Chapter Summaries

Yun Wuxia offered to sell Su Shi'er her half of the Northern Nether Profound Ice in exchange for spirit stones, while Su Shi'er denied having any and reconsidered how the Yun Ge Sect’s plans had drawn him into the conflict. Yun Wuxia ended by warning that she could take the ice by force if she chose.

• Yun Wuxia proposed selling Su Shi'er her half of the Northern Nether Profound Ice, and Su Shi'er countered by offering to sell his half back to her.
• Yun Wuxia asked Su Shi'er for two or three ten thousand spirit stones, suggesting they had been collected from Li Fire Peak by Yun Ge Sect members.
• Su Shi'er denied knowing about the sect’s plan or the spirit stones and suggested Yun Wuxia could pay him after they left the secret realm.
• Yun Wuxia argued that Su Shi'er’s standing in Yun Ge Sect and his past use of spirit stones made him a likely participant in the scheme, and she recalled that he had saved her fellow sect members.
• Su Shi'er considered whether Shen Miaoyin and the sect had used him to divert other forces’ attention, but concluded that he would have entered the secret realm regardless.
• Yun Wuxia insisted on spirit stones for the ice and warned Su Shi'er that she could take it by force.

Su Shi'er traded two thousand low-grade Spirit Stones with Yun Wuxia for the Northern Nether Profound Ice. Their attempt to leave the ice cave failed when the Ice Shield shattered, so Yun Wuxia launched a powerful sword technique to break through the mist above.

• Su Shi'er admitted he had two thousand Spirit Stones and offered them to Yun Wuxia for the Northern Nether Profound Ice.
• Yun Wuxia accepted the offer, gave Su Shi'er the ice, and received the Spirit Stones.
• Yun Wuxia tried to use the Ice Shield to leave, but the cold current shattered the artifact.
• Yun Wuxia proposed forcing her way upward through most of the cave while Su Shi'er handled the remaining distance.
• Yun Wuxia summoned the Tai Ruo Sword and unleashed Seven Clear Reflections on Snow toward the mist cloud.
• Su Shi'er watched the attack and suddenly noticed something that astonished him.

Su Shi'er and Yun Wuxia found that the Cold Current Mist Cluster sealed the underground ice cave, and neither could break through it. As the Heavenly Absolute Secret Realm neared its closure, Jiang Feixue waited outside for Brother Zhu, fearing he had been trapped at Extreme Ice Peak.

• Yun Wuxia's Tai Ruo Sword could not penetrate the Cold Current Mist Cluster, and she explained that it sealed the cave and could only be broken after she formed her Golden Core.
• Yun Wuxia said they could escape through the Teleportation Array atop Extreme Ice Peak, then began cultivating the One Person, Three Transformations technique inside a formation.
• Su Shi'er tried his Tai'a Seven Star Sword and Five Thunders Orthodox Method against the mist, failed to break it, and began searching the ice cave for another way out.
• With fewer than three days left before the Heavenly Absolute Secret Realm's outer formation recovered, cultivators continued to leave the secret realm.
• Jiang Feixue waited with Jiang Feiyuan and Qi Ziran outside Heavenly Absolute Peak, worried that Brother Zhu had not emerged and asking what danger Extreme Ice Peak held.

After the Heavenly Absolute Secret Realm closed, Xiao Yue worried that Su Shi'er had vanished, but Shen Miaoyin divined that his life was safe. Meanwhile, Elder Demon Jiyin and Zuo Jun reported their failed plot against Yun Wuxia to a mysterious Venerable Lord.

• Qi Ziran concluded that Su Shi'er had likely left the secret realm through another route, and Jiang Feixue agreed to return to Shenzhu Mountain Villa.
• Xiao Yue waited outside Tui Song Cliff and worried that Su Shi'er had disappeared with the Spirit Stones and Tai'a Seven Star Sword.
• Shen Miaoyin told Xiao Yue that Su Shi'er had not returned, then used the Eight Trigrams Divination Technique and confirmed his life was in no danger.
• Shen Miaoyin promised to ask the Sect Master to commend Su Shi'er and said the eighth Peak Master position would belong to him once he returned.
• Elder Demon Jiyin and Zuo Jun reported to the Venerable Lord that their plan had failed, Yun Wuxia had killed Elder Demon Jifeng, and the Scripture Pavilion had been destroyed.

