Chapter Summaries

Yunxi and Di Fei traveled to Shui Qiancheng in disguise to investigate Ghost King Qianji’s territory and arrived as the city prepared for its lord’s daughter’s Dao Companion Ceremony. They learned Qianji would attend the ceremony and began arranging a place to stay.

• Di Fei gave Yunxi one of Baili Yanque’s jade talismans for calling him to their aid, and Yunxi shared their spoils from Yunrong Workshop with her.
• Yunxi and Di Fei left Yaibai City, changed their appearances and cultivation levels, and traveled for twenty days to Shui Qiancheng.
• Yunxi noticed that the city wall’s formation repelled her divine sense, and she and Di Fei paid to enter the crowded city.
• A young ghost cultivator told Yunxi that Shui Qiancheng’s City Lord was celebrating his daughter’s Dao Companion Ceremony, which Ghost King Qianji would attend in five days.
• Yunxi and Di Fei agreed to stay for the ceremony, and their guide led them to the inn Qu Jing You You.

Yunxi and Di Fei rented a bamboo cottage in Shui Qiancheng and learned about City Lord Qian Sidu, his daughter Qian Sujin, and her upcoming Dao Companion Ceremony with Ye Yuchen. Recognizing Ye Yuchen as an old acquaintance, Yunxi suspected Ghost King Qianji might have been manipulated and asked Di Fei to investigate the Ghost King's whereabouts.

• Yunxi and Di Fei entered the Qu Jing You You inn, found its bamboo cottage suitable, and paid to stay for seven days.
• Yunxi paid a little ghost for information about Qian Sujin and her Dao Companion Ceremony.
• The little ghost explained that Qian Sujin was the daughter of City Lord Qian Sidu and Lin Wanqing, and said she had returned to Shui Qiancheng with Ye Yuchen, a late Profound Immortal and Personal Disciple of the Medicine Immortal Sect.
• Yunxi recognized Ye Yuchen's name and told Di Fei that she knew her elder sister and had inherited the Medicine Immortal Sect's complete legacy.
• Yunxi asked Di Fei to have her friends investigate whether Ghost King Qianji had returned to Shui Qiancheng so they could find a way to meet him.

Yunxi and Di Fei discovered signs of a dangerous Nine Wheel Sacrifice Formation in Shui Qiancheng and went to meet Ghost King Qianji. Qianji denied involvement with Yunrong Workshop and accused Baili Yanque of trying to make her take the blame.

• Di Fei told Yunxi that the Soul Power in the inn was unstable, and Yunxi identified the inn as the Formation Core of a Nine Wheel Sacrifice Formation.
• Yunxi and Di Fei suspected Evil Immortals were behind Shui Qiancheng’s abnormalities and planned to investigate the city while using Ghost King Baili as cover.
• The two visited Ghost King Qianji’s Mansion and introduced themselves as Honglan and Zhuge Qing, delivering Baili Yanque’s message.
• Di Fei told Qianji that Yunrong Workshop had been purged and that Baili’s people had found evidence she sheltered it.
• Qianji denied participating in Yunrong Workshop’s operations and accused Baili Yanque of blaming her without investigating, possibly as part of the Evil Immortals’ scheme to turn Ghost Kings against one another.

Yunxi and Di Fei left Ghost King Qianji’s mansion without investigating Yunrong Workshop, and Yunxi suspected Qianji had a reason for not killing Qian Sujin. While touring Shui Qiancheng, they learned that the Soul Artifacts for Qian Sujin’s Dao Companion Ceremony had been specially commissioned by Qian City Lord.

• Yunxi told Di Fei that Qianji’s Clone had shown genuine killing intent toward Qian Sujin and might be waiting for a reason to act.
• Yunxi persuaded Di Fei to avoid Qianji’s mansion until after Qian Sujin’s Dao Companion Ceremony and to explore Shui Qiancheng instead.
• Yunxi eagerly bought Di Fei Soul Artifacts throughout the city, then purchased an Eight Treasures Lotus Soul Hairpin at Boss Pang’s shop.
• Boss Pang said Qian City Lord had commissioned a set of Soul Artifacts for his daughter’s ceremony and clarified that the hairpin was made separately from better materials.

Yunxi and Di Fei investigated Shui Qiancheng, discovered it was part of a vast sacrifice formation, and attended Qian Sujin's Dao Companion Ceremony to investigate the people involved. Yunxi recognized Ye Yuchen as a puppet resisting a black speck in his divine soul and vowed that no one would leave Shui Qiancheng.

