Chapter Summaries

Su Miao reviewed the first results of Farm Teachings’ resumed Atonement Assessment and visited the crowded assessment site to see how candidates were being tested. The chapter ended with Farm Teachings continuing to offer redemption only to those who showed genuine remorse, responsibility, and empathy.

• Granny Yan presented Su Miao with the first-round results: over 113,000 beings had applied, but only eleven had qualified as Observer Disciples.
• Granny Yan explained that most candidates failed the Heart Questioning Array because their greed, cruelty, selfishness, or lack of empathy was exposed.
• Su Miao and Granny Yan visited the assessment area at the southern foot of Mount Tai, where candidates faced asset verification, the Heart Questioning Path, and a final review.
• Deacons rejected a Tiger Demon’s blood-tainted offerings and approved a Demon Race Elder’s fragmentary ore-prospecting art.
• The Heart Questioning Path expelled candidates who betrayed their family, robbed a wounded stranger, or abandoned and injured their companions in the illusions.
• Su Miao concluded that atonement required genuine goodness and a willingness to take responsibility, not merely an exchange of resources.

Farm Teachings’ Atonement Assessment rejected many applicants but admitted a remorseful Deer Demon Girl and a cultivator with useful formation work, reinforcing its reputation for strict, principled recruitment. As Su Miao watched the trials shape that reputation, the regular disciple recruitment assessment was also underway.

• A Yaksha Strongman wept after failing the assessment, and a Farm Teachings Disciple reassured him that he could still visit the Holy City if he followed its rules.
• A wounded Deer Demon Girl admitted to helping capture her own kind, offered an ancient method and a vow to care for the injured, and received an Observer Disciple token.
• A taciturn cultivator presented improved Formation Disk blueprints and products, demonstrated persistence in the Heart Questioning Array, and received an Azure Jade Token.
• A presiding Deacon explained that Farm Teachings valued character and responsibility above merit alone, while Disciples politely stopped failed applicants from begging to stay.
• Su Miao observed that the harsh screening was establishing Farm Teachings’ reputation, as the regular disciple recruitment assessment proceeded alongside the Atonement Assessment.

Yu Ding, Yun Zhongzi, Zhao Gongming, and the San Xiao sisters passed the Farm Teachings’ Heart Questioning Assessment and became Outer Disciples. With the sect’s affairs running smoothly, Su Miao delegated routine work to the Hall Masters and used her newfound quiet to inspect the slowly healing Chaos Supreme Treasure.

• Yu Ding chose to stabilize a spirit jade instead of using it to refine a treasure, while Yun Zhongzi stayed to help restore a damaged spiritual land.
• Zhao Gongming and the San Xiao sisters faced moral choices in their Illusionary Realms, and the applicants passed the Heart Questioning Assessment.
• The Deacon welcomed the successful applicants as Outer Disciples and explained their training, advancement, and option to cultivate at home.
• Su Miao reviewed the sect’s progress and told the Hall Masters to handle routine affairs within their authority and submit regular reports.
• Su Miao examined the Chaos Supreme Treasure and saw that the crack across it was beginning to heal, nourished by two strands of Primordial Violet Qi.

Su Miao inspected Mount Fangzhang in the Chaos Bead and discovered that its space and time-manipulation capacity had improved. She surveyed her thriving Spirit Fields and treasured plants, then left the stubbornly unfruitful Gourd Vine alone and went to gather tea.

• Su Miao tested the Chaos Bead's time manipulation and found she could accelerate time up to twenty-five times before feeling strain.
• Su Miao inspected her flourishing Spirit Fields and the growing Ginseng Fruit Tree, Jianmu Tree, and Flat Peach grove.
• Su Miao discovered that several Pure World White Lotuses had advanced from sixth rank to ninth rank.
• Su Miao found that the healthy Gourd Vine had no buds and seemed determined not to bear gourds, so she stopped urging it and told it to cultivate.
• Su Miao turned to look for the Tea Tree because her tea jar was empty and she wanted to gather more.

Su Miao harvested and roasted Enlightenment Tea, then prepared gifts for Saints Jieyin and Zhunti and Duobao. With the Farm Teachings running smoothly, she decided to visit the Holy City and then return to Kunlun to see her masters.

• Su Miao picked tender leaves from the Enlightenment Tea Tree and made a high-quality batch of tea.
• Su Miao packed tea, peaches, and Mount Fangzhang specialties into gift boxes for Jieyin, Zhunti, and Duobao.
• Su Miao instructed an on-duty disciple to have the leader of the departing Western Branch Sect duty group deliver the gifts personally.
• After reviewing the sect's affairs and finding nothing that needed her attention, Su Miao decided to stroll around the Holy City and then visit Kunlun.

