Chapter Summaries

Xu Chunniang hunted Yin beasts to strengthen the Soul-Fixing Mirror, which advanced to mid-grade but still needed many more cores to grow. When Little White sensed a vast tide of Yin beasts approaching, she fled northeast and was still escaping five days later.

• Xu Chunniang fed Yin Beast Cores to the Soul-Fixing Mirror, raising it to mid-grade and discovering its black light could immobilize a Yin beast.
• After hunting the nearby Yin beasts, Xu Chunniang chose to venture deeper into the valley to find more cores for the mirror.
• Xu Chunniang fought off a flock of bird Yin beasts and continued hunting, narrowly escaping dangerous groups and a powerful humanoid Yin beast.
• Little White sensed countless Yin beasts approaching from the southwest, so Xu Chunniang fled northeast before the tide swept through the valley.
• Five days later, Xu Chunniang was still fleeing as the Yin beasts drew closer, recovering her spiritual energy aboard her slower flying shuttle.

Xu Chunniang reached a mountain made entirely of bones after fleeing a migration of Yin beasts, then explored it when Little Orange sensed a familiar presence. Little Orange grieved beside an enormous peacock skeleton and asked Xu Chunniang to take it into Little Walnut, but the bones were fused with the mountain.

• Xu Chunniang fled toward a white mountain until the Yin beasts turned away from it and continued elsewhere.
• Little Orange sensed something familiar at the mountain, so Xu Chunniang followed it onto the bones and discovered the remains of powerful beings, including a Kui Ox, a dragon, and a Phoenix.
• Little Orange ran to an enormous peacock skeleton and wept, sensing a painful familiarity with it.
• Little Orange asked Xu Chunniang to move the peacock bones into Little Walnut, but Xu Chunniang could not separate them from the bone mountain and prepared to try another method.

Xu Chunniang failed to detach the peacock’s remnant bones from the bone mountain, then followed Little Walnut’s urgent pull to an altar and took a withered branch that had been calling to her. The skeletal beasts attacked in fury, and after one crushed her right arm, Xu Chunniang slashed at the arm herself as another attack approached.

• Xu Chunniang tried several methods to free the peacock’s remnant bones, but none could damage them, and Little Orange mourned beside the remains.
• A humanoid skeleton pursued Xu Chunniang, and several more skeletal beasts joined it as she fled up the bone mountain.
• Little Walnut urged Xu Chunniang toward a powerful sensation, and she followed it past the pursuing beasts to an altar holding three skeletons.
• Xu Chunniang drew a withered branch from the central skeleton’s grasp with Little Walnut’s vital aura, enraging the skeletal beasts.
• A skeletal beast seized Xu Chunniang, crushed her right arm, and attacked again as she formed her fingers into a blade and slashed at her own arm.

After Xu Chunniang escaped the white-boned beasts by sacrificing her right arm, Little Walnut revived the withered branch she had obtained. The branch vanished into her dantian and settled beside her Golden Core, where she could not move it.

• Xu Chunniang severed her crushed right arm to escape the white-boned beasts, and Little Orange's light screen stopped the pursuing skeletal birds.
• Xu Chunniang examined the withered branch and offered it to Little Walnut, but Little Walnut instead released azure qi into it.
• The branch absorbed Little Walnut's azure qi and sprouted a green shoot, astonishing Xu Chunniang, Little Orange, and Little White.
• The green shoot vanished when Xu Chunniang touched it with her divine sense, and she discovered the branch inside her dantian beside her Golden Core.
• Xu Chunniang tried to move the branch with her divine sense and spiritual energy, but neither worked.

Xu Chunniang upgraded the Soul-Fixing Mirror before fleeing into the Chaos Domain with Bai Lu and Qi Yunluo to escape a murderous giant blade. As a storm swept toward them, Bai Lu urged the group to move on.

• Xu Chunniang fed Yin Beast Cores to the Soul-Fixing Mirror, advancing it to a High-grade Dharma Artifact.
• Little White sensed danger, and Xu Chunniang fled as a giant blade pursued Qi Yunluo and Bai Lu.
• Bai Lu led Xu Chunniang and Qi Yunluo into the Chaos Domain, where they escaped the blade.
• Bai Lu introduced herself and Qi Yunluo to Xu Chunniang, who identified herself as a Rogue Cultivator.
• Bai Lu sensed a storm approaching and told the group to leave as howling winds surged around them.

In the Chaos Domain, Bai Lu explained how domains and the power of laws related to Spirit Transformation, while Xu Chunniang learned of possible ways to restore her severed arm. The group fled thunder and Chaos Rain, and Qi Yunluo chose to remain with them rather than risk meeting the vicious blade outside.