• Boss Pang gave Yunxi and Di Fei a City Lord's Mansion invitation after Yunxi returned the Eight Treasures Lotus Soul Hairpin to Di Fei.
• After touring Shui Qiancheng, Yunxi suspected Qian Sujin and Qian Sidu had restrained Ghost King Qianji and deduced that the city was one wheel of the Nine Wheel Sacrifice Formation.
• Yunxi and Di Fei decided to attend Qian Sujin's Dao Companion Ceremony before investigating Ghost King Qianji's true body in the Qianshui Mountain Range.
• Yunxi and Di Fei spent five days in Shui Qiancheng, then entered the City Lord's Mansion with their invitations and a congratulatory gift.
• At the ceremony, Yunxi recognized Ye Yuchen and saw that he was resisting a black speck burrowing into his divine soul.
• Yunxi told Di Fei that no one would leave Shui Qiancheng.

Ye Yuchen was rescued from Qian Sujin’s control by Yunxi, who learned that the Evil Immortal wanted his Innate Dao Body for Qian Sidu. Yunxi uncovered a wider conspiracy involving the Nine Wheel Sacrifice Formation and warned Ghost King Qianji that the plot threatened the entire Ghost Domain and Immortal Domain.

• Ye Yuchen fought the Evil Insect in his divine soul and prepared to perish rather than surrender his body to Qian Sujin.
• Yunxi used her purple Exotic Flame to stop the Evil Insect, revealed her identity as Ranxi, and helped stabilize Ye Yuchen.
• Ye Yuchen told Yunxi that Qian Sujin intended to take his Innate Dao Body for Qian Sidu and had mentioned wanting to surpass Ghost King Qianji.
• Ghost King Qianji appeared, and Yunxi questioned him about the Evil Insect, the Nine Wheel Sacrifice Formation, and his trapped main divine soul.
• Yunxi warned Qianji that the Evil Immortal was manipulating Ghost Kings and distributing insect eggs through pills, putting both the Ghost Domain and Immortal Domain at risk.
• Qianji recognized Yunxi as Ranxi.

After Yunxi and Di Fei revealed their identities, Baili Yanque arrived and joined Ghost King Qianji to handle the Insect Nest threatening the Qianshui Mountain Range. Yunxi and Di Fei began their separate plans to stop the Evil Immortal’s scheme in Shui Qiancheng.

• Yunxi and Di Fei revealed their disguises to Ghost King Qianji and explained why they had infiltrated Shui Qiancheng.
• Yunxi sealed Ye Yuchen’s body in a Ten-Thousand-Year Ice Coffin, froze his divine soul with Void Heaven Ice Flame, and stored it in the Soul-Collecting Mirror.
• Baili Yanque arrived, learned that Ghost King Qianji was containing larvae in the Qianshui Mountain Range, and left with her to resolve the threat.
• Yunxi told Di Fei to eliminate those serving the Evil Immortal with Menglan Jun’s help while she altered the city wall formation to sabotage the Sacrifice Formation.
• Menglan Jun pointed out the awakening Qian Sujin as the first person he and Di Fei would deal with.

After discovering Qian Sujin’s role in trapping Ghost King Qianji, Di Fei confronted Qian Sidu while Menglan Jun dealt with the remaining Evil Immortals and Yunxi modified the formation. Yunxi deduced how Qian Sujin and the Evil Immortals had manipulated Qian Sidu, and Di Fei’s clash with him began in the City Lord’s Mansion.

• Di Fei searched Qian Sujin’s soul, learned of her actions, and killed her before deciding to confront Qian Sidu.
• Di Fei entered Qian Sidu’s domain while Menglan Jun left to meet Yunxi and handle the Evil Immortals in Shui Qiancheng.
• Menglan Jun sealed off the area around Shui Qiancheng and killed the remaining hostile Immortal Practitioners while Yunxi continued engraving formation patterns.
• Yunxi explained that Qian Sujin had manipulated Qian Sidu with a false love affair and helped the Evil Immortals tempt him with Ye Yuchen’s body.
• A fight broke out between Di Fei and Qian Sidu, who shouted that Feng Di would never deceive him, while Di Fei blamed his stupidity for nearly making Ghost King Qianji a sinner of the Ghost Domain.

