son.
• Yunxi warned the Luo Family disciples that they might emerge somewhere other than their original location and told them to return to Luoxiao Immortal City with the unconscious Wind Family disciples.
• Zhou Yeqiu formed a hand seal and opened a passage above the sea for the Luo Family disciples to leave.

Yunxi exposed the divine soul inside Zhou Yeqiu’s son as a surviving strand of the Evil God and drew it into the Soul-Collecting Mirror. Zhou Yeqiu, learning that Nian’er may have been used as a vessel, tried to avenge him as the Evil God pleaded in her son’s face.

• Yunxi entrusted the Nine Nether Underworld Dragon Umbrella to Luo Yuejue and watched the Luo Family leave through Zhou Yeqiu’s exit.
• Zhou Yeqiu released her son’s body, and Yunxi used the Soul-Collecting Mirror to extract the sleeping divine soul.
• Yunxi awakened the soul, which revealed the face of an adult, and identified it as the Evil God’s strand rather than Nian’er.
• Zhou Yeqiu realized she had been nourishing the Evil God’s soul and tried to destroy it, but Yunxi’s Seven-Star Deadly Staff stopped her.
• Yunxi drew the Evil God’s soul into the mirror and let Zhou Yeqiu attack it herself; the Evil God changed his face to Nian’er’s and begged her to stop.