Chapter Summaries

The Southern Spirit Sect elders debated the risks of letting Lan Yue explore the ruins, while disciples from several sects gathered at Spirit-Denuded Island and entered through a passage beneath the sea. After the group vanished, the elders realized Yun Li had entered without anyone noticing why she had changed her mind.

• Elder Fang and Elder Bai agreed that Lan Yue had to be allowed to gain experience despite the dangers of her Immortal Artifact and her audible inner thoughts.
• Lan Yue invited Xingzhou to visit the Southern Spirit Sect and catch fish, but Elder Wan sternly called him away.
• Yun Xi explained that Xingzhou was a Prospective Holy Son from the North Ridge Sacred Ground, whose candidates competed to become its leader.
• The Second Elder gave the disciples named Teleportation Jade Tokens and sent them through a passage opened in the sea toward the ruins.
• After the passage closed, the Second Elder noticed Yun Li was missing and learned that she had entered the ruins; Elder Duanmu and the accompanying elders reacted with concern.

The ruins separated the group, leaving Lan Yue trapped in a giant spider’s web while her companions faced danger elsewhere. She discovered the spider collected spiritual fruits and stayed put to secretly take them, leaving the spider exhausted.

• Baili Xingzhou warned the North Ridge Sacred Ground disciples that the ruins had separated them, while Qing Zhu reassured the Southern Spirit Sect disciples and worried about Lan Yue.
• Lan Yue realized she was stuck in a web among foundation establishment realm spiders and concealed herself instead of fighting them.
• Wu Tianya, her brother, and Yuan Shuo fled a pack of flame beasts in a volcanic area as Wu Tianya worried about Lan Yue.
• Lan Yue stole spiritual fruits from the black spider’s web whenever it left, deciding to remain there and let it search for more treasures.
• After repeatedly finding its fruit stores empty and fighting neighboring spiders, the black spider collapsed from exhaustion, and Lan Yue wondered what made it unusual.

Lan Yue escaped a Heavenly Black Spider nest with a haul of spirit fruits, then fled Nangong Ye after recognizing him as a villain from the original novel. Elsewhere, Yun Xi and Li Bai fought Scaled Snakes with Baili Xingzhou’s group, while Lan Yue found herself face-to-face with a huge male snake incubating eggs.

• The black spider took Lan Yue’s remarks about his failed romances to heart, then gave her more spirit fruits; Lan Yue left him two Demon Beast carcasses in return.
• Lan Yue escaped the spider colony with Silver Snow and rejected Nangong Ye’s offer to travel together, calling him a villain in her thoughts.
• Nangong Ye realized that he could hear Lan Yue’s inner voice only when she was nearby, then departed to search for the Heaven-reaching Tree.
• Baili Xingzhou and his group helped Yun Xi and Li Bai fight a Scaled Snake colony, and Baili warned that a stronger snake might be controlling it.
• Lan Yue encountered a huge male Scaled Snake incubating eggs and nervously offered it spirit fruits and other help.

Lan Yue’s thoughts revealed that the Scaled Snake was incubating eggs planted by the neighboring Flower Snake, but the giant snake let her and her friends pass peacefully. Outside the ruins, other sects pressured the Southern Spirit Sect for entry, while the Scarlet Moon Sect and Jade Light Sect waited for their agreed second entry.

• Lan Yue discovered that the Scaled Snake’s eggs belonged to the Flower Snake, and the Scaled Snake cleared a path for her friends before leaving with the eggs.
• Baili Xingzhou stopped the North Ridge Sacred Ground disciples from discussing Lan Yue’s strange ability, and he suggested the groups explore the dangerous ruins together.
• The Second Elder and Fifth Elder rebuked the surrounding sects for demanding access to the Southern Spirit Sect’s ruins, while Elder Wan invoked the rules and the North Ridge Sacred Ground’s paid entry.
• The visiting sects produced gifts after realizing they could not enter for free, and the elders blamed the Flame Dragon Sect for encouraging their greed.
• The Scarlet Moon Sect Master and Jade Light Sect Master arrived with five disciples each and confirmed that their sects would enter with the second group.

