Chapter Summaries

Yun Zimo returned to the Misty Cloud Sect and rushed to Wutan City to intervene in Nalan Yanran’s broken-engagement dispute with Xiao Yan. He prevented an immediate rupture between the Misty Cloud Sect and the Xiao Clan, and the chapter ended with him turning his attention to Ge Ye and Mo Ling.

• Yun Zimo returned to the Misty Cloud Sect, learned Nalan Yanran had gone to Wutan City, and slipped past Captain Yun Yun to pursue her.
• Yun Zimo arrived at the Xiao Clan just as Xiao Yan confronted Nalan Yanran and revealed his identity as Big Brother Yun Li from three years earlier.
• Yun Zimo stopped Nalan Yanran from resolving the engagement dispute immediately, and Nalan Yanran explained why she wanted control over her own life.
• Xiao Yan apologized to Nalan Yanran and asked Xiao Zhan to dissolve the engagement, but Nalan Yanran proposed that she and Xiao Yan fight in three years instead.
• Xiao Yan accepted the challenge, and Yun Zimo began considering how to deal with Ge Ye and Mo Ling after they returned to the Misty Cloud Sect.

Yun Zimo returned to the Misty Cloud Sect, explained his concerns about Nalan Yanran and Ge Ye to Yun Yun, and was appointed the new Hall Master of the Punishment Hall. As the Xiao Clan arrived to dissolve Nalan Yanran’s engagement, Yun Yun sent her to visit her family, while Yun Zimo received the hall’s sword, seal, and authority.

• Yun Yin brought Yun Zimo before Yun Yun, who reprimanded him for breaking sect rules and sentenced him to copy the mountain-gate rules a hundred times.
• Yun Zimo told Yun Yun he had tried to keep Nalan Yanran from being misled by Ge Ye and others, and promised he would not misuse the Punishment Hall’s authority.
• Yun Zimo kissed Yun Yun and fled, while Yun Yun told Nalan Yanran that the Xiao Clan would come to dissolve her engagement and arranged for her to return home with Yun Zimo.
• The Xiao Clan dissolved the engagement, stirring gossip in the Jia Ma Imperial Capital, while the Misty Cloud Sect stayed out of the dispute.
• Yun Shan ordered Yun Yin to enter the Gate of Life and Death until he reached Dou Emperor level, and Yun Yun appointed Yun Zimo the ninth Hall Master of the Punishment Hall.
• Yun Yun gave Yun Zimo the Judgment Sword, his seal, and the Sect Master Token, and the sect’s disciples raised their swords in response.

Yun Zimo uncovered the Mo Clan’s abuses and led the Punishment Hall to Salt City to bring them to justice. While Mo Cheng tried to placate him by raiding bandit dens, Yun Zimo prepared a coordinated assault, leaving the Mo Clan surrounded by a tightening net.

• Yun Zimo grew furious over the records of Mo Cheng and the Mo Clan, then ordered the Law Enforcement Team to target the Mo Clan in northeastern Jia Ma.
• Yun Yun let Yun Zimo leave, acknowledging that she too had begun to feel the world should not remain as it was.
• Yun Zimo led his team to Salt City, where Mo Cheng hurried to welcome him and offered to wipe out the region’s bandits.
• Mo Cheng led his men through a series of bandit dens, believing the raids would satisfy Yun Zimo and protect the Mo Clan.
• Yun Zimo learned that the Punishment Hall had found all eleven of the Mo Clan’s secret passages and that Salt City’s other three great clans had agreed to attack.

Yun Zimo led the Law Enforcement Team and Salt City’s allies in exposing and destroying the Mo Clan’s secret experiments, killing Mo Cheng after he transformed into a powerful beast. After discovering the horrors in the clan’s secret chamber, Yun Zimo encountered Ge Ye and Gu He, who had arrived at Sister Yun’s request.

• Yun Zimo welcomed Mo Cheng’s returning force with a victory banquet, then revealed that the Punishment Hall had surrounded the Mo Clan compound.
• Yun Zimo exposed the Mo Clan’s crimes as white mist concealed the compound, and Mo Cheng and other clan members transformed into half-human, half-beast creatures.
• City Lord Mo and representatives of local clans condemned Mo Cheng, while a group of Dou Ling attacked him.
• Mo Cheng unleashed a powerful strike with his severed beast arm, but Yun Zimo killed him with a sword attack.
• Yun Zimo inspected the Mo Clan’s secret chamber and found its atrocities, then questioned Ge Ye after he arrived with Gu He.

