Chapter Summaries

Yu Sui tortured Ji Meng to break down his defenses, uncover what he knew about the Ji family's experiments, and help Wei Ren's Charm Serpent infiltrate him, while she also prepared for Mei Chengyu's continued absence inside Ruoshui Qingni. The chapter ended when Yu Sui detected multiple newcomers near Thousand Foot Cliff, including Li Jinshuang, after seven days without word from Mei Chengyu.

• Yu Sui used deprivation and psychological torment to force Ji Meng to reveal that he had suffered unexplained injuries and memory gaps, though Mysterious Technique. Celestial Official had failed to restore his memories.
• As Ji Meng's defenses collapsed, Wei Ren's Charm Serpent entered his shadow, but its influence also triggered bouts of beastification that Wan Qi tried to suppress with medicine.
• Yu Sui covered Thousand Foot Cliff's Mountain Walls with 3,736 Ghost Dao Death Runes while Mei Chengyu remained missing inside Ruoshui Qingni.
• Ji Meng told Yu Sui that both Grandmothers had visited the Medicine Field where he was taken whenever he showed abnormal symptoms, suggesting Nangong Grandmother knew about the experiments.
• Yu Sui discovered that one of her Five Elements Light Cores had shattered near the entrance, and Xue Mushi identified a Decapitation Gu reacting to Li Jinshuang's presence as Yu Sui sensed others had arrived too.

Xia Feichen, Zhongli Shan, and the wounded Fang Tianchen were cornered at Thousand Foot Cliff by Bei Shan and Duan Mingde, while Li Jinshuang fought Duan Mingde to avenge Su Qingyou. Yu Sui emerged from the cliff entrance, revealed her Ghost Dao power, and covered their retreat into the barrier as the fight continued.

• Xia Feichen carried the unconscious Fang Tianchen toward Thousand Foot Cliff while Zhongli Shan protected them from Bei Shan and Duan Mingde’s sword qi.
• Duan Mingde demanded Fang Tianchen and the Ice and Fire Kui Star, but Zhongli Shan and Xia Feichen refused to hand them over.
• Li Jinshuang attacked Duan Mingde over Su Qingyou’s death, broke through to the Eighth Realm, and joined her power with her Sword Spirit to fight him.
• Bei Shan intervened when Li Jinshuang nearly struck down Duan Mingde, and Zhongli Shan blocked Bei Shan’s attack at the cost of worsening his curse.
• Yu Sui emerged from the barrier and activated the Scorching Sun Array, burning Duan Mingde and forcing Bei Shan to pull him away.
• Yu Sui signaled Zhongli Shan to lead Xia Feichen and Fang Tianchen into Thousand Foot Cliff while she held off the pursuers.

Yu Sui sheltered Li Jinshuang and the others inside Thousand Foot Cliff while they exchanged news about the Futuo Tower Fragments and the dangers in Wujian Mountain Abyss. When Ruoshui Qingni flooded the cliff, Yu Sui revealed her power by raising a vast wall of Ghost Dao Death Runes and repairing the barrier, leaving the people outside facing her warning.

• Yu Sui kept Bei Shan and Duan Mingde outside Thousand Foot Cliff, then treated Li Jinshuang while Xia Feichen explained how Fang Tianchen had swallowed the key to Withered Wood Altar and why their group was being hunted.
• Zhongli Shan told Yu Sui that Sheng Zui had likely been eliminated after disfiguring Su Jichun, and he explained how Xun Zhiya had controlled the falling thunder at Guan Lei Platform.
• Yu Sui dispelled the Ghost Dao School's Sun and Moon in the Same Sky from Zhongli Shan and urged the others to leave, but Qin Yidong and her companions arrived before they could go.
• Ruoshui Qingni flooded Thousand Foot Cliff and swept Yu Sui, Zhongli Shan, Li Jinshuang, Xia Feichen, and Fang Tianchen apart as Death Qi filled the ravine.
• Yu Sui raised thousands of Ghost Dao Death Runes across the cliff walls and repaired the barrier at the entrance, shocking Qin Yidong's group.
• When Duan Mingde reached for his sword as Fang Tianchen drifted toward the entrance, Yu Sui warned the people outside to enter only if they were unafraid to die.

