Chapter Summaries

Yunxi and Zonghao settled into the Inner Sect after advancing to Foundation Establishment, making plans for seclusion and future cultivation. After handling their Outer Sect affairs, they visited Wei Zongjin and waited for the others to gather.

• Song Ke advised Yunxi and Zonghao to buy communication jade slips, and the three exchanged contact imprints.
• Yunxi and Zonghao discussed their plans to consolidate their cultivation, with Zonghao intending to try the Alchemy Peak assessment and both planning to return to their lineage together later.
• They entered their new Inner Sect courtyard, where Yunxi arranged the rooms, planted spirit flowers, and changed into her new disciple robe.
• Yunxi and Zonghao cancelled their Outer Sect dwelling and returned the Herb Field with Steward Zheng, exchanging communication jade slips with him.
• They sent word to their companions and went to Wei Zongyu’s courtyard, where they found him in seclusion and met Wei Zongjin, who expected to enter the Inner Sect soon.

After Wei Zonghao’s Foundation Establishment celebration brought the family together, Yunxi revealed that she had also reached Foundation Establishment Middle Stage. Her confrontation with jealous Wei Yunqing ended with Yunqing storming out, while Yunxi offered to refine Foundation Establishment Pills for her siblings.

• Wei Zonghao told Wei Zongjin that Zong Yu had been in seclusion for ten days to prepare for a breakthrough to Qi Refining Layer 8.
• Wei Zonghan and Wei Yunting arrived and learned that Yunxi had advanced to Foundation Establishment after an epiphany.
• Wei Yunqing arrived after exchanging for a Foundation Establishment Pill, then reacted with disbelief and jealousy when she saw Yunxi’s Inner Sect robe.
• Yunxi used her Foundation Establishment Middle Stage pressure to force Wei Yunqing to her knees and rebuked her for looking down on others.
• Wei Yunqing got up, insulted Wei Yunting, and left, vowing not to see her family again until she reached Foundation Establishment.
• Yunxi offered to refine Foundation Establishment Pills for Wei Yunting, Wei Zonghan, and Wei Zongjin if they gathered three sets of herbs, and they accepted.

Wei Yunxi entered closed-door cultivation, while Sheng Yuhong repeatedly tried to meet her and Wei Yunqing grew resentful of her success. Over the next three years, Wei family disciples advanced and Yunqing became an Inner Sect Disciple, then arranged to make contact with Sheng Yuhong without Yunxi knowing.

• Wei Yunxi ignored Sheng Yuhong’s message and activated a Fourth-Grade Formation Disk before beginning cultivation; Sheng Yuhong came to her residence but left when she did not answer.
• Wei Yunqing smashed her room in anger, then tended the nearly mature Foundation Establishment Grass with Ye Shaotian, who hoped to refine a Foundation Establishment Pill with her.
• Zhen Tongshuang and Long Daoyu each reached Foundation Establishment, and Wei Yunxi later refined nine Foundation Establishment Pills for the Wei family disciples, who divided the pills and sold one.
• Wei Zonghao became Alchemy Peak Elder Lu Danyang’s alchemy attendant, while Sheng Yuhong made another unsuccessful visit to see Wei Yunxi and drew attention from Inner Sect disciples.
• Wei Yunqing used a Foundation Establishment Pill from Ye Shaotian to enter the Inner Sect, then bribed disciples to monitor Wei Yunxi’s residence and arranged a chance encounter with Sheng Yuhong.

After emerging from four years of seclusion, Wei Yunxi was summoned to meet the Sect Leader, who offered to take her as his disciple. Leng Ruohan interrupted the offer and brought her to Lingxue Peak, where she accepted him as her master.

• Yunxi emerged from seclusion at peak late Foundation Establishment, replied to her messages, and prepared to visit the Inner Sect Mission Hall.
• Sheng Yuhong intercepted Yunxi and escorted her to meet True Lord Yugeng, who asked about her role in breaking the Evil Formation in Shuangshan City.
• True Lord Yugeng offered to take Yunxi as his disciple, but she hesitated and sought a way to refuse.
• Leng Ruohan appeared in the Side Hall, declared Yunxi his only disciple, and took her away to Lingxue Peak.
• Leng Ruohan introduced himself as Lingxue Peak's peak master and asked Yunxi to become his disciple, and Yunxi accepted.

