Chapter Summaries

Yunxi and her companions buried Taoyuan Village’s remains, benefited from cultivating with Soul Stones, and traveled on to Jinyun City. Meanwhile, Wei Yunqing set out alone for the Lineage but was knocked from her Flying Ship during a beast attack and stranded in the Baohua Mountain Range.

• Yunxi, Liu Haotian, Xia You, and Yu Qingcheng buried the remains in Taoyuan Village, rested overnight, and cultivated with Soul Stones; Liu Haotian sensed that he was close to a Golden Core breakthrough.
• Liu Haotian urged the others to keep their Soul Stones secret, and the four left the village; a shadowy figure arrived afterward and discovered that its Evil Artifact plans had been ruined.
• Yunxi’s group reached Jinyun City, paid to enter, and settled in at Yunlai Inn for a two-day rest.
• Wei Yunqing became distracted after Sheng Yuhong distanced himself, but Ye Shaohua warned her to focus on cultivation, so she decided to return to the Lineage alone.
• Wei Yunqing boarded a Flying Ship from Haoran City, but Red-beaked Falcons attacked it in the Baohua Mountain Range and a third-rank falcon knocked her into the mountains.

Yunxi and her companions watched Jinyun City’s courtesan parade, where Liu Haotian and Yu Qingcheng discovered that many courtesans possessed Pure Yin or Pure Yang Physiques. Yunxi suspected evil cultivators were gathering people with special constitutions to raise as Human Cauldrons, and her group realized the discovery could point to a wider threat.

• Yunxi persuaded Liu Haotian, Yu Qingcheng, and Xia You to stay in Jinyun City and watch the courtesan parade.
• Yunxi and her companions watched the parade, while Liu Haotian and Yu Qingcheng noticed that many courtesans seemed marked for a grim fate.
• Yu Qingcheng explained that she used an examination incantation to discover the courtesans’ Special Constitutions, and Yunxi asked her to teach it.
• Yunxi speculated that evil cultivators were selecting people with special constitutions to raise as Human Cauldrons and use to influence the Cultivation Realm.
• Liu Haotian, Yu Qingcheng, and Xia You grew alarmed as Yunxi’s theory suggested that evil cultivators could pose a threat to the Weiyu Realm.

Yunxi infiltrated a convoy of courtesans to track evil cultivators transporting women with Special Constitutions back to the Cultivation Realm. As Liu Haotian and the others waited at Cloud Mist Mountain to identify the courtesans’ recipients, he worried that Yunxi might face danger inside the carriage.

• Yunxi sent the Rosy Cloud Butterfly to watch the courtesans, and the group confirmed that all twenty selected women had Special Constitutions.
• Yunxi disguised herself as Min Yue and joined the convoy bound for the Capital.
• On the fourth evening, Yunxi pretended to faint after the courtesans drank drugged sweet soup, then sensed that the group was being taken toward the border between the Mortal Realm and the Cultivation Realm.
• Yunxi learned that evil cultivators had taken the courtesans and told Liu Haotian, Xia You, and Yu Qingcheng to cross the border ahead and lie in ambush.
• Liu Haotian and the others passed through Cloud Mist Mountain’s barrier and waited to see who would receive the courtesans, while Liu Haotian worried about Yunxi’s safety.

Yunxi returned to the Cultivation Realm with the kidnapped courtesans and discovered their captors were working with people from the Yin Yang Sect. She sprang her ambush, leaving the evil cultivator unconscious and trapping the five sect members in a golden array.

• Liu Haotian sent word to his master while Yu Qingcheng and the others planned to watch the evil cultivators without alerting them.
• Yunxi pretended to wake in the carriage and questioned the evil cultivator, who knocked her unconscious again.
• Using the Rosy Cloud Butterfly, Yunxi saw five Yin Yang Sect members meet the evil cultivator and heard them discuss a woman with a Special Constitution and a suspected Spirit Transformation presence in the Mortal Realm.
• Yunxi realized her Golden Core breakthrough had caused the cultivators to sense Spirit Transformation pressure, and she arranged for Liu Haotian and the others to prepare for an ambush.
• Yunxi grabbed the evil cultivator's wrist and rendered him unconscious, then triggered a golden array that trapped the five Yin Yang Sect members.