Yu Sui carried Fang Tianchen through the Ruoshui Qingni and discovered he had died, while Qin Yidong and Bei Shan broke the barrier and led their group into the deadly flood. Yu Sui left Mei Chengyu’s ferry to search for her Senior Martial Brother, but when she reached a strange river and called out to him, the flame in her soul gave no response.

• Yu Sui carried Fang Tianchen away as Qin Yidong ordered Bei Shan and the others to break the barrier and enter Thousand Foot Cliff.
• Qin Yidong used the Taiqing Bottle and Gangfeng Lamp to protect the group as they crossed into the Ruoshui Qingni, where Wei Jianing was swept away and five people died.
• Yu Sui discovered Fang Tianchen had died and boarded Mei Chengyu’s ferry, where Xue Mushi, Zhongli Shan, and Li Jinshuang waited.
• Yu Sui told the others that Qin Yidong was inside the flood and left the ferry to find her Senior Martial Brother, while Zhongli Shan organized the ferry’s defenses.
• Yu Sui reached a calm river beyond the waterfall, saw a lone figure standing with his back to her, and found that her soul-flame did not react when she called out.

Yu Sui found Mei Chengyu in the Styx River and learned that he had recovered memories through Song Dongling’s Qi Consciousness. Mei Chengyu confronted Sage Chang Gen, rejected another attempt to seal his memories, and escaped detection by merging with the river’s Death Qi as Sage Chang Gen searched Taiyi Academy for him.

• Yu Sui pulled Song Dongling’s corpse from the river and learned from Mei Chengyu that he could glimpse her memories through its remaining Qi Consciousness.
• Mei Chengyu transferred Song Dongling’s memories to Yu Sui with a technique he had created using the Mechanism Heart, then urged her to leave before Sage Chang Gen arrived.
• Sage Chang Gen confronted Mei Chengyu in the Styx River and tried to seal his memories, but Mei Chengyu crushed the hidden incantation and revealed that his parents were Donglan Xun and Gongsun Xi.
• Mei Chengyu declared that he would no longer call Sage Chang Gen his Master, then revealed that the figure Sage Chang Gen attacked was an illusion while he himself had merged with the river’s Death Qi.
• Sage Chang Gen searched Taiyi Academy for Mei Chengyu, driving Ruoshui Qingni from Thousand Foot Cliff and passing Yu Sui without answering her call.

Sage Chang Gen’s attempt to find Mei Chengyu unleashed overwhelming pressure across Taiyi, while Gongsun Qi confronted Kuang Chu at the Withered Wood Altar. Their sword battle split the ancient tree and exposed the Futuo Tower Fragments and a hidden cave, where Su Jichun was revealed beneath falling debris.

• Sage Chang Gen refused requests to restrain his pressure, prompting the Sages to counter it as the upheaval spread across Taiyi.
• Situ Jin and A Quan learned Sage Chang Gen was heading to Thousand Foot Cliff to find Mei Chengyu, and Gongsun Qi decided to go there too.
• The Silence Tokens stopped responding, suggesting Mei Chengyu had recovered his memories, and Kuang Chu confronted Gongsun Qi over his sword.
• Gongsun Qi and Kuang Chu fought, splitting the Withered Wood Giant Tree and revealing a glowing Futuo Tower Fragment.
• The tree’s destruction exposed a collapsed cave where Sheng Zui carried the injured Su Jichun, as the fragment fell toward her.

After Sheng Zui and Su Jichun survived the fall into Wujian Mountain Abyss, he cared for her injuries and confronted how his anger and rivalry had shaped his life. He agreed to help her return home, but their escape was interrupted when a red-clothed man seized a fragment of the Futuo Tower.

• Sheng Zui woke in a cave beside the badly injured Su Jichun and realized an instructor had forced her to deny that he hurt her.
• Sheng Zui gave Su Jichun life-saving medicine, then cared for her while she recovered and prepared to leave for home.
• After Su Jichun said she wanted to return to Yan, Sheng Zui promised to take her there and carried her through an Underground River route.
• Sword Qi shattered the Withered Wood Altar and collapsed the ground, forcing Sheng Zui and Su Jichun out of the cave.
• Su Jichun threw away a glowing fragment as Sheng Zui shielded her, but a red-clothed man caught the Futuo Tower Fragments.