Wei Yunxi made her status as Leng Ruohan’s Personal Disciple official and prepared to settle on Lingxue Peak. News of her appointment reached Wei Yunqing, who learned of it from Sheng Yuhong just as Yunxi sent her a message.

• Leng Ruohan gave Yunxi cultivation supplies and instructions to establish a residence and replace her Identity Jade Token.
• Yunxi obtained a new Personal Disciple token and cultivation resources from True Person Han at the Disciple Hall.
• Inner Sect disciples learned Yunxi had become Leng Ruohan’s disciple and discussed her connection to Shuangshan City.
• Sheng Yuhong told Wei Yunqing that Yunxi had taken Leng Ruohan as her master, and Wei Yunqing concealed her disappointment while preparing to inform the Wei Family.
• Yunxi sent Wei Yunqing a message announcing her new status, inviting her to Lingxue Peak later, and warning her not to go out recently.

Wei Yunxi celebrated becoming Leng Ruohan’s Personal Disciple, chose a residence on Lingxue Peak with Dian Dian’s help, and had a courtyard built. Leng Ruohan then summoned her to the peak.

• Wei Yunqing left after hearing Yunxi’s news, destroyed a table in anger, and began plotting against her.
• Wei Zonghao and most of the Wei Family disciples congratulated Yunxi and welcomed her new position.
• Yunxi flew around Lingxue Peak with Dian Dian, who found a suitable site beside a pond of third-order Snow Rhombus Flowers.
• Yunxi contacted True Person Han, and he personally led workers who built her courtyard.
• After inspecting the finished courtyard, Yunxi heard Leng Ruohan summon her to the peak.

Yunxi received Leng Ruohan’s cultivation guidance and supplies as he prepared to enter seclusion for a breakthrough. She secured her residence, studied his cultivation method overnight, and set out to see him the next morning.

• Leng Ruohan marked Yunxi’s Identity Jade Token so she could enter Lingxue Peak and gave her the 'Bright Moon Condensing Frost Art.'
• Leng Ruohan explained that he would enter seclusion in three days and told Yunxi to study the art and ask him questions the following morning.
• Leng Ruohan told Yunxi how to use the Formation Pillars in her Storage Bracelet to protect her residence and the Snow Rhombus Flower Pond.
• Yunxi refined the bracelet and discovered spirit stones, spiritual plants, pills, Millennium Cold Ice, and an Ice Needle among its contents.
• Yunxi set up and concealed the defensive formation, then studied the cultivation art through the night while Dian Dian stayed behind.
• At sunrise, Yunxi dressed in her Personal Disciple Robe and prepared to visit Leng Ruohan, while Dian Dian chose to remain at the residence.

Yunxi received three days of cultivation guidance from Leng Ruohan before he entered seclusion to pursue Spirit Transformation, and she then began secluding herself. After three months, she had advanced to the mid-stage of Foundation Establishment and refined a new spiritual treasure.

• Yunxi asked Leng Ruohan about her cultivation difficulties over three days, and he explained and demonstrated each lesson before preparing resources for her Golden Core advancement.
• Leng Ruohan entered seclusion, and Yunxi followed by entering seclusion to digest his teachings.
• Sheng Yuhong learned Yunxi was in seclusion, then clarified to Wei Yunqing that she had not been turned away at Yunxi's request.
• Wei Chenyin and other Wei family disciples heard that Yunxi had entered seclusion, while rumors spread that her comprehension had caught Leng Ruohan's attention.
• Yunxi cultivated the Bright Moon Condensing Frost Art for three months, reached the mid-stage of Foundation Establishment, and refined the Cold Frost Profound Ice Needle.

Yunxi emerged from seclusion, invited the Wei family disciples to Lingxue Peak, and hosted them with Sheng Yuhong and Wei Yunqing. The visit ended with Yunxi showing off her favored place on the peak while Wei Yunqing struggled to hide her jealousy.

