Chapter Summaries

Yunxi and Mu Ningzhu's group rescued Yu Qingcheng and Liu Haotian from evil cultivators in Wanruo Forest, then escorted them to Wanruo City. After parting ways with the pair, the group prepared to continue back to their sect.

• Yu Qingcheng called for help, but the evil cultivators did not retreat, so Yunxi revealed her Nascent Soul Realm pressure and helped Yu Qingcheng and Liu Haotian kill three of them while the last escaped with a Teleportation Talisman.
• Yunxi collected the dead cultivators' storage equipment and burned their bodies, then Mu Ningzhu brought Yu Qingcheng and Liu Haotian into the formation to recover.
• Mu Ningzhu explained that the evil cultivators had attacked Yu Qingcheng's group to abduct them, and she decided to escort everyone to Wanruo City before returning to the sect.
• Yunxi and the others divided the spirit stones from the storage pouches, rested through the night, and traveled safely through Wanruo Forest over the next three days.
• In Wanruo City, Yu Qingcheng thanked the group and gave them Message Talismans before leaving with the injured Liu Haotian.

Yunxi discovered that evil cultivators had secretly marked her and used new Dharma Boots to remove the mark. After warning Yu Qingcheng, she learned that Mu Ningzhu was marked too, while the pursuers failed to catch Yu Qingcheng and Liu Haotian before they teleported away.

• Dian Dian smelled an evil cultivator's mark on the sole of Yunxi's boots, and Yunxi bought Ruyi Boots to get rid of it.
• Yunxi warned Yu Qingcheng that the evil cultivators might have marked her and Liu Haotian as well.
• Yu Qingcheng persuaded Liu Haotian to leave Wanruo City, and they teleported toward Hundred Flowers Tower before two black-robed cultivators arrived.
• The black-robed cultivators decided not to pursue Yu Qingcheng and Liu Haotian because a Nascent Soul Realm cultivator was escorting them.
• Yunxi visited Mu Ningzhu and found an evil cultivator's mark hidden in her hair.

After escaping the evil cultivators’ tracking, Yunxi and her companions continued toward their sect and took shelter in a ruined temple. A red-robed woman’s appearance brought trouble to the temple, and the chapter ended as the male cultivator beside her succumbed to pink mist.

• Mu Ningzhu bought Hair Growth Pills, and she told the group to leave for their sect at dawn to avoid the evil cultivators.
• Yunxi and her companions traveled for a day and chose to rest in a ruined temple despite Yunxi’s misgivings.
• A male cultivator in a dark blue robe entered the temple and meditated near the entrance without noticing the group’s Isolation Formation.
• A soaked red-robed woman entered, greeted the male cultivator, and began meditating across from him.
• Pink mist rose from the red-robed woman, and Mu Ningzhu sealed the group’s formation while the male cultivator opened his bloodshot eyes after inhaling some of it.

Yunxi exposed and killed an Illusion Dream Beast that had trapped her group and another cultivator in a seductive illusion. After leaving the ruined temple, the group traveled to Chongming City, where the innkeeper told them good news.

• Yunxi sensed the Illusion Dream Beast’s deception, pierced its illusion with her divine sense, and killed it with her Seven-Star Deadly Staff.
• Mu Ningzhu explained the beast’s abilities to the group, and the awakened male cultivator thanked them for saving him.
• Yunxi took the beast’s second-order Demon Core and later learned that Dian Dian had been too sleepy to warn her because he was nearing an advancement.
• Mu Ningzhu warned Yunxi, Zhen Tongshuang, and Zhang Yan to preserve their Primordial Yin or Primordial Yang before reaching the Golden Core realm.
• After traveling for three days, Yunxi’s group arrived in Chongming City and stayed at an inn, where the innkeeper shared good news the next day.

Yunxi and Zhen Tongshuang browsed Chongming City, watched Zhou Langchen reject Zuo Die'er, and bought magical accessories before joining Mu Ningzhu and Zhang Yan for a Flying Ship trip. The chapter ended with Yunxi discovering Zhou Langchen, Zuo Die'er, and her friend were aboard the same ship.