Su Miao disguised herself as an ordinary girl and slipped out of the sect to explore the Holy City Marketplace and buy snacks for her long journey back to Kunlun. Her disguise did not stop local vendors from recognizing her, and the chapter ended when she nearly collided with a white-haired granny in an alley.

• Su Miao dressed in simple-looking clothes, cast a spell to blur people's memories of her appearance, and quietly left through Lingxing Gate.
• She entered the Holy City and wandered through its busy streets toward the Marketplace, enjoying the lively crowds.
• At a sugar-painting stall, Su Miao bought a Phoenix painting and received a little rabbit as a bonus from the old vendor.
• A bun seller recognized Su Miao despite her spell and insisted on giving her a large bag of buns and steamed bread.
• Su Miao gave the woman three Star Fruits in return, stored the food in her Storage Bag, and nearly bumped into a white-haired granny carrying a basket.

Su Miao’s trip through East Market turned into an outpouring of gifts from Human Race members who recognized her as the Saint Master. After sharing Star Fruits and promising to return, she left Holy City carrying supplies for her journey to Kunlun and beyond.

• Granny recognized Su Miao, gave her Honey Core Cakes, and received Star Fruits in return.
• Vendors and shoppers across East Market showered Su Miao with gifts, and she gave them Star Fruits and other fruit in return.
• Su Miao gave a young cultivator Star Shrub saplings and advice after he asked whether the fruit could be grown elsewhere.
• The Suiren Clan arrived, calmed the crowd, and learned that Su Miao planned to visit her Masters in Kunlun before traveling elsewhere.
• The crowd insisted Su Miao take local gifts for her Masters, and she sorted the offerings into a Space Bracelet before promising to return and leaving Holy City.

Su Miao traveled from the Holy City toward Kunlun and witnessed the widespread destruction left by the war. After finding Falling Star Lake dried up and its spiritual veins ruined, she continued toward home, numb at the sight of the devastated land.

• Su Miao left the Holy City on an Auspicious Cloud, planning to visit Zhen Yuanzi before seeing her Masters.
• As she traveled beyond the Mount Tai Range, Su Miao saw increasingly severe damage across the land, including scorched earth, collapsed mountains, and broken rivers.
• Su Miao recognized the dried lakebed as Falling Star Lake and found a bottomless hole leaking chaotic Spiritual Power at its center.
• Su Miao tried to use the Profound Origin Water Control Banner to gather moisture, but the Water Spirit Energy and Water Veins had been destroyed.
• Su Miao put away the Banner and flew on faster, seeing more wastelands and a few surviving plants and creatures along the way.

Su Miao flew through the devastated Prehistoric World toward Wuzhuang Temple, reflecting on its suffering before three hidden attackers ambushed her. Her Merit Golden Wheels and protective treasures stopped their coordinated strike, and she prepared to confront the concealed assassins.

• Su Miao saw survivors struggling over water and territory and thought about the devastation across the Prehistoric World and Farm Teachings' limited ability to help.
• Su Miao entered a region still filled with calamity qi and decided to hurry toward Wuzhuang Temple to visit Zhen Yuanzi.
• Three concealed attackers struck Su Miao at once with gray light, black chains, and poisonous blood qi.
• Su Miao's Merit Golden Wheels, refined clothing, and Wuji Apricot Yellow Banner blocked the attacks, while the attackers withdrew and hid.
• Su Miao recognized the strike as a deliberate ambush by skilled assassins and grew angry at being targeted.

Su Miao survived a coordinated ambush by more than twenty attackers from several factions, using her Merit Golden Wheels and magical banners to stop or kill them. The attackers were defeated or trapped, but the mastermind behind the ambush remained unknown.

• Su Miao searched the silent ruins and wondered who had orchestrated the first failed attack, suspecting Kunpeng because he had opposed her before.
• Eight pillars of light formed a sealing Formation as more than twenty attackers emerged from several directions and attacked Su Miao.
• Su Miao used the Merit Golden Wheels to block the assault, then trapped three assassins with the Wuji Apricot Yellow Banner and burned four brutes with the Earth-Leaving Flame Light Banner.
• Su Miao froze five fleeing Transparent Figures in place with the Chaos Bead.
• Su Miao destroyed the Dark Red Tentacles and Blood Light Figures with the Profound Origin Water Control Banner, leaving the attackers trapped or dead.

