Chapter Summaries

Lin Qi nearly killed Xie Hanzhi, but his Silver Light Profound Mirror turned the fight against her until Ning Sangyu and Ning Sangye intervened. The siblings fled after Ning Sangye set venomous bees on Xie Hanzhi, leaving Lin Qi to decide whether to finish him off.

• Lin Qi’s attacks overwhelmed Xie Hanzhi until his Silver Light Profound Mirror blasted her away and protected him.
• Xie Hanzhi used the mirror to distract Lin Qi, struck her shoulder, and prepared to kill her with another attack.
• The Ning family siblings appeared when the restriction barrier shattered, and Ning Sangyu stopped the mirror as Lin Qi’s Righteousness Sword badly wounded Xie Hanzhi.
• Ning Sangyu fainted after seeing Xie Hanzhi’s ruined face, and Ning Sangye released five Black-striped Cloud Bees at him before fleeing with his sister.
• Xie Hanzhi struggled against the venom while Lin Qi considered attacking him again, then heard faint sounds nearby.

Lin Qi and Ye Jian fought after Ye Jian fell under an illusion, but an unseen woman’s flute restored Ye Jian’s senses. The pair drove off their attackers and hurried toward the summit, while Lin Qi suspected Fairy Xi He had rescued the injured Xie Hanzhi.

• Lin Qi recognized a Black-striped Cloud Bee as one of Fairy Xi He's Lineage's specialties and faced Ye Jian, who attacked her while seemingly under an illusion.
• An unseen woman played a flute that calmed Lin Qi and helped Ye Jian regain her divine sense.
• Lin Qi and Ye Jian joined forces to repel the cultivators lying in ambush around them.
• Lin Qi found dead Black-striped Cloud Bees severed by Xie Hanzhi's Sword Qi and wondered whether their venom had disfigured him.
• Lin Qi concluded that Fairy Xi He could have rescued Xie Hanzhi by controlling the bee venom within him.

Lin Qi was swept away by an avalanche on the snowy mountain, discovered the hidden entrance to Heaven Crossing Spring’s first spring pool, and entered it. She broke through to Great Perfection Foundation Establishment as the Sky-Piercing Green Vine witnessed a Three Flowers Gathering at her crown.

• Lin Qi and Ye Jian were buried by an avalanche, and Lin Qi continued toward the summit after they were separated.
• Lin Qi realized the snowy mountain’s paths looped and suspected the entrance was not at the summit.
• The Sky-Piercing Green Vine warned Lin Qi about another avalanche, and her sword strike opened a hidden entrance.
• Lin Qi reached the first spring pool, used the Northern and Southern Token to inspect its barriers, and entered the spring.
• Lin Qi broke through to Great Perfection Foundation Establishment, and the Sky-Piercing Green Vine saw Three Flowers Gathering at her crown.

Lin Qi tried to use the spiritual energy at Heaven Crossing Spring No. 1 to advance her Fourfold Cold Wood Lotus Platform while forming a Golden Core, but a sudden flood of energy forced her breakthrough. Lin Jue concealed the spring as Lin Qi endured the first bolt of Dark Purple Lightning.

• Lin Qi planned to temper her Fourfold Cold Wood Lotus Platform with the Extreme Cold Power and Extreme Purple Lightning to form a higher-grade Eight-sided Square Lotus Platform and a first-grade Golden Core.
• The Heavenly River Water reversed course and engulfed Heaven Crossing Spring No. 1, flooding Lin Qi with spiritual energy and forcing her breakthrough.
• Lin Qi's cultivation reached the Golden Core realm, and her expanding cold froze the spring and threatened to breach its barrier.
• Lin Jue used a concealment Secret Technique to shield Heaven Crossing Spring No. 1 and told Lin Qi to focus on breaking through.
• Lin Qi faced the first bolt of Dark Purple Lightning, fought through her fear, and emerged with tougher, more resilient skin.

Lin Qi endured the escalating Extreme Purple Lightning while tempering her body and four Cold Wood Lotus Platforms, as Lin Jue confronted Fairy Xi He near Heaven Crossing Spring No. 1. Fairy Xi He damaged the treasure concealing the secret spring before Lin Jue killed her, and the resulting lightning and frost devastated the snow mountain, alarming nearby cultivators.

