Chapter Summaries

After Ju Yunxiu caught Qin Yi and Li Qingjun together, the three cultivated together and Qin Yi quickly recovered, then was thrown into the sea. As he considered his imminent breakthrough and Ju Yunxiu’s strength, Liusu woke and told him he could not restrict access to his ring without interfering with her.

• Ju Yunxiu returned to find Li Qingjun and Qin Yi together, then joined them in dual cultivation, healing Qin Yi’s injuries that day.
• Ju Yunxiu and Li Qingjun threw Qin Yi into the sea, where he defeated a shark and realized his strength had greatly improved.
• Qin Yi felt close to advancing to the seventh layer of Immortal Martial United Core and learned that Ju Yunxiu had reached the sixth layer of Huiyang.
• Liusu emerged from Qin Yi’s ring, explained that the Blood-Chilling Nether Marrow was hidden in Ju Yunxiu’s painting world, and warned that restricting the ring would affect her ability to enter and leave.

Qin Yi stayed on Ju Yunxiu’s island, recovered, and broke through to the seventh level of the Immortal Martial United Core while the righteous and demonic sects searched for him and the Blood-Chilling Nether Marrow. After Li Qingjun’s rapid cultivation breakthrough, they decided to return to Penglai Sword Pavilion so Qin Yi could ask her master for help with Liusu’s medicine.

• Qin Yi stayed on Ju Yunxiu’s island for seven days, practiced dual cultivation with Ju Yunxiu and Li Qingjun, and broke through to the seventh level of the Immortal Martial United Core.
• The righteous sects blamed Qin Yi for much of He Guihun’s death, while the Witch God Sect and Great Joy Temple focused on finding the Blood-Chilling Nether Marrow in his possession.
• Ju Yunxiu told Qin Yi how her experiences among the people had reshaped her understanding of her Dao and how the sea had helped her find Quiet Serenity.
• Li Qingjun emerged from the painting realm after reaching the fourth level of Bone Forging and said the fragment could soon raise her to the fifth level.
• Qin Yi and Li Qingjun decided to return to Penglai Sword Pavilion, where Qin Yi planned to ask Li Qingjun’s master for help with Liusu’s medicine.

Qin Yi accompanied Li Qingjun back to Penglai Sword Pavilion, where he saw the sect’s vast territory and learned that Li Duanxuan had reached the Qian Yuan realm. The chapter ended as Qin Yi met Li Duanxuan on Broken Sword Peak and felt the immense gap between their cultivation levels.

• Li Qingjun led Qin Yi through Penglai Sword Pavilion’s sword-formation gate and showed him the vast archipelago and its secluded, sword-focused life.
• Chu Jiantian greeted Qin Yi and Li Qingjun, revealed that he had reached the fifth level, and told them Li Duanxuan had achieved Returning Blood to the Divine.
• Chu Jiantian said Senior Brother Lu had entered seclusion and might break through to the seventh level, then left for the Sword Casting Platform.
• Qin Yi chose to meet Li Qingjun’s master instead of exploring more of the island.
• On Broken Sword Peak, Qin Yi watched Li Duanxuan contemplate a flower and sensed the overwhelming power of a Sword Dao Qian Yuan cultivator.

Qin Yi and Li Qingjun discussed the dangers of carrying the Blood-Chilling Nether Marrow and traveling together with Li Duanxuan, who revealed that the Penglai Sword Pavilion would support the Ten Thousand Dao Immortal Palace. The chapter left Li Duanxuan smiling after Qin Yi challenged what it meant for Qing Jun to be the Pavilion’s heir.

• Qin Yi realized the gulf between ordinary cultivators and Qianyuan experts, then met Li Duanxuan, who had attained Qianyuan.
• Li Duanxuan warned that the Witch God Sect coveted the Blood-Chilling Nether Marrow and might target the Ten Thousand Dao Immortal Palace.
• Li Duanxuan told Qin Yi that the Penglai Sword Pavilion would stand with the Immortal Palace because Qin Yi had saved Long Ting, but advised him not to return there soon.
• Qin Yi and Li Qingjun said they intended to travel together, and Li Qingjun insisted she would face danger rather than leave Qin Yi.
• Qin Yi recalled Li Duanxuan’s old policy of sending royal descendants to wander and asked whether the Pavilion wanted Qing Jun as a powerful heir or someone who stayed home to teach children.
• Li Duanxuan laughed after Qin Yi questioned the Penglai Sword Pavilion’s expectations for Qing Jun.

