Chapter Summaries

Su Han, Lu Xueqi, and Bi Yao survived their fall into an ancient forest, where they began recovering with the help of its abundant spiritual energy. As night fell, Bi Yao sensed a group of creatures approaching.

• Su Han shielded Lu Xueqi and Bi Yao as they fell through a strange barrier and crashed into a bed of leaves, where he lost consciousness.
• Su Han awoke in an ancient forest and watched a Jade Horned Deer inspect Lu Xueqi before it calmly left.
• Su Han found Lu Xueqi and Bi Yao alive, then used the forest’s dense spiritual energy to begin healing himself and awaken Lu Xueqi.
• Bi Yao woke, checked that her Lifebound Gu Worms were safe, and joined Su Han and Lu Xueqi in recovering from their injuries.
• As night approached, the Reincarnation Mirror began faintly absorbing spiritual energy, and Bi Yao sensed several fast-moving creatures coming toward them.

Su Han, Lu Xueqi, and Bi Yao were ambushed by Purple Lightning Leopards while still badly injured, and escaped into a cave that made the Reincarnation Mirror respond. Inside, they found a strange spiritual plant that Bi Yao tentatively identified as a Nine-Leaf Spirit-Nourishing Ganoderma.

• Su Han, Lu Xueqi, and Bi Yao fought off a pack of Purple Lightning Leopards despite their injuries and dwindling strength.
• Su Han wounded the Leopard King with his Reincarnation Sword Intent, disrupting the pack long enough for the three to flee.
• Su Han noticed the Reincarnation Mirror pulse as they reached a cave, while the leopard pack stopped at the stream and refused to approach it.
• Su Han led Lu Xueqi and Bi Yao into the cave, where the spiritual energy grew denser and the Reincarnation Mirror briefly flashed.
• The three discovered a crystal pool and a nine-leaved plant bearing a fragrant fruit, which Bi Yao suspected was a Nine-Leaf Spirit-Nourishing Ganoderma.

Su Han, Lu Xueqi, and Bi Yao found the ripe Nine-Leaf Spirit-Nourishing Ganoderma and Yun Yazi’s Spirit Nourishing Art in the cave, then used the fruit to heal their souls. After burying Yun Yazi and studying the inheritance, Su Han sensed a stronger tremor from the Reincarnation Mirror pointing deeper into the cave and went to investigate.

• Su Han discovered Yun Yazi’s remains and read the cultivator’s account of his death and the inheritance he left behind.
• Su Han obtained the Spirit Nourishing Art from a Jade Slip and picked the ripe Nine-Leaf Spirit-Nourishing Ganoderma fruit.
• Bi Yao and Lu Xueqi shared their portions of the fruit with Su Han, and all three used it to repair and strengthen their souls.
• After his soul healed and his Spiritual Sense grew stronger, Su Han buried Yun Yazi and checked that the cave’s Illusion Formation remained intact.
• Su Han studied the Spirit Nourishing Art, then followed a clearer tremor from the Reincarnation Mirror toward the cave’s darker depths.

Su Han discovered an ancient Teleportation Array in the ruins beneath the Burial God Mountain Range and learned from a stele that it led to the ominous Land of Sin. After Lu Xueqi and Bi Yao recovered from their injuries, they discussed the array and agreed they should leave the dangerous region soon.

• Su Han found a massive ancient Teleportation Array whose spatial energy resonated with the Reincarnation Mirror, but his attempt to examine it with Spiritual Sense failed.
• Su Han deciphered fragments on a buried stele that described a sealed passage to the Land of Sin, then decided not to activate the array and returned to the spirit pool.
• Lu Xueqi awoke with her Divine Soul injuries healed and her Spiritual Sense greatly strengthened by the Nine-Leaf Spirit-Nourishing Ganoderma.
• Bi Yao also awoke, reporting that her mind felt clearer, while Su Han guarded them and continued cultivating.
• Su Han told Lu Xueqi and Bi Yao about the ruins and the array, and Lu Xueqi recalled that the Burial God Abyss was an ancient battlefield with chaotic space and dangerous rifts.