• Lin Qi drew out her spiritual platform and endured increasingly powerful Extreme Purple Lightning while cultivating the Five Heavens Water Forging Lightning Art and tempering her four Cold Wood Lotus Platforms.
• Lin Jue seized Fairy Xi He by the throat as she tried to leave, and she unleashed Black-striped Cloud Bees to escape and attack the treasure concealing Heaven Crossing Spring No. 1.
• Fairy Xi He used more essence blood to send the bees against the treasure, and Lin Jue killed her with a streak of cold light.
• The bees corroded the magical treasure, exposing it to the extreme cold and lightning, which quickly destroyed it.
• Lightning and frost battered Heaven Crossing Spring No. 1, smashed the snow mountain, and drove Lin Qi from its summit to its foot.
• The strange devastation at the spring alarmed the cultivators training at the Heaven and Earth Crossing Immortal Spring.

Lin Qi’s breakthrough at Heaven and Earth Crossing Immortal Spring triggered a devastating lightning tribulation, while outsiders mistook the phenomenon for a treasure and stormed the grounds. Her Golden Core formed with a crack as the barrier fell, and the chapter ended with a massive lightning strike leveling the mountain and engulfing the spring.

• Cultivators at Earth Crossing Spring speculated that the lightning signaled a rare treasure, while powerful outsiders rushed to Heaven and Earth Crossing Immortal Spring.
• The guards refused to lower their barrier, and the intruders attacked as the guards sent distress signals to the major sects.
• Lin Qi realized her tribulation was endangering the spring, but Lin Jue urged her to finish breaking through rather than flee.
• The Fourfold Cold Wood Lotus Platform became the ground-grade Eight-sided Square Lotus Platform, and Lin Qi reached the early Golden Core stage.
• The barrier shattered as Lin Qi’s Golden Core nearly formed, and a bolt of lightning cracked it while intruders reached the snowy mountain.
• Lin Jue charged out to block Lin Qi’s path, then the strongest lightning bolt blasted her deep underground, razed the mountain, and struck everyone at Heaven and Earth Crossing Immortal Spring.

Lin Qi was swept into the Weak Water beneath Heaven and Earth Crossing Immortal Spring when the spring collapsed, and Sky-Piercing Green Vine contracted with her to save her. As she drifted through the devastation, she learned that her lightning tribulation had exposed a hidden underground cave abode, where cultivators were now hunting for treasure.

• Lin Qi was dragged into Weak Water as Heaven and Earth Crossing Immortal Spring split apart and flooded.
• Sky-Piercing Green Vine contracted with Lin Qi to save her, but its spiritual energy was dissolved and it complained that it had become ugly again.
• Lin Qi awoke on a fallen tree amid the submerged ruins and found no sign of other people.
• Sky-Piercing Green Vine told Lin Qi that the other cultivators had gone underground to hunt for treasure.
• Sky-Piercing Green Vine explained that Lin Qi's tribulation had broken the restriction concealing an underground cave abode and exposed the Weak Water around it.

Lin Qi followed the Sky-Piercing Green Vine into an underground palace beneath the Heaven and Earth Crossing Immortal Spring and discovered Fairy Xi He attacking Ye Jian. Lin Qi confronted Fairy Xi He, but her assault was interrupted when Xi He unleashed a fiery bird technique.

• The Sky-Piercing Green Vine told Lin Qi that the major sects had sealed off the Heaven and Earth Crossing Immortal Spring, then led her through Weak Water to the secret realm entrance.
• Lin Qi arrived at a vast ruined palace, sensed its sinister and chaotic aura, and cautiously explored while her cultivation remained dissolved by the Weak Water.
• Lin Qi heard Black-striped Cloud Bees in a side hall and rushed inside, where she saw Fairy Xi He stab Ye Jian.
• Lin Qi attacked Fairy Xi He, who had also suffered serious injuries, and forced her back in their sword clash.
• Fairy Xi He formed a spell seal and sent a fiery red flame bird lunging at Lin Qi.

