Chapter Summaries

Menglan Jun discovered that the dense forest caused some people to forget Ranxi, while returning to the lake restored their memories. The group decided to record events on beast-hide scrolls as they continued searching for Ranxi and exploring the strange realm.

• Menglan Jun found that Luo Liu and the Luo Family disciples no longer remembered Ranxi after passing through the dense forest, so he led them back to the lake.
• When they returned to the lakeside, Luo Liu and the disciples remembered Ranxi again, and Su Cheng and Shi Qingwu realized that their memories had also been affected.
• Luo Yuemu and Su Cheng suggested that more recent memories were blurred first, while Menglan Jun and Luo Liu considered whether the effect targeted people or events.
• Menglan Jun proposed recording their discoveries, and Luo Liu agreed that everyone should use beast-hide scrolls to preserve their memories as they explored.

Su Cheng and Shi Qingwu joined Luo Liu’s group, and Menglan Jun convinced the Luo Family to follow his lead by revealing that their memories were fading. As the group headed toward Yunxi, she remained unconscious and badly injured, while her contracted companions struggled to help her from within their bindings.

• Su Cheng and Shi Qingwu teamed up with the Luo Family, whose younger disciples distrusted them.
• Menglan Jun warned Luo Liu that memories faded farther from the forest, and the group read their saved Beast Hide Scroll records.
• Luo Liu trusted Menglan Jun’s records about injured Elder Ranxi, and Menglan Jun chose the group’s direction and urged them to avoid revealing their origins.
• Yunxi lay unconscious after suffering backlash and the Evil Infant’s self-destruction, while an Evil Soul thread entered her body and attacked her Dantian.
• Ziyan swallowed and burned the Evil Soul thread as the Seven-Colored Lotus, Void Heaven Ice Flame, and Golden Immortal Armor protected Yunxi.
• Lili, Bai Xiao, Bai Qiao, Dian Dian, Cong Shan, and Zhusheng sensed Yunxi’s injuries, but they could not reach her and sent power through their Contract Marks.

Dian Dian, Cong Shan, Zhusheng, and the Ice Baihu couple sent power through their Contract Marks to stabilize Yunxi’s injured divine soul, though she did not awaken. Meanwhile, the Luo Family joined a battle against locals who were capturing Immortal Practitioners, and Menglan Jun began interrogating a survivor about the hostile land.

• Dian Dian and Cong Shan consumed immortal plants and endured severe injuries as they channeled Immortal Yuan Force to Yunxi, while Zhusheng sent her his own power.
• Bai Qiao persuaded Bai Xiao to send their ice-element origin power through the Contract Mark to help Yunxi recover.
• The Luo Family discovered locals attacking Immortal Practitioners and decided to intervene, sending Luo Yizhi and the others into battle.
• Luo Liu killed the bearded leader, and the Luo Family defeated most of the attackers while Menglan Jun used his orchid fragrance to make a captive answer questions.
• Shi Qingwu tried to kill a defiant captive, but Luo Yuejue stopped him so the group could interrogate the survivors and learn where they were.

Luo Liu and the others learned that people in the Five Countries were capturing Immortal Practitioners from the Alien Realm to deliver them to the royal palace, and they decided to travel to the Royal Capital for answers. Meanwhile, a royal squad sent to investigate the transformed Changqing Mountain was frozen by the Void Heaven Ice Flame, prompting Dugu He to head there.

• Menglan Jun reported that the group had been targeted because people in the Five Countries believed Immortal Practitioners carried treasures and could be traded for wealth and status.
• Luo Liu, Su Cheng, Zhuge Bai, and Menglan Jun discussed disguising themselves as captives and decided to retrace their steps to the lakeside to recover their abilities and read the captives' memories.
• At the lakeside, Zhuge Bai and the Luo Family disciples read the captives' memories, but found little useful information, so Menglan Jun said they had to go to the Royal Capital.
• A squad sent to investigate the snow-covered mountain where Yunxi slept was frozen by the Void Heaven Ice Flame before reaching her.
• The king ordered the palace's Grandmaster to investigate the mountain, and Dugu He set out for Changqing Mountain.