Lan Yue amused the watching elders by repeatedly stealing spirit fruits from demon beasts, then traveled through the ruins with Baili Xingzhou, Li Bai, and Yun Xi. She shared her finds with Li Bai and Yun Xi and learned that Little Yellow, Little Pink, and Little Gray had been swept away during their arrival.

• The Southern Spirit Sect elders watched Lan Yue sleep, steal spirit fruits from a spider demon beast, and leave unharmed, while the other sects marveled at her luck.
• Lan Yue gave spirit fruits to a scaled snake, which accepted them and cleared a path for her group, prompting the Scarlet Moon Sect Master to mock Yan Feng for underestimating the beast.
• Lan Yue, Li Bai, Yun Xi, and the North Ridge Sacred Ground group agreed to divide treasure and demon-beast spoils according to who found or defeated them.
• During a rest, Lan Yue showed Li Bai and Yun Xi her spirit fruits and urged them to eat some, but Yun Xi explained that the Orangeheart Fruits were valuable ingredients for Nascent Soul Pills.
• Lan Yue asked where Little Yellow, Little Pink, and Little Gray were, and Yun Xi said a current of air had carried them away when they entered the ruins.
• Yun Xi lowered her voice and told Lan Yue she had noticed something strange.

Yun Xi secured a Heaven-Mending Stone while Lan Yue and the others crossed the forest toward the ruins’ center, where they encountered a Nascent Soul Realm Heavenly Black Spider. Outside the ruins, the danger prompted most sects to withdraw, while a few remained and prepared to send their disciples in.

• Yun Xi hid the Heaven-Mending Stone in her Formation Disk after Lan Yue warned her to keep the treasure concealed.
• Baili Xingzhou led Lan Yue and the others through the forest, avoiding Golden Core demon beasts and killing weaker beasts as they traveled toward the ruins’ center.
• Baili Xingzhou and the others encountered a mountain-sized Heavenly Black Spider whose aura had reached the Nascent Soul Realm, and he ordered everyone to run.
• The sect elders outside the ruins recognized the danger, and Yan Feng led the Flame Dragon Sect away while several other sects also withdrew.
• The Scarlet Moon Sect and Jade Light Sect remained, along with the Greenstone Sect and Mysterious Leaf Sect, whose elders insisted their disciples would enter the ruins.

Lan Yue negotiated with the young spider to free the others in exchange for demon beasts, while she remained caught in silk. After her companions went out to hunt, she cheerfully swung through the trees and asked Spider Brother for spirit fruits.

• Lan Yue recognized Spider Brother as the Nascent Soul spider beast’s son and asked him to spare her group.
• Qing Zhu and the Southern Spirit Sect disciples rushed to help, but the giant spider caught them all in its web.
• Spider Brother persuaded the giant spider to release everyone except Lan Yue, and Cang Dai was astonished that she had succeeded.
• Lan Yue told her companions to bring demon beasts as payment for her release, so Qing Zhu and the others set off to hunt.
• Lan Yue swung through the trees with Spider Brother, then asked him for some of his spirit fruits.

Lan Yue followed the little spider into a hidden space inside an ancient spirit tree and discovered precious wood spirit qi that could help her advance through major realms. After the system warned that the Heavenly Dao might interfere with her breakthroughs, Lan Yue insulted it and was answered by a bolt of heavenly lightning, leaving her determined to keep quiet and grow stronger.

• Lan Yue crawled into a hollow in the ancient tree while the elders outside wondered why the Heavenly Black Spider had released the others and watched her water screen go dark.
• Lan Yue fell through a hidden space and learned from the system that the floating clusters were precious wood spirit qi needed for major breakthroughs.
• Lan Yue struggled to catch the slippery spiritual treasures, and the system stored the ones she managed to seize.
• The system explained that Lan Yue would face inner demons because she and the system had smuggled themselves into the world and her soul had not fully stabilized.
• Lan Yue blamed the Heavenly Dao for her trouble with Sword Flight, and a bolt of purple heavenly lightning struck outside the Ruins.
• Lan Yue quieted down after the system warned her not to provoke the Heavenly Dao again.

