Chapter Summaries

Foundation Establishment cultivators struggled against the Core Formation skeletons, while Chu Xinghe and Qin Fengming and Fang Qiying each fought to hold one back. Chu Xinghe’s life-bound magic treasure was trapped by dark-green flames, and Qin Fengming and Fang Qiying continued delaying their skeleton as the beautiful woman controlled all three.

• The cultivators realized the skeletons were at the Core Formation realm and that their magic treasures could barely harm them.
• Chu Xinghe’s skeleton awakened blood-red eyes and attacked him with dark-green flames, which clung to and began roasting his life-bound purple sword blade.
• Qin Fengming and Fang Qiying’s fire pythons and Crimson Flame Worms failed to injure their skeleton, and the skeleton knocked Fang Qiying’s Sky-Breaking Halberd flying with one blow.
• Qin Fengming told Fang Qiying to harry the skeleton while he kept it at bay with Fire Python Talismans, which he continued casting in great numbers.
• The beautiful woman sat beneath the pink skeletons, forming hand seals to control the three enormous skeletons.

Chu Xinghe asked Qin Fengming and Fang Qiying to hold back the skeletons while he prepared a secret art to kill them. Fang Qiying used an ancient teapot to contain the ghostly green flames, and Qin Fengming surrounded another skeleton with fire-serpent talismans as Chu Xinghe began casting.

• The beautiful woman judged Chu Xinghe to be her main threat and rested after summoning three powerful skeletons.
• Chu Xinghe approached Qin Fengming and Fang Qiying, asking them to protect him while he prepared a secret art.
• Fang Qiying agreed to block the ghostly green flames and used a huge teapot to release black sand and stones that wrapped around them.
• Qin Fengming summoned more than a hundred fire-serpents from talismans to hold back a skeleton.
• Chu Xinghe retreated behind the two men, sat in the air, and began casting his secret art.

Qin Fengming unleashed hundreds of Fire Python Talismans to hold off two skeletons while Chu Xinghe prepared a secret art, but a third skeleton shattered the cultivators’ shield and slaughtered most of them. Huangfu Jing and three others escaped to Qin Fengming’s group, leaving only three Black Crane Sect cultivators alive among the fleeing survivors.

• The beautiful woman sensed Chu Xinghe preparing a secret art and drove the skeletons to attack more fiercely.
• Qin Fengming released hundreds of Fire Python Talismans, entangling two skeletons and astonishing the beautiful woman, Fang Qiying, and Chu Xinghe.
• A third skeleton smashed through the Foundation Establishment cultivators’ shield and killed the two nearest Black Crane Sect cultivators.
• The remaining cultivators scattered, and the skeleton chased them down while Qin Fengming could not leave his fight to help.
• Huangfu Jing and three others used a blood-colored escape technique to appear behind Qin Fengming and his companions.
• The towering skeleton killed nearly all the remaining cultivators; only three Black Crane Sect cultivators escaped to Qin Fengming’s group.

Chu Xinghe unleashed a golden sphere of talismans at the gorgeous woman while Qin Fengming, Fang Qiying, and the others fortified themselves. The woman’s skeletons and pink skeletons detonated to meet the attack, shattering the restriction and destroying the surrounding buildings; the explosion’s aftermath still roiled through the cavern.

• Chu Xinghe finished casting his secret art and launched a golden sphere toward the gorgeous woman as Qin Fengming, Fang Qiying, and the others raised their defenses.
• The gorgeous woman sheltered inside a multicolored lotus platform and sent a towering skeleton to intercept the sphere.
• The golden sphere struck the skeleton and melted it away, prompting the gorgeous woman to flee on her lotus platform.
• The gorgeous woman sent her remaining towering skeletons and hundreds of pink skeletons to attack the golden light, then detonated them all.
• The explosion shattered the restriction and obliterated the nearby buildings, while immense shock waves and dust swept through the cavern.

Qin Fengming survived the explosion that destroyed the square and escaped with the help of his Yin-Yang Two Forms Plate. After regrouping with Chu Xinghe and three Black Crane Sect disciples, he faced the beautiful woman from Luan Palace as Chu Xinghe proposed joining forces to escape.

• Qin Fengming fled as the Restrictive Spell barrier vanished, but the blast hurled him away and knocked him unconscious.
• Qin Fengming awoke inside a hall, found his Yin-Yang Two Forms Plate intact but weakened, and realized the suppression on his divine sense had disappeared.
• Qin Fengming sensed Chu Xinghe and three surviving Foundation Establishment cultivators approaching, while the beautiful woman appeared nearby atop a multicolored lotus.
• Chu Xinghe told Qin Fengming that Daoist Fellow Lu and the Huangfu Family members had likely perished and proposed that they join forces to escape.
• Qin Fengming agreed to help Chu Xinghe, while both sides considered that the beautiful woman’s magic power might be nearly exhausted.

