Chapter Summaries

Yunxi and Xia You recovered from their injuries and traveled toward a nearby town, where they took control of a bandit stronghold after discovering its chief cultivated evil arts. They freed the captured commoners and prepared to leave by carriage, with Xia You declaring that the stronghold should be destroyed.

• Yunxi purged Evil Qi from her Meridians, restored her strength with spirit stones, and reunited with Xia You at sunrise.
• Yunxi accepted two top-grade spirit stones from Xia You, and they set out to buy a map and determine their location.
• Yunxi persuaded Xia You to let five bandits escort them to their mountain stronghold, where they defeated the chief and subdued the bandits.
• Yunxi discovered the chief practiced evil arts and kept a hidden corpse pit, then ordered the bandits to free their captives and escort the two cultivators.
• The commoners left with travel money, and Yunxi and Xia You ordered the bandits to prepare a lavish carriage for their departure at dawn.
• As they rode away from the stronghold, Xia You said there was no need for the place to exist.

Xia You and Yunxi destroyed the bandit stronghold and continued toward the official road, while Yu Qingcheng and Liu Haotian were injured in the Mortal Realm and imprisoned at Qixia Pavilion. They recovered enough to scheme for their Storage pouches, but Boss Shen returned only Yu Qingcheng’s and kept Liu Haotian’s pouch.

• Xia You razed the bandit stronghold, and Yunxi told the Second-in-Command to set off toward the official road.
• Yu Qingcheng and Liu Haotian landed injured in Qixia Pavilion, where Boss Shen confiscated their belongings and confined them.
• Liu Haotian and Yu Qingcheng pretended to submit to Boss Shen while asking him to return their Storage pouches.
• Boss Shen agreed to return the pouches, then sent Yu Qingcheng’s pouch while claiming Liu Haotian’s needed repairs.

Yu Qingcheng and Liu Haotian recovered from their injuries while Boss Shen searched for them, and Yunxi and Xia You followed rumors to Qixia Pavilion. After discovering that Boss Shen had held the injured pair at Nurturing Jade Pavilion, Yunxi and Xia You made him lead them there.

• Yu Qingcheng used her Spiritual Qi to retrieve supplies from her Storage Pouch, and Liu Haotian helped her heal under a Concealment Formation.
• After Yu Qingcheng and Liu Haotian disappeared for five days, Boss Shen suspected their pouch was connected to their escape and summoned the Temple Master of Qianshan Temple.
• The Temple Master recognized the pouch as an item from the Cultivation Realm, warned Boss Shen that he had offended someone powerful, and hurried away.
• Yunxi and Xia You heard rumors about the missing beauties and watched the Temple Master confront Boss Shen at Qixia Pavilion.
• Yunxi and Xia You questioned Boss Shen about the pouch, and he admitted that Yu Qingcheng and Liu Haotian had stayed at Nurturing Jade Pavilion.
• Yunxi and Xia You made Boss Shen lead them to Nurturing Jade Pavilion.

Yunxi reunited with Liu Haotian and learned that Yu Qingcheng was recovering nearby. After helping bring the bandits to justice, the group discussed the evil cultivation technique and suspected that evil cultivators were deliberately spreading it through the Mortal Realm.

• Yunxi found Liu Haotian safe inside the Concealment Formation and learned that Yu Qingcheng was healing there.
• Yunxi overheard County Magistrate Zhou worrying about Circuit Inspector Di Kangnian and learned that Qixia Pavilion's proprietor had fallen ill after two beauties went missing.
• Yunxi and Xia You watched the bandits surrender, and County Magistrate Zhou learned that Immortal Practitioners had subdued their leader.
• County Magistrate Zhou sentenced the bandits according to their crimes, and the people of Jinshan County praised his judgment.
• Yu Qingcheng and Liu Haotian reunited with Yunxi and Xia You, then discussed the bandit leader's evil cultivation technique and the possibility that evil cultivators were spreading it deliberately.

Yunxi suspected the Evil Cultivators had left cultivation methods in the Mortal Realm to turn resentment from their victims into nourishment, and the group agreed to investigate as they traveled. They chose to help County Magistrate Zhou deal with Imperial Censor Di Kangnian, whose interest in beauty became clear when the four arrived at his residence.

