Chapter Summaries

Wan Jianyi’s fight with Cheng Jingfeng sent sword-qi torrents toward White Cloud Mountain, forcing fleeing cultivators to seek Su Shi’er’s protection. Su Shi’er stabilized the mountain’s defenses and helped repel the weakened attacks, but then froze after striking back.

• Cheng Jingfeng secretly redirected Wan Jianyi’s sword attacks toward the surrounding cultivators, wounding Golden Core experts and killing nearly a hundred Foundation Establishment cultivators.
• Cheng Jingfeng accused Wan Jianyi of ruthlessly attacking fellow disciples and continued their fight, while stray sword qi raced toward White Cloud Mountain.
• Feng Fei worried over the approaching attacks, but Su Shi’er sent her to the cave and flew into the array to stabilize its defenses.
• Su Shi’er activated defensive barriers that sheltered the fleeing cultivators, though more than ten layers shattered under the sword-qi barrage.
• Su Shi’er urged the cultivators to join him in destroying the weakened attacks, then cut open a torrent of sword qi with Neither-Knife-Nor-Sword and suddenly froze.

Su Shi'er redirected the cultivators who fled into the cave residence outside White Cloud Mountain's formation, leaving them exposed to the Golden Core attacks. As the survivors struggled, Tang Zhuying arrived from Ping Mountain and stopped the attacks, though the cultivators feared she might leave them.

• Most cultivators ignored Su Shi'er's call to join forces and rushed toward the cave residence instead.
• Su Shi'er recalled his flying sword and used the formation to send the fleeing cultivators outside White Cloud Mountain, where the attacks killed many of them.
• Fang Shu and Shi Feng thanked Su Shi'er for protecting them, while Shi Feng showed reluctance at the deaths of their fellow disciples.
• A woman on Ping Mountain succeeded in forming a Golden Core, and Tang Zhuying flew to White Cloud Mountain.
• Tang Zhuying used wind and emerald bamboo leaves to disperse the attacks, and the surviving cultivators thanked her and worried she might leave.

Tang Zhuying investigated the battle between Wan Jianyi and Cheng Jingfeng as the surviving disciples accused Wan Jianyi of killing their companions. Venerable Tianhong and Yan Donghai arrived to intervene, and Yan Donghai sent Wan Jianyi flying after he challenged the elder’s impartiality.

• Tang Zhuying questioned the crowd, who blamed Wan Jianyi for the deaths and condemned Su Shi'er for keeping White Cloud Mountain’s formation closed.
• Tang Zhuying examined the battlefield and White Cloud Mountain with her divine sense, then promised the survivors that help would arrive.
• Venerable Tianhong and Yan Donghai appeared and used their auras to separate Wan Jianyi and Cheng Jingfeng.
• Wan Jianyi told Venerable Tianhong that Cheng Jingfeng had refused a Disciplinary Hall trial and killed disciples with Wan Jianyi’s sword technique.
• Cheng Jingfeng denied killing his friends, and the crowd supported his account while demanding that Yan Donghai uphold justice.
• Wan Jianyi accused Yan Donghai of favoring Cheng Jingfeng, and Yan Donghai rebuked him and sent him flying with True Yuan.

Venerable Tianhong sentenced Wan Jianyi to have his cultivation crippled and be exiled to the Sinful Path after Yan Donghai demanded punishment for the deaths of fellow disciples. Tianhong left with the unconscious Wan Jianyi, while Yan Donghai rewarded the witnesses and Cheng Jingfeng raised a new accusation against Martial Brother Wang of White Cloud Peak.

• Yan Donghai demanded Wan Jianyi's execution, and Venerable Tianhong proposed an investigation before sentencing him to have his cultivation crippled and be exiled to the Sinful Path.
• Wan Jianyi protested that he had done nothing wrong, but Venerable Tianhong struck his dantian, removed his seven-pattern Golden Core, and destroyed it.
• Venerable Tianhong warned Yan Donghai that he would keep investigating before carrying Wan Jianyi away.
• Yan Donghai promised triple resources to the disciples present and warned Cheng Jingfeng to notify him immediately if a similar situation arose again.
• Cheng Jingfeng told Yan Donghai that Martial Brother Wang of White Cloud Peak had selfishly shut many disciples outside the gates and asked whether he should be dealt with.

