Chapter Summaries

Yun Xi recorded a ghost making an ancient Nine-Turn Crimson Sun Pill recipe and tried making it herself, while Lan Yue faced the Elder Five Elements Formation on the Formation Pagoda’s sixth layer. In the ruins, the Greenstone Sect chose a dangerous route toward the legacy, and the ruins sealed themselves after black fog swallowed the sect’s water screens.

• Yun Xi recorded the white ghost’s pill-making steps, copied them at a small Pill Furnace, and added a Twin Blossom when she sensed something was wrong.
• Lan Yue faced linked attacks on the sixth layer and considered how to break the Elder Five Elements Formation as the system urged her to stop seeking shortcuts.
• The Scarlet Moon Sect and Jade Light Sect groups turned back to avoid the Heavenly Black Spider’s territory, while the Greenstone Sect chose to press on toward the legacy.
• Qing Tong mocked the sects taking the detour, then led the Greenstone Sect toward the towering ancient tree to catch Demon Beasts.
• Screams came from the ancient tree, black fog swallowed the Greenstone Sect’s water screens, and the ruins sealed themselves as the Second Elder sensed demonic energy and turned toward the Greenstone Sect’s elder.

The Second Elder discovered that devils had infiltrated the Greenstone Sect disciples in the sealed Ruins, while Lan Yue continued studying the Sixth Layer’s connected formations. The two devils headed toward the Legacy Grounds, and Lan Yue prepared to use the Simulation Lab to break every formation at once.

• The Second Elder captured two Greenstone Sect elders, contacted the Sect Master, and crushed the Greenstone Sect disciples’ Teleportation Jade Tokens, but the Ruins’ exit remained sealed.
• Two masked devils discussed destroying the human inheritance and finding Lan Yue, then used black bags to protect the Greenstone Sect disciples when their Jade Tokens exploded.
• The consciousness in the Nine-Story Formation Pagoda sensed the devils approaching and worried that Lan Yue was making no progress through the Sixth Layer’s formations.
• Lan Yue realized the formations were interconnected and suspected that breaking them individually would let them restore themselves.
• Lan Yue asked the system to open the Simulation Lab so she could try to break every formation at once, despite already owing points.

Wu Tianya, Wu Tianyu, and Yuan Shuo kept working by the earthfire pool as Yun Li arrived and tried to recruit them to help reach the inheritance grounds. Elsewhere, Yun Xi refined a Nine-Turn Crimson Sun Pill, and Lan Yue shattered the tower’s formations before an unseen attacker kicked her into a vortex.

• Wu Tianyu fretted that his Gu Insects had not produced young, while Wu Tianya tempered her body with earthfire and Yuan Shuo continued forging.
• Yun Li offered to use her Ten-Thousand-Year Fire Spirit Pearl to store the earthfire, but Wu Tianyu, Yuan Shuo, and Wu Tianya refused to help her.
• Yun Li entered the earthfire pool alone, prompting Gu Zhuo to send the fiery-red Little Furball after her to protect the earthfire.
• Yun Xi produced a Nine-Turn Crimson Sun Pill, and the white ghost offered to teach her all its knowledge in exchange for learning how she made it.
• Lan Yue used Silver Snow to shatter the Elder Five Elements Formation, then an unseen attacker kicked her into a vortex as Silver Snow rushed after her.

Lan Yue met the consciousness of the Formation Pagoda, who sent her to test herself against a Devil Race member controlling Greenstone Sect disciples. Lan Yue captured one controlled disciple in a sack, but when it broke and the others closed in, she fled instead of fighting.

• The Formation Pagoda’s consciousness judged Lan Yue to have scraped through the trial after she damaged the sixth-floor structure and showed her Greenstone Sect disciples attacking the pagoda.
• The consciousness explained that one intruder was a Devil Race member who controlled people, then sent Lan Yue into the formation to fight him.
• Lan Yue ambushed a controlled Greenstone Sect disciple with a sack and severed his Puppet Threads, planning to take the captives to her elders for study.
• The captive bit through the sack, and Lan Yue ran as the other controlled disciples rushed toward her.