Gongsun Qi attacked Sheng Zui after recognizing him as Nangong Ming’s son, forcing Kuang Chu to intervene while Sheng Zui tried to protect the dying Su Jichun. The battle ended when two Military School Saints arrived and A Quan teleported the others away, while Ink Qi returned to the Taoist Saint Hall and watched a young man at its entrance.

• Gongsun Qi caught and discarded the Futuo Tower Fragments, which A Quan retrieved and hid.
• After learning Sheng Zui was Nangong Ming’s son, Gongsun Qi unleashed Heavenly Fire Flowing Flames and attacked him, but Sheng Zui’s Divine Wood Blessing repeatedly made the strikes miss.
• Gongsun Qi broke Mu Mengbai’s Divine Wood Sign, and Kuang Chu fought him while Sheng Zui gave the broken sign and his remaining Five Elements Qi to Su Jichun before collapsing.
• Leng Rouyin and Zhuge Ling interrupted the duel with a combined strike, and A Quan activated the teleportation formation to take his group away.
• Ink Qi returned to the Taoist Saint Hall and watched the young man standing at the entrance to the Saint Hall Main Hall.

Donglan Li confronted Sage Chang Gen after recovering his memories, accused him of killing Gongsun Xi for revenge, and destroyed the Taoist Saint Hall in their clash. He left Taiyi declaring that Sage Chang Gen and the He Clan could no longer stop him from leaving.

• Mei Chengyu recognized that the He Hanxing in Song Dongling's memories was Sage Chang Gen's friend, who could not leave his house and received Apricot Blossom Brew from He Hanxing.
• Mei Chengyu revealed that he had restored his memories as Donglan Li and accused Sage Chang Gen of killing his mother, Gongsun Xi, to avenge He Xuyan and protect the He Clan.
• Sage Chang Gen attacked Mei Chengyu, but their Five Elements Pressure clashed as Mei Chengyu rejected his offer to return to their former master-disciple relationship.
• Mei Chengyu declared that he would fight Sage Chang Gen and shattered the Taoist Saint Hall's barrier, setting the hall ablaze as Saints gathered outside.
• The Thousand Mechanism Heart awakened nine pairs of eyes behind Mei Chengyu, which shattered Sage Chang Gen's ink-gold eye and let Mei Chengyu burn away the attacking Ink Qi.
• Mei Chengyu walked away from the burning hall and warned Sage Chang Gen and the He Clan to hide, saying they would no longer be able to stop him from leaving Taiyi.

Mei Chengyu forced Chang Sunzi to divine whether Dream of Heaven's Gift or Qingyang would come first, and her vision revealed that the strange fire would destroy the world before Qingyang perished. Sun Heng let Mei Chengyu leave with him, while Zhuge Ling demanded the identities of the World Destroyers and Chang Sunzi later refused to explain whether she had worked with Mei Chengyu.

• Mei Chengyu confronted Sun Heng and offered to trade information about the strange fire and Guixu for the other Five Kingdoms, warning that he no longer cared whether the world survived.
• Mei Chengyu asked Chang Sunzi to divine whether Dream of Heaven's Gift would come true before Qingyang perished, and Chang Sunzi's divination showed the world consumed by the Black Flame.
• Chang Sunzi announced that the strange fire would come first and Qingyang would perish afterward, and Mei Chengyu told Sun Heng to choose which threat he wanted to eliminate.
• Sun Heng stepped aside and left with Mei Chengyu, while the other Sages reacted to the vision of the world's destruction.
• Zhuge Ling demanded that Chang Sunzi reveal the World Destroyers' identities and attacked her, but Legalist Saint Yu and Zou Qian intervened.
• Zou Qian asked Chang Sunzi whether she and Mei Chengyu had deliberately released Dream of Heaven's Gift, but she refused to answer.