The Venerable Lord learned that Yun Wuxia might have taken the Heavenly Absolute Secret Scroll and ordered the Xuan Yin Sect to attack the Yun Ge Sect. The chapter ended with Zuo Jun questioning the Venerable Lord’s origins after discovering his body had been an avatar.

• The Venerable Lord rebuked Elder Demon Jiyin for failing to obtain the Heavenly Absolute Secret Scroll and demanded an account of the expedition.
• Zuo Jun recounted what had happened, blaming Yun Wuxia for Elder Demon Jifeng’s death and denying that she could have retrieved the scroll.
• The Venerable Lord reasoned that Su Shi'er, whom Yun Wuxia had struck into the formation, might have survived and taken the scroll.
• Elder Demon Jiyin reported that Yun Wuxia and Su Shi'er had both disappeared, and that the Xuan Yin Sect had sealed Cang Mountain’s entrances and exits.
• The Venerable Lord ordered the Xuan Yin Sect to attack the Yun Ge Sect for its Qi Men Dun Jia and promised to provide support.
• After the Venerable Lord vanished, Zuo Jun learned that he had been an avatar and asked Elder Demon Jiyin about his background.

Elder Demon Jiyin explained why Yun Wuxia posed a threat to their plans to control Cangshan, while Su Shi'er tested the Heaven and Earth Furnace during his forced seclusion at Extreme Ice Peak. The furnace successfully refined low-grade Spirit Stones into a mid-grade Spirit Stone without damaging his Storage Ring.

• Elder Demon Jiyin told Zuo Jun that Yun Wuxia's Pure Body and Flawless Glazed Technique gave her the potential to form a Golden Core with Five Qi Towards Primordial.
• Zuo Jun agreed that Yun Wuxia had to be eliminated, and Elder Demon Jiyin said they would first follow the Venerable Lord's orders to destroy the Yun Ge Sect.
• Su Shi'er found that the ice formations around him could not be broken and concluded that he had to cultivate in seclusion until Yun Wuxia broke through to the Golden Core realm.
• Su Shi'er expanded the Heaven and Earth Furnace inside his Storage Ring, moved most of his treasures into Storage Pouches, and found that the ring could safely contain the furnace at its current size.
• Su Shi'er placed a hundred low-grade Spirit Stones into the furnace, which refined them into a single mid-grade Spirit Stone without causing further trouble for the Storage Ring.

Su Shi'er deciphered the Spirit Gathering Body Condensation art, practiced Jiang Feixue’s World-Shocking Three Swords for three years, and synthesized three top-grade Spirit Stones. He began using the stones and top-grade pills to raise his cultivation.

• Su Shi'er discovered that the Heaven and Earth Furnace could refine Spirit Stones inside his storage ring and began synthesizing them.
• The strange runes on the scroll revealed the Spirit Gathering Body Condensation art, which could preserve a cultivator’s cultivation in a spirit body after death.
• Su Shi'er set aside the Yun Ge Nine Sword Art and practiced Spirit Gathering Body Condensation at night and the World-Shocking Three Swords by day.
• After three years, Su Shi'er judged himself proficient in the World-Shocking Three Swords and collected three top-grade Spirit Stones from the Heaven and Earth Furnace.
• Su Shi'er took top-grade spirit pills and two top-grade Spirit Stones and began cultivating with all his strength.

After nearly twenty years trapped in the Extreme Ice Cave, Yun Wuxia formed an Eighth-grade Golden Core, and Su Shi'er witnessed the breakthrough. Yun Wuxia prepared to break out of the cave and asked whether Su Shi'er would leave with her or wait for the Heavenly Absolute Secret Realm to open again.