Wei Yunxi and Liu Haotian’s group trapped five cultivators suspected of aiding evil cultivators and confirmed their connection to the Yin Yang Sect. City Lord Li ambushed them, leaving Yunxi fighting the sect’s leader while Liu Haotian, Yu Qingcheng, and Xia You faced Li Chang.

• Liu Haotian, Yu Qingcheng, and Xia You planted Wei Yunxi’s formation disk and trapped five cultivators they suspected of meeting evil cultivators.
• Wei Yunxi reported that the five men’s master was colluding with evil cultivators who sent mortals with special physiques to the Yin Yang Sect as cultivation furnaces, and said she had recorded their conversation.
• As the trapped cultivators tried to break out, Wei Yunxi activated a Killing Formation, but City Lord Li ambushed her and forced her into the formation.
• Wei Yunxi revealed her early Golden Core cultivation and fought the Yin Yang Sect’s leader, condemning his choice to serve evil cultivators.
• City Lord Li struck Liu Haotian, Yu Qingcheng, and Xia You, who identified him as Li Chang and defended themselves with their hidden trump cards.
• An unseen speaker confronted Li Chang, demanding to know how he dared attack their disciple.

True Lord Qingzhu rescued Liu Haotian and joined Wei Yunxi’s group in exposing a scheme that sent mortals with Special Constitutions to evil cultivators. After hearing their account and accepting their evidence, he let Yunxi leave near Kunyu City and gave her a protective hairpin.

• True Lord Qingzhu drove Li Chang away with a sound attack and rescued Liu Haotian and his companions.
• Wei Yunxi ended the formation and showed True Lord Qingzhu the captured Yin Yang Sect cultivators and evidence of their scheme.
• True Lord Qingzhu subdued the captives, took the nineteen mortals with Special Constitutions, and carried the group away on his Flying Boat.
• Liu Haotian and the others recounted their discoveries, and Wei Yunxi presented Imprint Jades documenting the events.
• Wei Yunxi credited Liu Haotian and Yu Qingcheng for discovering key clues, and True Lord Qingzhu gave her a hairpin that could withstand three Nascent Soul attacks.
• The group exchanged Communication Jade Slip auras, and Wei Yunxi left the Flying Boat at Yuling Mountain to continue toward Kunyu City.

After returning to Kunyu City, Yunxi visited the Feng Family, reunited with Feng Jiaqing and Feng Feng, and gave her uncle a Golden Core Pill to help him advance. The Fengs revealed that Wei Lingyue had taken one of her mother’s Storage Pouches and that he alone had returned from an ancient cultivator’s Immortal Cave with her mother.

• Yunxi concealed her appearance and visited the Feng Family, where she revealed herself to Feng Jiaqing and described her years in the sect.
• Yunxi gave Feng Jiaqing her unused Golden Core Pill so he could attempt to form his Core, and he agreed to pay its market price.
• Yunxi met Feng Feng, discussed alchemy with him, and learned that Wei Lingyue had likely taken one Storage Pouch left by her mother.
• Yunxi asked whether her mother’s fall was connected to Wei Lingyue, and Feng Jiaqing told her that only Wei Lingyue returned from their expedition to an ancient cultivator’s Immortal Cave.

Yunxi learned that her mother was alive in the Weiling Realm and received her Soul Lamp before returning to the Wei Family. She reclaimed Zhuohua Courtyard from Du Ruolan and ended the chapter by asking whether Du Ruolan wanted to hear how Yunqing was doing.

• Feng Jiaqing told Yunxi that her mother had sent a message from the Weiling Realm and gave Yunxi her Soul Lamp.
• Feng Jiaqing entered seclusion and successfully formed his Golden Core, after which Yunxi returned to the Wei Family.
• Wei Lingyue welcomed Yunxi home, and she offered him Healing Pills while noting his lingering injuries.
• Yunxi learned that Zhuohua Courtyard had become Du Ruolan's residence and made Wei Lingyue arrange to clear it out for her.
• Du Ruolan confronted Yunxi but was forced to kneel; Yunxi let her rise and asked whether she wanted to know how Yunqing had been doing.

Yunxi confronted Wei Lingyue about her mother’s belongings and the way he had treated her, making clear that their relationship had become estranged. Wei Lingyue agreed to return the Storage Pouch, and Yunxi left him with no expectation of fatherly love.