After gaining the Spirit Nourishing Art, Su Han, Lu Xueqi, and Bi Yao searched the Burial God Mountain Range for a way out. They found Town Yue Tower disciples fighting a Golden Scale Violent Ape and watched as the group sprang a coordinated trap, leaving the beast vulnerable to their attacks.

• Su Han copied the Spirit Nourishing Art onto two Jade Slips and gave them to Lu Xueqi and Bi Yao before the three left the cave.
• The trio traveled through the forest, avoiding or killing demonic beasts, and Su Han used Divine Stab to swiftly kill several creatures.
• After following a dried-up riverbed for several days, Su Han, Lu Xueqi, and Bi Yao found five Town Yue Tower disciples fighting a Late Golden Core Stage Golden Scale Violent Ape.
• Su Han noticed the disciples' leader seemed to be waiting for an opportunity, so the trio stayed hidden rather than intervening.
• The Town Yue Tower leader trapped the ape with an Earth Binding Spirit Array, and the disciples struck its abdomen with Mother-Child Splitting Gold Rings.
• A disciple activated an Anti-Air Array to slow the ape, and the Town Yue Tower group launched their strongest attacks at its wounded abdomen.

Su Han, Lu Xueqi, and Bi Yao rescued Shi Yue and the other Town Yue Tower disciples from a Golden Scale Violent Ape in the Burial God Mountain Range. Shi Yue shared a map and invited them to travel together while searching for Earth Vein Spiritual Milk.

• Shi Yue and the Town Yue Tower disciples wounded the Golden Scale Violent Ape, but it gathered power for a deadly counterattack.
• Lu Xueqi struck the ape’s horn with purple lightning, causing its destructive attack to explode and killing it.
• Shi Yue thanked Su Han, Lu Xueqi, and Bi Yao, and Su Han introduced their names and affiliations.
• Shi Yue explained that his group had entered the mountain range to find Earth Vein Spiritual Milk to treat an elder and had lost a companion to the ape.
• Shi Yue gave Su Han a Jade Slip with a map of the mountain range’s routes and landmarks.
• Shi Yue invited the three to travel with his group as they searched for the spiritual milk and planned to leave the mountain range.

Su Han’s group and the Town Yue Tower disciples found Earth Vein Spiritual Milk guarded by a powerful Ice Scale Python, only to be trapped between the beast and a band of demonic cultivators. Su Han sparked a chaotic battle between them and watched for a chance to claim the treasure.

• Su Han agreed to travel with Shi Yue’s group, and they divided the Golden Scale Violent Ape’s spoils before following the map toward Spirit Mist Valley.
• Shi Yue led the group into Spirit Mist Valley, where they found Earth Vein Spiritual Milk guarded by a peak Late Golden Core Stage Ice Scale Python.
• A band of seven or eight demonic cultivators led by the Scarred Bald Man blocked the group’s retreat and demanded they surrender the treasure.
• Su Han pretended to retreat, then struck at the stalactite and provoked the Ice Scale Python into attacking the demonic cultivators.
• Lu Xueqi attacked the Scarred Bald Man, Bi Yao sent parasitic insects at the demonic cultivators, and Shi Yue led the Town Yue Tower disciples into the fight.
• Su Han used a Divine Stab to disrupt one demonic cultivator’s technique, then withdrew to the battlefield’s edge to seek an opening to seize the Earth Vein Spiritual Milk.

Su Han provoked the Ice Scale Python into attacking the demonic cultivators, giving Lu Xueqi and the others an opening to turn the fight against them. The battle continued with the Scarred Bald Man disrupted and his forces in disarray.