Qin Yi sought Li Duanxuan’s approval for his relationship with Li Qingjun, and Li Duanxuan accepted him while warning him to keep proving himself. Li Duanxuan then shared his changing understanding of the sword and the Dao, leaving Qin Yi and Li Qingjun to consider how little worldly matters might mean at the highest levels of cultivation.

• Qin Yi explained that he had come to ask Li Duanxuan to support his relationship with Li Qingjun and to spare her conflict with the Sword Pavilion.
• Li Duanxuan said he trusted Qin Yi’s responsibility and approved of him as the finest among his peers, but warned that he would kill him if he failed to live up to his promise.
• Li Duanxuan accepted that Qin Yi had other women, yet insisted that he must become an Emperor rather than fall into mediocrity.
• Li Duanxuan told Qin Yi and Li Qingjun that changing thought reflected the constant of the Heavenly Dao, and described how his view of a flower had shifted from beauty to life’s workings and then to a part of heaven and earth.
• Li Duanxuan demonstrated his sword insight by turning a flower into a sword that shattered stone, and said he now cared only about seeking the Formless Realm.

After Li Duanxuan’s guidance deepened Qin Yi’s understanding of the Sword Pavilion, he and Li Qingjun shared a quiet moment and affirmed their life together. Chu Jiantian then offered to show them the Sword Pavilion and suggested a visit to a cultivator Town Market, which immediately caught Qin Yi’s interest.

• Li Duanxuan’s lecture helped Qin Yi clarify details of his cultivation while giving Li Qingjun ideas to verify through future experience.
• Qin Yi and Li Qingjun returned to her residence, reflected on Li Duanxuan’s support, and spoke of how their relationship had endured since they first met.
• Qin Yi told Li Qingjun that being with her was immortality, and they kissed before Chu Jiantian called from outside.
• Chu Jiantian returned from reforging his sword and invited Qin Yi and Li Qingjun to explore the Sword Pavilion.
• Qin Yi asked to visit the Sword Casting Platform and buy materials, so Chu Jiantian proposed first checking the Internal Affairs Hall and then visiting a cultivator Town Market.

Qin Yi secured materials and a method at Penglai Sword Pavilion to conceal the Wolf Tooth Club’s properties, while arranging for Li Qingjun’s spear to be reforged. His search for the medicinal ingredients needed to restore Liusu’s soul power failed, so he asked Chu Jiantian about the overseas immortal Town Market.

• Qin Yi joined the queue at the Sword Casting Platform, but Martial Uncle Tie recognized him and offered him priority under Li Duanxuan’s instructions.
• Qin Yi presented rare materials that qualified him for priority, then asked Martial Uncle Tie how to conceal a weapon’s properties and requested that Li Qingjun’s spear be reforged.
• Martial Uncle Tie recommended combining Yin Illusion Sand with Moon Haze Sand, and Qin Yi obtained the latter from the Sword Pavilion’s materials warehouse while paying its price.
• Li Qingjun waited at the Sword Casting Platform, smiling brightly as the Sword Pavilion disciples watched her show her affection for Qin Yi.
• Qin Yi found that the Sword Pavilion lacked the medicinal ingredients Liusu needed, then asked Chu Jiantian where to find the overseas immortal Town Market.

Qin Yi and his companions went to the immortal Town Market, where Chu Jiantian suggested a possible way to improve Qing Cha’s cultivation. The idea led Qin Yi to consider seeking a World Tree leaf to help remake her body, though the World Tree remained only a distant legend.

• Qin Yi left Penglai Sword Pavilion with Li Qingjun, Chu Jiantian, Ju Yunxiu, and Qing Cha to visit the immortal Town Market.
• Qing Cha recalled how Ju Yunxiu had been swindled while buying a substance said to preserve picked plants, and Qin Yi promised to find her something better.
• Chu Jiantian explained that extending Qing Cha’s lifespan would only treat the symptoms and suggested looking for a treasure that could change her plant nature.
• Qin Yi and Ju Yunxiu realized an Innate Item might help Qing Cha, and Qin Yi connected the idea to the World Tree.
• Chu Jiantian said the World Tree was only a legend, possibly hidden in the deepest reaches of the distant sea.