Yun Zimo destroyed the Mo Clan’s secret chamber and sought Gu He’s help learning orthodox alchemy, then traveled to Wutan City and encountered young Xiao Yan. After touching Xiao Yan’s ring, Yun Zimo was knocked unconscious, while someone noticed that both boys had promising soul strength.

• Yun Zimo spared Ge Ye but ordered him to face punishment and return seventy percent of the Mo Clan’s property to the sect.
• Gu He condemned the Mo Clan’s Transplantation Evolution Technique, and Yun Zimo asked him to teach alchemical theory; Gu He said he would think about it.
• Yun Zimo had the Mo Clan’s secret chamber burned, and news of the clan’s destruction spread across the Jia Ma Empire.
• Xiao Yan regained his Dou Qi and resumed cultivating, hoping to become a Dou Zhe before his coming-of-age ceremony.
• Yun Zimo found young Xiao Yan in the Xiao Clan, knocked him unconscious, and used an illusion to conceal his disappearance.
• Yun Zimo touched the ring around Xiao Yan’s neck and collapsed, while someone observed that both boys had soul strength good enough to pass.

Yao Chen examined Yun Zimo and left him soul-training guidance and a message directing him to Venerable Feng, while Yun Zimo and Xiao Yan met within the mist. Xiao Yan returned the next morning, and Yun Zimo began teaching him alchemy theory and combat techniques with a mountain of books to study.

• Yao Chen judged Yun Zimo's soul and talent, then sealed a cultivation art, an image, and a map within his soul for him to discover after meeting the required test and strength.
• Xiao Yan woke beside Yun Zimo, and Yun Zimo repeatedly defeated him in fights and arguments before introducing himself as Yun Li.
• Xiao Yan regained his determination and vowed to surpass Yun Li, who left the bamboo grove after testing the Bone Flame Ring.
• Xiao Yan encountered Xun'er on his way out and wondered whether she had a high cultivation level.
• Xiao Yan returned to the bamboo grove the next morning, and Yun Zimo gave him books and scrolls to study as he began teaching him alchemy theory and combat techniques.

Yun Zimo warned Yun Yun that the Misty Cloud Sect faced possible destruction within two years, then sparred with her after returning from years of dangerous travels. Their fight ended with Yun Yun stopping his mysterious sword strike and knocking him from the air.

• Yun Zimo urged Yun Yun to stop pursuing the Mo Clan matter, then told her Ancestor Potian had warned him that disaster could destroy the sect within two years.
• Yun Zimo recalled his transmigration, grueling cultivation, close relationship with Yun Yun, and five years of travel across the Jia Ma Empire and Black-Corner Region.
• Yun Yun invited Yun Zimo to spar, and they exchanged sword strikes before using Dou Techniques against each other.
• Yun Zimo trapped Yun Yun with thirty-six sword shadows and launched his All Beings Equal strike.
• Yun Yun released her full Dou Emperor strength to halt Yun Zimo's attack, then struck him from the air; he protested when she declared herself the loser.

Yun Yun brought Yun Zimo to former sect master Yun Shan for advice on the sword technique Zimo had developed during his travels. Yun Shan demonstrated a new way to shape its sword intent, urged Zimo to let his heart guide the sword, and then spoke with Elder Jia about turning his attention from cultivation to teaching the next generation.

• Yun Zimo explained that his sword technique split one strike into thirty-six streaks of swordlight, but it needed three breaths to charge and could only reach Dou Emperor strength.
• Yun Yun took Yun Zimo to the rear mountains to ask Yun Shan for guidance, where Yun Shan tested Zimo's composure and judgment over tea.
• Yun Zimo demonstrated his sword technique, and Yun Shan showed how to compress its sword intent into a strike that split the clouds and destroyed a distant hill.
• Yun Shan told Yun Zimo to let the sword follow his heart, then disappeared, leaving Yun Zimo to ponder his advice.
• Elder Jia arrived at Misty Cloud Mountain, and Yun Shan said he had stopped pursuing a breakthrough and would rather teach the younger generation.