Dugu He climbed Changqing Mountain to investigate the frozen victims and found Yunxi unconscious on the summit. Yunxi had survived Li Ning’s self-destruction but could not use her divine sense or Immortal Yuan Force, and Dugu He summoned his squad to help take her away.

• Dugu He ordered the eight remaining mission squad members to stay at the mountain entrance while he went ahead alone.
• Dugu He crossed the frozen mountain and found more than a dozen people trapped in ice, then pressed on toward the summit despite the bone-piercing cold.
• The Void Heaven Ice Flame sensed Dugu He approaching and prepared to attack, but paused when Yunxi began to wake.
• Yunxi realized her divine sense was badly injured and her Immortal Yuan Force was suppressed, so she asked the Void Heaven Ice Flame to let Dugu He take her to safety.
• Dugu He found Yunxi unconscious, confirmed she was still breathing, and discovered his internal force was swallowed when he tried to examine her.
• Dugu He recognized Yunxi as a person from the Alien Realm and signaled his squad to come up the mountain.

Dugu He and his men carried the dying Yunxi and her impossibly heavy golden staff from Changqing Mountain toward the Royal Capital of Chiyang Country. As Yunxi’s memories grew hazy, the King asked the State Preceptor whether she could become a new Power Stone, and he said he would need to see her first.

• The captain led six men to Dugu He, learned that Yunxi was from the Alien Realm and near death, and ordered a stretcher made to carry her to the Royal Capital.
• The captain and two men failed to pull Yunxi’s golden staff from the ground until Dugu He used his inner force to free it; Dugu He said it weighed roughly ten thousand jin.
• The group carried Yunxi and her staff down the mountain while Yunxi remained unconscious and struggled with worsening memory loss.
• After Dugu He sent word to the Royal Capital, the King summoned the State Preceptor and asked whether Yunxi could become a new Power Stone.
• The State Preceptor told the King that he would know only after seeing Yunxi.

King of Chiyang secretly arranged to meet an Alien Realm person, while Menglan Jun and the Luo Family disciples struggled through repeated attacks on their way to Chiyang Country. At Changqing Mountain, Menglan Jun learned that Yunxi had been carried to Chiyang's Royal Capital with her golden staff and resolved that she was the person they were searching for.

• King of Chiyang ordered his guard to arrange a secret meeting with an Alien Realm person brought by Grandmaster Dugu He, without alerting An Guoshi of You'an.
• Menglan Jun protected the Luo Family disciples from attackers seeking to capture them, and reminded them to use their Beast Hide Scrolls to preserve their fading memories.
• Menglan Jun told Luo Liu that his memories remained clear because they were stored in the petals of his Mengxia Orchid body.
• After reaching Changqing Mountain, Menglan Jun sent Zhuge Bai to investigate and learned that a Grandmaster had taken an injured Alien Realm person to Chiyang's Royal Capital.
• Menglan Jun identified the person as Yunxi because a long golden staff, her Natal Immortal Treasure, had been carried down the mountain with her.

Menglan Jun and the others hurried toward the Royal Capital to find and rescue Ranxi, while Shi Qingwu and Su Cheng reluctantly remained with the group. After her consciousness slowly recovered, Yunxi awoke in Dugu He's care but could not remember how she had arrived.

• Menglan Jun, Luo Liu, and Zhuge Bai agreed to hurry toward the Royal Capital and look for a chance to intercept Ranxi's captors.
• Shi Qingwu told Su Cheng he did not want to risk himself rescuing Ranxi, but Su Cheng persuaded him to stay with the Immortal Practitioners until they could protect themselves.
• Luo Yuejue overheard Shi Qingwu and Su Cheng's conversation and warned Sixth Elder Luo and Menglan Jun about their plans.
• Sixth Elder Luo told Luo Yuejue to warn the disciples to keep their distance from Shi Qingwu and Su Cheng during attacks, and the group of forty sped up the next day.
• After five days of travel, Yunxi's mental pain eased, and she awoke on the sixth day as Dugu He questioned her about how she had come there.
• Yunxi said she could not remember how she had arrived, and Dugu He asked whether she remembered who she was.