• Yunxi mastered her lessons, felt her cultivation begin to loosen, and invited the Wei family disciples to Lingxue Peak.
• Wei Yunqing received Yunxi’s invitation while speaking with Sheng Yuhong, who offered to accompany her and prepared a congratulatory gift.
• Wei Yunting, Wei Yunying, Wei Zongyu, and Wei Zonghao visited Yunxi, while Wei Zonghan and Wei Zong Jin sent congratulations through Zongyu.
• Wei Yunqing arrived with Sheng Yuhong, and Yunxi invited them into her courtyard along with the other guests.
• Wei Yunqing questioned Yunxi about enclosing the Snow Rhombus Flowers, and Yunxi explained that her master had allowed it and was now secluded for a breakthrough.
• Sheng Yuhong gave Yunxi a jade box as his congratulatory gift.

Yunxi refused Sheng Yuhong’s attempt to grow closer, then prepared to leave Haoran Sect and return toward Kunyu City. She departed on a mission to capture Rosy Cloud Butterflies in Rosy Cloud Valley, while Sheng Yuhong realized too late that she had left.

• Yunxi refused Sheng Yuhong’s congratulatory gift and made clear she did not want a closer relationship with him.
• Yunxi challenged Wei Yunqing for bringing Sheng Yuhong uninvited, then explained that she planned to avoid him because their auras did not mesh.
• Yunxi told Wei Yunying and Zong Yu that romance would distract her from cultivation, and she decided to return to the family without waiting for Zonghao.
• Yunxi had a robe and matching hair ribbon forged from Five-Colored Boa hide, accepted two missions, and left Haoran Sect with Dian Dian.
• Yunxi stored valuable belongings securely in Haoran City and boarded a Flying Boat bound for Rosy Cloud Valley to capture Rosy Cloud Butterflies.
• Sheng Yuhong learned two days later that Yunxi had left the sect, after she had already departed Haoran City.

Yunxi arrived at Rosy Cloud Valley to gather Rosy Cloud Butterfly wing powder and eggs, buying maps from local sellers. After Dian Dian detected an evil cultivator’s scent on the map of the Back Valley, Yunxi learned that cultivators were being lured there by reports of valuable butterfly eggs and suspected a deliberate trap.

• Yunxi bought a map of the valley’s outer areas from two young rogue cultivators, then purchased a more expensive Back Valley map from a girl.
• Dian Dian warned Yunxi that the girl’s jade slip carried the same scent as a mark left by evil cultivators in Wanruo Forest.
• Yunxi took the jade slip to a tea house, where Dian Dian confirmed the scent and Yunxi discarded the map without inspecting it.
• A waiter told Yunxi that cultivators had entered the Back Valley seeking eggs from a weakened third-rank Rosy Cloud Butterfly, encouraged by a Golden Core True Person offering a high price.
• Yunxi reasoned that some cultivators were allowed to return with eggs to make the Back Valley’s dangers seem worthwhile, while Dian Dian suspected evil cultivators were behind the lure.

Yunxi entered Rosy Cloud Valley to investigate the suspected trap surrounding the Third-Tier Rosy Cloud Butterfly Eggs. At the Back Valley entrance, a butterfly revealed that an evil cultivator had taken over its nest and stolen its eggs to lure cultivators inside.

• Yunxi decided to enter Rosy Cloud Valley despite suspecting the Third-Tier Rosy Cloud Butterfly Eggs were bait.
• Yunxi bought a map of the valley and learned that the Third-Tier Rosy Cloud Butterfly was believed to exist, though cultivators had rarely seen it.
• Yunxi entered the valley, collected powder from Rosy Cloud Butterflies for her mission, and continued toward the Back Valley.
• A Third-Tier Rosy Cloud Butterfly landed on Yunxi's shoulder, and Dian Dian told her it had come to warn her.
• The butterfly revealed that a bad person had taken over its nest and seized its eggs to lure cultivators into the Back Valley.

Yunxi struck a bargain with the third-rank Rosy Cloud Butterfly and followed it into the Back Valley, where she agreed to team up with three cultivators who claimed to know where the butterfly eggs were hidden. After Dian Dian warned her that they carried the same suspicious scent and were luring her into a trap, Yunxi entered their cave shelter, where the female cultivator suddenly scattered pill powder toward her.