Yun Xi received the white spirit’s inheritance in devil pill-refining, while Lan Yue learned that Yuan Bao had become the Devil Race’s Young Lord and was targeting her. After defeating the pursuing devil, Lan Yue was invited to receive an inheritance and brought the Greenstone Sect disciples along as research material.

• The white spirit captured a black-robed devil and showed Yun Xi how to refine devils into pills.
• The white spirit passed his memories and devil pill-refining art to Yun Xi, then vanished as the Alchemy Furnace shrank before her.
• Lan Yue lured a devil into the Nine-Story Formation Pagoda’s killing formation and learned that Yuan Bao had ordered her capture and death.
• Lan Yue kicked the devil into the formation, and a beautiful woman turned its remains into black jade and invited Lan Yue to receive the inheritance.
• Lan Yue packed the Greenstone Sect disciples into sacks and stored them before following the woman.

Lan Yue learned that the Devil Race was returning to the Ruins and that a sleeping Flame Dragon might become a Demon Dragon. After she and her companions entered the Crimson Flame Land to find it, they discovered Yun Li unconscious beside a tiny fireball trying to swallow the Ten-Thousand-Year Fire Spirit Pearl.

• The beautiful woman warned Lan Yue that the Devil Race had found the Ruins again and sent her to meet the sleeping Flame Dragon for the Formation Pagoda’s trial.
• After the beautiful woman kicked Lan Yue into the Crimson Flame Land, Lan Yue fell into the Earthfire Pool, and her companions jumped in to save her.
• Lan Yue gathered her companions inside a protective barrier and explained that the Devil Race might plant a demon seed in the Flame Dragon.
• Wu Tianya warned everyone to be careful because Yun Li had the Ten-Thousand-Year Fire Spirit Pearl.
• Lan Yue and her companions found Yun Li lying unconscious while a little fiery-red ball tried to swallow the pearl.

Lan Yue and the others found the sleeping Crimson Flame Dragon and tried several ways to wake him, but nothing worked. Lan Yue tapped a glowing gossip melon beside his head, revealing a system prompt about a secret he had guarded for tens of thousands of years.

• Yun Xi kicked the Ten-Thousand-Year Fire Spirit Pearl away from Little Furball before he could swallow it.
• Wu Tianyu found a mechanism beneath the pool of fire, and the group descended the stairs to the Crimson Flame Dragon.
• Wu Tianya noticed marks on the mechanism and suspected the Devil Race or Yun Li had tried to enter before them.
• Wu Tianyu, Li Bai, Wu Tianya, Yuan Shuo, and Yun Xi each tried to wake the Flame Dragon, but he remained asleep.
• Lan Yue tapped the glowing gossip melon beside the Flame Dragon and saw a prompt about his long-guarded secret.

Lan Yue and her companions accidentally woke Senior Flame Dragon while reading embarrassing stories about his childhood, then helped him examine a Ten-Thousand-Year Fire Spirit Pearl containing a demon seed. Lan Yue proposed preserving the seed so the devil race would think its scheme had worked while the group searched for a way to separate it and heal Flame Dragon.

• Lan Yue read the system footage about Senior Flame Dragon's strange childhood while her companions secretly listened and worked.
• Senior Flame Dragon woke and blasted Lan Yue and the others into the air with Dragon Breath until the Nine-Story Tower Consciousness intervened.
• The Nine-Story Tower Consciousness asked Lan Yue to show Flame Dragon the Ten-Thousand-Year Fire Spirit Pearl, and he used his flames to expose the demon seed inside it.
• Lan Yue stopped Flame Dragon from burning the demon seed and suggested extracting it, then purifying the pearl to heal his injuries.
• Lan Yue and her companions offered ideas for separating the demon seed, but the system disappeared when she asked to borrow points for a laboratory experiment.