Yunxi, who remembered herself as Ranxi, was taken by Dugu He toward the Royal Capital after he found her gravely injured. As her memories continued to blur, Dugu He questioned her about the Five Countries and the Alien Realm, and Yunxi challenged his account of the array hiding its treasures.

• Yunxi told Dugu He that she was Ranxi and explained that her treasures had protected her when she lost consciousness.
• Dugu He ordered his squad to carry Yunxi onward after confirming that her internal organs, tendons, and meridians were badly damaged.
• At a night’s rest, Dugu He asked Yunxi why Saint Masters had stopped appearing, and she said the small world lacked the power to nurture them.
• Dugu He told Yunxi that people from the Alien Realm had caused the land to split into five countries while concealing valuable things with an array.
• Yunxi said a Five Elements array would not need energy stones, concluding that the array Dugu He described could not be a Five Elements Concealment Formation.

Yunxi used her knowledge of formations to draw Dugu He’s interest, while Menglan Jun secretly reached her and helped restore her injuries. They suspected a concealed formation was causing their memory loss, but their discussion was interrupted by someone who had overheard them.

• Yunxi told Dugu He she could identify formations sustained by Energy Stones, then fell asleep before he could press her for more.
• Dugu He’s squad discussed Yunxi and continued carrying her toward the Royal Capital, while Dugu He grew anxious to take her to inspect the formation.
• Menglan Jun secretly reached Yunxi and gave her Immortal Pills that restored much of her injuries and eased her pain.
• Yunxi told Menglan Jun what she had learned from Dugu He, and they concluded the Concealment Formation might be connected to their blurred memories.
• Menglan Jun left Yunxi his Storage Pendant and told her to record any recovered memories, while Yunxi suggested destroying her Seven-Star Deadly Staff if necessary.
• An unseen speaker interrupted Yunxi and Menglan Jun, saying they had planned everything already.

Yunxi negotiated with Dugu He, the Grandmaster escorting her, and offered to help him break through in exchange for safe passage back to her territory. Dugu He agreed to consider her proposal while Menglan Jun returned to the others with news of Yunxi’s condition and plan.

• Dugu He emerged from the shadows, and Yunxi confronted him with an offer to cooperate rather than fight.
• Menglan Jun warned Dugu He that Yunxi’s array inheritance was essential to escaping the small world, and Yunxi revealed she was over two thousand years old.
• Yunxi and Menglan Jun promised not to covet the local cultivators’ possessions, and Dugu He asked for a day to consider working with them.
• Yunxi sent Menglan Jun back to the encampment, then rested by the fire while Dugu He weighed her proposal.
• Menglan Jun told Luo Liu, Zhuge Bai, and Su Cheng that Yunxi was injured but safe, remembered him and Su Cheng, and was trying to persuade Dugu He to cooperate.

Yunxi confronted Dugu He about whether he would help her, and demonstrated that she was stronger than him in combat. She offered him life-extending pills and a custom weapon in exchange for his cooperation, and Dugu He agreed on the condition that she leave the Concealment Formation intact.

• Su Cheng questioned whether the Luo Family's proposal was a trap, while Menglan Jun left the decision to him and his companions.
• After learning that a formation concealed a valuable treasure, Su Cheng grew curious, and the Luo Family's party continued onward while keeping its distance from Yunxi's group.
• Dugu He kept watch over Yunxi's group and struggled over whether to protect the Five Countries or pursue his own breakthrough.
• Yunxi challenged Dugu He to a test of strength and proved she was stronger, then explained her cultivation and offered him pills and a weapon.
• Dugu He agreed to cooperate if Yunxi provided life-extending pills and a custom weapon, and promised not to destroy the Concealment Formation.