Lin Qi killed the wounded Fairy Xi He and rescued Ye Jian, then discovered a hidden abyss behind a moving wall. As a gigantic Pitch-Black Giant Python attacked them, Lin Qi carried Ye Jian toward the doorway.

• Lin Qi shattered Fairy Xi He's flaming bird and attacked her with her sword despite Fairy Xi He still being able to cast spells.
• Fairy Xi He triggered a mechanism in the wall, but Lin Qi pierced her chest, burned her body with a Blazing Flame Talisman, and took her hand bearing a jade bracelet and ring.
• Lin Qi feared Ye Jian was dying, but Ye Jian explained that her heart was on the right side and Fairy Xi He's strike had not been fatal.
• Lin Qi and Ye Jian found a huge opening behind the collapsed Painted Wall and saw a pitch-black abyss beneath a towering black tree.
• A gigantic Pitch-Black Giant Python lunged at Lin Qi, and she grabbed Ye Jian and ran toward the doorway.

Lin Qi and Ye Jian hid near the trapped Giant Black Python, suspecting that a valuable secret lay beneath the abyss. A group of Nascent Soul cultivators attacked the python and discovered that a strange tree was healing it; the tree began to move as they tried to destroy it.

• Lin Qi and Ye Jian debated whether the Giant Black Python was connected to the Devil Race, then hid nearby rather than leave the room.
• A Nascent Soul cultivator entered, tested the python’s confinement, and attacked it, but failed to injure it.
• Four or five more powerful cultivators arrived and joined the fight, gradually wounding the python as Lin Qi and Ye Jian watched from hiding.
• A cultivator realized the strange tree was healing the python, so the group attacked the tree with talismans and spirit pearls.
• The Giant Black Python roared and strained against its restriction as the black withered tree suddenly began to move.

Lin Qi and Ye Jian were caught by the Black Tendrils as the Giant Black Python overwhelmed the Nascent Soul cultivators, and Lin Qi was dragged into an abyss. There, she found Fairy Xi He wrapped in black mist and uncovered an icy underground chamber, where she identified a door as belonging to the Sky Witherwood clan.

• Lin Qi spotted the Black Tendrils covering the ceiling and tried to escape with Ye Jian, but both were seized and dragged back into the room.
• The Black Tendrils pulled Lin Qi into the Giant Black Python’s mouth and then sent her plunging off a cliff while the six Nascent Soul cultivators fought above.
• Lin Qi landed beside Fairy Xi He, whose body was wrapped in black mist, and found that her God-Slaying Saber could not cut through the mist.
• Lin Qi discovered two ice sculptures, four frozen doors, and an underground chamber covered in frost and lightning patterns.
• Lin Qi chiseled the ice from the leftmost door and recognized its withered-tree emblem as the mark of the Sky Witherwood clan.

Lin Qi broke into a sealed room and found Tian Mang, a frightened girl whose limbs could become branches and who seemed to be half-human, half-spirit. After discovering the room was a medicine storehouse and collecting its contents, Lin Qi warned Tian Mang that other intruders might capture or exploit her.

• Lin Qi shattered the stone door and found Tian Mang bracing it with black branches that spread into the walls.
• Tian Mang denied being Sky Witherwood, but Sky-Piercing Green Vine identified her as a person with a mixed spirit-plant aura.
• Lin Qi and Sky-Piercing Green Vine swept the medicine storehouse's pills and spirit herbs into their possession.
• Lin Qi noticed empty herb boxes and suspected Tian Mang had eaten what they held.
• Lin Qi warned Tian Mang that other people entering the secret realm might capture, torture, study, or refine her into medicine.

Lin Qi looted the secret realm’s weapon and formation rooms while Tian Mang warned that its Great Demon God might awaken. The chapter ended with Tian Mang identifying the two figures frozen in ice as the Great Demon God and the Immortal Lord, leaving Lin Qi facing the danger of their possible return.