• Qi Yunluo escaped a storm and caught up with Bai Lu and Xu Chunniang, who warned him that the Chaos Domain was dangerous.
• Bai Lu and Qi Yunluo explained that domains contained the power of laws, and discussed the Spirit Transformation cultivators and secretive Three Immortal Islands.
• Bai Lu led Xu Chunniang and Qi Yunluo away when thunder sounded; they narrowly avoided a burst of lightning and learned it was not a Chaos Beast.
• Bai Lu said immortal medicine from the Three Immortal Islands or a fourth-grade Revival Pill could restore Xu Chunniang's severed arm, though only island medicine would preserve her body-tempering gains.
• Bai Lu spotted Chaos Rain and led the group to flee, while Qi Yunluo was struck by raindrops and decided to stay in the domain rather than risk encountering the vicious blade.

After escaping the Ancient Battlefield, Xu Chunniang agreed to travel with Bai Lu and Qi Yunluo to the Inheritance Hall. Bai Lu explained that the Immortal Palace Ruins were a fragment of the Spirit Realm containing many inheritances, and the group set out toward the Hall’s demanding trials.

• Xu Chunniang, Bai Lu, and Qi Yunluo left the Ancient Battlefield after fighting and fleeing past its dangerous creatures for six or seven days.
• Bai Lu invited Xu Chunniang to travel with them to the inheritance grounds, and Xu Chunniang accepted.
• Bai Lu gave Xu Chunniang a simplified map and explained that the Immortal Palace Ruins were a fragment of the Spirit Realm with many inheritance grounds.
• Qi Yunluo said the ruins might contain True Immortal Inheritances, while Bai Lu identified the central Inheritance Hall as their destination.
• Bai Lu explained that cultivators had to pass trials and earn the Inheritance Hall’s recognition to obtain an inheritance, then teased Qi Yunluo about going elsewhere.

Bai Lu, Qi Yunluo, and Xu Chunniang were ambushed by five Golden Core cultivators on the way to the Inheritance Hall. After Xu Chunniang killed two attackers, the survivors fled, and the trio continued toward the hall.

• Bai Lu spotted five cultivators waiting in an array and identified their cultivation levels.
• Sister Meng demanded three magic artifacts, but Qi Yunluo refused and challenged the ambushers.
• The five attackers split up to fight Bai Lu, Qi Yunluo, and Xu Chunniang.
• Xu Chunniang quickly killed the two early Golden Core cultivators who attacked her.
• The leading old man and the twin sisters retreated, and Bai Lu said the trio could not catch them.
• Qi Yunluo looked forward to reaching the Inheritance Hall, while Bai Lu warned him that his Qi family relatives might attack him.

Xu Chunniang, Bai Lu, and Qi Yunluo entered the Inheritance Hall, where immortal island cultivators and rival factions gathered before the trial. Lotus Fairy decided Xu was worth recruiting and sent an envoy to invite her to join their team.

• Xu Chunniang, Bai Lu, and Qi Yunluo dealt with the traces of battle and headed to the Inheritance Hall, where they passed two cultivators from Fangzhang Immortal Island.
• The Fangzhang cultivators discussed their islands’ rules against associating with outsiders, then entered an array-isolated space inside the hall.
• Zhu Yanzhi and a Rogue Cultivator criticized the immortal island cultivators, but Evil Buddha rebuked the Rogue Cultivator for insulting them.
• Lotus Fairy told a long-faced young man to invite Xu Chunniang to join her team, reasoning that Xu’s companions’ refusal of other factions made them worth approaching.
• The envoy approached Xu Chunniang with Lotus Fairy’s invitation, and Xu looked toward Lotus Fairy, who smiled at her.

Xu Chunniang declined Lotus Fairy’s invitation to join her team, while Bai Lu and Qi Yunluo also refused. Qi Yunluo explained the hierarchy of Golden Cores, leaving Xu Chunniang wondering whether the faint violet mist around her own core marked an extraordinary phenomenon.

• Xu Chunniang rejected the long-faced young man’s invitation, and Bai Lu and Qi Yunluo declined to join Lotus Fairy’s team as well.
• The long-faced young man reported his failure to Lotus Fairy, who decided to watch Xu Chunniang more closely because Bai Lu traveled with her.
• Qi Yunluo praised the prodigies Ao Xingyun and Feng Nitian, and Bai Lu corrected him about their ages and Golden Core achievements.
• Qi Yunluo explained that Golden Dragon Embracing Pillar and Phoenix Holding Jade were Phenomenal Golden Cores, then described the Four Supreme Golden Cores and their potential for reaching Soul Transformation.
• Xu Chunniang recalled the faint violet mist around her Golden Core, while Bai Lu and Qi Yunluo cautioned that even supreme potential did not guarantee survival or ascension.