• Yunxi introduced Dian Dian to Liu Haotian, Yu Qingcheng, and Xia You, and they agreed to use its tracking ability to seek clues about Evil Cultivators.
• Yunxi persuaded the group to meet County Magistrate Zhou and help with the lecherous Imperial Censor, and Hao Chunde led them to the magistrate that night.
• County Magistrate Zhou arranged lodging for the four Immortal Practitioners, who stayed in seclusion until Di Kangnian arrived four days later.
• Di Kangnian ignored County Magistrate Zhou on his arrival, then accepted the four sedan chairs Zhou sent the next morning.
• Yu Qingcheng, Yunxi, Xia You, and Liu Haotian stepped out of the sedan chairs, and Di Kangnian was captivated by their beauty, especially Liu Haotian.

Yunxi and her companions investigated Imperial Censor Di Kangnian and discovered that a demonic cultivator may have helped the Di Family prosper by directing them to move their ancestral tomb. They planned to inspect the tomb near Jinshan County the next day.

• Yu Qingcheng, Xia You, Yunxi, and Liu Haotian entered Di Kangnian's room under the guise of serving him, then revealed that he was under their control.
• Dian Dian sensed that Di Kangnian had contacted a demonic cultivator, and Liu Haotian found signs that someone had interfered with Di Kangnian's fate.
• Yunxi used a Mind Confusion Talisman to question Di Kangnian, who explained that his family prospered after moving its ancestral tomb to a fengshui site ten years earlier.
• Di Kangnian revealed that an unknown expert had asked the Di Family to promise a future favor, and that he had come to Jinshan County to worship his ancestors.
• Liu Haotian decided the group would inspect the Di Family's ancestral tomb the next day, while County Magistrate Zhou believed his position was safe and arranged to keep beautiful local women out of Di Kangnian's reach.

Yunxi and her companions discovered that the Di Family had stolen another lineage’s ancestral tomb and fate, then altered the graveyard’s fengshui. They found the displaced coffins in a swamp, where Liu Haotian realized the site was a corpse-nurturing ground, and Yunxi warned everyone to retreat.

• Yunxi discovered more than a hundred bodies buried beneath ten gravestones and sent Di Kangnian flying.
• Liu Haotian deduced that the Di Family had stolen another lineage’s ancestral fate and resolved to undo the fengshui and locate the displaced dead.
• Yunxi and her companions discussed the evil cultivators’ schemes and their connection to the Nine Wheel Sacrifice Formation in Shuangshan City.
• Liu Haotian and the others planted poisonous seeds, changed the mountain and stream, and concealed the graveyard with a Labyrinth Formation.
• Liu Haotian found ten coffins in a shaded swamp, and Dian Dian detected Evil Qi nearby.
• Liu Haotian identified the area as a Corpse Nurturing Ground, and Yunxi shouted for everyone to retreat as she struck with her Seven-Star Deadly Staff.

Yunxi was trapped in a Corpse Nurturing Ground that drained her Spiritual Qi, and she uncovered a self-aware red-robed White Zombie who begged her to kill her and Li Cangyuan. The formation still held Yunxi as she realized City Lord Li might be behind the corpse refinement.

• Yu Qingcheng, Liu Haotian, and Xia You escaped the red barrier and began attacking the formation's weak point while Yunxi fought from inside.
• Yunxi sent Dian Dian into her space, then used her Seven-Star Deadly Staff and Purple Jade Coiled Dragon Cauldron to break open a red coffin.
• A red-robed White Zombie rose from the coffin and repeatedly begged Yunxi to kill her.
• The zombie smashed her own coffin, dug up a black coffin, and helped Yunxi break it open.
• Yunxi found Li Cangyuan inside the black coffin, and the red-robed zombie warned that Yunxi could not survive unless she killed both of them.

Yunxi sought Ethereal Immortal’s advice after becoming trapped in an Extreme Yin Corpse Nurturing Ground and learned that heavenly lightning could destroy the Zombies. She forced a breakthrough to Golden Core to summon a tribulation, and the second, more powerful wave descended as she guarded the two White Zombies.