Lan Yue and the others dealt with a Devil Race Demon Seed, and Yun Xi purified a Ten-Thousand-Year Fire Spirit Pearl to help Senior Flame Dragon recover. The Nine-Story Formation Pagoda passed its formation legacy to Lan Yue and disappeared, warning her about the Devil Race before they parted forever.

• Wu Tianyu lured the escaped Demon Seed into a bamboo tube with a female insect he had raised.
• Yun Xi purified the Ten-Thousand-Year Fire Spirit Pearl, and Little Furball negotiated with her before letting Senior Flame Dragon have it.
• The Nine-Story Formation Pagoda passed its formation legacy to Lan Yue, instantly teaching her numerous formations.
• The Nine-Story Formation Pagoda warned Lan Yue not to underestimate the Devil Race and said they would never meet again.
• The Nine-Story Formation Pagoda's consciousness vanished, leaving the small pagoda floating above the Earthfire pool.

Lan Yue and the others escaped the closing ruins after learning about the sacrifices of the ancient formation masters, then reunited with the waiting elders and their missing companions. Lan Yue’s thoughts revealed that the North Ridge Sacred Son’s lost daughter had returned, shocking Elder Wan.

• Lan Yue told the others how the Nine-Story Formation Pagoda’s formation masters had fought the Devil Race and left many inheritances unfinished when they died on the battlefield.
• Flame Dragon forced the youngsters out of the ruins before they closed, and the system confirmed that he had secretly kicked Lan Yue.
• The elders welcomed the youngsters back, and Yun Chong examined Yun Xi before jealously pulling her away from Lan Yue.
• Lan Yue used the Nine-Story Formation Pagoda to bring out the missing senior disciples and North Ridge Sacred Ground members, while Yun Xi revealed the rest of the group from her Pill Furnace.
• Lan Yue suggested they discuss what happened back at the sect, then thought about the North Ridge Sacred Son’s lost daughter returning, startling Elder Wan.

Lan Yue and Yun Xi returned safely to the Southern Spirit Sect with the inheritances they had obtained in the Ruins. The sect elders agreed to study and copy the inheritances, while Baili Xingzhou began investigating whether the Holy Son’s daughter was among the Southern Spirit Sect’s people.

• The Fifth Elder hurried Lan Yue and Yun Xi away from the Ruins, warning Lan Yue that other sects might try to steal their Ancient Spirit Artifacts, while Lan Yue mistook Elder Wan’s pursuit for a threat to their treasures.
• After the Southern Spirit Sect’s elders departed, Baili Xingzhou wondered whether the Holy Son’s daughter was in the sect and set out to investigate and find Elder Wan.
• At Spirit Moon Peak, Qing Zhu, Lin Nian, and the other disciples recounted the formations, herbs, and inheritances they had encountered in the Ruins.
• Lan Yue and Yun Xi selectively described their experiences, then agreed to let the Southern Spirit Sect copy and study their inheritances.
• The Second Elder told the youngsters they could rest, and Lan Yue celebrated because she could finally feast on gossip.

Lan Yue’s thoughts about the elders’ scandals led them to stay and promise her support in exchange for discussing the Nine-Story Formation Pagoda. The elders accepted that she would keep uncovering their gossip, while Lan Yue planned to investigate Elder Wan and the Southern Spirit Sect next.

• The Second Elder was moved that Lan Yue had brought back Starlight Flower for him and persuaded the elders to stay and discuss the Nine-Story Formation Pagoda.
• Lan Yue thought about the cat spirit grass and Clearheart Spirit Tea she had brought from the Ruins, and the elders decided to help her obtain rewards and preserve her share of the pagoda.
• The elders promised Lan Yue a Winter-Warm Summer-Cool Spirit Bed and protection from anyone who challenged her claim.
• Lan Yue thanked the elders, briefly felt guilty about enjoying their gossip, then resolved to investigate Elder Wan and the Southern Spirit Sect.