Lan Yue discovered an Enlightenment Tea Tree hidden inside the Ten-Thousand-Year Spirit Tree and learned that the system wanted to take it to secure their place in the world. The system offered to unlock its System Space early, but Lan Yue discovered that doing so would leave her owing more melon seeds than she had saved.

• The Scarlet Moon Sect Master and the Second Elder worried that Lan Yue's black water screen meant she had been swept into another space, while the Greenstone Sect elder argued about entering the Ruins again.
• Lan Yue realized Spider Brother could not enter the hollow's independent space and continued exploring after gathering the natural spiritual treasures.
• Lan Yue found an Enlightenment Tea Tree, and the system explained that it was hiding from the new Heavenly Dao and could help them establish themselves in the world.
• The Enlightenment Tea Tree sent Lan Yue tea leaves as she approached, and she decided to take it only if the system could conceal its aura.
• The system offered to unlock its System Space early so Lan Yue could plant the tea tree there, but warned that she would owe more melon seeds than she had accumulated.

Lan Yue activated the system’s space after learning she could earn points by watching drama unfold, then persuaded the Enlightenment Tea Tree to trust her with a demonstration of its ability to conceal treasures. When Space-Biting Spirit Rats arrived, the system pulled the tree into its space and Lan Yue escaped through the vortex, but two rats followed her.

• Lan Yue agreed to activate the system’s space after the system revealed she could earn points by watching drama unfold.
• Lan Yue convinced the Enlightenment Tea Tree to come with her by explaining that the Ruins would attract cultivators and demonstrating that her space hid a natural spiritual treasure from detection.
• While studying beneath the tree, Lan Yue modified a Five Elements Spirit-Binding Formation and learned that the Enlightenment Tea Tree could improve her concentration.
• The system warned Lan Yue that the Heavenly Dao had sent Space-Biting Spirit Rats to investigate, so she grabbed the tree and fled toward the vortex.
• The system pulled the Enlightenment Tea Tree into its space as Lan Yue jumped through the vortex, but two Space-Biting Spirit Rats bit her clothes and followed her in.

Lan Yue escaped the giant spider after Qing Zhu and the others offered it a pile of Demon Beasts as food. As the group traveled on, Lan Yue discovered that the system had charged her points for capturing the Space-Biting Spirit Rats and planting the Enlightenment Tea Tree, and learned Spider Brother was marked on her map.

• The system captured the two Space-Biting Spirit Rats after the little spider weakened them with venom, and Spider Brother gave Lan Yue several stones.
• Qing Zhu and the Southern Spirit Sect disciples brought Demon Beasts to the giant spider, which released Lan Yue and let the group leave.
• Qing Zhu parted ways with Baili Xingzhou and the North Ridge Sacred Ground group, then led the Southern Spirit Sect disciples onward with Lan Yue.
• Lan Yue checked her system panel and found her points at minus five thousand.
• The system explained that it had charged points to capture the Space-Biting Spirit Rats and settle the Enlightenment Tea Tree in its space.
• Lan Yue spotted a black dot overlapping her location on the system map, and the system told her it marked Spider Brother.

Lan Yue discovered that Spider Brother had secretly followed her out, then hunted gossip among nearby demon beasts while traveling with the Southern Spirit Sect disciples. The group fell through a barrier into a Primordial Formation that sealed their spiritual power, leaving them trapped and unsure how to escape.

• Lan Yue found Spider Brother perched in her hair, and her senior sisters carried them away before his father could pursue them.
• Lan Yue used her ability to expose embarrassing secrets about nearby demon beasts, startling the Southern Spirit Sect disciples and driving the beasts away.
• The senior sister carrying Lan Yue crashed into a hidden barrier, and the rest of the disciples, including Yun Xi, fell into the enclosed area after them.
• Qing Zhu explained that a Primordial Formation had sealed their spiritual power and that they would need to unravel it to escape.
• Qing Zhu described different branches of Primordial Formations, including deadly Killing Formations, and admitted she could not decipher the formation they had entered.