Yunxi sabotaged Shui Qiancheng’s part of the Nine Wheel Sacrifice Formation while Di Fei subdued Qian Sidu, then they rushed to the Qianshui Mountain Range after the Insect Nest ruptured. They entered Ghost King Baili’s domain as Black Beetle larvae appeared and began attacking the trapped living beings.

• Yunxi arranged for Shui Qiancheng’s formation to reverse once the Nine Wheel Sacrifice Formation activated, while Menglan Jun evacuated guests and awakened the city’s Immortal Practitioners.
• Di Fei beat Qian Sidu down to the Earth Ghost Realm, sealed him inside the City Lord’s Mansion, and kept him alive for Ghost King Qianji.
• Baili Yanque summoned Di Fei and Ranxi to the Qianshui Mountain Range after the Insect Nest ruptured and its larvae escaped.
• Di Fei and Yunxi entered Ghost King Baili’s domain and prepared their defenses as Black Beetle larvae appeared among the trapped beings.
• Yunxi released tens of thousands of Cold frost Profound Ice Needles to pierce the teleporting Black Beetles before they could enter anyone’s body.

Yunxi and Di Fei fought the Evil Insects in Ghost King Baili’s domain while the insects possessed Immortal Practitioners and soul beasts. Yunxi persuaded Baili Yanque to expose the Evil Immortals’ plot and froze Qian Ji with Void Heaven Ice Flame, then returned to battle as Little Cicada sent the evidence out.

• Yunxi demonstrated how to kill the Black Armored Larvae with Void Heaven Ice Flame, and Di Fei joined her in slaughtering the first wave.
• The surviving larvae burrowed into living beings, so Yunxi told Di Fei to kill the insects that had not yet found hosts.
• Yunxi awakened Little Cicada and instructed it to send Chanjia evidence of the Evil Insects and the women’s fight without alerting Ghost Emperor Mei Huan.
• Yunxi found Baili Yanque restraining Qian Ji and proposed broadcasting the recorded events throughout the Ghost Domain and Immortal Domain to reveal the Evil Immortals’ conspiracy.
• Baili Yanque agreed to Yunxi’s plan, and she gave him Void Heaven Ice Flame to freeze Qian Ji until they could remove the Evil Insect.
• Little Cicada transmitted the evidence, and Yunxi and Di Fei resumed fighting the soul beasts controlled by Black Beetles.

Chanjia and Little Book spread Imprint Jade footage of the battle against the Insectoid Race in the Qianshui Mountain Range, drawing attention across the Ghost Domain. As more footage revealed Ranxi fighting alongside Di Fei, high-level Ghost Immortals began arriving to help.

• Chanjia received Little Cicada's report about the battle in the Qianshui Mountain Range and showed the Imprint Jade to Little Book.
• Little Book contacted Immortal King Shangchuan, who ordered them to proceed, and Chanjia copied the footage for distribution.
• Ghost Immortals gathered at a Luming City tea house to watch Di Fei's footage of Evil Insects taking control of Immortal Practitioners.
• Little Cicada sent back footage from Di Fei's perspective, revealing Ranxi fighting the Evil Insects alongside him.
• The footage spread throughout the Ghost Domain, and high-level Ghost Immortals appeared in the Qianshui Mountain Range.

Yunxi and Di Fei fought the Evil Immortal Puppets while Yunxi used the Soul-Collecting Mirrors to save the puppets’ victims’ divine souls. After the battle, Baili Yanque confronted Qian Ji in the mountain range’s core, and Yunxi, Di Fei, and the Void Heaven Ice Flame rushed to support her.

• Ghost King Yue Kou arrived at the Qianshui Mountain Range, sensed Baili Yanque’s domain, and headed for Shui Qiancheng while other High-level Ghost Immortals surrounded the range.
• Yunxi and Di Fei recovered, then Yunxi sent Bai Qiao and Bai Xiao to fight beside her and Qian Xun to support Di Fei.
• Following Baili Yanque’s advice, Yunxi deployed nine Soul-Collecting Mirrors to extract the divine souls of the Puppet Immortal Scholars as her allies fought off the Black Armored Larvae.
• Yunxi collected nearly all the divine souls, then had the Ice Baihu couple freeze the fallen bodies so the souls might return to them.
• Baili Yanque shouted for Qian Ji to stop, and Yunxi, Di Fei, and the Void Heaven Ice Flame rushed toward the core of the Qianshui Mountain Range to support her.