Qin Yi and his companions visited the Rogue Cultivator Town Market, where Qin Yi bought a broken ancient sword case for Chu Jiantian and Ju Yunxiu spotted a disguised Netherworld Object. The chapter left Liusu urging Qin Yi to investigate the object.

• Qin Yi and his companions entered the market, which Penglai Sword Pavilion governed and kept orderly.
• Qin Yi made glasses from peeping chips and tried them on, only to be struck by Ju Yunxiu’s brush and scolded by Li Qingjun.
• Ju Yunxiu examined a bottle claimed to accelerate medicinal herbs’ growth, but Liusu identified it as a fake that could only ripen an apple.
• Chu Jiantian recognized a cracked ancient Heavenly Sword Sect sword case, and Qin Yi bought it for him, saying he knew how to repair it.
• Ju Yunxiu exposed a stall item as a Netherworld Object disguised with Cloud Haze Ink, and Liusu urgently told Qin Yi to go look.

Qin Yi discovered that a vendor was selling dangerous Netherworld objects disguised as treasures and traced them to an underwater tomb. He traded for a Yin Soul Grass root that Liusu needed and obtained a Netherworld token, leaving the tomb’s secrets still unexplored.

• Ju Yunxiu exposed the vendor’s fake wares, and Qin Yi found that some of the objects carried harmful Ghost Qi.
• Qin Yi and Chu Jiantian pressured the vendor into revealing that he had found the items in an underwater tomb and showing them his genuine finds.
• Liusu recognized a blackened grass root as likely Yin Soul Grass and said it could help her refine pills.
• Ju Yunxiu traded a Yin Yang Disc for the grass root, and Qin Yi bought the Black Jade Token from the vendor.

Qin Yi and his companions were ambushed by Feng Bulie, a Qianyuan cultivator from the Witch God Sect, who pursued them for the Blood-Chilling Nether Marrow. Li Duanxuan stalled Feng Bulie long enough for the group to escape toward an underwater tomb, but Feng Bulie continued after them.

• Liusu explained that the Black Jade Token was likely an identity token from a sect connected to the Netherworld Realm, and Qin Yi planned to ask Meng Qingying about it.
• Qin Yi and his companions finished shopping at the Town Market, obtaining medicinal herbs, a map to an underwater tomb, and supplies Ju Yunxiu intended to use for Qing Cha.
• Liusu sensed a powerful enemy approaching, and Ju Yunxiu recognized the aura of someone from the Witch God Sect as the group fled.
• Feng Bulie revealed that he had come for the Blood-Chilling Nether Marrow, and Qin Yi summoned the Zhan Guang Sword to deter his divine sense.
• Li Qingjun proposed that the group escape to the underwater tomb, while Chu Jiantian urged them to return to the Penglai Sword Pavilion.
• Li Duanxuan blocked Feng Bulie within the Pavilion's territory, giving Qin Yi and the others time to disappear before Feng Bulie resumed the pursuit.

Qin Yi and his companions fled Feng Bulie by using Ju Yunxiu’s arts to descend through the deep sea and reach a hidden teleportation formation. They escaped through it moments before Feng Bulie arrived, leaving him baffled at the spot where their auras vanished.

• Ju Yunxiu accelerated the group and concealed their auras, while Feng Bulie used a straw effigy to divine Qin Yi’s direction and resume his pursuit.
• Chu Jiantian questioned Li Duanxuan about allowing Feng Bulie to chase Qin Yi, and Li Duanxuan explained that Ju Yunxiu and the others could threaten a Qian Yuan cultivator.
• Ju Yunxiu parted the sea with her painting arts, and Li Qingjun used the Sea-Parting Divine Sword to help the group descend through the growing pressure.
• At the seabed, Qin Yi used the Joyful Buddhist Beads to shield the group and found a teleportation formation beneath disturbed sea mud.
• Qin Yi activated the formation with a spirit stone, and the four vanished just before Feng Bulie reached them.