As cultivators waited for the Immortal Palace Ruins inheritance trial, Xu Chunniang learned that a Golden Core’s grade could be raised only through rare treasures or by dispersing one’s cultivation and starting over. Half a month later, a stone gate opened, but its powerful formations repelled every attempt to pass, and Uncle Jiu revealed that breaking it alone could take thirty years.

• Qi Yunluo told Xu Chunniang that rare treasures or rebuilding her cultivation could improve a Golden Core’s grade, while Bai Lu warned that starting over was risky and time-consuming.
• Xu Chunniang decided she had no need to disperse her cultivation and waited with Bai Lu and Qi Yunluo for the inheritance trial to begin.
• Half a month later, a crack appeared in the stone gate, drawing the cultivators’ attention and prompting several to rush toward it.
• The stone gate blasted away cultivators who tried spells, physical force, or divine sense to open it.
• Zhu Yanzhi asked Uncle Jiu about the gate, and Uncle Jiu identified its many formations and estimated that breaking them alone would take at least thirty years.

Xu Chunniang joined the Formation Masters gathered to break the Stone Gate Formation, after the various forces agreed that entry would be awarded according to each side’s contributions. The Level 3 Formation Master was assigned to the water-element group, whose senior members doubted her ability to help.

• Uncle Jiu proposed that the Formation Masters combine their efforts to break the Stone Gate Formation.
• Lotus Fairy and Evil Buddha joined forces with Ao Xingyun, and the forces agreed that entry order would depend on their Formation Masters and contributions.
• Lotus Fairy invited Xu Chunniang, Bai Lu, and Qi Yunluo to participate, and Xu Chunniang revealed she was a Level 3 Formation Master.
• Ao Xingyun's Formation Master organized the gathered experts into groups based on their specialties.
• Xu Chunniang joined the water-element group, where an elderly Formation Master from Fangzhang Immortal Island questioned whether she could help with the complex formation.

Xu Chunniang was dismissed and ordered to stand aside while a middle-aged Formation Master broke a formation, then challenged his claim that she would only be a burden. The chapter ended with their wager set at a Top-grade Spirit Stone, though the scholar hesitated to risk his only one.

• The middle-aged scholar told Xu Chunniang to assist rather than help break formations, and she watched as he and an old woman dismantled a Profound Water Returning Formation.
• The scholar accused Xu Chunniang of being useless and tried to have Ao Xingyun and Feng Nitian remove her from the group.
• Xu Chunniang said the scholar had prevented her from acting and challenged him to compare their formation-breaking speeds.
• The scholar wagered that the loser would leave the Inheritance Hall, and Xu Chunniang added a Top-grade Spirit Stone to the bet.
• The scholar hesitated after realizing he could lose his only Top-grade Spirit Stone.

Xu Chunniang agreed to a formation contest with a proud Level 3 Formation Master from the White Tiger Li Family, wagering a Top-grade Spirit Stone against the inheritance. As the contest approached, Li Luofei worried that her Third Uncle’s arrogance could harm the clan, while Bai Lu remained confident in Xu Chunniang.

• Xu Chunniang accepted the middle-aged scholar’s challenge, and he insisted that witnesses ensure the loser honored the wager.
• Qi Yunluo tried to divine the result but failed, while Bai Lu said Xu Chunniang could win because she seemed confident enough to risk a Top-grade Spirit Stone.
• Bai Lu explained that instinct had led her to travel with Xu Chunniang, whose aura she perceived as unusually pure.
• Li Luofei warned her Third Uncle that he had provoked the contest and urged him to withdraw, but he refused and dismissed her concerns.
• Li Luofei reflected that her clan’s arrogance could lead to disaster and felt conflicted about whether her Third Uncle should win or learn a lesson.

Xu Chunniang faced Third Uncle Li in a wager to see who could break the Azure Water Formation first. After Third Uncle Li dismantled it in four hours, Xu Chunniang used Heartfall Flame to attack its formation nodes and began evading its fierce counterattacks.

• Li Luofei reflected on the White Tiger Clan’s decline and turned her attention to the wager between Xu Chunniang and Third Uncle Li.
• The Stone Gate Formation revealed the Azure Water Formation, which Third Uncle Li recognized as his specialty, and he challenged Xu Chunniang to concede.
• Third Uncle Li dismantled the Azure Water Formation in four hours, and the Ao Family Formation Master led others in restoring it.
• Xu Chunniang stepped forward and sent Heartfall Flame at a formation node, drawing the Azure Water Formation’s counterattack.
• Xu Chunniang maneuvered Heartfall Flame around the water wyrm’s strikes while her Mysterious Black Armor blocked the Water Blades aimed at her.