Yunxi froze Qian Ji Ghost King to stop her from destroying herself and temporarily contained the Evil Insect inside her, while Baili Yanque arranged the recovery of the affected Immortal Practitioners. The group returned to Shui Qiancheng, where Ghost King Yue Kou demanded to know where Qian Ji was.

• Yunxi used the Void Heaven Ice Flame to freeze Qian Ji and the Evil Insect, spending nearly all her Immortal Yuan Force.
• Yunxi warned Baili Yanque that freezing Qian Ji had only delayed the danger and that the Evil Insect still had to be removed.
• Baili Yanque ordered the extracted divine souls and frozen bodies returned to Shui Qiancheng so their families, sects, or the Loose Immortal Alliance could be notified.
• Yunxi placed Qian Ji in a Ten-Thousand-Year Ice Coffin, and Baili Yanque stored it close to her as they withdrew from his domain.
• Di Fei told the waiting Immortal Practitioners that the crisis was temporarily resolved and asked them to help handle the aftermath in Shui Qiancheng.
• Ghost King Yue Kou confronted Baili Yanque and Ran Xi at the City Lord's Mansion and demanded to know where Qian Ji was.

Yunxi, Baili Yanque, and Yue Kou tried to remove the mature Evil Insect from Qian Ji, but discovered it had laid tens of thousands of eggs that could destroy her soul if burned. As Yue Kou considered taking Qian Ji to the Ghost Emperor, Yunxi proposed a risky method to save her: poisoning.

• Baili Yanque told Yue Kou that Qian Ji was stable for now and asked her to help remove the Evil Insect.
• Yunxi explained that Ziyan would burn the Evil Insect while the two Ghost Kings severed its connection to Qian Ji, despite the risk to Qian Ji's cultivation and soul.
• Yunxi stopped Ziyan after discovering that the Evil Insect had laid tens of thousands of eggs inside Qian Ji, which could scatter her soul if burned.
• Yue Kou and Baili Yanque realized they might have to abandon Qian Ji, while Yunxi warned that this could expose other Immortal Practitioners to danger.
• Yue Kou suggested taking Qian Ji to the Ghost Emperor, but Yunxi said she could try poisoning the Evil Insect and its eggs, though Qian Ji would endure immense pain.

Yunxi proposed using two poisons to kill the Evil Insects inside Qian Ji while keeping her from sacrificing herself, and Baili Yanque and Yue Kou agreed to try. Qian Ji accepted the dangerous treatment, which began as the insects renewed their attack; Yunxi then sent Ziyan into her body to burn away their remnants.

• Yunxi explained that she had prepared one poison to target Qian Ji's soul and an improved Lingering Affection to eradicate the Evil Insects and prevent them from hatching their eggs.
• Baili Yanque and Yue Kou agreed to attempt the treatment, and Baili Yanque resolved to preserve Qian Ji's life despite the risks.
• Baili Yanque and Yue Kou brought Qian Ji to the rear courtyard, where Yunxi helped revive her from the Ten-Thousand-Year Ice Coffin.
• Baili Yanque began administering Lingering, and Yue Kou explained the plan to Qian Ji, who agreed to proceed.
• When Qian Ji warned that the Evil Insects were drawing on her Soul Power again, Baili Yanque administered Lingering Affection, and Yunxi sent Ziyan into Qian Ji's body to burn away the insects' remains.

Yunxi, Baili Yanque, and Yue Kou saved Qian Ji by using Ziyan and poison to destroy the Black Beetle inside her, though Qian Ji lost three stages of cultivation. After Qian Ji went into seclusion, Yunxi explained why she had used poison without an antidote.

• Qian Ji endured Ziyan's flames while the poison spread through her body and weakened the Black Beetle.
• Baili Yanque and Yue Kou supplied Qian Ji with Soul Power as Yunxi directed Ziyan to burn away the insect and its eggs.
• Yunxi told Baili Yanque and Yue Kou to gather the poison in Qian Ji's left arm, and Yue Kou severed it to stop the poison from dissolving her soul body.
• Qian Ji survived but fell back to the Xuangui Realm, accepted Soul Marrow from Baili Yanque, and went into seclusion.
• Yue Kou questioned Yunxi's use of poison without an antidote, and Yunxi explained that the plan was meant to make the Black Beetle flee Qian Ji's body so Ziyan could destroy it.