Qin Yi and his companions attacked Feng Bulie through a hidden passage while Ju Yunxiu’s painting and the raging sea hindered him. After Li Qingjun’s sword imprint and a Spirit Body weakened Feng Bulie, Ju Yunxiu’s painting world surrounded him, leaving him trapped within it.

• Feng Bulie uncovered a concealed realm membrane but mistook the Wolf Tooth Club’s hidden passage for a false formation painted over by Ju Yunxiu.
• Ju Yunxiu stirred the seawater and drove sea beasts against Feng Bulie while Qin Yi struck through the passage with the Zhan Guang Sword, breaking his Protective Barrier.
• Li Qingjun sent the ancient Sword Imprint Absolute Sword Soul Loss through the passage, injuring Feng Bulie before collapsing unconscious.
• Feng Bulie struck the realm membrane with a Blood Palm, but Ju Yunxiu began unfolding her Qian Yuan Painting World beneath him.
• Feng Bulie tried to escape, but the Wolf Tooth Club and its Spirit Body briefly stalled him as the painting world spread across the ocean and enclosed him.

Feng Bulie was trapped in Ju Yunxiu’s unfinished painting realm, where he planned to recover and escape while a mischievous monkey repeatedly harassed him. Outside the scroll, Qin Yi and the others entered the tomb to search for a pill furnace and a way to keep Feng Bulie contained.

• Feng Bulie examined the painting realm, judged that it was a pseudo-Qian Yuan artifact, and decided he could escape after recovering his strength.
• A Ghost Face Monkey attacked Feng Bulie, then vanished before he could retaliate, disrupting his attempt to heal.
• Qin Yi, Liusu, Qing Cha, and Ju Yunxiu recovered from their fight as Qin Yi worried that the monkey could not reliably keep Feng Bulie trapped.
• Feng Bulie killed the monkey with an artifact, but it soon returned and attacked him again.
• Liusu proposed that Qin Yi refine pills so she could regain her Qian Yuan soul power, and Qin Yi carried Li Qingjun into the tomb to explore for supplies.
• Feng Bulie tried to resume healing, but the returning monkey interrupted him, prompting him to curse whoever had drawn it.

Qin Yi and his companions explored the tomb, found its supposedly grand main chamber empty, and discovered that Feng Bulie could briefly sense the outside through Ju Yunxiu’s painting realm. Liusu concluded that nether energy from another realm was affecting the tomb and that a hidden world lay beneath it.

• Ju Yunxiu used Book Spirit to scout the tomb and found signs that the stall owner had recently triggered and broken its mechanisms.
• Qin Yi and Ju Yunxiu discussed Ye Bieqing’s burial goods and the need for stronger combat artifacts as they followed the cleared route.
• Qin Yi, Ju Yunxiu, Qing Cha, and Li Qingjun reached the Main Tomb Chamber and found only a decayed skeleton, whose burial goods the stall owner had taken.
• Feng Bulie sensed the chamber through the painting realm and taunted Qin Yi before Ju Yunxiu reinforced the realm and Qin Yi struck at him with the Wolf Tooth Club.
• Liusu identified nether energy from another realm as the cause of the painting realm’s weakening and declared that a hidden world lay beneath the tomb chamber.

Qin Yi used the Black Jade Token to open a hidden chamber beneath the false tomb, revealing a richly furnished burial chamber centered on a Black Bronze Coffin. The group faced the possibility that the person inside had never died or could still return to life.

• Qin Yi searched the false tomb thoroughly but found no hidden passage, so he followed Liusu's suggestion to investigate the Great Possession Position.
• Qin Yi crossed the tomb's fire and gray-light mechanisms and found a phoenix relief that identified the Black Jade Token when he held it before its eyes.
• The token triggered a mechanism that opened the floor of the original tomb chamber, revealing a concealed chamber below.
• Ju Yunxiu carried Li Qingjun and Qing Cha down on an auspicious cloud as the floor sealed itself above them.
• Qin Yi and the others saw a phoenix statue sheltering a Black Bronze Coffin in a chamber rich with Spiritual Energy, and they grew wary of what might be inside.