Qin Fengming and Chu Xinghe faced the beautiful woman after she blocked their escape and demanded they submit to her. The woman’s multicolored lotus attacks killed the remaining Black Crane Sect disciples and pressed Qin Fengming and Chu Xinghe into a desperate fight.

• Qin Fengming suspected Fang Qiying had survived and considered that he might be hiding or already escaped.
• The beautiful woman blocked the group’s route out and demanded that they become her disciples and surrender a wisp of their souls.
• Chu Xinghe attacked with his magic treasures, but the woman’s lotus petals transformed into multicolored lotuses and met his weapons in a stalemate.
• The woman sent six more lotuses against the group, and Chu Xinghe used two White Light Shields to defend himself while ordering the disciples to retreat.
• Three multicolored lotuses killed the remaining Black Crane Sect disciples, while Qin Fengming’s fire pythons were shredded by two of the lotuses.

The beautiful woman unleashed her colored lotus platform, trapping Chu Xinghe and Qin Fengming in a deadly fight. Qin Fengming overwhelmed her defenses with hundreds of Fire Python Talismans, then escaped toward the cave entrance, leaving Chu Xinghe facing the woman's attack alone.

• The beautiful woman used her magical treasure to kill three Black Crane Sect cultivators and attack Chu Xinghe and Qin Fengming with colored lotuses.
• Chu Xinghe struggled to defend himself against six lotuses, while Qin Fengming threw thousands of Fire Python Talismans to hold off three of them.
• Qin Fengming summoned hundreds of fire pythons to attack the lotuses and the beautiful woman, then used a secret technique to flee toward the cave entrance.
• The beautiful woman spotted Qin Fengming escaping and sent a fiery-red object toward Chu Xinghe, whose White Light Shield shook violently under the impact.

Qin Fengming and the beautiful woman killed Chu Xinghe, but the woman then pursued Qin Fengming after he struck back with a powerful white light. Qin Fengming escaped using his movement techniques, while the woman followed close behind.

• The beautiful woman used her golden core to shatter Chu Xinghe's shield and kill him, then flew toward the cave entrance.
• Qin Fengming fled, but the woman overtook him and sent nine colored lotuses through the rock to surround him.
• Qin Fengming emerged from the ground and fired a white light at the woman before vanishing with the Profound Sky Evasive Steps.
• The woman dodged the white light, which pierced through a green lotus leaf, then recalled her lotuses and pursued Qin Fengming.
• Qin Fengming stopped using the Profound Sky Evasive Steps before overstraining his body and fled with the Azure Cloud Maze movement technique.

Qin Fengming fled the beautiful woman through the cavern while using the Profound Sky Evasive Steps to evade her attacks. As he neared the entrance, she used her own blood to summon a red bird and sent it after him.

• Qin Fengming and the beautiful woman raced out from among the palaces, and she repeatedly failed to hit him with her magic treasures.
• The beautiful woman launched three colored lotuses at Qin Fengming, but he used the Profound Sky Evasive Steps to dodge them.
• Qin Fengming continued fleeing toward the cavern entrance despite the severe strain the evasive technique placed on his body.
• The beautiful woman feared Qin Fengming would escape into the five-colored clouds, so she spat out blood and formed a red bird.
• The beautiful woman sent the red bird flying toward Qin Fengming's back.

Qin Fengming was left unable to move or use his spiritual power after the gorgeous Core Formation woman’s blood-red bird overcame his escape techniques. Shang Lingxi appeared just in time to rescue him and confronted the woman.

• The gorgeous woman unleashed a powerful secret art and sent a blood-red bird after Qin Fengming.
• Qin Fengming’s Sun-Shooting Talisman failed to stop the bird, and he collapsed in agony, unable to mobilize spiritual power.
• Yellow light and pink mist enveloped Qin Fengming, shielding him from the bird’s attack.
• The gorgeous woman demanded that the person who used ghostly arts reveal herself.
• Shang Lingxi emerged from the pink mist, and Qin Fengming recognized his sworn elder sister and thanked her for saving him.

Qin Fengming reunited with Shang Lingxi, who fought the sentient being transformed from a zombie that had pursued him. Shang Lingxi’s treasure blocked the colored lotuses, but the lotus platform struck back and sent her flying, leaving the fight unresolved.