Yunxi explained how she and Di Fei had contained the Black Armored Larvae and preserved the souls and bodies of those who could still be saved. She freed Ye Yuchen from a Black Beetle and let Ziyan temper his soul with an Exotic Flame, leaving him restored and awake in his body.

• Yunxi told Yue Kou and Baili Yanque that Immortal Practitioners whose souls had not fully fused with the Black Armored Larvae might be rescued, while those fully controlled and attacking them had been slain.
• Di Fei visited the Ghost Kings, and Yunxi went to join the Ice Baihu couple and Qian Xun.
• The next day, Yunxi released Ye Yuchen from the Soul-Collecting Mirror, severed the Black Beetle from his soul, and watched Profound Thunder Purple Flame burn it away.
• Ye Yuchen agreed to let Ziyan burn away any remaining Evil Qi, but Ziyan continued tempering his soul despite his cries of pain.
• Yunxi supplied Ye Yuchen with Soul Power through a formation disk, and after a night of tempering, his lost wisp of soul had recovered and he returned to his body awake.

Yunxi rescued Ye Yuchen from the Black Beetle and discussed how Evil Insects were being used to target gifted disciples. She then joined Di Fei to begin rescuing the souls of infected Immortal Practitioners in Shui Qiancheng, as they prepared to finish before departing for the Langhuan Secret Realm.

• Ye Yuchen thanked Yunxi for saving him, and they discussed whether Evil Insects had escaped the Ancient Battlefield or were being deployed by desperate Evil Immortals against Elite Disciples.
• Yunxi sent Ye Yuchen to recover in a cultivation chamber and told him that Ye Yirui was coming to fetch him.
• Di Fei told Yunxi that the companions and clansmen of infected Immortal Practitioners had arrived in Shui Qiancheng to seek help rescuing their frozen souls.
• Yunxi and Di Fei addressed the assembled Immortal Practitioners, who promised not to blame them if the rescue failed or let the Evil Immortals divide the Five Regions.
• Yunxi released the Soul-Collecting Mirror, and the gathered Immortal Practitioners began helping her remove Black Beetles from their companions' souls while Ziyan assisted.

Yunxi and Di Fei finished most of the aftermath in Shui Qiancheng and prepared to leave for the Langhuan Secret Realm. Before departing, Yunxi warned the Ye siblings and Chanjia about the Evil Immortal’s schemes, while Yue Kou stayed behind to watch over Qian Ji and the city.

• Di Fei and Yunxi spent a month rescuing Immortal Practitioners, while Ziyan burned the Black Beetles that had drained the remaining divine souls.
• Baili Yanque took Qian Sidu’s detained divine soul and Qian Ji’s account to report to Ghost Emperor Mei Huan, while Yue Kou remained in Shui Qiancheng out of concern for Qian Ji.
• Yunxi told Ye Yirui and Ye Yuchen to return to the Central Immortal Realm and warn their Sect Master that the Evil Immortal might contaminate the Medicine Immortal Sect’s pills with Evil Insect Eggs.
• Yunxi contacted Chanjia, thanked her for helping expose the Evil Immortal’s scheme, and warned her to protect herself; Chanjia said she had bought defensive treasures and planned to enter seclusion.
• Di Fei told Yunxi they could leave Shui Qiancheng because Yue Kou had stayed behind, and the two went to bid him farewell before their planned departure the next day.

Yunxi warned Ghost King Yue Kou about the danger of altering Shui Qiancheng’s formations, then used her exchange with Yue Kou as bait to alert Baili Yanque to a possible traitor. After leaving Shui Qiancheng for Luming City, Yunxi and Di Fei found the Inquiry Pavilion closed amid the crowds gathering for the Langhuan Secret Realm.

• Yunxi told Yue Kou that the reinforced formation must not be altered and urged her to watch for Immortal Practitioners approaching the grand array.
• Yunxi suspected that a traitor might be among the Ghost Kings and sent Baili Yanque a report of Yue Kou’s question.
• Ghost Emperor Mei Huan ordered Baili Yanque to secretly investigate cities containing Nine Wheel Sacrifice Formations and tamper with their formations without exposing the scheme.
• Baili Yanque recognized Yunxi’s report as a warning about Yue Kou and replied that he understood.
• Yunxi and Di Fei left for Luming City in disguises, but found its lodgings full and the Inquiry Pavilion closed.