Qin Yi and the others opened the ancient coffin while Feng Bulie tried to break free of Ju Yunxiu’s painting realm, causing their attacks to collide with the coffin’s deadly restrictions. They found only the preserved corpse of a soulless old man, and Qin Yi concluded that Feng Bulie had absorbed the tomb’s defenses for them.

• Li Qingjun woke and gave Qin Yi the Startling Dragon Jade Pendant to suppress the coffin’s Netherworld aura.
• As Feng Bulie began breaking through Ju Yunxiu’s painting realm, Qin Yi had Ju Yunxiu use the scroll to pry open the coffin and draw Feng Bulie’s bone arrow into it.
• The coffin’s icy suction nearly shattered Qin Yi’s Buddhist beads, while the Startling Dragon Jade Pendant forced its Netherworld Yin Qi back inside.
• Feng Bulie unleashed his Blood Fight magic treasure, and its baleful energy collided with the coffin’s Yin Qi, injuring him and silencing the chamber.
• Qin Yi and the others inspected the coffin and found an ancient corpse with no soul, then realized its restrictions had been meant to deter tomb robbers.

After sealing the entrance to the Netherworld Realm and trapping Feng Bulie, Qin Yi and the others explored the tomb and discovered a spirit spring, a Cold Jade Bed, and Other Shore Flowers. Liusu urged Qin Yi to use the tomb’s treasures to recover through dual cultivation, but Ju Yunxiu and Li Qingjun kicked him into the pool when he tried to make a private room.

• Qin Yi apologized to the tomb’s owner, found the entrance to the Netherworld Realm beneath the corpse, and decided the exhausted group should recover before entering.
• Ju Yunxiu covered the coffin with a Huiyang scroll, cutting off the crossing realms’ aura and restoring the scroll that imprisoned Feng Bulie.
• Qin Yi inspected the tomb’s pill furnace, spirit spring, and Cold Jade Bed, while Qing Cha poked an Other Shore Flower and got splashed in the face.
• Liusu explained that Other Shore Flowers could aid travel through the Netherworld, resurrection, and pill refinement, so Qin Yi took two strands of petals.
• Liusu proposed that Qin Yi use the spring, flower, and Cold Jade Bed for dual cultivation to recover, and Qin Yi tried to enclose the area with his prayer beads.
• Ju Yunxiu and Li Qingjun kicked Qin Yi into the pool after he made the enclosure, calling him a lecherous monk.

Qin Yi recovered in the spiritual spring while Liusu and Qing Cha joked and played nearby. Outside the painted realm, Ju Yunxiu began refining Feng Bulie, who struggled against the growing pressure and realized Qin Yi’s group seemed to be resting while he endured the danger.

• Liusu hid behind a Soul Curtain while Qin Yi and Li Qingjun recovered in the spiritual spring, and Qing Cha joined her by the pool.
• Qing Cha hugged and teased Liusu, who mocked her for being dense before softening and promising Qin Yi would find a way to help her grow and improve her cultivation.
• Feng Bulie continued fighting the monkey in the painted realm while his injuries worsened, and he feared Qin Yi had died in the dangerous Netherworld.
• Qin Yi emerged fully recovered and went to help Liusu refine pills, while Li Qingjun entered another painted realm to cultivate.
• Ju Yunxiu began refining the painted realm, surrounding Feng Bulie with immense pressure and blazing heat as she used heaven and earth to wear him down.

Qin Yi refined a pill that restored Liusu to Qian Yuan, and she swallowed it and regained the ability to manifest her original form. Liusu then proposed dealing with the danger inside Ye Bieqing’s painting before she rested.

• Qin Yi began refining Liusu’s restorative pill while keeping Feng Bulie trapped and unable to strike back.
• Qing Cha brought Liusu tea and offered to help Qin Yi tend the furnace, but Liusu sent her away for distracting him.
• After seven days, Qin Yi completed the pill, and Liusu smashed apart the pill tribulation before swallowing it.
• Liusu’s Yin Spirit advanced enough to manifest her original shape, though she appeared to Qin Yi as the familiar Little Ghost.
• Liusu said she would sleep after they dealt with the thing inside Ye Bieqing’s painting.