• Yunxi told Du Ruolan and Wei Lingyue that Wei Yunqing had stayed at the sect and had not taken a master, while Yunxi had become True Lord Yuling’s only disciple.
• Du Ruolan left the main hall, realizing she would have to surrender Zhuohua Courtyard, while Wei Lingyue tried to grow closer to Yunxi.
• Yunxi asked Wei Lingyue to return her mother’s Storage Pouch and rejected his claim that it had belonged to both of her parents.
• Yunxi accused Wei Lingyue of favoring Wei Yunqing, allowing her to bully Yunxi, and failing to protect Yunxi from the Spirit Melting Pill plot.
• Yunxi recalled Wei Lingyue knocking her unconscious after her mother’s death and taking the Storage Pouch; he agreed to replenish what he had used and return it.
• Yunxi told Wei Lingyue that she no longer hoped for fatherly love and that he should rely on his other daughter instead.

Yunxi settled back into Zhuohua Courtyard after confronting Wei Lingyue, who blamed Du Ruolan and reclaimed the Youth-Preserving Pill. Meanwhile, Wei Yunqing gained a Crimson Bracelet Space and set out for Kunyu City to challenge Yunxi, who gave the Wei Family pills and promised a Golden Core Pill to Wei Lingtao in secret.

• Yunxi dismissed the servants, sealed Zhuohua Courtyard with a Fourth-Grade Formation Disk, and reflected on how she had changed her fate and Kunyu City.
• Wei Lingyue blamed Du Ruolan for worsening his relationship with Yunxi, took back the Youth-Preserving Pill, and warned Du Ruolan to treat Yunxi respectfully.
• Du Ruolan realized Yunxi had known about the Spirit Melting Pill for years and feared she could no longer rely on Wei Lingyue to protect her.
• Wei Yunqing escaped the Baohua Mountain Range after reaching Foundation Establishment Middle Stage, claimed a Crimson Bracelet with a small living space, and headed for Kunyu City to suppress Yunxi.
• Yunxi gave Wei Lingtao pills, including three Foundation Establishment Pills, and promised to secretly send the Wei Family a Golden Core Pill after returning to the sect.

Yunxi secured Wei Lingtao’s support in limiting Wei Lingyue’s influence, recovered her mother’s belongings from her father, and attended Feng Jiaqing’s Golden Core celebration. The chapter ended with Wei Yunqing returning to Kunyu City as news of Feng Jiaqing’s breakthrough spread.

• Yunxi persuaded Wei Lingtao to help ensure Wei Lingyue could not claim more power in the Wei Family, and agreed to visit the Feng Family with him.
• Rosy Cloud reported Wei Lingyue’s conversation with Du Ruolan, while Dian Dian revealed he had found ten uncontaminated Rosy Cloud Butterfly eggs for Yunxi’s surveillance network.
• Wei Lingyue returned Yunxi’s Storage Pouch in exchange for healing pills, and agreed to enter seclusion to treat his injuries.
• Yunxi and Wei Lingtao represented the Wei Family at Feng Jiaqing’s celebration, where Yunxi discussed her father’s ambitions with her uncle.
• Wei Yunqing returned to Kunyu City and learned that Feng Jiaqing had formed a Golden Core.

Wei Yunqing returned to the Wei Family and learned that Wei Yunxi had formed her Golden Core and taken over Zhuohua Courtyard. After Yunxi confronted Wei Yunqing and Du Ruolan, Du Ruolan tried to explain her role in the past, leaving Yunxi to point out that she had chosen to give her the Spirit Melting Pill.

• Wei Yunqing returned to the Wei Family and found Zhuohua Courtyard sealed, so Liuxu escorted her to Du Ruolan at Begonia Courtyard.
• Du Ruolan told Wei Yunqing that Wei Yunxi had formed her Golden Core, taken Zhuohua Courtyard, and returned with resources that won the clan elders' recognition.
• Du Ruolan warned Wei Yunqing to avoid confronting Wei Yunxi and confessed that she had given Yunxi the Spirit Melting Pill; Wei Yunqing embraced her and vowed to surpass Yunxi.
• Yunxi overheard the mother and daughter's conversation through the Rosy Cloud Butterfly and returned to the Wei Family with the Family Head.
• Wei Yunqing and Du Ruolan came to Zhuohua Courtyard, where Yunxi made Wei Yunqing address her as True Person Wei and ordered them to leave.
• Du Ruolan tried to explain her past actions, and Yunxi said that although the root of the conflict lay with her father, Du Ruolan had chosen to give her the Spirit Melting Pill.