Yun Shan investigated Yun Zimo’s prophecy and decided to visit the Imperial Capital to seek an alliance with Jia Xingtian, while Yun Zimo pushed for reforms within the Misty Cloud Sect. Yun Yun entered seclusion and left Yun Zimo acting as Sect Master, just as Yun Shan was away.

• Yun Shan found evidence of Soul Hall in ancient records but doubted the prophecy, then decided to discuss an alliance with Jia Xingtian.
• Yun Zimo prepared to join Yun Yun in reforming the sect and argued against elders who refused to change its ancestral rules.
• Yun Zimo challenged Yun Yun’s belief that the Misty Cloud Sect faced no threats, pointing to its weakness among neighboring sects.
• Yun Yun handed Yun Zimo the Sect Master Seal and entered seclusion in the Gate of Life and Death the next day.
• Yun Leng learned that Yun Shan had gone to visit a friend and Yun Yun had entered seclusion, leaving Yun Zimo to act as Sect Master.

Yun Zimo reflected on the reforms he had made to the Misty Cloud Sect while arranging for Yun Yun to attend Nalan Yanran’s coming-of-age ceremony and visit the Xiao Clan. As sunset fell, Yun Zimo found clarity and broke through to Nine-Star Dou Wang.

• Yan Shi drilled the Misty Cloud disciples in team formations before Yun Zimo summoned him to the sect master's office.
• Yan Shi told Yun Zimo that his old friend, the former Ice Emperor Hai Bodong, had lost strength and might be persuaded to join the sect.
• Yun Zimo asked Yun Yun to choose a gift for Nalan Yanran’s coming-of-age ceremony and visit the Xiao Clan; Yun Yun agreed.
• Yun Zimo walked through the sect with Yan Shi and asked whether his reforms had worked, and Yan Shi said the disciples had become calmer and more focused.
• As Yun Zimo watched the sunset over Misty Cloud Mountain, he broke through to Nine-Star Dou Wang.

At the Xiao Clan coming-of-age ceremony, Xiao Yan stunned the crowd by regaining the strength of a One-Star Dou Zhe, while Xiao Xun'er also tested as a One-Star Dou Zhe and drew Yun Yun's suspicion. Later, Yun Zimo learned why Nalan Yanran was so determined to win the Three-Year Agreement, and she vowed not to surrender her fate.

• Xiao Xun'er hurried Xiao Yan to the ceremony, where he tested as a One-Star Dou Zhe after advancing seven minor stages in a year.
• Xiao Yan calmly returned to Xiao Xun'er as the crowd stared in disbelief, and Yun Yun praised him to Xiao Zhan.
• Xiao Xun'er also tested as a One-Star Dou Zhe, and Yun Yun sensed that her true strength was greater than she showed.
• Nalan Yanran tested as a Nine-Star Dou Zhe but remained disappointed, then sat by Uncle Rabbit's grave as Yun Zimo joined her.
• Nalan Yanran told Yun Zimo about Uncle Rabbit and vowed to win the Three-Year Agreement rather than surrender her fate.

Elder Lin invited the Misty Cloud Sect to join Jia Nan Academy’s exchange program, and Yun Zimo brought the offer to Yun Shan and the sect elders. Yun Zimo decided to select students through a training trip before escorting them to the academy.

• Elder Lin explained that Jia Nan Academy had provisionally added the Misty Cloud Sect to its exchange program, offering six Outer Academy places and four Inner Academy places.
• Elder Lin gave Yun Zimo an exchange letter and a jade slip showing the routes of Jia Nan Academy’s recruitment teams.
• Yun Zimo reported the invitation to Yun Shan, who told him to let the elders distribute the places and warned him to protect the sect’s reputation.
• Yun Zimo asked the elders to choose disciples of strong character and ordered a month-long training trip to assess them without revealing its purpose.
• Yun Zimo said he would personally escort the selected disciples to Jia Nan Academy in a month.

Yun Shan refused to let Nalan Yanran leave for Jia Nan Academy until she reached Da Dou Shi. Yun Zimo received Gu He’s analysis of the Eagle Wings and the Seven-Colored Poison Scripture, then directed Gu He toward a rumored Heavenly Flame in the Chu Yun Empire; afterward, Yun Zimo set out to meet someone from an agreement made six years earlier.