• Yunxi entered the Space and told Dian Dian that Li Cangyuan had become a White Zombie in the Corpse Nurturing Ground.
• Ethereal Immortal identified the formation and advised Yunxi to break through to Golden Core so her tribulation lightning could destroy the Zombies.
• Yunxi used the Immortal Spirit Grass to gather Spiritual Qi and prepare for her breakthrough.
• When Yunxi emerged from the Space, her tribulation cloud formed, and Liu Haotian, Yu Qingcheng, and Xia You retreated beyond its range.
• Liu Haotian began forcing his own breakthrough while Yu Qingcheng and Xia You stood guard.
• The first wave of lightning shattered the formation’s barrier and struck Yunxi, the red-robed female zombie, and Li Cangyuan; the second wave of purple-white lightning then descended.

Yunxi endured the Nine Heavens Profound Lightning in the Corpse Nurturing Ground, with Dian Dian helping her recover through their Contract Mark. As the lightning threatened to kill her, the Flower Diadem Immortal Artifact revealed the red-robed female zombie’s past as Bai Jinghan, and the chapter left her story unfolding.

• The second wave of Tribulation Lightning injured Yunxi and scorched Li Cangyuan, the red-robed female zombie, and the coffins underground, while Yu Qingcheng and Xia You stood guard.
• Dian Dian absorbed Spiritual Qi from the Immortal Spirit Grass and sent it through the Contract Mark, helping Yunxi regain consciousness and absorb energy from spirit stones.
• The Nine Heavens Profound Lightning entered Yunxi’s bones and destroyed hidden gray vapor left by the Golden Core evil cultivator.
• The third and later waves of Tribulation Lightning struck Yunxi; the White Jade Orchid Hairpin broke, and the Seven-Star Deadly Staff absorbed a bolt and lit its Yaoguang Star.
• The Flower Diadem Immortal Artifact protected Yunxi’s divine soul, showing her Bai Jinghan’s life: the Bai Family blamed her for its decline, and a Daoist priest offered to take her away to cultivate and pray for the family’s blessings.

Yunxi survived the tribulation and advanced to Golden Core, learning the tragic history of Bai Jinghan and discovering that City Lord Li had approached the Corpse Nurturing Ground. After Yunxi's overwhelming divine sense frightened him away, she reunited with her companions and explained her breakthrough.

• Yunxi learned that Bai Jinghan had been kidnapped as a child, refined into a White Zombie, and wanted the evil cultivator responsible to be destroyed.
• Yunxi formed a Ninth Grade Golden Core and had the Rosy Cloud Butterfly carry her away while she absorbed the Spirit Rain and recovered.
• Yunxi spread her divine sense across the Mortal Realm, detected City Lord Li, and frightened him into fleeing with a Jade Talisman.
• Yunxi reunited with Yu Qingcheng, Xia You, and Liu Haotian, who congratulated her on becoming a Golden Core Personal Disciple.
• Yunxi told her companions that Li Cangyuan had become a White Zombie, and they learned that the evil cultivator had also turned Bai Jinghan into one.

Yunxi and the others destroyed the Corpse Nurturing Ground, gathered evidence of evil cultivators, and ensured Di Kangnian left Jinshan County. After Yu Qingcheng settled a score and the group departed, Yunxi led them toward several strange places she had discovered.

• Liu Haotian raised concerns that evil cultivators might resume nurturing corpses, so Xia You gave the group Imprint Jades to record evidence.
• Liu Haotian and the others set up a Blazing Sun Formation to destroy the Corpse Nurturing Ground and keep it destroyed for at least fifty years.
• Yunxi and the others returned to Jinshan County and learned that Di Kangnian had fled in fear; they told County Magistrate Zhou to serve the people before leaving.
• Yu Qingcheng disappeared briefly to settle a score, while Di Kangnian and the Di Family later suffered ruin and he died in prison.
• After Yunxi advanced to Golden Core, she led the group toward strange places she had spotted with her divine sense.