• Yunxi negotiated a Heaven and Earth Contract with the Rosy Cloud Butterfly, settling on fifteen of its third-rank eggs in exchange for driving away the people threatening it.
• Guided by the butterfly, Yunxi entered the Back Valley and gathered Butterfly Love Flowers while avoiding groups of cultivators.
• Yunxi met three battered cultivators, who said four enemies had taken their butterfly eggs and injured their companion.
• Yunxi agreed to team up with the three after the female cultivator offered a safe resting place and promised her an extra egg.
• Dian Dian warned Yunxi that the three carried the same smell as the suspicious cultivators and were pretending to be injured to lure her into a trap.
• At their cave shelter, the female cultivator asked Yunxi's surname, then swept crushed pill powder toward her.

Yunxi uncovered a scheme in which a group of cultivators traded captured women to evil cultivators for Rosy Cloud Butterfly eggs. After learning that the evil cultivators had taken Xia You, Yunxi planned to use the captured female cultivator to approach them and test her third-rank talismans.

• Yunxi overcame the female cultivator’s Spirit Sealing Pill and killed her two male companions before knocking her unconscious.
• Yunxi sealed the female cultivator’s spiritual power, took her Storage Pouch, and forced her to explain that four cultivators had traded Xia You to evil cultivators for butterfly eggs.
• Yunxi learned that the evil cultivators offered butterfly eggs in exchange for female cultivators, and that the group had ambushed her hoping to trade her for eggs.
• Dian Dian confirmed that the Rosy Cloud Butterfly had seen the three cultivators and offered ten more eggs if Yunxi helped it.
• Yunxi decided to meet the evil cultivators, verify their identities, and use the female cultivator to lower their guard while testing her third-rank talismans.

Yunxi was taken to an evil cultivator hideout after Pan Yuan traded her for Rosy Cloud Butterfly eggs, then struck back and killed Xue Ao and three Foundation Establishment evil cultivators. She fought the late Golden Core cultivator guarding the hideout, and as she raised the Seven-Star Deadly Staff for another blow, its Alkaid Star began to flicker.

• Yunxi forced Pan Yuan to cooperate by placing an Ice Needle in her Dantian, and Pan Yuan led her to Xue Ao in the Mountain Hollow.
• Xue Ao gave Pan Yuan two Rosy Cloud Butterfly eggs and took Yunxi deeper into the hideout, where Yunxi sensed imprisoned female cultivators and other evil cultivators.
• Xue Ao tried to use Yunxi as a cultivation furnace, but Yunxi pierced his sea of consciousness with the Cold Frost Profound Ice Needle and struck his Dantian with a lightning sphere.
• Yunxi used her Shadow Clone to distract the enemy and killed three Foundation Establishment evil cultivators with Divine Soul Stabs, while the Rosy Cloud Butterfly went to reclaim its eggs.
• A late stage Golden Core evil cultivator attacked Yunxi, who fought back with the Seven-Star Deadly Staff and Lightning Spiritual Power.
• Yunxi raised the staff for another strike as blood from her hand reached its final star, the Alkaid Star, and made it flicker.

Yunxi fought the Golden Core evil cultivator while Dian Dian slipped away to free the imprisoned cultivators. After breaking the restrictions and giving them the Spirit Sealing Pill antidote, Dian Dian left them ready to help Yunxi.

• The Golden Core evil cultivator sent Yunxi crashing into the cave wall, shattering her Defense Bracelet, but she blocked his next strike with the White Jade Orchid Hairpin.
• Dian Dian used a Breath Concealment Talisman to reach the prisoners and found Yu Qingcheng and Liu Haotian among them.
• Dian Dian destroyed the prison restrictions with a Fourth-Grade Formation Disk, allowing the captives to escape.
• Dian Dian recognized Yu Qingcheng, climbed onto her shoulder, and gave Liu Haotian a bottle of pills before hurrying away.
• Liu Haotian identified the pills as the Spirit Sealing Pill antidote, and the freed cultivators prepared to help Yunxi.