• Su Han feinted at the spiritual milk, provoking the Ice Scale Python to blast the charging demonic cultivators with icy mist.
• Lu Xueqi struck the Scarred Bald Man with purple lightning, destroying his Ghost Shadow and damaging his bone shield.
• Bi Yao’s venomous insects disrupted the demonic cultivators’ spiritual power, allowing Shi Yue, Zhao Tie, Wang Pan, and Fang Lin to kill two frozen Mid Golden Core Stage cultivators.
• The Scarred Bald Man charged Shi Yue’s group, but Su Han’s Spiritual Sense attack pierced his mind and halted him.
• Lu Xueqi pressed the demonic cultivators with the Tian Ya Sword while Bi Yao harassed them, and Su Han continued attacking from the edge of the fight.

Su Han and his allies fought the Scarred Bald Man’s demonic cultivators while the Ice Scale Python attacked them, and the Scarred Bald Man tried to seize the Earth Vein Spiritual Milk amid the chaos. Su Han ambushed him with the Chaos Finger and erased him, leaving the battle ongoing.

• Lu Xueqi and Su Han’s group exploited the Ice Scale Python’s attacks to kill two demonic cultivators and seriously wound another.
• The Scarred Bald Man ordered two subordinates to occupy the Ice Scale Python and Su Han while he and Second rushed to take the Earth Vein Spiritual Milk.
• The Ice Scale Python blasted the Scarred Bald Man and Second with icy breath, but they blocked it by sacrificing Essence Blood to their magical treasures.
• The Scarred Bald Man used the clash’s momentum to lunge toward the Spiritual Milk, believing he was about to claim it.
• Su Han appeared behind the injured Scarred Bald Man and struck him with the Chaos Finger, turning him, his Storage Pouch, and his treasures into ashes.

Su Han and his allies defeated the demonic cultivators and negotiated with the Ice Scale Python to share the Earth Vein Spiritual Milk. Bi Yao began collecting it while leaving enough behind to preserve its source.

• Su Han killed Scarred Bald Man with a devastating finger strike, and Lu Xueqi beheaded the fleeing Second Brother.
• Shi Yue and the others, aided by the Ice Scale Python, killed the remaining demonic cultivators.
• Shi Yue proposed sharing the Earth Vein Spiritual Milk with the Ice Scale Python, which reluctantly agreed to let them collect some.
• Su Han proposed leaving part of the Spiritual Milk behind to preserve its source, and Shi Yue and the Ice Scale Python accepted.
• Su Han asked Bi Yao to gather the Spiritual Milk carefully, and she began scooping it into a jade bottle.

Bi Yao’s collection of spiritual milk awakened a powerful Corpse Fiend, and Su Han, Lu Xueqi, Shi Yue, the others, and the Ice Scale Python fought it. Lu Xueqi and Su Han struck its core with lightning and a Divine Stab, but the wounded fiend launched a final attack at Lu Xueqi.

• Bi Yao collected the spiritual milk, awakening a mutated Corpse Fiend from the pool.
• The Corpse Fiend pursued Bi Yao, while Su Han, Lu Xueqi, Shi Yue, the others, and the Ice Scale Python attacked it.
• Su Han urged Lu Xueqi to strike the Corpse Fiend’s crown and used a Divine Stab to disrupt its mind.
• Lu Xueqi summoned heavenly thunder that struck the Corpse Fiend’s crown and badly wounded it.
• The Corpse Fiend hurled its spiked tail at the weakened Lu Xueqi, and she barely raised her sword to block.

Bi Yao was gravely wounded after shielding Lu Xueqi from the Corpse Fiend, and Su Han struggled to keep her alive. With her life only temporarily stabilized, Su Han and the others hurried toward a Town Yue Tower outpost for treatment.