Elder Wan and Elder Sun entered the Southern Spirit Sect, where Lan Yue’s thoughts exposed Elder Wan’s embarrassing history to the gathered elders and disciples. Elder Wan learned that his wife had gone to the Dust-Forgetting Sect and decided to visit it, but Lan Yue’s thoughts about the sect left him stunned; then a shadow suddenly flew away.

• Elder Wan found Elder Sun inside the Southern Spirit Sect and learned that the North Ridge Sacred Ground’s disciples were hidden in gourds.
• Lan Yue’s thoughts revealed Elder Wan’s disastrous attempts to draw his wife’s eyebrows and bring her roast meat, embarrassing him before Elder Sun and the disciples in the gourds.
• Southern Spirit Sect elders welcomed Elder Wan and Elder Sun to Spirit Moon Peak as Lan Yue continued recalling stories about Elder Wan’s obliviousness.
• Elder Wan learned that his wife had gone to the Dust-Forgetting Sect and decided to visit it with her.
• Lan Yue thought about the Dust-Forgetting Sect’s beautiful attendants and praised Elder Whitebrow, then noticed a shadow fly into the sky and vanish.

The Southern Spirit Sect elders tried to discuss the ruins’ Primordial Formations and pill formulas with Elder Sun, but Lan Yue’s mistaken assumptions turned their conversation into a beard-selling misunderstanding. Baili Xingzhou arrived with the North Ridge Sacred Ground disciples and arranged to stay near Lan Yue, proposing that they catch fish before it was too late.

• Lan Yue mistook Elder Sun’s fake beard for a sign that the Southern Spirit Sect sold beards, and the elders struggled to correct her.
• Elder Sun revealed that he had brought the North Ridge Sacred Ground disciples concealed in a string of gourds, and Baili Xingzhou greeted the elders.
• Baili Xingzhou claimed that the North Ridge Sacred Son was in closed-door seclusion for decades, and the Southern Spirit Sect elders welcomed the excuse to keep him away.
• Baili Xingzhou asked to stay on Lan Yue’s peak and said he wanted to repay her for helping the sacred ground’s disciples in the ruins.
• Baili Xingzhou proposed that he and Lan Yue catch fish, leaving Lan Yue alarmed that he meant to do it openly in front of the Second Elder.

After the Southern Spirit Sect Master kept Baili Xingzhou and the others for harsh training, Lan Yue, Yun Xi, and Wu Tianya secretly left Spirit Moon Peak to seek new gossip and explore the Dust-Forgetting Sect. Lan Yue reunited with Elder Whitebrow, renewed his makeup, and persuaded him to bring their group into the sect as his servants.

• The Southern Spirit Sect Master trained Li Bai, Wu Tianyu, Baili Xingzhou, and the North Ridge Sacred Ground group so relentlessly that they were left exhausted.
• Wu Tianya, Yun Xi, and Lan Yue discussed the gifts they had received and decided to leave the sect for new territory.
• Lan Yue encountered Elder Whitebrow at the market and heard how his makeup had helped him enter the Dust-Forgetting Sect and find a new calling.
• Lan Yue and Yuan Shuo made longer-lasting cosmetics for Elder Whitebrow, who paid Lan Yue ten supreme-grade spirit stones.
• Lan Yue convinced Elder Whitebrow to take her, Yun Xi, Wu Tianya, and Yuan Shuo to the Dust-Forgetting Sect as his servants, while Yuan Shuo remained confused.

Lan Yue and her companions were shipwrecked and captured by a water ghost who had already gathered dozens of children. The ghost seemed to be raising them while waiting for their mother to return, leaving Lan Yue curious about his past.