Cheng Jingfeng concealed his strength and maneuvered to make Xi Xiaoyun jealous of Tang Zhuying, while Su Shi'er recognized his sinister intentions. After the crisis ended, Su Shi'er sent the gathered disciples away and resolved to leave the Phantom Star Sect once he reached the Golden Core stage.

• Yan Donghai agreed to investigate Wang Su but refused to press the matter further, and Cheng Jingfeng secretly revealed that he possessed two Golden Cores.
• Xi Xiaoyun hurried to check on Cheng Jingfeng, while Su Shi'er recognized her as the woman who had once tried to kill him.
• Cheng Jingfeng praised Tang Zhuying, invited her to a banquet, and watched her leave with a feigned look of affection.
• Xi Xiaoyun saw Cheng Jingfeng's attention toward Tang Zhuying and flew away in a jealous rage, while Su Shi'er suspected Cheng Jingfeng intended to use her against Tang Zhuying.
• Su Shi'er declined Cheng Jingfeng's invitation and dismissed the other disciples, deciding he needed to reach the Golden Core stage and leave the Phantom Star Sect.

Su Shi'er left his cave with the Thousand Evil Sword to seek help at the Weapon Forging Platform, since the unstable spiritual energy would delay his breakthrough. At Blazing Flame Mountain, he learned that Duo Tiangong was busy refining a treasure, and Chen San offered to help with a lesser item.

• Seven cultivators thanked Su Shi'er for saving them and departed, while three went to Qingfeng Mountain to side with Cheng Jingfeng.
• Su Shi'er returned to his cave, reassured Feng Fei, and said he would leave for a while instead of continuing his secluded cultivation.
• Su Shi'er took the sealed Thousand Evil Sword and traveled to the Weapon Forging Platform on Blazing Flame Mountain.
• Chen San explained the forging platform rental grades and recognized Su Shi'er as someone Duo Tiangong had instructed them to treat well.
• Su Shi'er asked to see Duo Tiangong about forging a treasure, but Chen San said the elder was busy and offered to help with anything short of a Magical Treasure or Spiritual Artifact.

Su Shi'er brought the Thousand Evil Sword to the Weapon Forging Platform, hoping Elder Tiangong could remove its evil qi, and arrived as Tiangong and two other Golden Pill Cultivators struggled to forge a treasure from Southern Bright Leaving Fire and Northern Darkness Cold Qi. Su Shi'er suggested combining the Yin Yang Tai Chi Formation with their Mysterious Sky Ice Fire Formation, interrupting their work and alarming Chen San.

• Su Shi'er showed Chen San the Thousand Evil Sword and Tears of Joy and Sorrow, but Chen San admitted he could not reforge the sword and offered to take him to Elder Tiangong.
• Chen San led Su Shi'er down the Blazing Path, where Su Shi'er endured the intense fire spiritual qi without difficulty.
• They reached the forging platform, where Duo Tiangong and two Golden Pill Cultivators tried unsuccessfully to stabilize the icy qi mist above a magma column.
• Duo Tiangong and the two elders discussed the difficulty of forging with Southern Bright Leaving Fire and Northern Darkness Cold Qi, then stopped reinforcing the failing formation.
• Su Shi'er suggested using the Yin Yang Tai Chi Formation as the foundation for the Mysterious Sky Ice Fire Formation, and Chen San feared the interruption would cause trouble.

Su Shi'er watched Duo Tiangong and two elders attempt to refine the Li Huo Xuan Bing Sword, but the opposing ice and fire energies destabilized the artifact and threatened to explode. As the others tried to contain the danger, Su Shi'er stayed behind and prepared to act on his formation insight.

• Chen San introduced Su Shi'er to Elder Ouyang, who reprimanded Su Shi'er for interrupting the artifact refinement and dismissed his formation advice.
• After several days, Duo Tiangong began the Spirit Merging Formation Technique with Elder Ouyang and the long-bearded elder reinforcing the formation.
• The Li Huo Xuan Bing Sword began to form, but its ice and fire energies collided, breaking the formation marks and returning to their unstable states.
• Duo Tiangong warned that the energies were about to explode and tried to restrain them, while Elder Ouyang ordered Chen San to take Su Shi'er away.
• Su Shi'er ignored Chen San, studied the volatile energies, and decided to risk intervening.