Wei Yunxi confronted Du Ruolan over her attempt to ruin Yunxi’s aptitude, then exposed Wei Lingyue’s selfish motives and drove Du Ruolan to collapse. After Wei Yunqing took her mother away, Yunxi learned that Yunqing carried a hidden treasure and ordered Dian Dian to have Rosy Cloud watch her.

• Du Ruolan claimed she had only meant to make Wei Yunxi miss her chance to join the Haoran Sect, while Wei Yunqing defended her from Yunxi’s accusation that she would search Du Ruolan’s soul.
• Wei Yunxi suppressed Du Ruolan and Wei Yunqing with her Golden Core pressure, planted a dormant Ice Needle in Du Ruolan’s Dantian, and ordered Du Ruolan not to appear before her again.
• Wei Yunxi told Du Ruolan that Wei Lingyue had manipulated her and had helped bring about Feng Jiayun’s fall, then revealed that he had taken back the Youth-Preserving Pill in exchange for a healing pill.
• Du Ruolan fainted after Yunxi’s accusations, and Wei Yunqing carried her back to Begonia Courtyard and healed her injuries.
• Dian Dian told Wei Yunxi that Wei Yunqing carried a treasure on her left hand, and Yunxi ordered Rosy Cloud to keep watch rather than risk Dian Dian’s discovery.
• Du Ruolan woke and lamented that Wei Lingyue cared only for himself, while Wei Yunqing promised to make her mother admired and envied.

Wei Yunxi investigated Wei Yunqing’s mysterious Crimson Bracelet and decided to seize the space artifact for herself. She began forcibly erasing its Divine Sense Imprint, ejecting Wei Yunqing from the space in agony.

• Du Ruolan warned Wei Yunqing not to confront Wei Yunxi, while Wei Yunqing vowed to surpass her and become a Personal Disciple of the Haoran Sect.
• Wei Yunxi reassured Wei Lingtao that she had only told Du Ruolan the truth about the Youth-Preserving Pill, then went to the Feng Family.
• Wei Yunxi exchanged pill-refining insights with Old Ancestor Feng, practiced refining third-grade pills, and planned to upgrade her furnace and seek an Exotic Flame.
• The Rosy Cloud Butterfly reported that Wei Yunqing wore a Crimson Bracelet and vanished into it, leading Wei Yunxi to suspect it was a Space Artifact.
• After Wei Yunqing entered the bracelet’s space again, Wei Yunxi used her divine sense to forcibly erase its Divine Sense Imprint, causing Wei Yunqing to be expelled from the space in pain.

Yunxi interrupted her attempt to erase Wei Yunqing’s Divine Sense Imprint when Old Ancestor Feng summoned her over Feng Jiaqing’s Qi Deviation. Feng Jiaqing recovered, and Yunxi suspected his strange illusion had been triggered by her seizure of Wei Yunqing’s space.

• Yunxi emptied Wei Yunqing’s Bracelet Space of its treasures and stored them with the Rosy Cloud Butterfly before answering the Feng Family steward’s summons.
• Old Ancestor Feng told Yunxi that Feng Jiaqing had suffered chaotic spiritual energy and signs of Qi Deviation while consolidating his cultivation.
• Yunxi and Old Ancestor Feng watched over Feng Jiaqing until his expression and spiritual energy calmed, and he woke unharmed.
• Feng Jiaqing said he had been drawn into an illusion where he experienced a different version of Yunxi, who was willful and had only a Lightning Spiritual Root.
• Yunxi found no Evil Qi in Feng Jiaqing and advised him to rest from cultivation for two days while he settled his state of mind.

Yunxi learned from Ethereal Immortal that she could still pursue Wei Yunqing’s opportunities before Wei Yunqing obtained them, and she took the resources the Rosy Cloud Butterfly had gathered. After returning to the Wei Family to assess Wei Yunqing’s injured divine sense, Yunxi faced her accusation that she had stolen her things.

• Yunxi told Ethereal Immortal that she could not seize Wei Yunqing’s opportunities, and he advised her to pursue opportunities Wei Yunqing had not yet obtained or let someone else take them.
• The Rosy Cloud Butterfly returned with resources, which Yunxi let it and Dian Dian select from before claiming the rest for herself.
• Wei Yunqing woke to find her Bracelet Space’s resources and a layer of its ground gone, then fainted after spitting blood.
• After confirming Feng Jiaqing had recovered, Yunxi returned to the Wei Family at Wei Lingtao’s request to examine Wei Yunqing’s injured divine sense.
• Yunxi called Wei Yunqing out of her room, and Wei Yunqing accused her of stealing her things.