After Sage Chang Gen revealed Mei Chengyu’s identity and forced Yu Sui to return to her father, it erased the Taoist Saint Hall and left her alone among the ruins. Yu Sui then faced Qin Yidong, Gu Gan, and Sheng Zui as they clashed over the Love-struck Gu antidote and the missing Futuo Tower Fragments.

• Sage Chang Gen told Yu Sui that Mei Chengyu was the son of the Princess of Yan Kingdom, explained how it had killed his mother and sealed his memories, and ordered Yu Sui to tell her father what she knew.
• Yu Sui challenged Sage Chang Gen’s attempt to make her provoke Mei Chengyu, but Sage Chang Gen ordered her to leave and erased the Taoist Saint Hall and its surroundings.
• Qin Yidong mocked Yu Sui over her recent losses, and Yu Sui warned that Qin Yidong might die that day as Gu Gan and Sheng Zui appeared.
• Sheng Zui demanded that Qin Yidong hand over the antidote to the Love-struck Gu, while Gu Gan questioned her about the missing Futuo Tower Fragments.
• Qin Yidong began forming seals to fight Gu Gan and Sheng Zui after Yu Sui urged her to teach them a lesson, while Yu Sui read a message saying the fragments were with the sender, who wanted to trade them for 300,000.

Gongsun Qi reunited with Mei Chengyu on Mechanism Island as Shuizhou prepared to investigate Sea Fire and the Fire-Absorbing Ice Stone. After Mei Chengyu persuaded Sun Heng to search for the Futuo Tower Fragments and question the prophecy, Gongsun Qi confirmed that his Qi resisted the stone and decided to act on his desire for revenge, sending a message to a young woman at Taiyi Academy.

• A Quan teleported Gongsun Qi and Situ Jin to Mechanism Island, where Gongsun Qi examined and crushed a Fire-Absorbing Ice Stone.
• Gongsun Qi saw Mei Chengyu board a ship but left without speaking to him, while Mei Chengyu and Sun Heng discussed the Nangong Family, Strange Fire, and the prophecy.
• Mei Chengyu told Sun Heng that his father had given the Futuo Tower Fragments to Gao Tianhao and argued that they should target the prophecy rather than the World Destroyers; Sun Heng agreed to find the fragments.
• Mei Chengyu gave Situ Jin a Fire-Absorbing Ice Stone for Gongsun Qi, and Gongsun Qi confirmed that his Qi was repelled by it.
• Remembering Gongsun Xi's death and his promise to his wife, Gongsun Qi chose not to forgive his enemies and sent a message to a young woman at Taiyi Academy.

Yu Sui spoke with Gongsun Qi about the Futuo Tower Fragments and Shuizhou’s plan to identify World Destroyers while Sheng Zui and Gu Gan fought Qin Yidong. After Yu Sui helped defeat Qin Yidong’s Flying Phoenix Tiger, she questioned Sheng Zui about the Withered Wood Platform and learned that a Military School strategist disguised as a Mechanism Clan technician had tried to kill him.

• Qin Yidong summoned her Thirteenth-Realm Flying Phoenix Tiger and battled Sheng Zui and Gu Gan as Yu Sui spoke with Gongsun Qi.
• Gongsun Qi told Yu Sui that Shuizhou planned to use Fire-Absorbing Ice Stones to identify World Destroyers, and they arranged to meet on Mechanism Island that night.
• Yu Sui learned that Sheng Zui had encountered Kuang Chu and a Military School strategist at the Withered Wood Platform, and suspected the strategist was the Yin-Yang Weirdo.
• Sheng Zui used Name School Hualing to suppress the Flying Phoenix Tiger, but his injuries disrupted the technique, so Yu Sui finished the fight with the Cangjia Scroll.
• Yu Sui secretly questioned Sheng Zui under her control and learned that the disguised strategist had tried to kill him; Sheng Zui then demanded Qin Yidong give him the antidote.

Yu Sui withdrew from the Night Walk Trial to investigate the Yin-Yang Weirdo and awakened the spirit of the Three Great Number Mountains. She left the chapter asking Zou Qian to tell her what had happened at the Taoist Saint Hall.