Yunxi and the others investigated rumors of eerie events near Chuntao City, where inn waiter Yin Yong revealed that his sister’s wishes to a cracked Bronze Mirror had cost their parents’ lives. His story ended with Yin Yong’s second brother retrieving the mirror after Yin Yong threw it into the river.

• Yunxi and the others reached Chuntao City and asked an inn waiter about strange happenings nearby.
• Liu Haotian exposed the waiter, Yin Yong, as a Taoyuan Village native who feared returning home, and Yin Yong begged them to spare him.
• Yin Yong told them that his sister Yin Hua'er found a cracked Bronze Mirror in the river and spoke to an immortal inside it.
• Yin Hua'er wished to marry Scholar Xin, and the mirror fulfilled the wish; soon afterward, her parents died mysteriously.
• Yin Hua'er confessed that the mirror had demanded their parents’ lives as the price of her wish.
• Yin Yong threw the Bronze Mirror into the river, but his second brother secretly retrieved it.

Yin Yong confronted Yin Chuan over the Bronze Mirror after Yin Hua'er and Scholar Xin died, and learned that Yin Chuan’s wish for wealth had brought disaster upon their family. After thieves killed Yin Chuan’s household, Yin Yong returned to Taoyuan Village and found his eldest brother’s family behaving strangely while preparing to bury them.

• Yin Yong accused Yin Chuan of using the Bronze Mirror to wish for wealth at the cost of Yin Hua'er and Scholar Xin’s lives, but Yin Chuan denied it and expelled him.
• Yin Yong accompanied the Xin Family to retrieve Yin Hua'er and Scholar Xin’s bodies and learned that Yin Hua'er had been three months pregnant.
• Yin Yong learned that thieves had slaughtered Yin Chuan’s entire household, including the servants.
• Yin Yong returned to Taoyuan Village and found Yin Shan’s family cheerful as they moved fine chests, while Madam Tang said Yin Shan had gone to choose burial plots.
• Madam Tang explained that the family planned to bury Yin Chuan’s five dead household members quickly because of the heat and an upcoming wedding.

Yin Yong discovered that his eldest nephew, Fan Si, had taken the bronze mirror and that it was connected to the family’s sudden fortune and deaths. After secretly retrieving and burying the mirror, he returned to find Fan Si and his wife claiming that her dowry had been stolen.

• Yin Yong grew suspicious after Yin Shan confirmed that the bronze mirror was missing and the constables had not found it.
• Yin Shan discovered Dog-Head Gold in his fields, and his family began building a new house with the proceeds.
• Yin Yong overheard Fan Si and his wife discussing the mirror, the deaths tied to its wishes, and their plan to keep it from him.
• Yin Yong caused Fan Si to be called away with a staged injury, searched his room, found the mirror, and buried it in the Back Mountain.
• Fan Si and his wife claimed that an embroidered pouch with silver had been stolen, and Yin Yong advised them to report the theft to the authorities.

After Yin Yong recounted the deaths linked to the Bronze Mirror, Liu Haotian, Xia You, Yunxi, and Yu Qingcheng set out to investigate Taoyuan Village. They could not find the village and suspected the mirror had created its own domain, while Yin Yong was left with only one month to live.

• Yin Yong’s eldest brother and all eleven other members of his family died when lightning destroyed their new house, and Yin Yong found the Bronze Mirror missing from its hiding place.
• After another household burned to death, Yin Yong left Taoyuan Village and settled in Chuntao City, where he told the four investigators what had happened.
• Xia You revealed that she had recorded Yin Yong’s account with the Imprint Jade, and the four decided to investigate the Bronze Mirror in Taoyuan Village.
• Yunxi warned Yin Yong that the events had begun with his discovery of the mirror, and Liu Haotian told him he had only one month left to live.
• Yin Yong refused to return but gave the four the village’s location; they traveled there by Flying Swords and found no village where he had said it was.
• Liu Haotian suspected the Bronze Mirror had formed its own domain, and the four considered whether it had grown stronger or was connected to the Yin Family’s Ancestral Tomb.