• Qin Fengming took a healing pill and warned Shang Lingxi that the beautiful woman was a dangerous being formed from the phenomenon.
• Shang Lingxi recognized Qin Fengming and said she could contend with the beautiful woman.
• The beautiful woman attacked Shang Lingxi with colored lotuses, which Shang Lingxi blocked with a magic treasure inside pink mist.
• The beautiful woman charged into the pink mist on her lotus platform to fight Shang Lingxi at close range.
• The lotus platform struck Shang Lingxi’s magic treasure with a powerful radiance, sending Shang Lingxi and her tree-stump treasure flying away.

Qin Fengming and Shang Lingxi lured the sentient zombie into the formation at the cave entrance, escaping outside as it became trapped within. The zombie remained calm and began flying into the formation’s yellow-sand landscape.

• Shang Lingxi’s wooden comb treasure failed to overpower the beautiful sentient zombie, and Qin Fengming told her he had prepared a formation at the entrance.
• The beautiful woman attacked Qin Fengming as Shang Lingxi flew toward the cave entrance, while he retreated and used talismans to distract her.
• The beautiful woman’s red attack pierced Qin Fengming’s afterimage, and she found herself inside a yellow-sand formation.
• Qin Fengming activated the Yin-Yang Eight Trigrams Formation and teleported himself and Shang Lingxi outside its bounds.
• The beautiful woman confirmed her golden core was unharmed and cautiously flew deeper into the formation.

Qin Fengming trapped the ravishing woman in the Yin-Yang Eight Trigrams Formation while Shang Lingxi watched, and he recognized her as Fairy Cai Lian, a legendary cultivator. He revealed his changed appearance and invited her to talk, but she considered killing them to protect her identity.

• Shang Lingxi joined Qin Fengming and admitted that the woman’s strength and magical treasure had overwhelmed her.
• Qin Fengming showed Shang Lingxi the formation’s interior and repeatedly teleported the woman back to its center when she tried to escape.
• The woman attacked the formation’s boundary with seven beads, found it impenetrable, and began replenishing her magical power.
• Qin Fengming identified the woman as Fairy Cai Lian, startling both her and Shang Lingxi.
• Qin Fengming revealed his changed appearance and challenged Fairy Cai Lian to discuss matters while she remained trapped.
• Fairy Cai Lian resolved to kill Qin Fengming and Shang Lingxi to keep her identity secret.

Qin Fengming recognized the trapped woman as Fairy Cai Lian, a powerful cultivator from Azure Nether Valley who had survived for over a hundred thousand years. Their battle began inside his Yin-Yang Eight Trigrams Formation, which withstood Fairy Cai Lian’s attacks before trapping her and striking her with lightning.

• Qin Fengming identified the woman as Fairy Cai Lian, and Shang Lingxi was shaken by the revelation.
• Fairy Cai Lian threatened Qin Fengming and Shang Lingxi, then attacked the formation with nine colored lotuses.
• Qin Fengming activated the Yin-Yang Eight Trigrams Formation, which shielded Fairy Cai Lian from its wind blades and boulders and repelled her lotuses.
• Qin Fengming declared that he would counterattack, and the formation’s lightning struck at Fairy Cai Lian.
• Fairy Cai Lian tried to flee, but the formation dragged her back to its center; she powered her lotus platform to withstand the lightning.

Qin Fengming and Shang Lingxi confronted Fairy Cai Lian inside the Yin-Yang Eight Trigrams Formation, but neither side could defeat the other. After Qin Fengming revealed his supply of mid-grade Spirit Stones, Fairy Cai Lian demanded an oath or memory erasure before she would let them leave, and Qin Fengming refused both.

• Fairy Cai Lian blocked Qin Fengming's powerful arc attack with her Wood attribute lotus platform, and Qin Fengming realized the formation would not easily kill her.
• Qin Fengming proposed ending hostilities, but Fairy Cai Lian accused him of lacking the strength to operate the formation fully and predicted he would run out of Spirit Stones.
• Qin Fengming displayed more than a dozen mid-grade Spirit Stones, showing he could keep the formation running and exhaust Fairy Cai Lian's magical power.
• Fairy Cai Lian offered to let Qin Fengming and Shang Lingxi leave if they swore a blood oath or allowed her to erase their memories.
• Qin Fengming refused both conditions and promised only that he and Shang Lingxi would keep her secret, while Fairy Cai Lian insisted they fight on.

Shang Lingxi intervened as Qin Fengming and Fairy Cai Lian prepared to fight, then revealed that she too had been reborn from a remnant soul. Her account of her past and possession of Wei Yuehua’s body gave her a chance to build trust with Fairy Cai Lian, though no agreement had yet been reached.