• Gu Gan stopped Sheng Zui from attacking Qin Yidong, who returned the Love-struck Gu antidote and provoked Sheng Zui by suggesting Yu Sui was after his inheritance.
• Yu Sui confronted Sheng Zui over his suspicion and revealed her cold view of their rivalry for Nangong Ming’s approval.
• After learning Sheng Zui had withdrawn, Yu Sui also withdrew from the Night Walk Trial and headed to the outer city, while Xue Mushi told the others she had left for an important reason.
• Yu Sui went to the merchant ship’s hold and asked Zou Qian to call the Three Great Number Mountains by the name “Mountain Spirit.”
• The Number Mountains answered through Yu Sui’s spirit puppet, and Yu Sui asked Zou Qian to tell her what had happened at the Taoist Saint Hall.

Yu Sui learned that Gongsun Qi, the Yin-Yang Weirdo and Mei Chengyu’s uncle, had taken the Futuo Tower Fragments and was still on Mechanism Island. As Yu Sui prepared to meet him, her Five Elements Light Cores continued evolving beyond the Ninth Realm, leaving her staring at a growing golden light.

• Zou Qian told Yu Sui that Chang Sunzi had denied collaborating with Mei Chengyu and that a divination had shown the strange fire burning before Qingyang perished.
• Zou Qian overheard Leng Rouyin and Kuang Chu reveal that the wanted Gongsun Qi had entered Taiyi Academy and taken the Futuo Tower Fragments.
• Zou Qian told Yu Sui that Gongsun Qi was Mei Chengyu’s uncle and the only family he had left, making Yu Sui fear that Gongsun Qi would attack her because she was Nangong Ming’s daughter.
• Yu Sui explained to Zou Qian that the Number Mountain and Mountain Spirit might embody a practitioner’s Five Elements Light Core, then used the Mountain Spirit to track Gongsun Qi on Mechanism Island.
• Yu Sui’s Five Elements Light Cores reached the Ninth Realm and kept evolving after she sent Mei Chengyu a message through the Water Wind Well.

Yu Sui upgraded her spirit puppets to Tenth Realm Soul Light Cores, triggering backlash for Lady Su through the Wuxiang Snake and escalating the conflict over Suisui’s fate and the Breath Soil. On Mechanism Island, Yu Sui met Gongsun Qi to exchange for the Futuo Tower Fragments, and his sword spirit Jinghong unexpectedly appeared with the box.

• Yu Sui replaced her core with a Tenth Realm Soul Light Core, and her near-death shock caused the World Destroyers to suffer a brief shared agony.
• The panicked Wuxiang Snake pleaded with Yu Sui, who dragged it into the Nine Provinces Star Sea and threw it over a cliff, leaving Lady Su coughing blood from the backlash.
• Lady Su asked Nangong Ming for the other half of the Breath Soil, but he refused because he still intended to use Suisui for the Lineage’s goals.
• Yu Sui arrived at Mechanism Island and met Gongsun Qi at the abandoned building in the Tear Sea, where her sword spirit Yanyan collected the Black Piece containing the Futuo Tower Fragments.
• Gongsun Qi introduced his sword spirit Jinghong, who appeared behind Yu Sui and held out the box that had been in Yanyan’s hand.

Yu Sui questioned Gongsun Qi about the strange fire and asked him to protect Mei Chengyu, while Gongsun Qi warned that the fire could not be separated from its chosen World Destroyers. At Taiyi, Jiang Shulan exposed Shi Yuezhen’s secret theft of disciples’ Five Elements Qi, expelled her, and issued an order to kill her on sight.

• Gongsun Qi gave Yu Sui the fragment and explained that the strange fire chose World Destroyers at random, though he refused to reveal what he had seen in his own Dream of Heaven’s Gift.
• Yu Sui told Gongsun Qi she was half from Yan and asked him to watch over Mei Chengyu, and he agreed.
• The Mountain Spirit told Yu Sui that Taiyi was preparing a campus-wide wanted notice for Shi Yuezhen.
• Qian Ying accused Shi Yuezhen of stealing the Mysterious Soldier Purple Disk Pot and attacking Jiang Shulan, but Jiang Shulan revealed that Shi Yuezhen had planted Zhong Eyes in patients to steal their Five Elements Qi.
• Jiang Shulan ordered affected disciples to be examined, expelled Shi Yuezhen from Taiyi, and announced that she should be killed on sight.