• Elder Whitebrow’s battered boat broke apart after he stomped on it, and Lan Yue and the others fell into the water.
• Lan Yue was dragged underwater by dark shapes, fainted, and woke bound with her companions among many children.
• Yun Xi noticed that some children had been held for three months without being harmed and chose not to struggle.
• A blue-green-robed man arrived with the dark shapes and told the eldest child to care for the newcomers and avoid fighting.
• The eldest child knocked a crying child unconscious, and the man warned the children that their mother would not return if they fought.
• Lan Yue asked the system to reveal the male ghost’s secret past.

Lan Yue uncovered how Jiang Xia repeatedly spent his fortune and ghostly energy helping women achieve greatness, only for each to leave him behind. Jiang Xia learned that Wu Qing had cultivated the unfeeling Dao, but Lan Yue then discovered another woman who might return.

• Lan Yue revealed that Jiang Xia financed a scholar who became the Fufeng Dynasty’s powerful female chancellor, while Jiang Xia realized she had never returned to him.
• Lan Yue recounted how Jiang Xia helped a wounded swordswoman avenge her family; she became the youngest martial arts grandmaster and leader of the martial alliance, then left him penniless.
• Lan Yue revealed that Jiang Xia rescued and empowered Wu Qing, who later became sect master of the Falling Goose Sect after avenging her master.
• Jiang Xia hoped Wu Qing would return, but Lan Yue explained that she had begun cultivating the unfeeling Dao and would not become his companion.
• Lan Yue discovered another woman from Jiang Xia’s past who intended to return.

Lan Yue’s thoughts revealed that the male ghost had lost his memory after a cultivation deviation and had a wife and young child, while the ghost learned that Prince Lin’s Mansion had taken his child. The Ghost King attacked the mansion’s people, who fled as he repeatedly demanded his child back.

• Lan Yue’s thoughts revealed that the male ghost had gone ashore after a cultivation deviation, met a woman who helped him, and had a five-year-old child he had forgotten.
• Elder Whitebrow confronted guards from Prince Lin’s Mansion as they attacked the underwater barrier while searching for their missing heir.
• The barrier broke, revealing the children and enraging the male ghost, whose power sent everyone flying except Elder Whitebrow.
• The Prince Lin’s Mansion guards recognized the male ghost as a Ghost King and called for reinforcements.
• Lan Yue’s thoughts made the guards suspect a hidden senior, while the Ghost King accused them of taking his child and chased them as they fled.

Jiang Xia discovered that the Heir Apparent of Prince Lin's Mansion was his lost son, while Lan Yue's thoughts revealed the boy's mother had been forced into marriage and both mother and son had suffered abuse. The Ghost King confronted the arriving elder, but the elder seized the boy and took him away.

• Lan Yue realized the Ghost King's son was the youngest boy beside him, and the mansion retainers recognized the boy as their Heir Apparent.
• Jiang Xia embraced the boy, then grew furious when the boy recoiled from the mansion's retainers and hid behind him.
• An elderly cultivator arrived with a tearful young woman, and Lan Yue's thoughts revealed Prince Lin had forced the pregnant woman to marry him and later mistreated her and her son.
• Jiang Xia saw the boy's wounds and scar, became enraged, and refused to hand him over to the elder.
• The elder swiftly snatched the boy away, leaving him stunned and unable to struggle free.

Elder Prince Lin learned that his son and grandsons were not his biological descendants, while Prince Lin arrived at the water and was slapped by his furious father. The Ghost King recovered the boy, and Prince Lin was left facing the consequences of the revelations.

• Elder Prince Lin dropped the boy after hearing that Prince Lin was not his biological son, and the Ghost King snatched the boy back.
• Lan Yue revealed that Elder Prince Lin had stolen and mistreated adopted sons, who had secretly replaced his newborn son and poisoned him.
• Lan Yue further revealed that none of Prince Lin's many grandsons were his, and Prince Lin overheard the gossip as he arrived on his flying sword.
• Prince Lin entered the water to seek his father's protection, but Elder Prince Lin slapped him when he arrived.
• Prince Lin blamed Princess Consort Lin for supposedly bewitching his father, and Elder Prince Lin slapped him again.