• Mu Ningzhu and Zhang Yan went to check the discounted Flying Ship routes while Yunxi and Zhen Tongshuang explored Chongming City.
• Yunxi and Zhen Tongshuang found Zuo Die'er confronting Zhou Langchen over his borrowed pills and alleged involvement with other women, and Zhou Langchen left after denying her claims.
• Zhen Tongshuang bought a bracelet, while Yunxi purchased rabbit-head earrings with an appearance-altering effect and received a pair of companion wrist cords from the stall owner.
• Mu Ningzhu told the group she had bought tickets to Shuangshan City, and Zhang Yan suggested Zhou Langchen was likely from the Famous Sword Sect.
• After boarding the Flying Ship the next day, Yunxi saw Zhou Langchen, Zuo Die'er, and Zuo Die'er's friend aboard as well.

Yunxi and her companions watched Zhou Langchen try to distance himself from Zuo Die'er and Mingya during their journey aboard the Flying Ship. After reaching Shuangshan City, they learned that the City Lord’s Mansion was preparing a Dao Companion Ceremony for Li Cangyuan.

• Yunxi told Mu Ningzhu and Zhang Yan that she suspected Mingya had ulterior motives for bringing Zuo Die'er near Zhou Langchen.
• Zhou Langchen rebuffed Zuo Die'er, and Mingya persuaded her to give him time to recover before following him after they disembarked.
• Yunxi, Zhen Tongshuang, Mu Ningzhu, and Zhang Yan discussed Mingya’s scheming as the Flying Ship departed Chongming City.
• After three smooth days of travel, Mu Ningzhu’s group and Zhou Langchen’s party disembarked at Shuangshan City.
• At Shuangshan Inn, the attendant told Yunxi’s group that Li Cangyuan’s Dao Companion Ceremony had brought many cultivators to the city.

Yunxi and her companions arrived in Shuangshan City, where they earned spirit stones by giving up one superior room to Zuo Die'er. The next morning, Yunxi discovered that her companions had lost a day of memories and suspected someone had erased them to keep the group in the city.

• The innkeeper told Mu Ningzhu and the others that anyone could attend Li Cangyuan's Dao Companion Ceremony and receive gifts from the City Lord's Mansion.
• Zuo Die'er offered double the price for a superior room, and Mu Ningzhu accepted the offer and gave her one room's Jade Token.
• Yunxi admitted she had agreed partly to watch the drama involving Zhou Langchen, and the group went shopping around Shuangshan City.
• The next morning, Yunxi realized her companions did not remember the previous day, while the items she had bought remained in her Storage Pouch.
• Yunxi concluded that a powerful cultivator had erased the others' memories to keep them in the city, while the Old Ancestor's Protection Mark had shielded her, and proposed testing the theory by trying to leave.

Yunxi and her companions joined Zhou Langchen to investigate the memory loss and missing Famous Sword Sect disciples in Shuangshan City. After they left the city, a Teleportation Formation trapped them in a deserted place surrounded by white fog, and repeated attempts to cross the fog returned them to where Zhou Langchen waited.

• Yunxi discovered that Zhou Langchen had also lost a day's memories, but he revealed that Famous Sword Sect disciples had gone missing in Shuangshan City and that his sect had sent a distress signal from near the City Lord's Mansion.
• After Mu Ningzhu agreed, Yunxi told Zhou Langchen about the group's lost memories, and he joined them as they left the city to see whether anyone would act against them.
• Patrolling cultivators let the five leave Shuangshan City, but an array pattern appeared beneath them and teleported them to the same spot in a silent, deserted version of the area.
• Yunxi and Mu Ningzhu tied themselves to their companions with Red Ropes before the women entered the surrounding white fog to try to escape.
• Yunxi and Zhen Tongshuang, then Mu Ningzhu and Zhang Yan, emerged from the fog back where Zhou Langchen was waiting, and Zhen Tongshuang tried crossing it again without success.

Zhou Langchen and the Haoran Sect cultivators entered a deserted, fog-covered copy of Shuangshan City and searched for the force that had trapped them. Zuo Die'er and Mingya were teleported there while pursuing Zhou Langchen, and the group headed together for the City Lord's Mansion.