Lan Yue, Li Bai, and other disciples became trapped in a primordial formation that made them vanish when they touched its falling leaves, while Baili Xingzhou entered after them. Outside the Ruins, the Greenstone Sect secured permission to enter first, unaware that the Southern Spirit Sect intended to let them test the unstable entrance.

• The Southern Spirit Sect’s water screens turned white, and the elders concluded that Lan Yue and the others had entered a primordial formation that blocked observation.
• Inside the formation, Li Bai touched a falling leaf and vanished, followed by Lan Yue and Yun Xi despite Qing Zhu’s efforts to protect them.
• Baili Xingzhou noticed the danger but entered the formation after the other North Ridge Sacred Ground disciples disappeared into it.
• Elder Wan worried that Baili Xingzhou had jeopardized his mission, then reassured himself that Nangong Ye could still carry it out.
• The Greenstone Sect elder demanded entry, and the Second Elder agreed to let the Greenstone Sect enter first so it could test the unstable entrance.

Wu Tianya, Wu Tianyu, and Yuan Shuo survived a deadly Flame Scorpion attack with help from a mysterious fiery phantom, then gathered the scorpions’ flame crystal. Meanwhile, Yun Xi and several sect disciples landed in a strange Spirit Herb Garden and suspected they had entered a trial, while Lan Yue and Senior Sister Qing Zhu remained missing.

• Wu Tianyu, Wu Tianya, and Yuan Shuo were attacked by Flame Scorpions, but Gu Zhuo’s fiery phantom shielded them and sent the scorpions’ explosive stingers back at them.
• Wu Tianya and Wu Tianyu woke to find the Flame Scorpions dead, and Yuan Shuo suggested that a Demon Beast had saved them.
• Wu Tianyu, Wu Tianya, and Yuan Shuo collected the flame crystal left by the scorpions and divided it equally before Wu Tianyu filled a Storage Bag with more from their nest.
• Yun Xi and several Southern Spirit Sect and North Ridge Sacred Ground disciples landed in a Spirit Herb Garden, where the vines could whip anyone who touched them.
• Lin Nian speculated that the Spirit Herb Garden was part of a trial, while Yun Xi wondered where Lan Yue and Senior Sister Qing Zhu had gone.

Yun Xi tested how to care for the dangerous spirit herbs while Lan Yue explored a Primordial Formation Pagoda and considered how to identify usable formations. The chapter left Yun Xi tending the herbs and Lan Yue declaring she had an idea.

• A Greenstone Sect disciple uprooted a white bone yin-yang flower and dissolved, while the flower returned to its place.
• Yun Xi ignored Lin Nian’s warning and watered a spirit herb, removed insects from its roots, and continued tending the garden.
• Lin Nian left with the other Southern Spirit Sect disciples after Yun Xi refused to join them.
• Lan Yue learned from the System that she was alone in one space of the Primordial Formation Pagoda, where she had to distinguish complete formations from incomplete ones.
• Lan Yue clapped her hands and said she had an idea.

Lan Yue used the System to study and reconstruct the formations in the Primordial Formation Pagoda, quickly climbing its floors while accumulating a large points debt. Meanwhile, Li Bai complained about the trial and was struck by lightning.

• Lan Yue entered the System Space, set up a table beside the Enlightenment Tea Tree, and brewed tea while asking the System to project images of the pagoda’s engraved patterns.
• Lan Yue persuaded the System to create a formation-testing function for one hundred points per use, then studied the first floor’s images until she identified its thirty-three formations.
• Lan Yue drew the formations correctly, opened the route to the next floor, and continued climbing after telling the System to add her growing points debt to her tab.
• Lan Yue reached higher floors quickly, stunning the other cultivators who were tracking the climbers’ progress.
• Li Bai struggled to trace the formations, cursed their designer, and was struck by a bolt of lightning.

The elders discovered that the Greenstone Sect had concealed a Demon Abyss Rift and sent investigators to examine it. Inside the ruins, disciples began encountering danger, while several water screens turned white, suggesting they had found an inheritance.