Su Shi'er used a Taiji-based formation to stabilize and complete the Mysterious Sky Ice Fire Formation, enabling Duo Tiangong and the other two elders to forge the Li Huo Xuan Bing Sword. The elders praised Su Shi'er’s formation skills, and the long-bearded elder asked whether he had suggested using the Yin Yang Tai Chi Formation.

• Su Shi'er formed a Tai Chi Diagram that redirected the violent energy from the icy aura and flames, then guided them into a stable ice-fire sphere.
• Su Shi'er layered water- and fire-element formation seals onto the sphere, completing the Mysterious Sky Ice Fire Formation.
• Duo Tiangong and the other two elders completed the refinement, producing the blue and red Li Huo Xuan Bing Sword.
• Duo Tiangong and the elders praised Su Shi'er and thanked him for helping them succeed.
• The long-bearded elder asked Su Shi'er whether he had been the one to suggest using the Yin Yang Tai Chi Formation, and the portly elder looked awkward.

Su Shi'er asked the Weapon Forging Platform’s experts to reforge the Thousand Evil Sword, whose strange, spiritual evil energy threatened to destroy it. With the Tears of Joy and Sorrow, they saw a chance to cleanse and refine it into a Magical Treasure, but the attempt had only a thirty percent chance of success and required a Jade Essence Heart within half a year.

• Ouyang Yi befriended Su Shi'er after acknowledging his insight into the Formation Dao.
• Su Shi'er presented the Thousand Evil Sword, and the elders determined its spiritual evil energy would destroy it within three to ten years.
• Su Shi'er explained that he wanted to cleanse the sword’s evil energy and showed the elders the Tears of Joy and Sorrow.
• Duo Tiangong said the treasure and Blazing Flame Mountain’s earthfire could cleanse the sword, while rare materials might allow it to be reforged into a Magical Treasure with a thirty percent chance of success.
• Duo Tiangong said the Weapon Forging Platform had the other needed materials, but Su Shi'er had to obtain a Jade Essence Heart and complete the refinement within half a year.

Su Shi'er learned that he needed a Jade Essence Heart from Cangyue City to reforge the Thousand Evil Sword, but the city was threatened by the Demon Shadow Palace. He devised a way to send his consciousness in a puppet body while his main body stayed behind to cultivate, and the puppet reached Cangyue City.

• Duo Tiangong told Su Shi'er that Huanxing Langyue Pavilion in Cangyue City produced Jade Essence Hearts and warned him that the Demon Shadow Palace was plotting against the city.
• Su Shi'er decided against asking the Disciplinary Hall for a Golden Core escort and returned to his cave dwelling to consider how he could travel safely.
• Su Shi'er combined One Person, Three Transformations with Spirit Gathering Body Condensation to transfer an incarnation into his Grade 3 Top-tier Puppet.
• Su Shi'er kept cultivating in his cave dwelling while the puppet took supplies and flew toward Cangyue City.
• The puppet arrived near Cangyue City, descended with the other cultivators, and entered the city on foot.

Su Shi'er entered Huanxing Langyue Pavilion in Cangyue City and bought Jade Linglong to save Fu Caiwei, a young cultivator near death. After Fu Nanxing and Fu Caiwei left, Su Shi'er asked the pavilion's Servant Boy about buying Jade Essence Heart.

• Su Shi'er examined Huanxing Langyue Pavilion and saw Fu Nanxing plead with its Servant Boy to sell him Jade Linglong on credit to save his sister, Fu Caiwei.
• The Servant Boy refused Fu Nanxing and threatened the siblings, but Su Shi'er intervened and offered to pay for the Jade Linglong.
• Su Shi'er paid one Top-grade Gathering Yuan Pill for the Jade Linglong and gave it to Fu Caiwei, telling the siblings to leave and take care of themselves.
• Fu Nanxing and Fu Caiwei thanked Su Shi'er and departed, with Fu Nanxing promising to remember his kindness.
• Su Shi'er asked the Servant Boy whether the pavilion had Jade Essence Heart, and the Servant Boy said a new batch had been made a month earlier.