Yunxi and her allies trapped the Golden Core evil cultivator inside a formation after the Rosy Cloud Butterfly joined the fight. With the other cultivators freed, Yunxi planned to kill the trapped enemy while urging everyone to leave the cave.

• Yunxi held off the Golden Core evil cultivator and told Dian Dian to retrieve the Fourth-Grade Formation Disk while staying concealed.
• Yu Qingcheng and Liu Haotian tried to help, but the evil cultivator swept them back; they later used their secret technique to raise Liu Haotian temporarily to the Golden Core stage.
• The Rosy Cloud Butterfly attacked the evil cultivator after discovering its eggs had been contaminated with Evil Qi, giving Yunxi an opening to order Dian Dian to activate the formation.
• Yunxi knocked away a crescent blade as Dian Dian activated the trapping, killing, and illusion formations, which trapped the evil cultivator beneath a rain of purple lightning.
• Yunxi replenished her spiritual power, reunited with Yu Qingcheng and Liu Haotian, and said she intended to kill the trapped cultivator while the others left the cave.

Yunxi helped the rescued cultivators organize a response to the evil cultivators in Rosy Cloud Valley, then fought and killed the late stage Golden Core evil cultivator inside the Falling Lightning Formation. As the cave began to collapse, Dian Dian urged her to escape.

• Yunxi urged the rescued cultivators to take the evil cultivators' corpses to town and expose the trap, and she questioned Xia You about Pan Yuan and her betrayal.
• The rescued cultivators recovered their belongings, divided into groups, and left the evil cultivators' lair to spread the warning and restrain suspicious cultivators in the Back Valley.
• Yunxi entered the formation while Yu Qingcheng, Liu Haotian, and Xia You waited outside to support her.
• After observing the late stage Golden Core evil cultivator weaken under the Falling Lightning Technique, Yunxi attacked him and fought him within the formation.
• The evil cultivator struck Yunxi with Evil Qi, but she suppressed him with her Nascent Soul Realm divine sense and pierced him with Mysterious Ice Needles before the formation's lightning blasted him apart.
• Dian Dian warned Yunxi that the cave was about to collapse and told her to leave immediately.

Yunxi and three companions escaped the collapsing evil cultivators' lair through an Ancient Teleportation Formation, but the unstable passage split them apart. Back in Rosy Cloud Town, the evil cultivators' accomplices were captured, and True Lord Jiuyue arrived to check on Wangyou.

• Yunxi learned that the lair was being destroyed and followed the Rosy Cloud Butterfly to an Ancient Teleportation Formation.
• Yunxi used nine top-grade spirit stones to activate the formation, and the group escaped just before the lair was pulverized.
• Yunxi burned the butterfly eggs contaminated by Evil Qi at the Rosy Cloud Butterfly's request.
• Yunxi tied herself to Xia You and gave Yu Qingcheng and Liu Haotian a Red Rope, but the unstable passage split them into pairs before collapsing.
• Cultivators in Rosy Cloud Town captured the evil cultivators' accomplices, and True Person Tan worried over the missing captives.
• True Lord Jiuyue arrived in Rosy Cloud Town, where Wangyou reported that a daoist disciple had helped him escape.

True Lord Jiuyue exposed the wicked cultivators’ attempt to mark rescued disciples and ordered news of their abductions spread across the Weiyu Realm. Meanwhile, Yunxi and Xia You landed in the Mortal Realm, where Yunxi contracted the Rosy Cloud Butterfly before a mortal mistook them for ghosts.

• True Lord Jiuyue crushed a tracking speck on Lu Wangyou, then arranged to remove marks from the other escaped cultivators.
• Lu Wangyou and the rescued cultivators recounted their abduction, but the captured wicked cultivators died after restrictions ruptured their Seas of Consciousness.
• True Lord Jiuyue and the elders spread word of the abductions throughout the Weiyu Realm, disrupting the wicked cultivators’ plans and forcing them to retreat.
• Yunxi and Xia You arrived in the Mortal Realm after their teleportation formation was destroyed, and Yunxi agreed to contract the Rosy Cloud Butterfly as her servant.
• A mortal entered the courtyard, screamed that Yunxi and Xia You were ghosts, and fainted.