• Bi Yao pushed Lu Xueqi out of the Corpse Fiend's attack and was pierced by its bone-spiked tail.
• Su Han caught Bi Yao as she collapsed, while Lu Xueqi tried to stop the bleeding and Su Han used Healing Pills and True Essence to save her.
• Shi Yue gave Su Han Earth Vein Spiritual Milk, which stabilized Bi Yao's breathing but could not stop the Malevolent Qi or heal her severe wound.
• Shi Yue urged the group to seek help at a Town Yue Tower outpost, and Su Han carried Bi Yao east as Lu Xueqi and the others followed.
• The Ice Scale Python watched them leave, then sank into the pool without stopping them.

Su Han and the others rushed the gravely wounded Bi Yao to Town Yue Tower, where Elder Mu examined her and said she could be saved, but treatment would be dangerous and require several things.

• Su Han carried the unconscious Bi Yao toward Town Yue Tower while Lu Xueqi vowed to help save her.
• Shi Yue led the group to a mountain outpost, where disciples activated a teleportation array to take them to the sect’s outer region.
• Shi Yue guided Su Han and the others to Thick Earth Hall to seek Elder Mu’s help.
• Elder Mu placed Bi Yao on a Soul Calming Jade Bed and found that a bone spike’s Malevolent Qi had invaded her heart meridians and was eroding her vitality.
• Elder Mu said Bi Yao could be treated, but the procedure would be extremely dangerous and require several things.

Su Han, Lu Xueqi, and Elder Mu prepared to remove the Malevolent Bone Spike from Bi Yao and treat her injuries. The chapter ended as Elder Mu formed a protective field and Lu Xueqi readied her lightning for the dangerous extraction.

• Elder Mu explained the three steps needed to save Bi Yao and warned that the Malevolent Qi could damage her Divine Soul.
• Lu Xueqi offered to use Qingyun Sect's Nine Heavens Divine Thunder to suppress the Malevolent Qi while Elder Mu protected Bi Yao's meridians.
• Su Han produced his Soul Stabilizing Pearl, and Elder Mu confirmed it could help cleanse Bi Yao's Divine Soul.
• Elder Mu sent Shi Yue to retrieve Earth Core Jade Marrow and herbs, while Su Han used his Chaos True Essence to stabilize Bi Yao and Lu Xueqi prepared herself.
• Shi Yue returned with the medicinal ingredients, and Elder Mu, Lu Xueqi, and Su Han prepared to remove the bone spike.
• Elder Mu sealed Bi Yao's vital points and formed a protective field around her vital meridians as Lu Xueqi awaited his command.

Elder Mu removed the bone spike from Bi Yao, and Lu Xueqi used precisely controlled Nine Heavens Divine Thunder to cleanse the Malevolent Qi from her body. As Elder Mu began refining a Jade Marrow Rebirth Pill, Bi Yao finally woke and spoke weakly to Su Han.

• Elder Mu pulled the bone spike from Bi Yao, releasing a surge of Malevolent Qi.
• Lu Xueqi guided Nine Heavens Divine Thunder into Bi Yao's wound and purified the Malevolent Qi while Elder Mu shielded her.
• Elder Mu treated Bi Yao's wound, and Su Han placed the Soul Stabilizing Pearl between her brows before continuing to nourish her with True Essence.
• Elder Mu left for the Earth Fire Pill Chamber to refine the Jade Marrow Rebirth Pill, while Lu Xueqi and Su Han stayed beside Bi Yao.
• Bi Yao opened her eyes and told Su Han that she had slept for a long time and that it hurt.

Bi Yao awoke briefly to find Su Han and Lu Xueqi beside her, then received the Jade Marrow Rebirth Pill Elder Mu had refined. The pill restored her strength and clarity, leaving her recovering under Su Han’s care.

• Bi Yao woke and recognized Su Han and Lu Xueqi, who exchanged a quiet acknowledgment.
• Bi Yao grew tired, so Su Han sustained her with True Essence while Lu Xueqi and the others waited for Elder Mu to finish refining the pill.
• Elder Mu brought the completed Jade Marrow Rebirth Pill to Bi Yao and gave it to her.
• The pill healed Bi Yao’s wounds and stabilized her condition, and she told Su Han that she felt much better and no longer hurt.