Su Shi'er tried to buy Jade Essence Hearts at the Huanxing Langyue Pavilion, but the Young City Lord of Cangyue City demanded all the shop’s jade treasures and the servant attempted to give Su Shi’er’s purchase to him instead. Su Shi'er confronted them, and the Pavilion Master arrived as the dispute escalated.

• Su Shi'er paid nine hundred Top-grade Gathering Yuan Pills for three Jade Essence Hearts.
• The Young City Lord entered with three attendants and ordered the servant to bring him every Jade Essence Heart, Jade Marrow Rock, and Blood Jade Essence in the shop.
• The servant brought out the Jade Essence Hearts, but the Young City Lord insisted they belonged to him and the servant tried to return Su Shi'er's pills.
• Su Shi'er invoked the first-come, first-served principle and released his Golden Core aura, pressuring the Young City Lord and the servant.
• The Pavilion Master appeared and asked what had happened, and the servant explained the dispute.
• The Pavilion Master released a vast aura after hearing the servant's explanation.

Su Shi'er confronted the Young City Lord at Huanxing Langyue Pavilion and insisted on buying all the level four spirit materials. After revealing he could pay the million low-grade Spirit Stones, he secured the jade and drew the woman’s interest in further dealings.

• The woman took the jade boxes from the injured Servant Boy, apologized to Su Shi'er, and handed him three Jade Essence Hearts.
• Su Shi'er confirmed that his transaction came first and announced he wanted all the spirit jade, while the Young City Lord mocked his ability to pay.
• Su Shi'er struck the Young City Lord with True Yuan, and the woman caught him and warned him not to cause trouble in Huanxing Langyue Pavilion.
• The woman priced twenty pieces of Jade Marrow Rock and Blood Jade Essence at one million low-grade Spirit Stones, and Su Shi'er gave her a Storage Pouch to inspect.
• After checking the pouch, the woman accepted the payment, gave Su Shi'er the three boxes, and offered to show him the shop’s other specialty spirit jades.

Su Shi'er left Huanxing Langyue Pavilion with spirit jade and a manual on spirit talismans, then encountered the Five Tigers of Cangyue City assaulting Fu Nanxing and Fu Caiwei. He stepped in using his Grade 3 Top-tier Puppet, and the chapter ended as he ordered the attackers to release Fu Caiwei.

• The Young City Lord ordered his attendant to arrange an ambush for Su Shi'er after he left Cangyue City and noted that Fu Nanxing and Fu Caiwei were connected to him.
• Su Shi'er bought blank spirit jade and an introductory manual on Five Elements spirit talismans at Huanxing Langyue Pavilion.
• Su Shi'er heard Fu Nanxing and Fu Caiwei being attacked and learned that their assailants were the Five Tigers of Cangyue City, who were protected by the City Lord's Mansion.
• The Five Tigers beat Fu Nanxing and dragged Fu Caiwei toward an alley while the onlookers refused to intervene.
• Su Shi'er entered the crowd in his Grade 3 Top-tier Puppet and ordered the Five Tigers to put Fu Caiwei down.

Su Shi'er killed the Five Tigers of Cangyue City while resisting the city-protecting formation, then tried to escape with Fu Caiwei and Fu Nanxing as three Golden Core cultivators approached. A second formation sealed the city gate and blocked his way.

• Su Shi'er struck down the fat cultivator who warned him about the city rules, triggering Cangyue City's protective formation.
• When the burly leader attacked Fu Caiwei, Su Shi'er severed his arm despite the formation's pressure.
• Su Shi'er used formation flags to hold back the city's formation long enough to kill the burly leader and his three companions.
• The City Lord's Mansion empowered the formation, and three Golden Core cultivators arrived to confront Su Shi'er.
• Su Shi'er grabbed Fu Nanxing and Fu Caiwei and raced toward the city gate, but a formation seal appeared beyond it and blocked their escape.

Su Shi'er escaped Cangyue City with Fu Nanxing and Fu Caiwei through a hidden Teleportation Array, then learned that Fu Caiwei was Fu Boren's descendant. The chapter ended with Su Shi'er asking her for proof of their relationship.