• Yun Wuxia noticed the Spiritual Qi vortex around Su Shi'er and marveled at his apparent cultivation speed before resuming her own cultivation.
• Su Shi'er and Yun Wuxia cultivated in the Extreme Ice Cave for nearly twenty years.
• Yun Wuxia began forming her Golden Core as five-colored radiance and Spiritual Qi gathered around her.
• Su Shi'er stopped cultivating, watched Yun Wuxia's breakthrough, and experienced its effects for seven days and seven nights.
• Yun Wuxia formed an Eighth-grade Golden Core, and her aura pulverized the nearby ice sculptures and flowers.
• Yun Wuxia arrived outside Su Shi'er's formations and asked whether he would leave with her or wait for the next opening of the Heavenly Absolute Secret Realm.

Su Shi'er and Yun Wuxia escaped the Extreme Ice Cave and used the Teleportation Array to leave Extreme Ice Peak, where a threatening aura was descending over the Heavenly Absolute Secret Realm. They arrived in a forest several hundred li from Heavenly Absolute Peak, with Su Shi'er protected by the Edict Token’s black threads.

• Su Shi'er concealed his storage ring beneath the Azure Beast Hide as Yun Wuxia swept him with her divine sense, then agreed to leave with her.
• Yun Wuxia pierced the Cold Current Mist Cluster with sword qi, opening a passage through the Extreme Ice Cave, and Su Shi'er followed her out.
• Yun Wuxia and Su Shi'er sensed a grave aura gathering over Extreme Ice Peak and hurried to the Teleportation Array.
• Yun Wuxia powered the array and warned Su Shi'er that a mistaken teleportation could cost him his life before sending them to a forest several hundred li from Heavenly Absolute Peak.
• Su Shi'er emerged wrapped in the Edict Token’s defensive black threads, while Yun Wuxia landed unharmed.

After escaping Extreme Ice Peak, Su Shi'er discovered that the Cloud Yang Spirit Fire inside his Dantian was no longer suppressed by the cold and was burning through his body. As Yun Wuxia waited for him to die, Su Shi'er found a possible way to survive by combining two cultivation techniques.

• Su Shi'er thanked Yun Wuxia for helping him escape and falsely introduced himself as Han Yu of the Yun Ge Sect before flying away.
• Yun Wuxia recognized the name Han Yu and waited for the Cloud Yang Spirit Fire to erupt inside Su Shi'er.
• The fire spread through Su Shi'er's body, and he realized the cold energy on Extreme Ice Peak had kept it in check.
• Yun Wuxia watched as Su Shi'er collapsed and his life force began to drain away.
• Su Shi'er considered using Spirit Gathering Body Condensation, then conceived of separating the fire with One Person, Three Transformations and condensing it into a spirit body.

Su Shi'er used One Person, Three Transformations and Spirit Gathering Body Condensation to separate the Cloud Yang Spirit Fire from himself and form a childlike spirit body incarnation. After recovering from his injuries, he found that the incarnation had begun cultivating on its own, while his divine sense and soul remained damaged.

• Su Shi'er transformed the Cloud Yang Spirit Fire into a childlike spirit body incarnation, stabilizing it with Spirit Gathering Body Condensation.
• Yun Wuxia watched Su Shi'er leave and realized he had used a shortcut to create an unusual being, then resolved to investigate the second cultivation art he had taken from the Tianjue Scripture Pavilion.
• Su Shi'er retreated to a concealed cave and healed his injuries while the incarnation observed him.
• The incarnation recalled fragments of memory and began practicing Su Shi'er's Lesser Heavenly Circulation Qi Cultivation Art, rapidly increasing its cultivation.
• Half a year later, Su Shi'er finished healing but recognized that his divine sense and soul were still damaged, and he was shocked when he looked at the incarnation beside him.

Su Shi'er returned to the Yun Ge Sect and found it burned and devastated, with corpses across all seven peaks. After burying the dead, he heard fighting near Tui Song Cliff and suspected that sect members had survived.