• Yun Shan told Nalan Yanran she could leave the mountain once she broke through to Da Dou Shi, and she agreed to focus on cultivation.
• Gu He showed Yun Zimo how the Flying Dou Technique’s Eagle Wings had been crafted and gave him his annotated Seven-Colored Poison Scripture.
• Yun Zimo told Gu He that the Fire Cloud Water Flame might be in the Chu Yun Empire and mentioned sightings of someone carrying a peculiar flame near herb merchants’ outposts.
• Gu He left the Misty Cloud Sect to investigate the Heavenly Flame, while Yun Zimo reflected on how he had cultivated Gu He’s ties to the sect and tracked down the flame’s owner.
• Yun Zimo headed for the Magical Beast Mountain Range to meet someone he had made an agreement with six years earlier.

Yun Zimo reunited with Xiao Yi Xian at the Ten Thousand Medicine Pavilion and tried to take her back to the Misty Cloud Sect to seek help for her Woe Poison Body. After she left secretly and suffered an outbreak, he found and saved her, then promised he knew someone who could cure her condition.

• Yun Zimo visited Xiao Yi Xian at the Ten Thousand Medicine Pavilion and gave her the revised Seven-Colored Poison Scripture from Grandmaster Gu He.
• Yun Zimo recalled finding Xiao Yi Xian as a traumatized child after her village was wiped out and teaching her to use poison to save people.
• Yun Zimo told Xiao Yi Xian he wanted Grandmaster Gu He to examine her Woe Poison Body, but she changed the subject and discussed her medicine with him.
• Xiao Yi Xian left a letter saying she would travel alone, and Yun Zimo tracked her to a secluded valley in the Magical Beast Mountain Range.
• Yun Zimo suppressed Xiao Yi Xian's Woe Poison Body outbreak with pills, medicinal ingredients, and his Dou Qi, then reassured her that he knew someone who could cure her.

Xiao Yan arrived in Green Mountain Town and discovered the hidden Blood Lotus Essence at Ten Thousand Medicine Pavilion, where he reunited with Yun Zimo and Xiao Yi Xian. Yun Zimo gave Xiao Yan a Flying Dou Technique and a Storage Ring, then warned him to train hard for the Three-Year Agreement.

• Xiao Yan struggled into Ten Thousand Medicine Pavilion under the weight of his Heavy Black Ruler and spotted the Ice Spirit Flame Grass on display.
• Following Yao Lao's advice, Xiao Yan examined the Yellow Lotus Essence beside the grass and identified it as high-grade Blood Lotus Essence, earning both ingredients.
• The pavilion attendant led Xiao Yan to meet the pavilion master, where he reunited with Yun Zimo and met Xiao Yi Xian, a Nine-Star Dou Zhe Poison Master.
• Xiao Yan told Yun Zimo he had reached Eight-Star Dou Zhe, and Yun Zimo noted his strong body and solid Dou Qi despite his intense training.
• Yun Zimo gave Xiao Yan Eagle Wings and a high-grade Storage Ring, then urged him not to lose the Three-Year Agreement to Nalan Yanran.

Yao Lao discovered that two map fragments in the Storage Ring might lead to the Purifying Lotus Demon Flame, but he soon sensed Xiao Yi Xian’s Woe Poison Body erupting and used up much of his strength to seal it. He then told Xiao Yan the history of the Woeful Poison Scripture and the Woeful Poison Maiden, whose legacy he had promised to pass on.

• Yao Lao found two parchment fragments depicting part of a map and recognized them as possible clues to the Purifying Lotus Demon Flame.
• When Xiao Yi Xian’s poison mist erupted, Yao Lao took control of Xiao Yan, contained the poison with Bone Spirit Cold Flame, and placed a seal on Xiao Yi Xian.
• Xiao Yan returned to his room, where Yao Lao revealed that the seal had left him with less than a tenth of his strength and showed him the Woeful Poison Scripture.
• Yao Lao recounted how he had met the injured Woeful Poison Maiden, fought her, and later became her companion as they battled and drank together.
• When the Woeful Poison Maiden said she was dying, Yao Chen could not find a cure for her Woe Poison Body, so she entrusted him with their scripture and asked him to pass on her legacy and help a future bearer.