• Yunxi stopped Zhen Tongshuang from testing the fog again, and Mu Ningzhu led their group to enter the city with Zhou Langchen.
• Zuo Die'er and Mingya were teleported to the city's gate, realized the place was strange, and went inside to look for Zhou Langchen.
• The group searched the empty city and agreed to investigate the City Lord's Mansion for clues.
• Zuo Die'er and Mingya caught up with Zhou Langchen's group, and he invited them to continue together after they explained how they arrived.
• Mingya apologized to Mu Ningzhu and the others for suspecting them, and Zhou Langchen's Jade Token lit up as the group moved toward the City Lord's Mansion.

Yunxi and the others reached the City Lord's Mansion after learning that the rest of Shuangshan City would be crushed after sunset. There, they uncovered clues about the city's spatial anomaly and began searching for a way out.

• Zhou Langchen received a message from his junior brothers and led the group toward the City Lord's Mansion.
• Zhou Langchen warned that the city would be crushed after sunset, so Mu Ningzhu and Yunxi hurried everyone to the mansion while Zuo Die'er was knocked down by an airspace restriction.
• Yunxi's group learned that trapped cultivators could not leave Shuangshan City, and that only the City Lord's Mansion remained safe during the city's nightly spatial compression.
• Yunxi and Mu Ningzhu inferred that the mansion connected two spaces because distress messages sent from there reached the Famous Sword Sect.
• Zhou Langchen concluded that a Great Power cultivator had erased outsiders' memories and trapped them, and Yunxi suggested they might need to wait for a particular time to find a way out.

Yunxi and the trapped cultivators traced the Empty City to a hidden space created by Shuangshan City's two Spirit Transformation cultivators and searched for a way out. When the spaces overlapped at midnight, Yunxi discovered a spy sending a Message Talisman through a node.

• Yunxi connected the timing of Bai's distress message to the Empty City's midnight crushing and raised suspicions about Li Cangyuan's upcoming Dao Companion Ceremony.
• Zhang Yan shared records about Shuangshan City's two Spirit Transformation cultivators, and Zhou Langchen and Mu Ningzhu deduced that the Empty City was a reflected space they had created as a cultivation ground.
• Yunxi argued that a formation must provide a way out, so Zhou Langchen organized the cultivators to search the City Lord's Mansion when the spaces overlapped again.
• At midnight, Yunxi used her Nascent Soul Realm divine sense to watch the entire mansion and saw someone send a Message Talisman out through a node.

Yunxi’s discovery led the cultivators to Qu Sheng, who revealed that True Person Li had ordered him to activate a formation in the pond. The real Shuangshan City then merged with the Empty City, and the Nine Wheel Sacrifice Formation began draining the cultivators’ spiritual power, leaving them fighting to survive.

• Yunxi told Zhen Tongshuang about the Rogue Cultivator she had secretly marked, and Zhou Langchen urged everyone to wait for Li Cangyuan’s cultivation partnership ceremony for a possible turning point.
• At midnight, Qu Sheng activated a talisman in the City Lord’s Mansion pond and tried to escape, but Zhou Langchen struck him down as the Empty City overlapped with real Shuangshan City.
• Zhou Langchen questioned Qu Sheng, who admitted that True Person Li had tasked him with monitoring the cultivators and activating the pond formation.
• Nine formations appeared over Shuangshan City, and the cultivators identified them as the Nine Wheel Sacrifice Formation intended to sacrifice everyone in the city.
• The formation began draining spiritual power, and Qi Refining cultivators’ souls left their bodies as their bodies turned to dust.

Yunxi and the other cultivators were trapped in Li Cangyuan’s Nine Wheel Sacrifice Formation, which drained their spiritual power to revive his dead Dao Companion, Qiushui. As the deaths mounted, Yunxi prepared to use Dian Dian’s impending tribulation to break the formation, while City Lord Li appeared and found Li Cangyuan absorbing power beside the coffin.