• Su Shi'er left his Spirit Body Incarnation at the cave with resources and books, then flew back toward the Yun Ge Sect.
• Su Shi'er arrived to find the sect's protective formation breached and Luofu Peak reduced to ruins.
• Su Shi'er killed vultures attacking the corpses and buried the dead on Luofu Peak and the other six peaks.
• Su Shi'er wondered who had attacked the sect and why its Peak Masters and elders had not stopped them.
• Su Shi'er heard battle sounds coming from Tui Song Cliff and suspected that survivors were still fighting there.

Su Shi'er saw red-robed cultivators besieging his cave abode and the young Yun Ge Sect disciples trapped behind its failing formation. As the attackers moved to kill them, a sword light suddenly cut through the sky.

• Su Shi'er used the Heavenly Eye Technique and saw dozens of Foundation Establishment cultivators and over a hundred Qi Refining cultivators attacking the formation around his cave abode.
• The one-eyed ugly cultivator revealed his hatred of Ren Yunzong and ordered his forces to destroy the Yun Ge Sect.
• A baby-faced female cultivator encouraged the terrified young disciples as the Yun Ge Nine Sword Formation broke.
• Pockmarked Face Cultivator led the attackers onto Tui Song Cliff, where the disciples begged for mercy and the baby-faced female cultivator urged them to stand firm.
• The one-eyed ugly cultivator ordered the Yun Ge Sect wiped out, and Pockmarked Face Cultivator struck at the disciples with Cloud Breaking Slash.
• A chilling streak of sword light suddenly tore through the air before the attack could reach the disciples.

Su Shi'er arrived at Tui Song Cliff and attacked the forces besieging the Yun Ge Sect disciples, then challenged their One-Eyed Cultivator leader. Surrounded by the enemy, he refused to retreat as Li Chenfeng launched a three-pronged Flying Wheel attack.

• Su Shi'er's flying sword shattered the Pockmarked Face Cultivator's saber, gravely wounded him, and killed the nearby cultivators.
• Su Shi'er confronted the One-Eyed Cultivator and declared that he would kill the attackers alone.
• A baby-faced Yun Ge Sect cultivator urged Su Shi'er to flee and report the massacre to Sect Master Ren Yunzong at Yunhan Seven Peaks Mountain.
• The One-Eyed Cultivator's forces surrounded Su Shi'er, and Li Chenfeng volunteered to fight him.
• Li Chenfeng sent a dark gray Flying Wheel at Su Shi'er, where it split into three attacks from different directions.

Su Shi'er fought the cultivators attacking the Yun Ge Sect and revealed the power of the World-Shocking Three Swords. After killing Li Chenfeng and clashing evenly with the One-Eyed Cultivator, he faced a coordinated assault as the final sword gathered power.

• Li Chenfeng unleashed Three Lights Severing Karma, but Su Shi'er killed him with the Human Sword in a single strike.
• The One-Eyed Cultivator challenged Su Shi'er, who demanded to know where the attackers came from and vowed to leave their corpses intact.
• The One-Eyed Cultivator attacked with a saber-and-sword torrent while secretly signaling his companions to prepare their ultimate moves.
• Su Shi'er met the torrent with the Earth Sword, and the clash blasted apart the mountain forest as both fighters were forced back.
• The One-Eyed Cultivator summoned enormous saber and sword phantoms in the clouds while Su Shi'er began gathering the final sword of the World-Shocking Three Swords.
• The One-Eyed Cultivator roared for his companions to move.

Su Shi'er used the Yun Ge Nine Sword Formation at Tui Song Cliff to turn back the One-Eyed Cultivator’s combined attack and trap his group. As the formation’s mist and wind separated the cultivators and screams rang out, the One-Eyed Cultivator poured in more true essence to try to save his people and escape.

• More than twenty Foundation Establishment cultivators combined their power to send a blade and sword crashing down at Su Shi'er, forcing him to the ground.
• Su Shi'er activated the Yun Ge Nine Sword Formation, and its torrents of sword qi swallowed the combined attack before surging toward the cultivators.
• The One-Eyed Cultivator recognized the formation and ordered his group to retreat as they unleashed attacks against it.
• Su Shi'er changed the formation, filling it with fierce wind, sand, and mist, then sent the Tai'a Seven Star Sword into the obscuring storm.
• The separated cultivators lost sight of one another as screams rang out, and the One-Eyed Cultivator poured in more true essence to save his subordinates and break free.