Su Miao broke the attackers’ Formation, killed three Dark Assassins, and forced five Transparent Figures to reveal that Kunpeng and Ancestor Minghe had joined forces against her. After letting the survivors flee, she made herself more visibly identifiable and hurried toward Wuzhuang Temple, wary of further ambushes.

• Su Miao shattered the Formation isolating the battlefield and questioned the captured attackers about who had sent them.
• When the Dark Assassins refused to answer, Su Miao killed all three with Sword Qi.
• A Transparent Figure confessed that the Northern Lord of the Beiming Demon Master Palace, Kunpeng, had funded the assassination attempt to kill Su Miao and seize her Treasures.
• The Transparent Figures revealed that Ancestor Minghe had supplied the Blood Puppets and coordinated with Kunpeng in the ambush.
• Su Miao let the five Transparent Figures escape with a warning for their masters, then set out faster for Wuzhuang Temple with her Merit halos and lavish outfit on display.

Su Miao endured repeated attacks on her journey while pretending to grow weary, hoping to draw out Kunpeng and Minghe and gain grounds to pursue them. Six hundred years later, the two launched a powerful joint ambush, and Su Miao prepared to take their strike head-on.

• Su Miao faced frequent attacks from forces tied to the Demon Master Palace and the Blood Sea, but her defenses and treasures allowed her to repel them.
• Suspecting Kunpeng and Minghe had a motive for attacking her, Su Miao decided to keep pretending to weaken and let some attackers escape.
• Over six hundred years, Su Miao concealed her strength and waited for Kunpeng and Minghe to show themselves.
• Kunpeng and Minghe emerged from opposite sides and attacked Su Miao with overwhelming force.
• Su Miao realized she could not evade their attacks and relied on her many treasures, confident she could call for her Masters if she survived the initial blow.

Su Miao was ambushed by Kunpeng and Ancestor Minghe, who used paired formations and their signature weapons to trap and overwhelm her. She stabilized her defenses with several treasures, leaving the battle at a tense stalemate as the two attackers intensified their assault.

• Kunpeng and Ancestor Minghe ambushed Su Miao, and her Merit Golden Wheels blocked their opening strikes.
• Kunpeng and Minghe activated the Northern Darkness Void Locking Array and the Sea of Blood Corrupting God Array, sealing Su Miao inside.
• Kunpeng and Minghe demanded Su Miao surrender her treasures and cultivation, then attacked her with Beiming winds, blood corruption, and their swords.
• Su Miao countered the formations and attacks with the Earth-Leaving Flame Light Banner, Wuji Apricot Yellow Banner, Profound Origin Water Control Banner, and thirty-six Sea Calming Beads.
• Kunpeng and Minghe argued over their failed attacks but continued to strike Su Miao's defenses with greater force.

Su Miao fought Minghe and Kunpeng’s combined assault, using her treasures to damage their formations before revealing Laozi’s supreme treasures to turn the tide. Though the treasures eased the pressure, she was nearing her limit when a sigh came from the charred, frozen mountains below.

• Minghe and Kunpeng coordinated their attacks, draining Su Miao’s mana while she maintained her defenses.
• Su Miao used the thirty-six Sea Calming Beads to damage the Blood Sea Phantom and disrupt Kunpeng’s movements.
• Minghe and Kunpeng prepared a deadlier attack, so Su Miao brought out the Heaven and Earth Yellow Exquisite Pagoda and Taiji Diagram lent by Laozi.
• Protected by Mystic Yellow Qi and the Taiji Diagram, Su Miao struck at the formations’ weak point with the Sea Calming Beads and Profound Origin Water Control Banner.
• Minghe and Kunpeng intensified their attacks until Su Miao was injured and nearly out of mana, then a sigh sounded from the frozen mountain range below.

Houtu arrived to protect Su Miao and challenged Kunpeng and Minghe for ambushing someone weaker. Her invocation of the rule that demons ruled the heavens and witches governed the earth left the two experts wary and considering retreating.

• Earth-Yellow Divine Light broke through Kunpeng and Minghe's formation and drove back the Beiming Frost and Blood Sea Phantom.
• Houtu appeared beside Su Miao, greeted her, and rebuked Kunpeng and Minghe for joining forces against a Junior.
• Kunpeng told Houtu not to interfere, but she invoked the rule that demons ruled the heavens and witches governed the earth, leaving him unable to answer.
• Minghe restrained his Blood Sea Phantom and avoided attacking Houtu, while he and Kunpeng exchanged glances and weighed retreating.
• Su Miao watched Houtu's rebuke and struggled to hide her amusement.

Su Miao used her communication jade talismans to threaten Kunpeng and Minghe with summoning her three masters, forcing them to consider paying her to avoid trouble. The chapter ended as she offered them a choice between surrendering treasure and facing the Three Pure Ones.