• Li Cangyuan activated the Nine Wheel Sacrifice Formation and revealed that he planned to sacrifice the gathered cultivators to resurrect Qiushui.
• Zhang Yan died as the formation drained everyone’s spiritual power, while Yunxi replenished hers with spirit stones and challenged Li Cangyuan’s plan.
• Zhu Lin explained that the formation could only be destroyed by a Nascent Soul Cultivator attacking from inside and outside at once, or by destroying its core.
• Yunxi sent Dian Dian into her space to cultivate toward a breakthrough, hoping its Thunder Tribulation would shatter the evil formation.
• City Lord Li emerged from seclusion and struck Li Cangyuan, but Li Cangyuan fell beside the coffin and continued absorbing the Formation Core’s power.

Yunxi used Dian Dian’s tribulation lightning to attack the Nine Wheel Sacrifice Formation and free the cultivators trapped inside. The formation was destroyed, but Dian Dian was left to face the full force of its tribulation.

• Yunxi pulled Dian Dian into the hidden space, triggering tribulation lightning that struck Li Cangyuan, the crystal coffin, and the formation.
• The next bolt weakened the formation and shattered the crystal coffin, while Li Cangyuan caught Qiushui’s falling body and Dian Dian was burned by the lightning.
• City Lord Li kept attacking the hidden space, drawing successive bolts that destroyed smaller formations and let the cultivators escape.
• Yunxi moved Dian Dian into a Third Order formation disk as the tribulation cloud gathered, while the cultivators attacked Li Cangyuan and City Lord Li rescued him.
• The final lightning destroyed the Nine Wheel Sacrifice Formation and shattered the defensive disk before striking Dian Dian; the freed cultivators called for reinforcements.

Dian Dian survived its tribulation, awakened its bloodline inheritance, and fell asleep while Yunxi and Mu Ningzhu prepared to leave Shuangshan City. After the cultivators sent distress signals, Shi Jun arrived and began investigating City Lord Li’s suspected collusion with evil cultivators.

• Mu Ningzhu, Zhou Langchen, and the other surviving cultivators sent distress signals after City Lord Li failed to stop them.
• Yunxi coaxed Dian Dian awake, and Spirit Rain fell after it moved its severed tail, confirming that it had survived the tribulation.
• Dian Dian absorbed the Spirit Rain, healed its body, awakened its bloodline inheritance, and fell asleep; Yunxi carried it.
• Yunxi and Mu Ningzhu agreed to explain what happened and leave once Haoran Sect’s Golden Core cultivators arrived, while Zhou Langchen, Zuo Die'er, Mingya, and Zijing thanked Yunxi.
• Shi Jun arrived in response to Zhou Langchen’s distress signal, ordered him to list the disciples killed by the Evil Formation, and said he would demand an explanation from City Lord Li.
• Haoran Sect’s True People arrived, with Sheng Yuhong among them.

After the evil cultivator crisis, powerful figures from several sects and families gathered in Shuangshan City to investigate, while Yunxi recovered and discussed the events with her chat group. She began to suspect City Lord Li had known about the formation, and Ethereal Immortal told her she might be able to absorb the other Shuangshan City into her Red Wooden Token Space.

• True Person Feng told Sheng Yuhong to notify the Haoran Sect and keep Mu Ningzhu, Yunxi, and Zhen Tongshuang in the city until a Nascent Soul True Lord arrived.
• The Haoran Sect sent True Lord Yufeng, and Nascent Soul True Lords and Golden Core True Persons from other groups arrived in Shuangshan City.
• Yunxi checked that Dian Dian was unharmed, then entered her space and learned that Dian Dian had advanced to the second order and awakened its bloodline inheritance.
• Yunxi told the chat group how Dian Dian's tribulation had broken the evil formation and how City Lord Li had destroyed the formation disk.
• After discussing the formation with Ethereal Immortal, Yunxi suspected City Lord Li had planned to use it for his own advancement and decided not to investigate until she was stronger.
• Ethereal Immortal told Yunxi that her divine sense might let her merge the independent Shuangshan City space into the Red Wooden Token Space.

After the evil formation incident, Yunxi focused on cultivation while the City Lord promised compensation and blamed the disaster on his son, Li Cangyuan. The survivors prepared their compensation requests, but the people investigating the formation remained suspicious of City Lord Li.