• Su Shi'er evaded three pursuers by using his knowledge of Cangyue City's formation and followed Fu Caiwei's directions to a hidden Teleportation Array beneath a river.
• Su Shi'er teleported Fu Nanxing and Fu Caiwei out of the city, and an Explosive Flame Talisman destroyed the array before their pursuers could follow.
• Su Shi'er took the injured Fu Nanxing and Fu Caiwei to a cave, treated Fu Nanxing, and questioned Fu Caiwei about her family.
• Fu Caiwei explained that her branch had been cast out of Huanxing Langyue Pavilion and that her great-grandfather, Fu Boren, had been exiled to Cangshan.
• Fu Caiwei asked Su Shi'er where Fu Boren was, and Su Shi'er asked her to provide proof that Fu Boren was her great-grandfather.

Su Shi'er learned that Fu Caiwei and Fu Nanxing were Fu Boren’s descendants and accompanied them to Donghuang Village. There, he encountered the Sacred Spirit Cult and heard that its followers might have poisoned Fu Caiwei, leaving him to investigate after honoring Fu Boren.

• Fu Caiwei showed Su Shi'er a bloodline talisman and explained that Fu Boren had promised to return; Su Shi'er confirmed he had been Fu Boren’s Martial Brother and revealed that Fu Boren had died.
• Su Shi'er reassured Fu Caiwei that Fu Nanxing would recover and agreed to visit the Fu Family burial grounds in Donghuang Village.
• Su Shi'er, Fu Caiwei, and Fu Nanxing arrived near Donghuang Village and saw five Sacred Spirit Cult cultivators preaching to the villagers.
• Fu Nanxing told Su Shi'er that Fu Caiwei had fallen ill after challenging the cult’s teachings and suspected its followers had poisoned her.
• Su Shi'er asked Fu Caiwei how she felt after taking Jade Linglong, then said he would help the siblings find another place to cultivate after visiting the burial grounds.

Su Shi'er chose not to confront the Sacred Spirit Cult and continued toward the Fu family ancestral graveyard with Fu Nanxing. Meanwhile, Phantom Star Sect disciple Lin Ran challenged the cult, but he collapsed under a mysterious curse, and the panicked crowd turned against him.

• Su Shi'er judged that the Sacred Spirit Cult was too dangerous to provoke and went with Fu Nanxing and his companion toward the ancestral graveyard outside Donghuang Village.
• Lin Ran rose above the crowd, denounced the five Sacred Spirit Cult members, and demanded that they reveal their origins.
• A kindly old cult member invited Lin Ran to attack and warned that the Sacred Spirit Maiden could withdraw her protection; Lin Ran sent sword lights at him.
• Before Lin Ran's attack landed, black qi appeared on his face and he fell, gravely weakened, though the five cult members had not visibly acted.
• The cult claimed the Sacred Spirit Maiden had withdrawn her protection, and more than a hundred people collapsed with black qi on their faces.
• A mortal who begged the Sacred Spirit Maiden received Sacred Qi, prompting the crowd to blame Lin Ran and begin attacking him.

Su Shi'er saved Fu Caiwei from a strange evil poison, then discovered a hidden formation linked to the large poplar tree. When the Sacred Spirit Cult’s followers refused to help and turned the crowd against him, Su Shi'er prepared to confront the seven Foundation Establishment cultivators who attacked.

• Fu Caiwei collapsed as black qi gathered on her brow, and Jade Linglong cracked and released foul black liquid when Fu Nanxing put it in her hand.
• Su Shi'er poured lightning-infused True Yuan into Fu Caiwei, driving out the black qi and restoring her consciousness, but the poison began returning as soon as he withdrew his hand.
• Su Shi'er spotted a hidden formation beneath the large poplar and realized that breaking it prematurely could kill the people marked by its spiritual power.
• Su Shi'er confronted the five members of the Sacred Spirit Cult and demanded they remove the poison, but their old man denied responsibility and urged everyone to worship the Sacred Spirit Maiden.
• The crowd turned against Su Shi'er, and seven Foundation Establishment cultivators rose on flying swords to attack him while the five cult members watched with satisfaction.