Chapter Summaries

Xiao Yi Xian returned to Cold Pool, reunited with Little Spirit, Liu Yan, and Chi Han, then set out for Black Rock City on the way to the Tagor Desert. After reaching the city, she settled in for the night, leaving her plans to find Gute for the following day.

• Xiao Yi Xian reunited with Little Spirit, Liu Yan, and Chi Han, then said they would head to Black Rock City before traveling to the Tagor Desert to meet someone.
• Chi Han carried Xiao Yi Xian and the others to Black Rock City, where they passed through the gates after paying the entrance tax.
• Xiao Yi Xian bought candied hawthorns for Little Spirit and the group, prompting Liu Yan to remember his missing disciple and Xiao Yi Xian to recall the original owner's dream of becoming a Medicine Master.
• Xiao Yi Xian took Little Spirit and Liu Yan to Yuelai Inn, booked two private rooms, and planned to continue their errands the next day.
• Little Spirit poked the shrunken Chi Han with a wooden stick while Xiao Yi Xian watched the sunset from the inn.

Xiao Yi Xian and Liu Yan visited Gute in Black Rock City, enduring his traps on the way to meet him. Xiao Yi Xian’s Sword Box pressure frightened Gute, who asked what had brought them to his home.

• Xiao Yi Xian asked Liu Yan about Gute, and Liu Yan described the eccentric Medicine Master’s obsession with rare treasures.
• Liu Yan led Xiao Yi Xian, Little Spirit, and the sleeping Chi Han through Black Rock City to Gute’s secluded home.
• Liu Yan deflected Gute’s black-powder prank, then guided the group through the building’s traps and damaged his foot on a steel door.
• Liu Yan burned through the door and subdued Gute with his soul force after Gute taunted him.
• Xiao Yi Xian released pressure from her Sword Box, terrifying Gute, who cautiously asked why she had come.

Xiao Yi Xian traded a bottle of Companion Purple Crystal Source for Gute’s deadly Nether Scorpion venom. She left Gute’s collection with a broken magical beast core that Little Spirit had chosen.

• Xiao Yi Xian spotted Gute’s rare treasures but decided not to take them by force, and asked him to trade her hidden poisons.
• Gute gave Xiao Yi Xian a bottle of Fifth Order Nether Scorpion venom, and she offered him Companion Purple Crystal Source in return.
• Gute identified the purple liquid as the rare Companion Purple Crystal Source and eagerly accepted the trade.
• Little Spirit asked for a stone that was only a depleted magical beast core, and Xiao Yi Xian persuaded Gute to let her take it.

Xiao Yi Xian and her companions continued their journey toward the Tagor Desert, where Chi Han fought and defeated the Azure Serpent Python at a lakeside stop. The group rested beneath the stars while Chi Han recovered from its wounds.

• Xiao Yi Xian asked Little Spirit about her beast core, and Little Spirit said it had belonged to a senior of her clan and would help her.
• Chi Han flew the group toward the Tagor Desert, and they landed beside a lake to rest for the night.
• The Azure Serpent Python challenged Chi Han for entering its territory, and the two Dou Wang beasts began fighting.
• Chi Han defeated the Azure Serpent Python, bit out its beast core, and withdrew to recover from its injuries.
• Xiao Yi Xian gathered meat from the Azure Serpent Python, cooked it for the group, and watched the stars with Little Spirit.

Xiao Yi Xian, Liu Yan, and their companions became trapped in a mysterious fog and discovered a broken stele bearing the name “Ancient Spirit Forbidden Ground.” Touching it transported them into a palace, where a powerful figure demanded to know why they had trespassed.

• Xiao Yi Xian flew toward the Tagor Desert with Chi Han and realized she had reached the two-star Da Dou Shi realm.
• Xiao Yan arrived in Black Rock City and entered the Alchemist Guild to take the Medicine Master assessment.
• Chi Han lost his sense of direction, and Xiao Yi Xian and Liu Yan descended into the fog, where Liu Yan found his soul power suppressed.
• Xiao Yi Xian and Liu Yan discovered a broken stele that Little Spirit identified as reading “Ancient Spirit Forbidden,” and Xiao Yi Xian concluded the full name was likely “Ancient Spirit Forbidden Ground.”
• Little Spirit touched the stele, transporting Xiao Yi Xian, Liu Yan, Little Spirit, and the beast into a palace surrounded by powerful people.
• A figure in the palace demanded to know who Xiao Yi Xian and her companions were and why they had trespassed.