• Lin Qi questioned Tian Mang about the rooms next door, and Tian Mang described a collection of weapons, talisman inscriptions, formation arts, and books.
• Lin Qi opened the weapons room, endured its killing aura, and collected treasures, including the Medicine Jade Ring and the Ice Mist Pipe.
• Tian Mang noticed the mist around Fairy Xi He's corpse growing thicker and warned Lin Qi that something was wrong.
• Lin Qi looted the formation room while Tian Mang said she had been trapped there for a hundred years and that no one could escape if the Great Demon God awoke.
• Tian Mang pointed to the two figures frozen beside the stone table and revealed that they were the Great Demon God and the Immortal Lord.

Lin Qi pressed Tian Mang for answers about the Great Demon God’s revival and learned that Tian Mang had been made immortal by the Immortal Lord, who perished alongside the Great Demon God. Tian Mang revealed that the Immortal Lord’s final instructions involved Soul Shattering Wine and a formation that a human descendant was meant to break, leaving Lin Qi to figure out how to escape and stop the revival.

• Lin Qi demanded that Tian Mang explain how she could stop the Great Demon God from reviving, and Tian Mang admitted she knew little about what had happened.
• Tian Mang identified the frozen bodies as the Great Demon God and the Immortal Lord, then explained that the Immortal Lord had given her a Sky Witherwood seed to make her immortal before trying to seal the Demon God Palace.
• Tian Mang said the Immortal Lord and the Great Demon God had argued before he imprisoned her, while Lin Qi began striking the ice around the Immortal Lord’s body to seek clues.
• Tian Mang recalled the Immortal Lord warning her about the human race and telling her to stay in the Medicine Repository after she took Soul Shattering Wine.
• Tian Mang revealed that the Immortal Lord had prepared for a human descendant to break the formation, while a descendant of the Devil Race was supposed to leave with Tian Mang.

Lin Qi discovered that Tian Mang’s Immortal Lord was Dao Lord Shen Jun, then faced the Great Demon God after it possessed Fairy Xi He. Lin Qi wounded the possessed body with Soul Shattering Wine, but the Great Demon God attacked her while she had no spiritual qi.

• Lin Qi recognized Tian Mang’s Immortal Lord as Dao Lord Shen Jun, the former master of Tianyi Sect’s Tiangang Peak.
• Fairy Xi He opened her eyes as the ice melted, and Tian Mang warned that the Great Demon God’s divine soul had entered her body.
• Lin Qi poured Soul Shattering Wine into Fairy Xi He’s mouth, corroding her face and forcing her body to move.
• The Great Demon God possessed Fairy Xi He’s body and attacked Lin Qi, whose lack of spiritual qi left her at a severe disadvantage.
• The Great Demon God injured Lin Qi’s arm and complained that after waiting a hundred years, it had obtained a ruined body.

Lin Qi fought the Great Demon God while using Dao Lord Shen Jun's corpse to keep him from attacking recklessly. When Shen Jun's lingering remnant awakened through the Ice Mist Pipe, it trapped Lin Qi in an Ice Mist Bubble, where she absorbed its frost and stirred her Cold Qi Sword Intent; the Great Demon God realized Shen Jun was truly dead and turned toward Tian Mang.

• The Great Demon God attacked Lin Qi, but his demonic aura recoiled from her God-Slaying Saber, and she recognized the Black Water Swallowing Thunder Art protecting him.
• Lin Qi called herself Dao Lord Shen Jun's descendant to stall for time, while Tian Mang accused the Great Demon God of betraying Shen Jun and causing her death.
• Lin Qi maneuvered around Shen Jun's corpse during the fight, but spilled Soul Shattering Wine on it, scorching Shen Jun's neck and chest.
• The Great Demon God unleashed a Heaven-Overturning Seal on Lin Qi, and Shen Jun's corpse stirred as the Ice Mist Pipe flew from Lin Qi's storage space into her hand.
• Shen Jun's lingering remnant released an Ice Mist Bubble that trapped Lin Qi; Lin Qi absorbed its frost and experienced a vision that stirred her Cold Qi Sword Intent.
• The Great Demon God recognized that Shen Jun was dead and that only her lingering consciousness had awakened, then turned toward Tian Mang.