Yun Zimo brought Xiao Yi Xian and Misty Cloud Sect exchange students to Jia Nan Academy, where Great Elder Su Qian welcomed them and spoke with Yun Zimo about his past actions in the Black-Corner Region. The group arrived at the Inner Academy as Zi Yan stole fruit and medicinal herbs, leaving an elder furious.

• Yun Zimo left for Misty Cloud Mountain with Xiao Yi Xian after learning Little Yanzi was gone and arranging the exchange students’ departure.
• Yun Zimo and Xiao Yi Xian traveled with the Misty Cloud Sect delegation to Jia Nan Academy, where six students stayed in the Outer Academy and four Da Dou Shi students continued to the Inner Academy.
• Elder Lin opened the hidden entrance to the Inner Academy, and Yun Zimo sensed a powerful wave of Dou Qi as the group entered.
• Great Elder Su Qian welcomed Yun Zimo and Xiao Yi Xian, then took them aside and acknowledged Yun Zimo’s role in killing Blood Butcher.
• Zi Yan ate fruit and stole medicinal herbs, prompting an elder to shout angrily after her.

Yun Zimo met Zi Yan at Jia Nan Academy and offered to take her with him so an alchemist could make her tasty pills. After Su Qian approved her departure and arranged her graduation, Zi Yan gave Yun Zimo a list of rare treasures hidden in the Endless Mountains.

• Yun Zimo found Zi Yan eating a Heavenly Candle Fire Dragon Fruit and traded her pills for the half-eaten fruit.
• Zi Yan told Yun Zimo that she had been eating medicinal ingredients to grow because alchemists refused to make pills for her.
• Yun Zimo invited Zi Yan to leave with him, and she agreed when he promised she could eat whatever she wanted at home.
• Yun Zimo persuaded Su Qian to let Zi Yan leave Jia Nan Academy, and Su Qian arranged her graduation that afternoon.
• Zi Yan gave Yun Zimo a scroll listing rare natural treasures and their locations in the Endless Mountains.

Yun Zimo collected several Magical Beast Kings as Zi Yan’s companions, then visited Xiao Yi Xian in the Heavenly Burning Qi Refining Tower. He found her greatly strengthened by the Fallen Heart Flame and resolved to advance his own cultivation quickly.

• Yun Zimo subdued the Snow Demon Sky Ape, named her Yun Xue, and took Zi Yan to collect more rare treasures and Magical Beast companions.
• Su Qian saw Zi Yan with the Snow Demon Sky Ape, Purple Nether Flame Sparrow, and Earth-Splitting Python Demon Tiger, then arranged greater access to the tower and a portion of the Heart Flame Origin.
• Yun Zimo discussed the Fallen Heart Flame with Elder Huo and learned Xiao Yi Xian was training deep in the tower despite the fire poison.
• Yun Zimo found Xiao Yi Xian in a training room, where the Fallen Heart Flame had calmed her Poison Dou Qi and helped her reach Da Dou Shi in a month.
• Xiao Yi Xian demonstrated her strength to Yun Zimo, who decided he needed to break through to Dou Huang as soon as possible.

Yun Zimo decided to seek a breakthrough to Dou Emperor through combat, then asked Gu He to help care for Xiao Yi Xian and provide energy-rich pills for Zi Yan. Gu He joined the Misty Cloud Sect and agreed to help, but realized Zi Yan’s needs would require a major expansion of the Alchemy Hall.

• Yun Shan advised Yun Zimo to fight powerful Dou Kings or spar with a Dou Emperor to break through, and Yun Zimo resolved to challenge old experts after leaving the mountain.
• Yun Zimo gave Zi Yan more pill-beads after she finished her snacks, then brought her to the Alchemy Hall to ask Gu He for help.
• Gu He gave Xiao Yi Xian pills to suppress her poisonous Dou Qi and formally joined the Misty Cloud Sect as Hall Master of the Alchemy Hall.
• Yun Zimo asked Gu He to teach Xiao Yi Xian and refine high-energy pills for Zi Yan, whose unusual body required an enormous amount of energy.
• Gu He warned that even a Seventh-Grade Alchemist could not produce enough pills alone, so Yun Zimo ordered the sect to divert resources toward expanding the Alchemy Hall.