Xiao Yi Xian entered the Flower and Grass Elf Tribe’s small world and used an aura that seemed to belong to a Dou Zong to command respect from Queen Fu Ya. After learning that the only possible route out led through the Forbidden Ground, she agreed to explore it the next day and discovered the kingdom was populated entirely by women.

• Xiao Yi Xian released a powerful aura in the palace, causing Fu Ya and the gathered tribe members to treat her as a formidable senior.
• Fu Ya introduced herself as the queen of the Flower and Grass Elf Tribe and explained that they were in the tribe’s small world.
• Fu Ya told Xiao Yi Xian that the Forbidden Ground might contain a way out, and Xiao Yi Xian agreed to explore it.
• Fu Ya invited Xiao Yi Xian and her companions to rest at Little King for the night before setting out the next day.
• A maid guided Xiao Yi Xian away from the palace, where she saw a giant tree, a green boundary, and a kingdom inhabited entirely by women.

Fu Ya sent Xiao Yi Xian and her companions with the Saintess, Yue Lin, through a gate into another world. They arrived in a desolate battlefield where skeletal remains began to rise.

• Fu Ya and an old woman agreed to send the Saintess with Xiao Yi Xian and use the journey to pursue their plans for the world's authority.
• Xiao Yi Xian explored the all-female beastfolk marketplace and sensed a powerful expert's presence in the inscription at Azure Cloud Palace.
• Xiao Yi Xian departed with Little Spirit and met Yue Lin, who offered to lead her group to the land of opportunity.
• Fu Ya and four elders activated a formation, opening a huge gate that Xiao Yi Xian, Yue Lin, and the others entered.
• The group arrived beneath a dim sky in a blood-red battlefield, where Xiao Yi Xian roused Yue Lin from a strange vision.
• Skeletal remains rose from the ground around Xiao Yi Xian and her companions, blue ghostfire burning in their bones.

Inside the inner world, Xiao Yi Xian and her companions faced skeletons that repeatedly revived and grew stronger after Chi Han destroyed them. Little Spirit froze the horde with her Ice Element, then collapsed into Xiao Yi Xian’s arms.

• An old woman questioned Fu Ya’s confidence in the Saintess as they looked toward the towering tree.
• Chi Han repeatedly scattered the skeletons, but they reassembled stronger each time until she collapsed from exhaustion.
• As the skeletons closed in, Xiao Yi Xian encouraged Little Spirit to step forward and fight.
• Little Spirit summoned snow that froze the skeletons into ice sculptures across the battlefield.
• Xiao Yi Xian praised Little Spirit and caught her as she fell unconscious.

Xiao Yi Xian and her companions entered a Forbidden Sky Land and found a dangerous lake where flight and Dou Qi were suppressed. As Chi Han carried them across, Fish Monsters attacked, and a huge shadow moved beneath the bloodied water.

• Yue Lin recognized the area as a Forbidden Sky Land after Xiao Yi Xian failed to fly and Chi Han had to travel on foot.
• The group reached a seemingly calm lake, where Liu Yan and Xiao Yi Xian sensed danger beneath the surface.
• Xiao Yi Xian ordered Chi Han to swim across, then drew You Su and attacked the lake after sensing a threat.
• Liu Yan knocked Yue Lin unconscious, while Xiao Yi Xian summoned Little Spirit and told Chi Han to press onward.
• Xiao Yi Xian, Little Spirit, and Liu Yan fought off the Fish Monsters as Myriad Swords Returning to Origin cut down many of them.
• The lake turned blood-red as more Fish Monsters gathered and a massive black shadow raced beneath the water.

Xiao Yi Xian and her companions neared the Small Island, but a gigantic Great White Shark attacked them. Xiao Yi Xian swallowed Fifth Order Nether Scorpion venom and took to the air to fight it, leaving the outcome uncertain as the shark submerged.

• The Fish Monsters fled, and Xiao Yi Xian and Liu Yan realized something more dangerous was approaching.
• A huge underwater force blasted Chi Han aside, but Liu Yan gave him a pill and he recovered enough to hurry toward the Small Island.
• Xiao Yi Xian warned the group as a gigantic Great White Shark emerged, and she told Chi Han to reach shallow water while Liu Yan guarded Little Spirit and Yue Lin.
• Xiao Yi Xian swallowed Fifth Order Nether Scorpion venom, transformed, and flew up with You Su to attack the Great White Shark with poisonous Sword Qi.
• The Great White Shark seemed unharmed and dived underwater as Xiao Yi Xian prepared for its next attack.