Yunxi gave Dugu He healing pill powder in exchange for his cooperation, and he recovered enough to resume the journey toward the Royal Capital. That night, three Grandmasters ambushed the group, capturing several people while the survivors fled, and the attackers began to suspect Dugu He's motives.

• Yunxi gave Dugu He healing pill powder and warned him to take it in small doses while she recovered from her injuries.
• Dugu He tested the powder, healed his hidden injuries, and ordered the group to continue toward the Royal Capital.
• Menglan Jun and Luo Liu planned to meet Yunxi that night, but three Grandmasters ambushed the group before they could do so.
• Su Cheng escaped with Shi Qingwu, Luo Liu led the Luo Family disciples to safety, and Menglan Jun slipped away to pursue Yunxi.
• The three Grandmasters captured Zhuge Bai's group, Luo Yiqing, and Luo Yuemu, then divided the captives among their countries.
• The Grandmaster of Suojin Country welcomed Dugu He's apparent generosity, while the Grandmaster of Houdi Country suspected he had ulterior motives.

Yunxi recovered her memories of Menglan Jun through a scroll and sent him away to investigate the formation while she continued traveling with Dugu He. Meanwhile, the other countries uncovered hints of Dugu He's deal, and Luo Yuemu faced a dangerous interrogation.

• The Grandmasters of Qingmu Country ordered the captives questioned separately as Dugu He cultivated through the night and then led Yunxi's group onward.
• Menglan Jun showed Yunxi her handwritten Beast Hide Scroll, and she realized Dugu He had likely attacked him to isolate and pressure her.
• Yunxi told Menglan Jun to find the Luo Family and investigate the Concealment Formation; when Dugu He returned, she concealed their conversation and he resumed the journey.
• Menglan Jun watched Yunxi depart before seeking Luo Liu's group, while interrogators in Qingshui Country, Houdi Country, and Suojin Country learned from Luo Yiqing that Dugu He had likely made a deal with Yunxi.
• Luo Yuemu denied knowing more during questioning, and two Suojin Country warriors tried to strip her robes, prompting her to draw on her Immortal Yuan Force despite the risk of injury.

Luo Yuemu and Menglan Jun escaped Suojin Country's encampment after killing two men and Grandmaster Duanmu Kai, while Su Cheng and Shi Qingwu planned to rescue the captured prisoners. Dugu He brought the recovering Yunxi to meet the King of Chiyang Country at a villa outside the Royal Capital.

• Luo Yuemu broke her sealed acupoints with Immortal Yuan Force and killed the two men who had attacked her, suffering a backlash.
• Menglan Jun and Luo Yuemu killed Duanmu Kai and fled the encampment, while Su Cheng and Shi Qingwu watched from afar.
• Su Cheng told Shi Qingwu about the Su family's history with Ranxi, and they decided to use Duanmu Kai's death as a chance to rescue Zhuge Bai.
• Dugu He changed course after the king's guard ordered him to bring Yunxi to meet the king outside the Royal Capital.
• Dugu He took Yunxi to the Summer Retreat Villa, where she met the King of Chiyang Country in the study.

The King of Chiyang Country recalled how he had long suspected An Guoshi of You'an was hiding the truth about the Alien Realm people and the National Fortune Formation. When Yunxi met with him, she called herself Ranxi and warned that Chiyang Country was doomed, leaving the king and his guard shaken.

• The King of Chiyang Country remembered that an Alien Realm man had warned him the kingdom would fall because An Guoshi of You'an was using the cultivators to nourish an Evil Formation.
• The king concealed his doubts, watched An Guoshi of You'an grow careless about inspecting the forbidden grounds, and later found that no one remained there.
• After the new Alien Realm people arrived, the king pretended to want them turned into energy stones so he could secretly meet the one behind the strange phenomena.
• Yunxi sat before the king and told him she was Ranxi, a Celestial Immortal from the Immortal Domain, not his captive.
• Yunxi called Chiyang Country doomed, and the king's guard protested while Dugu He remained silent.