Bi Yao survived the crisis and began recovering under the care of the Soul Stabilizing Pearl and Jade Marrow Rebirth Pill. Lu Xueqi prepared to report back to her sect, while Bi Yao’s sensitive identity raised questions about how long she could safely remain at the Town Yue Tower.

• Elder Mu confirmed that Bi Yao was out of danger, her Malevolent Qi had been removed, and she could recover fully with proper care.
• Su Han thanked Elder Mu and Lu Xueqi for saving Bi Yao, and Bi Yao fell into a deep, restorative sleep.
• Elder Mu promised to examine Bi Yao daily, then left the hall to recover from his own exertions.
• Su Han thanked Lu Xueqi for using the Nine Heavens Divine Thunder to restrain the Malevolent Qi, and she explained how Elder Mu had guided her timing.
• Lu Xueqi said she needed to report to Sect Master True Lord Daoxuan and Master Shui Yue, and warned that Bi Yao’s identity could cause complications if she stayed too long in righteous territory.

Su Han worried about the trouble Bi Yao’s presence would bring, while Lu Xueqi offered to mediate with Qingyun Sect and stayed at Town Yue Tower to recover. After keeping vigil beside Bi Yao, Su Han watched her wake and confirmed that her wound was healing.

• Su Han agreed to leave Town Yue Tower with Bi Yao once her condition stabilized, and Lu Xueqi promised to report the matter to Qingyun Sect and seek a favorable resolution.
• Lu Xueqi stayed in the tower for a day to recover from her depleted True Essence and the backlash of the Nine Heavens Divine Thunder.
• Su Han kept holding Bi Yao’s hand as he watched over her, exhausted and haunted by the events that had nearly killed her.
• Bi Yao stirred awake and recognized Su Han after recalling the underground palace and her injury.
• Su Han tried to get Bi Yao water but found nothing in the hall, then sat beside her again and asked whether she was still in pain.
• Bi Yao signaled that she was all right, feeling the healing medicine and Soul Stabilizing Pearl soothing her injuries.

Bi Yao woke in the Town Yue Tower after Lu Xueqi saved her with the Nine Heavens Divine Thunder, and Su Han stayed by her side as she fell asleep again. Lu Xueqi remained in the tower, reflecting on her feelings for Su Han and the uncertain bond between the three of them.

• Bi Yao woke and learned from Su Han how Elder Mu treated her and Lu Xueqi used the Nine Heavens Divine Thunder to cleanse the Malevolent Qi from her wound.
• Bi Yao held Su Han's hand, and he urged her to rest while assuring her that he would stay with her.
• Bi Yao asked about Lu Xueqi, and Su Han told her that Lu Xueqi was meditating in the tower and would return to Qingyun the next day.
• Lu Xueqi chose not to use the Quiet Room and wondered why she had stayed near Su Han and Bi Yao.
• Lu Xueqi reflected on her feelings for Su Han, Bi Yao's devotion to him, and the divide between their sects.

Bi Yao recovered in Town Yue Tower while Su Han kept watch, and Lu Xueqi came to check on her. After Su Han left to restore his depleted energy, Bi Yao and Lu Xueqi spoke privately about their feelings for him.

• Bi Yao awoke feeling stronger and realized that Su Han had stayed beside her, holding her hand as he slept.
• Lu Xueqi entered the hall, and Bi Yao thanked her and Elder Mu for saving her.
• Su Han woke, and Lu Xueqi urged him to restore his depleted True Essence before it caused lasting harm.
• Lu Xueqi offered to watch over Bi Yao, and Su Han left for a quiet room after Bi Yao encouraged him to go.
• Bi Yao told Lu Xueqi that she cared deeply for Su Han and had taken the blow meant for him.