• The elders questioned the Greenstone Sect elder about two masked disciples, and he admitted his sect had closed a small Demon Abyss Rift without reporting it.
• The Second Elder sent Elder Duanmu and others to investigate the Greenstone Sect, while he worried about the missing Yun Li and the spreading danger.
• A Mysterious Leaf Sect disciple was swallowed by a Golden Core Stage demon beast, used his Teleportation Jade Token to escape, and fainted before the elders.
• The Greenstone Sect elder mocked the Mysterious Leaf Sect, but two Greenstone disciples' water screens quickly went dark, prompting the Mysterious Leaf Sect elder to mock him in return.
• The elders noticed that Yuan Shuo's and the Twins siblings' water screens had turned white and suspected they had entered the ruins' inheritance trials.
• The Fifth Elder and Second Elder concluded that the ruins appeared to contain two inheritances and hoped the disciples could withstand their trials.

Yun Xi tended the spirit herbs in the Herb Garden, and the Southern Spirit Sect and North Ridge Sacred Ground disciples discovered that her care had transformed them without triggering the barrier. Lin Nian apologized and acknowledged Yun Xi should lead the group, while the others gathered around to learn her method.

• Lin Nian urged the Southern Spirit Sect disciples to leave the herbs alone and reach the true trial before the other sects arrived, while Zou Wan worried about Yun Xi.
• The Southern Spirit Sect disciples found Yun Xi weeding and holding a spirit herb, and they panicked, believing the barrier would eject her.
• Cang Dai pointed out that the spirit herbs had become vibrant, and everyone noticed the Formation Disks with supreme-grade spirit stones that Yun Xi had used to nourish them.
• Yun Xi replanted the herb and set another Formation Disk beside it, while the gathered disciples asked how she had avoided the barrier.
• Lin Nian apologized to Yun Xi and said she should lead the group, and Yun Xi offered to explain what she had done.

Yun Xi explained how she passed the Spirit Medicine Field trial and sold formation disks to the other disciples for spirit stones before being transferred to the second trial. Meanwhile, Wu Tianyu and his companions fled a Flame Scorpion King into a volcano, while the ancient consciousness watched someone race ahead to the fifth floor.

• Yun Xi explained that she had revived the spirit herbs with water, soil care, and spirit liquid made from spirit stones using Lan Yue's formation disks.
• Yun Xi sold formation disks to disciples from the North Ridge Sacred Ground and then offered them cheaply to her Southern Spirit Sect peers.
• Yun Xi secretly counted her spirit stones, but the trial voice announced that she had passed and transferred her to the second trial.
• Wu Tianyu and his companions were nearly killed by a peak fourth-tier Flame Scorpion King and fled into a volcano, followed by Gu Zhuo, the other little demons, and Little Furball.
• The ancient consciousness saw that someone had already reached the fifth floor of the Formation Pagoda and wondered whether young cultivators had become unusually capable.

Lan Yue used the system to master formations and reached the fifth floor of the Formation Pagoda, unknowingly spurring the other disciples to work harder. Outside the ruins, elders investigated the Spirit Herb Garden trial, while Wu Tianyu, Wu Tianya, and Yuan Shuo explored the earthfire in the Crimson Flame Land.

• Lan Yue spent system points practicing formation modifications until she reached the fifth floor, while Li Bai mistakenly believed Senior Sister Qing Zhu was ahead of him.
• The puppets told the other disciples that the leader had reached the fifth floor, prompting them to abandon their breaks and study harder.
• North Ridge Sacred Ground disciples told Elder Wan they had been ejected from the Spirit Herb Garden after trying to take its spirit herbs, and the elders debated what the trial tested.
• In the Crimson Flame Land, Yuan Shuo used ten-thousand-year cold jade to tame the earthfire and began forging a Spirit Artifact as Gu Zhuo watched.
• Wu Tianyu tried feeding earthfire to a flame gu insect, then paired it with a Spirit-Devouring Insect in hopes of breeding an Earthfire Gu Insect.