Xu Chunniang broke the Azure Water Formation in a Formation Battle, earning the respect of the Formation Masters and the title Profound Method True Person. After Uncle Li paid his wager and withdrew from the inheritance trial, Feng Nitian approached Xu Chunniang to speak privately.

• Xu Chunniang split the Heartfall Flame into dozens of fireballs, which damaged the Azure Water Formation until its water wyrm vanished and the formation collapsed.
• The Formation Masters praised Xu Chunniang’s skill, called her Profound Method True Person, and invited her to visit their clans and islands.
• Xu Chunniang declined to accept any invitation until the inheritance trial was over.
• Uncle Li handed Xu Chunniang a Top-grade Spirit Stone as required by their wager, then left the Inheritance Hall and withdrew from the trial.
• Feng Nitian approached Xu Chunniang and asked to speak with her privately, and Xu Chunniang agreed.

Xu Chunniang discussed Spirit Control and the varieties of Spiritual Resonance Physique with Feng Nitian, who tried to recruit her into the Feng Family by offering a powerful Revival Pill. Xu Chunniang refused, choosing her freedom over the chance to restore her injured arm.

• Feng Nitian offered Xu Chunniang treasures in exchange for teaching her Spirit Control, but Xu Chunniang explained that her ability came from her Spiritual Resonance Physique and could not simply be taught.
• Feng Nitian described Spiritual Resonance, Spirit Sensing, and Spirit Control, identifying Xu Chunniang as someone with Spirit Control.
• Xu Chunniang and Feng Nitian discussed cultivation, resources, and the Dao, with Xu Chunniang remaining unconvinced by Feng Nitian's emphasis on seizing resources and opportunities.
• Feng Nitian offered Xu Chunniang a Revival Pill that could restore her right arm and had a chance to recover her former body-tempering strength if she joined the Feng Family and taught formations.
• Xu Chunniang refused the offer, deciding that joining the powerful Feng Family would cost her too much freedom.

Xu Chunniang rejected invitations to join aristocratic clans and helped observe the effort to break the final fourth-rank Primordial Great Formation on the stone gate. After the formation fell, the contribution rankings were announced, and Penglai Immortal Island entered the mist-filled corridor first.

• Xu Chunniang rejected Feng Nitian’s offer and declined invitations from several aristocratic clans, declaring that she would not join a faction for the time being.
• The Formation Masters summoned Xu Chunniang to assess the Primordial Great Formation, but she admitted she did not know how to break it.
• The Formation Masters wore down the formation’s force and spirituality over half a month until the Primordial Great Formation broke.
• Ao Xingyun announced the contribution rankings, placing Penglai Immortal Island first and the Li Family last, while Feng Nitian defended Xu Chunniang’s ranking.
• Penglai Immortal Island’s leading cultivator opened the stone gate and led its cultivators into the gray-mist corridor.

Xu Chunniang entered the Gray Mist Corridor and was separated from Bai Lu and Qi Yunluo. Unable to use her divine sense or spiritual energy safely, she encountered a Taotie and fled as it pursued her.

• Ao Xingyun led the Ao Family cultivators into the Gray Mist Corridor, followed by the Fangzhang Immortal Island cultivators and Feng Nitian's group.
• Bai Lu warned Xu Chunniang and Qi Yunluo that the corridor might separate them, and the three entered together.
• Xu Chunniang was separated from Bai Lu and Qi Yunluo and discovered that the gray mist damaged divine sense and corroded spiritual energy.
• Xu Chunniang found the stone gate had vanished and continued alone through the silent corridor.
• Xu Chunniang recognized a human-faced shadow as a Taotie and ran, but the beast quickly pursued her.

Xu Chunniang encountered a Taotie and then a Nine-headed Serpent in the gray mist corridor, suffering intense pain despite their attacks leaving no marks. She continued onward, determined to discover what the mist concealed.

• Xu Chunniang fled from a Taotie, then turned to face it when she suspected the beast could not be real; it bit her shoulder before vanishing, though her clothing and skin remained unharmed.
• Xu Chunniang wondered whether the Taotie and her lingering shoulder pain were illusions, then continued through the seemingly endless gray mist corridor.
• Xu Chunniang saw a Nine-headed Serpent and struck at it with lightning, which passed through its eyes but enraged it.
• The Nine-headed Serpent attacked with black flames and pale blue arrow rain; Xu Chunniang's Heartfall Flame and Primordial Heavy Water passed through the attacks, and the serpent vanished after striking her.
• Xu Chunniang endured scorching heat and freezing cold without visible injury, then continued forward through the mist.