• Yunxi drew high-grade talismans and practiced body forging while Mu Ningzhu and Zhen Tongshuang cultivated in their rooms.
• City Lord Li said Li Cangyuan had acted under the influence of a Heart Demon, claimed he had crippled his son’s cultivation, and promised to execute him and compensate the victims.
• True Lord Yufeng and Shi Jun suspected City Lord Li was concealing his involvement, but Li Cangyuan’s distress during questioning revealed nothing about who had supplied the evil formation.
• After three days of discussion, the City Lord’s Mansion announced Li Cangyuan’s execution and compensation for survivors and the victims’ sects, clans, and alliance.
• Yunxi and Zhen Tongshuang wrote lists of the items they wanted as compensation and gave them to Mu Ningzhu to pass along to Sheng Yuhong.
• A Message Talisman flew into the courtyard.

After leaving Shuangshan City, Yunxi reflected on the cost of Li Cangyuan’s obsession and clarified her own resolve to cultivate without losing sight of her principles. Her Dao heart took root aboard the Flying Ship, and she broke through to the Foundation Establishment Middle Stage.

• Yunxi received Long Daoyu’s message, invited him to her courtyard, and discussed the Evil Formation and the deaths in Shuangshan City with him and Zhen Tongshuang.
• Long Daoyu, Zhen Tongshuang, and Yunxi agreed to enter seclusion or train toward Foundation Establishment and take part in the Sect Grand Competition in five years.
• After Li Cangyuan was executed and the group received compensation, True Lord Yufeng took the stranded Haoran Sect disciples back aboard the Flying Ship.
• On the journey, Yunxi reflected on Li Cangyuan’s deeds and resolved to cultivate diligently while keeping her heart clear and standing up to those who wronged her.
• Yunxi’s Dao heart took root, drawing Spiritual Qi into a cocoon as she broke through the Foundation Establishment Late Stage and refined her cultivation.
• Yunxi used the Flower Diadem Immortal Artifact to make her breakthrough appear to be to the Foundation Establishment Middle Stage, and her companions congratulated her.

After returning to Haoran Sect, Yunxi reunited with Wei Zonghao and encouraged him to break through to Foundation Establishment. She settled back into the Herb Field and spent her time cultivating, refining pills, and practicing her techniques.

• Yunxi returned to Haoran Sect, bid Mu Ningzhu and the others farewell, and went to see Wei Zonghao at the Herb Field.
• Wei Zonghao congratulated Yunxi on reaching Foundation Establishment and explained that he had waited for her return before attempting his own breakthrough.
• Yunxi recounted her dangerous mission to Wei Zonghao, then encouraged him to enter the Cultivation Hall and break through.
• After Wei Zonghao left, Yunxi informed her family that she had returned safely and began tending the Herb Field.
• Yunxi activated her Fourth-Grade Composite Formation Disk, practiced drawing Second Order Talismans, cultivated her body and soul, and refined pills from her stored spirit plants.
• Yunxi practiced with the Seven-Star Deadly Staff and developed her staff techniques before training in Thousand Shadows Swaying in the Wind.

Yunxi and Wei Zonghao advanced to the Foundation Establishment Realm and entered the Inner Sect, where they exchanged their identity tokens and chose neighboring residences. Meanwhile, Sheng Yuhong recommended Yunxi to Sect Leader True Lord Yugeng, who planned to meet her and consider taking her as a disciple.

• Sheng Yuhong praised Yunxi’s diligence and comprehension to Sect Leader True Lord Yugeng and suggested accepting her as a disciple; True Lord Yugeng agreed to meet her after she entered the Inner Sect.
• Wei Zonghao underwent Tribulation Lightning to reach the Foundation Establishment Realm, and Yunxi hurried to join him after the tribulation ended.
• Yunxi took Zonghao to the Inner Disciple Hall, where they exchanged their Identity Jade Tokens and received Inner Sect robes and resources from Song Ke.
• Yunxi and Zonghao chose adjacent courtyards, and Song Ke gave them a map of the Inner Sect Nine Peaks and explained the annual mission requirements.