• As Qin Fengming and Fairy Cai Lian prepared to fight inside the formation, Shang Lingxi stopped them and addressed Fairy Cai Lian.
• Shang Lingxi reasoned that Fairy Cai Lian wanted to keep news of her rebirth secret, and Fairy Cai Lian confirmed she would fight rather than let the secret spread.
• Shang Lingxi revealed that she had also been reborn from a remnant soul, shocking Fairy Cai Lian.
• Shang Lingxi explained that she and her husband had once been Hidden Cloud Sect disciples, were framed, and fled to Quzhou while holding onto their hatred of the sect.
• When Fairy Cai Lian questioned her cultivation art, Shang Lingxi said Qin Fengming had rescued her remnant soul from a tooth and helped her possess the demonic cultivator Wei Yuehua.

Shang Lingxi and Fairy Cai Lian formed a sworn sisterhood after Qin Fengming released Fairy Cai Lian from the formation, and Qin Fengming joined their bond as her younger brother. Fairy Cai Lian then warned them that the unusual phenomenon drawing Qin Fengming to the place was a serious matter and led them to learn more.

• Shang Lingxi proposed becoming sworn sisters with Fairy Cai Lian, and Qin Fengming removed the formation imprisoning her.
• Fairy Cai Lian agreed to make peace and swear an oath with Shang Lingxi.
• Shang Lingxi and Fairy Cai Lian became sworn sisters, with Fairy Cai Lian as the elder sister, and Qin Fengming performed a rite to become her younger brother.
• Fairy Cai Lian gave Qin Fengming several magic treasures left behind by people she had killed.
• Qin Fengming asked Fairy Cai Lian about the unusual phenomenon, and she solemnly led him and Shang Lingxi onward to explain it.

Qin Fengming and Shang Lingxi entered Luan Palace with Fairy Cai Lian and found a cavern emitting powerful demonic mist from the site of a spirit-vein eye. Fairy Cai Lian explained how her remnant soul awakened and how the mist spread through Azure Nether Valley, but its cause remained unknown.

• Fairy Cai Lian opened Luan Palace’s shield and led Qin Fengming and Shang Lingxi inside, where they saw multicolored mist pouring from a cavern.
• Fairy Cai Lian said the palace had once been a spiritual-energy-rich seclusion site, but its spirit-vein eye now emitted pure demonic energy.
• Fairy Cai Lian explained that she had split her soul before dying and sealed part of it in her natal magic treasure.
• Fairy Cai Lian said she awakened decades ago amid the demonic mist, possessed a female zombie, and killed two other zombies in the palace.
• Fairy Cai Lian cultivated until she reached Core Formation and refined her natal magic treasure, while zombies formed from the disciples she had killed.
• Fairy Cai Lian said the mist’s source expanded more than ten years ago, overwhelmed her attempts to suppress it, and escaped into Azure Nether Valley several months ago.

Qin Fengming, Shang Lingxi, and Fairy Cai Lian agreed to investigate the dangerous cave, despite its demonic qi and unknown inhabitants. Riding Fairy Cai Lian's lotus platform, they entered the passage and encountered a powerful suction force as they began moving deeper inside.

• Qin Fengming proposed entering the cave to discover the cause of its strange phenomena, and Shang Lingxi and Fairy Cai Lian agreed after considering the risks.
• The three discussed preparations, and Qin Fengming explained that his mid-grade Spirit Stones would replenish the spiritual power he needed to resist the demonic qi.
• Fairy Cai Lian summoned her lotus platform and carried Qin Fengming and Shang Lingxi into the cave.
• A powerful suction force struck the lotus platform inside the passage, but Fairy Cai Lian steadied it and guided the three deeper into the cave.

Qin Fengming, Fairy Cai Lian, and Shang Lingxi were dragged deep into a mysterious cave by an overwhelming suction force. After Qin Fengming detonated a magic treasure to help them escape the five-colored mist, they discovered a vast cavern containing a spatial rift.

• The three descended hundreds of miles through the five-colored mist aboard Fairy Cai Lian’s lotus platform, while Qin Fengming grew wary of the newly formed cave passage.
• The suction force suddenly intensified, accelerating the lotus platform despite all three pouring their spiritual power into it.
• When they reached a vast cavern, Fairy Cai Lian struggled to steer the platform away from the mist and spotted a huge black hole below.
• Qin Fengming detonated a magic treasure, and the resulting surge helped the lotus platform break free of the mist.
• The three saw five-colored mist pouring from a massive rift above an enormous platform, and Shang Lingxi and Fairy Cai Lian recognized it as a spatial rift.