Yunxi confronted Wei Yunqing over her baseless accusation and used her strength to fend off the Wei Family Old Ancestor when he tried to protect Yunqing. She left Begonia Courtyard after warning Yunqing to stay away, then told Dian Dian that she would face Yunqing fairly if their cultivation ever matched.

• Yunxi denied stealing from Wei Yunqing and sent her crashing into the door after she repeated the accusation without evidence.
• Wei Nanfeng arrived and tried to rein Yunxi in, but she countered his Golden Core pressure by aiming a hundred Cold Frost Profound Ice Needles at his vital points.
• Yunxi recalled the needles after invoking her master True Lord Yuling, and Wei Lingtao asked Wei Yunqing whether she had evidence or witnesses; she admitted she had none.
• Wei Lingtao called Yunqing's accusation slander and demanded an apology, but Yunxi refused it and warned Yunqing not to trespass on her again.
• Yunxi returned to Zhuohua Courtyard and told Dian Dian that she had provoked Yunqing to make her understand their strength gap, though she would compete fairly if Yunqing surpassed her.

Yunxi discussed Wei Yunqing’s resentment and learned how a past conflict over aptitude shaped the Wei Family. Wei Lingtao’s story revealed how Wei Nanfeng’s schemes drove Wei Chenyin to expose her cultivation art to the Haoran Sect, leaving Yunxi with a mocking view of the current Old Ancestor.

• Yunxi told Dian Dian that Wei Yunqing’s choices were her own, while secretly listening to Wei Yunqing and Du Ruolan through the Rosy Cloud Butterfly.
• Du Ruolan comforted Wei Yunqing by praising her aptitude and insisting she could eventually surpass Yunxi.
• Wei Lingtao apologized to Yunxi and explained that Wei Yunqing had been influenced by the clan’s high expectations of her aptitude.
• Wei Lingtao recounted how Wei Nanfeng envied Wei Chenyin’s progress, leaked rumors about her fortuitous encounter, then offered to protect her in exchange for her secret art.
• Wei Chenyin presented the Supreme True Essence Conversion Art to the Haoran Sect and requested that Wei Nanfeng be expelled; Yunxi concluded that his scheme had gained him nothing.

Yunxi refused to refine Longevity Pills for Wei Nanfeng and planned to persuade Ancestor Chenyin to return and lead the Wei family. After arranging for Rosy Cloud to raise the newly hatched butterflies, Yunxi left Kunyu City with one butterfly assigned to monitor Wei Yunqing.

• Yunxi told Wei Lingtao that she would not refine Longevity Pills for Wei Nanfeng and wanted Ancestor Chenyin to take charge of the family.
• Wei Nanfeng gave Wei Yunqing a Storage Pouch and promised to help her find a better master.
• Wei Lingtao told Wei Nanfeng that Yunxi would refine Longevity Pills if Longevity Fruit was found, easing the Old Ancestor's displeasure.
• Yunxi brought ten hatched Rosy Cloud Butterflies out of the Wooden Token Space and entrusted them to Rosy Cloud for training.
• Yunxi left Kunyu City the next day, leaving one Rosy Cloud Butterfly to monitor Wei Yunqing.

Yunxi traveled toward her sect at a leisurely pace, stopping in Wenzhou City to buy a powerful Talisman Brush and attend an internal auction. The auction’s final item concerned the Profound Thunder Purple Flame, but a guest questioned whether the Spirit Realm Exotic Flame could appear in the Weiyu Realm.

• Wei Yunqing left Kunyu City for the sect, while Yunxi set out on a slower journey and had the Rosy Cloud Butterfly follow Wei Yunqing.
• Yunxi arrived in Wenzhou City and bought a White Jade Wolf Hair Talisman Brush from Wenyuan Pavilion, gaining an invitation to its internal auction.
• Yunxi refined the brush at an inn and used it to draw third-order talismans before attending the auction in disguise.
• Wentao Zhenren opened the auction, and Yunxi passed on the items offered before he announced that the final item was information about the Profound Thunder Purple Flame.
• An attendee challenged Wentao Zhenren, asking how an Exotic Flame from the Spirit Realm could have appeared in the Weiyu Realm.