Xiao Yi Xian collapsed after returning to the island and awakened in the life she had lived before, where she gradually realized her memories of another world were real and that she was inside an Illusion Realm. A conversation with her little sister about why people live led Xiao Yi Xian to embrace the wish to keep moving forward and look upon the scenery at the summit together.

• Xiao Yi Xian defeated the Great White Shark, reached the island, and collapsed after reuniting with the waiting figures.
• Xiao Yi Xian awakened in her former life and wept as she reunited with her parents and little sister.
• Xiao Yi Xian questioned whether her experiences in the other world had been a dream, then recognized her little sister’s words about healing the world as proof they were real.
• Xiao Yi Xian realized she was in an Illusion Realm and reflected on how she and others had struggled to live.
• Xiao Yi Xian’s little sister said she lived for herself, her family, and the people she cared about, and Xiao Yi Xian suggested they look upon the scenery at the summit together.

Xiao Yi Xian escaped an illusion about returning to Earth, then faced a powerful white phantom who tested her with overwhelming pressure. After she used Myriad Swords Returning to Origin, the phantom remained unharmed and was reminded of someone from his past.

• Xiao Yi Xian awakened from an illusion in which she resolved to become an Emperor and return to Earth, while the other figures remained trapped.
• A white phantom appeared and revealed that he was a fragment of a soul fused with the illusion.
• The white phantom crushed Xiao Yi Xian with his pressure, but she resisted with her Sword Qi and poison until You Su flew from her Sword Box.
• The white phantom recognized You Su and asked whether Xiao Yi Xian was Lu Chuan's inheritor, then challenged her to use Myriad Swords Returning to Origin.
• Xiao Yi Xian unleashed Myriad Swords Returning to Origin, but the white phantom was unharmed, and her bloodied, half-kneeling stance stirred memories of someone from his past.

Xiao Yi Xian recovered in a mysterious spring after Long Yuan recognized her as Lu Chuan’s successor, and her cultivation fell even as her foundation and strength improved. She reunited with Little Spirit, Liu Yan, and Chi Han, but they still did not know how to leave while Yue Lin pursued the inheritance.

• Long Yuan sent Xiao Yi Xian to the Pool of Fortuitous Water and told her the others were safe.
• Xiao Yi Xian absorbed the spring’s energy, healed her hidden injuries, and rebuilt her foundation as her cultivation dropped to one-star Da Dou Shi.
• Long Yuan remembered Lu Chuan’s ambition to forge You Su into an Emperor Artifact.
• Xiao Yi Xian found Little Spirit asleep in another pool and placed her in the space within her mark.
• Xiao Yi Xian woke Liu Yan and Chi Han, explained what had happened, and heard their concern about how they would leave while Yue Lin sought the inheritance.

After leaving the small world controlled by Yue Lin, Xiao Yi Xian and her companions traveled toward the Tagor Desert. They arrived near their destination as another white-winged woman emerged from the Ancient Spirit Forbidden Land and flew toward a desert city.

• Xiao Yi Xian, Little Spirit, Liu Yan, and Chi Han grilled red carp while recovering from their gains in the small world.
• Yue Lin returned and explained that she could walk through the air because she had taken control of the small world, then opened a gate to send the group out.
• Xiao Yi Xian and her companions left the Ancient Spirit Forbidden Land, and Chi Han flew with them toward the Tagor Desert.
• A white-winged woman left the Ancient Spirit Forbidden Land and flew toward a city in the desert.
• Several days later, Xiao Yi Xian and the others reached the Tagor Desert, where she planned to help Xiao Yan obtain the Heavenly Flames and take in Qing Lin.

Xiao Yi Xian and her companions entered Mo City, where the heat and strict defenses reflected its proximity to the Tagor Desert. She decided they would stay in the city for a few days and wait for someone before entering the desert.

• Xiao Yi Xian had Chi Han hide and entered Mo City with Little Spirit and Liu Yan in order to keep a low profile.
• Xiao Yi Xian observed the harsh desert climate and the distinctive people and buildings around Mo City.
• Xiao Yi Xian paid the entrance fee while Liu Yan entered without paying after the soldiers recognized his Fifth-grade Medicine Master robe.
• A soldier warned Liu Yan that the Snake People in the Tagor Desert had been restless, then nervously returned to collecting fees.
• Liu Yan asked whether they were heading into the desert, and Xiao Yi Xian said they would wait in Mo City for someone to arrive.