Lin Qi used the Ice Mist Pipe to trap Yuan Ye, forcing him to relive memories of how his obsession with immortality led him to betray Shen Jun and become a feared killer. The vision ended with Shen Jun warning Yuan Ye that he had birthed a heart demon and would become a calamity if he did not change.

• Yuan Ye confronted Tian Mang, who fled into the Treasury Pavilion and was struck into pieces of Sky Witherwood when he broke through the door.
• Lin Qi trapped Yuan Ye inside an Ice Mist Bubble with the Ice Mist Pipe, and the surrounding darkness transported him into a memory.
• Yuan Ye recalled killing the Earth Demon Tribe for its Sky Witherwood and bringing the infant Tian Mang to Shen Jun to conceal his crimes.
• Yuan Ye remembered imprisoning Shen Jun after suspecting she had discovered his deeds and was preparing to return to the Tianyi Sect.
• Yuan Ye recalled slaughtering three clans and later killing Shen Jun's eldest disciple and others in a rage over her supposed escape plan.
• Shen Jun told Yuan Ye that he had birthed a heart demon and would become a great calamity to humans and devils unless he turned back.

Shen Jun’s memories revealed why she poisoned Yuan Ye and left Tian Mang instructions to survive after her death. As the memory ended, Yuan Ye was left tormented by the truth while Lin Qi considered how to stop him.

• Shen Jun recalled how she and Yuan Ye had fallen out after their eldest disciple died, and how Yuan Ye sealed her in the underground palace.
• Shen Jun told Tian Mang that Yuan Ye’s method of breaking through was sinister and that she intended to end his life before his crooked path brought further disaster.
• Shen Jun instructed Tian Mang to remain in the palace until someone destined arrived, then give that person the treasures in the four rooms to help kill Yuan Ye.
• Shen Jun gave Yuan Ye poisoned wine, and he drank it without hesitation before demanding to know why she had chosen to kill him.
• Lin Qi and Tian Mang watched Yuan Ye’s memories in the Ice Mist Bubble as Lin Qi resolved not to release him, and Shen Jun explained that Yuan Ye should never have set his sights on Tian Mang.

Lin Qi and Tian Mang witnessed Shen Jun’s final plan kill Yuan Ye and destroy his divine soul. Before her remnant soul vanished, Shen Jun urged Tian Mang to go to Tianyi Sect in her place, leaving Lin Qi to help Tian Mang escape the Ice Mist Bubble.

• Tian Mang learned Yuan Ye had planted the last Sky Witherwood seed inside her to extend his life, and Shen Jun had chosen to die with him for her sake.
• Lin Qi used the Ice Mist Pipe to stabilize Tian Mang, but Yuan Ye broke free of his Ice Mist Bubble and charged at her.
• The Ice Mist Pipe sealed Yuan Ye against a wall, and Shen Jun took control of Lin Qi’s body to activate the demon-annihilating killing formation.
• The formation tortured Yuan Ye, and the Ice Mist Pipe pierced his heart; Shen Jun’s remnant soul then ground his divine soul to pieces.
• Shen Jun told Tian Mang to go to Tianyi Sect in her stead, destroyed Fairy Xi He’s body, and vanished as Tian Mang wept inside the bubble.
• Lin Qi picked up the broken jade plaque and told Tian Mang that calming her emotions could weaken the bubble and help her escape.

Lin Qi found Shen Jun’s letter, learned of her final requests, and agreed to take Tian Mang to the Tianyi Sect. After studying the Demon God Palace map, Lin Qi uncovered a hidden passage out of the Underground Palace.

• Lin Qi gave Tian Mang a bottle to collect Shen Jun’s ashes and asked how they could escape the Underground Palace.
• Tian Mang suggested searching the Scripture Pavilion, where Lin Qi found a letter from Shen Jun describing her last wishes and the palace’s hidden treasures.
• Lin Qi offered to take Tian Mang to the Tianyi Sect, and Tian Mang agreed so she could bring Shen Jun home.
• Lin Qi found the exit marked on the palace map and toppled the stone table, revealing a staircase beneath it.