Su Shi'er trapped the One-Eyed Cultivator and his remaining allies in the Yun Ge Nine Sword Formation, then killed several with the Red Furnace Snow-Piercing Needles. The One-Eyed Cultivator tried to escape, but Su Shi'er intercepted him and struck him down.

• The One-Eyed Cultivator ordered the survivors to combine their strength and break the formation, and their attack shook the Yun Ge Nine Sword Formation.
• Su Shi'er unleashed the formation's giant sword, blasting the One-Eyed Cultivator and his allies out of the air and foiling their attempt to escape.
• Red Furnace Snow-Piercing Needles appeared in a cloud of mist, killing several cultivators before the One-Eyed Cultivator could warn them.
• The One-Eyed Cultivator used a blood-mist escape technique to flee and vowed to repay Su Shi'er, but Su Shi'er appeared at the formation's edge and attacked with the Tai'a Seven Star Sword.
• Su Shi'er broke the escape technique, and the wounded One-Eyed Cultivator fell to the ground in disbelief.

Su Shi'er killed the One-Eyed Cultivator and wiped out the invading force at Tui Song Cliff. The surviving Yun Ge Sect disciples recognized him, and he began asking how the attack happened and why they were at his cave abode.

• Su Shi'er burned the One-Eyed Cultivator to death, then collected the weapons and Storage Pouches scattered nearby.
• Su Shi'er revealed the battle’s outcome, and the surviving invaders fled after seeing their leaders and Foundation Establishment cultivators dead.
• Su Shi'er used a torrent of swords to kill the fleeing Qi Refining cultivators, then burned their bodies.
• Yu Wan'er identified Su Shi'er as Martial Uncle Su and told him about his past achievements in the Yun Ge Sect.
• Su Shi'er asked the surviving disciples why the attackers had targeted the sect and how they had entered his cave abode.

Su Shi'er learned how the Yun Ge Sect had survived a war with the Xuan Yin Sect and how Cang Mountain’s factions had split into rival alliances. Yu Wan'er revealed that the sect’s leaders had gone to Yunhan Seven Peaks Mountain three months earlier, where a rumored treasure had drawn both sides toward a final battle.

• Yu Wan'er explained that Tianyin Peak had maintained Su Shi'er's cave residence and kept the Passage Token and Peak Master Token for him.
• Yu Wan'er told Su Shi'er that the Xuan Yin Sect had attacked the Yun Ge Sect ten years earlier, killing most of its elders and Peak Master Xu Chaoyang.
• The Xuan Yin Sect sent seven Golden Core experts, but Shenzhu Mountain Villa arrived with reinforcements and forced them to retreat.
• The Yun Ge Sect joined the Righteous Path Alliance, which fought the Xuan Yin Sect's Evil Path Alliance for nearly ten years.
• Yu Wan'er said that rumors of a treasure at Yunhan Seven Peaks Mountain had brought the factions there three months earlier for a final battle.

Su Shi'er questioned Yu Wan'er about the fall of the Yun Ge Sect, then let the surviving disciples choose whether to leave or stay. He entered seclusion, moved by the care Yu Wan'er had shown him and reflecting on his bond with the sect.

• Su Shi'er learned that the elders guarding the sect had vanished and the Sect Protecting Grand Formation had disappeared without warning, leading him to suspect betrayal from within.
• Su Shi'er offered to send the surviving disciples home, and Yu Wan'er declared that she would remain loyal to the Yun Ge Sect.
• Seventeen disciples chose to leave, while Su Shi'er told them to wait on Tui Song Cliff until he emerged from seclusion and could send them home.
• Yu Wan'er tried to persuade Shen Hanfeng and the other departing disciples to stay, but they firmly chose to leave the cultivation world.
• Su Shi'er saw that Yu Wan'er had furnished and cleaned his cave dwelling, and he reflected on the bond of the sect.