Xiao Yi Xian searched Stone Desert City and found Qing Lin, a little girl shunned for her Snake-People scales. After comforting Qing Lin, she invited her to come along, and Qing Lin asked if she could follow.

• Xiao Yi Xian left Liu Yan at an inn to cultivate and went out to look for someone.
• Xiao Yi Xian arrived at Stone Desert City and found Qing Lin washing clothes beside the canal while locals rejected her for the green scales on her wrist.
• Xiao Yi Xian caught Qing Lin when she nearly fell and asked her name.
• Qing Lin explained that she was the child of a snake person and a human, and Xiao Yi Xian reassured her that her birth was not her fault.
• Xiao Yi Xian invited Qing Lin to come with her, and Qing Lin tearfully asked if she could follow.

Xiao Yi Xian comforted Qing Lin and welcomed her to stay by her side, while Little Spirit offered her comfort as well. When Scarface threatened the girls, Xiao Yi Xian killed him instantly with Sword Qi, leaving the onlookers stunned.

• Xiao Yi Xian explained Qing Lin’s mixed-blood heritage and the discrimination she had faced, then promised that Qing Lin could stay with her.
• Qing Lin accepted Xiao Yi Xian’s offer and quietly vowed to stay with her for life.
• Little Spirit emerged from Xiao Yi Xian’s mark, embraced Qing Lin, and promised that things would get better.
• Scarface threatened Xiao Yi Xian and Little Spirit while the nearby mercenaries watched in fear.
• Xiao Yi Xian pierced Scarface’s forehead with Sword Qi, killing him instantly.

Xiao Yi Xian brought Qing Lin to the Desert Iron Mercenary Group to take her with her. After Xiao Ding and Xiao Li welcomed the party, Xiao Ding agreed that Qing Lin could leave with Xiao Yi Xian.

• Xiao Yi Xian woke with Little Spirit and Qing Lin sprawled across her and decided to visit the Desert Iron Mercenary Group.
• Xiao Yi Xian told Qing Lin she would follow her, then brought her and Liu Yan to the mercenary group’s headquarters.
• A gatekeeper accepted Xiao Yi Xian’s third-grade magic beast core and escorted the party to the main hall.
• Xiao Ding and Xiao Li welcomed Xiao Yi Xian, and she explained that she had come because of Qing Lin.
• Xiao Ding and Xiao Li said Qing Lin could follow Xiao Yi Xian.

Xiao Yi Xian agreed to take Qing Lin with her, then flew Xiao Ding and his allies to the mine and rescued their forces from the Sand Mercenary Group. She slaughtered the mercenaries and Sha Luo, leaving Xiao Ding impressed and relieved to have her on their side.

• Xiao Yi Xian told Xiao Ding that Qing Lin would follow her, and a wounded mercenary reported that the Sand Mercenary Group had attacked their people at the mine.
• Xiao Ding stopped Xiao Li from rushing into a likely ambush, but Xiao Yi Xian offered to help because she had a connection with Xiao Yan.
• Xiao Yi Xian carried Xiao Ding, Xiao Li, and Qing Lin on her sword to the mine, where Sha Luo's forces fired arrows at them.
• Chi Han blocked the arrows, and Xiao Yi Xian placed her companions on his back before leaping down to confront the Sand Mercenary Group.
• Xiao Yi Xian used her sword and the Earth Grade Low Rank Fighting Skill—Myriad Swords Returning to Origin to kill Sha Luo and the mercenaries.
• Xiao Yi Xian stood amid the bloodied battlefield, while Xiao Ding watched with admiration and relief.

After the Sand Mercenary Group was destroyed, Xiao Yi Xian recovered her strength and reunited with Xiao Yan in Mo City. Xiao Yan said he had obtained a map and was ready to search for the Heavenly Flame, leaving Xiao Yi Xian uncertain whether events would follow the original course.

• The Desert Iron Mercenary Group celebrated its victory while Xiao Yi Xian drank alone beneath the moon, and Xiao Ding watched her from afar.
• Xiao Yi Xian absorbed poison for several days and returned to the strength of a three-star Da Dou Shi.
• Little Spirit told Xiao Yi Xian that Xiao Yan had arrived, and Xiao Yan soon joined her and the others.
• Xiao Yi Xian teased Medicine Elder through Xiao Yan's Storage Ring after greeting Xiao Yan.
• Xiao Yi Xian asked about news of the Heavenly Flames, and Xiao Yan said he had obtained the map and planned to search for one.