Yunxi, Liu Haotian, Yu Qingcheng, and Xia You entered Taoyuan Village to investigate its strange aura and claim a house they had bought from Yin Yong. The village chief revealed that Yin Yong had deceived them and summoned his family to settle the dispute.

• Yunxi lowered her cultivation to Foundation Establishment Early Stage before the four entered Taoyuan, where Dian Dian detected only a faint trace of Evil Qi.
• A wary old man challenged the outsiders, and Yunxi, Liu Haotian, Yu Qingcheng, and Xia You continued into the village after suspecting he was acting as a gatekeeper.
• The four asked the village chief about their purchase, and he said Yin Yong's family was alive and still occupied the ancestral residence.
• Liu Haotian showed the village chief their land deed, and the chief agreed to bring Yin Yong's parents and brothers to discuss the matter.
• Yin Yong's parents, eldest brother Yin Shan, and second brother Yin Chuan arrived at the village chief's home.

Yunxi and the others confronted the Yin Family over Yin Yong’s sale of their ancestral home, then revealed that the family and villagers were already dead and had been sacrificed. The village chief admitted he was preserving Taoyuan Village’s false peace for the Immortal and insisted the four visitors be sacrificed.

• Yu Qingcheng and Liu Haotian demanded that the Yin Family surrender the ancestral residence or return the one hundred taels Yin Yong had received, and the village chief proposed building the visitors a new brick-and-tile house instead.
• Liu Haotian agreed to stay in the Yin Family’s old residence until the new house was completed.
• Yunxi stopped Yin Shan and Yin Chuan from leaving and recounted how the Yin Family had died, while Yu Qingcheng told them they were already dead.
• Yin Chuan, Yin Fansi, Xia You, Yin Hua'er, and Scholar Xin argued and fought as the villagers learned they too had died as sacrifices.
• The village chief confronted Yunxi and the others, revealed that the Immortal had promised to restore Taoyuan Village if they were sacrificed, and Liu Haotian condemned his refusal to face the truth.

Yunxi and her companions exposed Taoyuan Village as a ruin trapped inside a Bronze Mirror and fought their way back to reality. The Mirror Spirit was left dormant or destroyed, the villagers’ souls emerged, and two soul collectors arrived to take them away.

• Yunxi used the Seven-Star Deadly Staff to reveal Taoyuan Village’s ruins, and the village chief confessed that the Bronze Mirror had trapped and killed the villagers.
• Liu Haotian destroyed the village chief’s soul, but the Bronze Mirror absorbed the wandering villagers’ souls and tried to seize the group’s divine souls.
• Yunxi cracked the Bronze Mirror with her Seven-Star Deadly Staff, and she and her companions realized they were trapped inside its space.
• Yunxi manifested the Flower Diadem Immortal Artifact and shattered the mirror’s space, returning the group to real Taoyuan Village with the badly cracked Bronze Mirror in her hands.
• The villagers’ souls emerged from the mirror, and Liu Haotian identified them as needing reincarnation.
• A black-robed and a white-robed soul collector appeared, and the white-robed man explained that the villagers’ bodies had decayed and could not return to life.

Yunxi and her companions learned that the Bronze Mirror was an Underworld Soul-Collecting Mirror corrupted by evil cultivators, then negotiated compensation from Black and White Impermanence before handing it over. The Ghost Messengers departed with the mirror, while Yunxi exchanged contact talismans with them and received a black box from White Impermanence.

• Yunxi approached Black and White Impermanence and explained how the Bronze Mirror had caused Taoyuan Village’s destruction.
• Black Impermanence recognized the Bronze Mirror as a lost Soul-Collecting Mirror, and Liu Haotian explained that evil cultivators had corrupted it to gather souls and cultivate resentment.
• Yu Qingcheng demanded compensation for the group’s efforts and danger, so Yunxi negotiated a reward in Soul Stones from the Ghost Messengers.
• Yunxi kept two Mid-grade Soul Stones and ten Low-grade Soul Stones, divided the remaining stones among her companions, and handed the Soul-Collecting Mirror to White Impermanence.
• Yunxi gave Black and White Impermanence Message Talismans to stay in touch, and White Impermanence handed her a black box.