Yunxi confronted the King of Chiyang and Dugu He with her theory that an Evil Immortal had deceived them into sustaining an Evil Formation with people from the Alien Realm. She left to recover and prepare to destroy the formation while the three men remained in the study, reconsidering her claims.

• The King of Chiyang recalled that an earlier visitor from the Alien Realm had warned him to seek help from the next such visitor.
• Yunxi questioned the King and learned that people from the Alien Realm had taken stones while leaving pills, talismans, and divine weapons in exchange.
• Yunxi argued that an Evil Immortal had exploited the natives’ greed to make them build a formation that used people from the Alien Realm as nourishment.
• Yunxi challenged the King and Dugu He to consider the formation’s costs and warned that the country’s decline showed the Heavenly Dao was trying to break the deadlock.
• Yunxi returned to her residence, took restorative pills, and meditated as the King, Dugu He, and the guard remained behind to reflect on her words.

The Chiyang King secretly confirmed his failing health and began cooperating with Yunxi, who agreed to prove her claims by killing An Guoshi of You'an. When You'an attacked her with black qi, it froze and began to dissipate.

• The Chiyang King learned from Imperial Physician Xi that he was near death and ordered him to conceal the diagnosis.
• The Chiyang King gave his personal guard several secret tasks, and the guard left the palace the next day under the excuse of returning home to marry.
• While recovering at the villa, Yunxi struggled with blurred memories and lingering injuries until Dugu He told her the King would bring An Guoshi of You'an to test her claims.
• The Chiyang King returned to the villa with armed guards, and Yunxi said she could restore his health in exchange for something.
• An Guoshi of You'an arrived and attacked Yunxi with black qi, but the qi froze and rapidly dissipated.

Yunxi killed An Guoshi of You'an and destroyed the Evil Qi he released, then learned that allies of the State Preceptor's Residence were guarding the palace's forbidden grounds. She persuaded the Chiyang King to act immediately and led him toward the palace before the hidden guardian could respond.

• Void Heaven Ice Flame burned away An Guoshi of You'an's attack, and Yunxi shattered his jade ruyi with the Seven-Star Deadly Staff.
• Yunxi drove off the guards and used lightning and fire to destroy the Evil Qi spreading through the garden.
• Yunxi burned An Guoshi of You'an's corpse, while the Chiyang King admitted his own judgment had been wrong and Dugu He went to question the man's followers.
• Dugu He reported that people were secretly guarding the palace's forbidden grounds and helping keep the formation active.
• Yunxi warned that delay could give the hidden guardian time to act, and the Chiyang King agreed to enter the palace with her.
• The Chiyang King ordered Commander Yu to discreetly purge the State Preceptor's Residence, spare the innocent, and transfer its wealth to the palace.

Yunxi lured the Chiyang King and Dugu He into the forbidden grounds, where Taixu attacked her, believing her to be Xihe. She defeated him with Punishing Thunder and broke the restriction protecting the Dragon Locking Soul Nurturing Formation, while Taixu’s death left his Divine Realm counterpart vowing revenge.

• The Chiyang King asked Yunxi how You'an had changed, and she explained that his evil immortality art had been exposed by heavenly lightning.
• The Chiyang King led Yunxi and Dugu He into the forbidden grounds, where a vertical-pupiled man demanded to know where You'an was and seized Yunxi by the throat.
• The Void Heaven Ice Flame burned the attacker, and Yunxi sent Dugu He and the King away before using a Mengxia Orchid and the Seven-Star Deadly Staff against him.
• The staff summoned Punishing Thunder, and Yunxi recognized the man as Taixu, an Evil God's devoted follower, before ordering Taixu to burn him and his divine soul.
• Yunxi smashed the restriction at the forbidden grounds' core, breaking the Dragon Locking Soul Nurturing Formation as the area collapsed and Taixu turned to ash.
• In Jiushao Palace, Taixu's Divine Realm counterpart woke after spitting blood and swore to kill Xihe.