• Kunpeng and Minghe hesitated to fight Houtu and Su Miao, wary of Houtu's strength and the protection of Su Miao's treasures.
• Su Miao pretended to be frightened and complained that Kunpeng and Minghe had ravaged the land and attacked her.
• Su Miao warned that she could ask the Dao Ancestor or her three masters to judge the matter, and named Tongtian, Yuanshi, and Taiqing as the elders she could summon.
• Minghe secretly sent Blood God Son incarnations underground to escape, but Tongtian's jade talisman locked the Blood Shadows in place.
• Su Miao called the jade talismans Summoning Talismans and demanded that Kunpeng and Minghe hand over treasure or face the arrival of the Three Pure Ones.

Su Miao used Houtu’s presence and the threat of summoning the Three Pure Ones to turn Kunpeng and Minghe’s ambush into a demand for compensation. Kunpeng and Minghe realized they had no good way out and asked Su Miao what she wanted.

• Houtu pointed out that Beiming fell within her jurisdiction and said she would investigate the ambush against Su Miao.
• Su Miao pretended that Kunpeng and Minghe had damaged two intact treasures made by Yuanshi and demanded compensation, threatening to summon her Masters.
• Houtu backed Su Miao and sealed off the escape routes, asking Kunpeng and Minghe whether they would compensate her now or after the Three Pure Ones arrived.
• Kunpeng and Minghe blamed each other for the failed ambush but agreed that continuing to resist would worsen their situation.
• Kunpeng swallowed his humiliation and asked Su Miao what she wanted.

Su Miao demanded compensation from Minghe and Kunpeng after they had tried to kill her, using Houtu’s protection to press her advantage. Kunpeng and Minghe began negotiating over her enormous list of treasures, but the chapter ended before they reached a full settlement.

• Su Miao recorded demands for Northern Darkness Mystic Ice Essence, Blood Soul Crystals, Sea of Blood Origin Essence, Kunpeng’s Void Array Path Fragment, and other rare treasures.
• Minghe recognized that Su Miao knew of the Blood Sea Origin Essence and grew murderous, but Houtu suppressed his blood energy and protected Su Miao.
• Su Miao reminded Minghe and Kunpeng that they had joined forces to trap and kill her, leaving them to consider settling with resources rather than facing the Three Pure Ones.
• Kunpeng negotiated the Mystic Ice Essence down from one hundred jin, and Su Miao accepted thirty jin of its purest core essence.
• Minghe protested Su Miao’s demand for one hundred drops of Sea of Blood Origin Essence, and they bargained until he offered thirty drops while Su Miao insisted on sixty.

Su Miao forced Minghe and Kunpeng to surrender treasures and swear not to attack her or Farm Teachings before the Tribulation ended. After the exchange was settled, the two Quasi-Saints departed, leaving Su Miao and Houtu on the scorched earth.

• Su Miao demanded compensation from Minghe and Kunpeng, using the threat of involving her Masters to pressure them into bargaining.
• Minghe agreed to provide forty drops of Sea of Blood Origin Essence and Blood Soul Crystals, while Kunpeng offered the Beiming Mystic Ice Essence, a copy of the Void Array Path Fragment, and other materials.
• Su Miao demanded that Minghe and Kunpeng swear a Heavenly Dao Oath not to attack her or Farm Teachings before the Tribulation ended.
• Minghe and Kunpeng handed over the agreed treasures and swore the oath, which the Heavenly Dao acknowledged.
• Su Miao pretended to message Yuanshi that the misunderstanding was resolved, while Kunpeng and Minghe realized she had used the Three Pure Ones' authority to extort them.
• Kunpeng and Minghe left, and Su Miao remained with Houtu on the scorched earth.

After Houtu rescued Su Miao from the trap set by two Quasi-Saints, Su Miao shared her spoils with her and learned how a Blood Soul Crystal could strengthen her banner. Houtu mourned the devastation left by the Witch-Demon War, while Laozi and Yuanshi watched from afar and discussed Su Miao’s need to grow.

• Su Miao offered Houtu half her treasures, and Houtu accepted the Beiming Mystic Ice Essence but returned the Blood Soul Crystal for Su Miao’s banner.
• Su Miao thanked Houtu for rescuing her and happily stored the remaining treasures in the Chaos Bead.
• Houtu sensed the land’s suffering and wondered how the sins of the Witch-Demon War could be repaid.
• Laozi and Yuanshi watched the vanished water screen and praised Su Miao’s resourcefulness while Yuanshi admitted he had nearly intervened.