After Shi Yuezhen’s attack on Jiang Shulan triggered a campus-wide hunt, Wan Qi explained that Shi’s Huichong Abyss was consuming her and that she had been taking others’ Five Elements Qi to survive. Nian Qiuyan helped the wounded Shi and Cang Shu escape, and the chapter left them planning to find Xun Zhiya while Shi reflected on the childhood trauma she and Cang Shu shared.

• Xing Chun, Zhongli Shan, and Kong Yiyi learned that Shi Yuezhen and Cang Shu were missing and began seeking information about the Medical School trial.
• Wan Qi identified Shi Yuezhen’s eyes as a Huichong Abyss and explained that she was using Gu Eyes to take people’s Five Elements Qi.
• Jiang Shulan confirmed that Li Jinshuang had a Gu Eye mark and sent her to the Medicated Bathhouse to suppress it.
• Nian Qiuyan teleported the wounded Shi Yuezhen and Cang Shu away from Jiang Shulan and blocked others from divining their location.
• Shi Yuezhen admitted that she had taken others’ Five Elements Qi because she did not want to die, then asked Nian Qiuyan to help her find Xun Zhiya.
• Shi Yuezhen remembered how she and Cang Shu had survived together after their eyes were gouged out and they were thrown into black water.

The chapter looked back on how Mei Chengyu helped Shi Yuezhen escape judgment and how Taiyi’s friends gradually became a family to her and Cang Shu. It then returned to the present, where Shi Yuezhen and her allies were overwhelmed while trying to capture Xun Zhiya, until Mei Chengyu arrived in the Cloud Vehicle Dragon and told them to get on.

• Mei Chengyu recalled how he had beaten Cang Shu outside the Tianjian Division so Jiang Shulan would pity Shi Yuezhen and give her another chance.
• Mei Chengyu later explained that he had only guessed at Shi Yuezhen and Cang Shu’s hardships, clearing up their misunderstanding with him.
• Shi Yuezhen and Cang Shu grew close to their friends at Taiyi, who shared meals, gifts, and holiday celebrations with them.
• Nian Qiuyan located Xun Zhiya, and Cang Shu led the group to capture her, but Qian Ying and several instructors discovered them near the Medical School exit.
• Shi Yuezhen’s allies fought the pursuers while Shi Yuezhen, unable to see and nearly out of strength, tried to pull Xun Zhiya toward her with blood vines.
• As the group’s enemies launched a wave of techniques at Shi Yuezhen, Mei Chengyu arrived in the Cloud Vehicle Dragon, shattered their attacks, and ordered Shi Yuezhen and Cang Shu to board.

Mei Chengyu escaped Mechanism Island in a stolen Cloud Vehicle Dragon to rescue Shi Yuezhen and Cang Shu from Taiyi Academy. After Qian Ying died in the rescue, Gu Gan's suppressed Yang Fish seal shattered, and he set out to pursue Mei Chengyu while Yu Sui and Sheng Zui followed events from behind.

• Mei Chengyu told Wen Yangxiu about the Sea Eyes, then learned from Yu Sui that Shi Yuezhen was being hunted after placing Zhong Eyes on others.
• Mei Chengyu told Yu Sui that Gongsun Qi had gone mad after losing his wife and daughter, and promised to rescue Shi Yuezhen and Cang Shu before seeking him out.
• Mei Chengyu and Wen Yangxiu stole a Cloud Vehicle Dragon from the Situ Clan and raced toward Taiyi Academy, while the Mechanism Clan heads let them pass.
• Mei Chengyu rescued Cang Shu and Shi Yuezhen, but the Cloud Vehicle Dragon struck Qian Ying, killing her as Xun Zhiya was carried away by Transparent Spider Silk.
• Gu Gan's Yang Fish seal shattered as he held Qian Ying's body, and he rushed to the Nangong Family to obtain a Cloud Vehicle Dragon and pursue Mei Chengyu.
• Yu Sui told Black Beard to let Gu Gan go, and Sheng Zui decided to join the pursuit after learning Qian Ying had died and Shi Yuezhen was involved.