Chapter Summaries

Lan Yue’s gossip revealed that Dazhuang, the Fifth Elder’s little spirit cat, visited several peaks each day to eat different foods and spend time with multiple caretakers. After seeing his packed schedule, everyone wondered how he could cover so much of the Southern Spirit Sect in a single day.

• Dazhuang ate freshly fried dried fish at Spirit Beast Peak, and the eldest senior sister recognized him as the Fifth Elder’s cat.
• Lan Yue revealed that Dazhuang also ate spirit grass with Elder Lin at Spirit Herb Peak, prompting the disciples to realize that their cat Cotton was Dazhuang too.
• Lan Yue described Dazhuang visiting the Dining Hall, dancing in the Hundred Flower Garden, and eating chicken drumsticks at the Outer Sect peaks.
• After his round of the sect, Dazhuang returned to the Fifth Elder’s peak, licked his paws, and fell asleep on the elder’s bed.
• Everyone marveled at Dazhuang’s energy and wondered how he traveled across the sprawling sect in one day, while Lan Yue called him a master of time management.

Lan Yue discovered that Dazhuang the spirit cat could hear her inner voice and had the special bloodline of the Primordial Nine-Spirit Cat, letting it travel through space. The chapter ended with Dazhuang attacking Lan Yue and Silver Snow jumping in to fight it.

• The Spirit Beast Peak senior sister wondered whether the spirit beasts could hear Lan Yue’s inner voice after Dazhuang suddenly vanished.
• The outer sect steward elder blamed his secret midnight chicken drumsticks on Dazhuang, but the cat appeared on his roof and fled in disgust.
• A young disciple pointed out that Dazhuang had been on Spirit Beast Peak moments earlier, leaving everyone baffled by how it crossed the distance.
• Lan Yue checked Dazhuang’s information and learned that its Primordial Nine-Spirit Cat bloodline let it travel through space.
• Dazhuang angrily lunged at Lan Yue, and Silver Snow leaped from her arms to tussle with it.

Lan Yue learned that the Southern Spirit Sect’s upcoming competition would select contestants for a joint Southern-Northern Region event, then trained with her companions under Guangji’s brutal sparring. Ten days before the sect competition, Li Bai dragged the exhausted group to practice through the night.

• Dazhuang repeatedly challenged Silver Snow, lost every fight, and was taken home by the Fifth Elder.
• Guangji returned, learned Lan Yue had reached the late Foundation Establishment stage, and announced that the Southern and Northern Regions would hold a joint competition.
• Guangji gave Lan Yue a Clear Shadow Footwork manual and told her to prepare for the Southern Spirit Sect competition in ten days.
• Guangji sparred fiercely with Lan Yue and her companions, leaving them exhausted and questioning their abilities.
• Li Bai rallied the group to train at the Stone Forest, urging them to improve before the Four-Region Grand Competition.

Li Bai drove Lan Yue and the others to cultivate harder, then persuaded Lan Yue to watch the Golden Core disciples’ competition after giving her a restorative pill. The elders decided to adopt Guangji’s rough training methods across the Southern Spirit Sect, while Lan Yue and her friends arrived at the Martial Arena.

• Li Bai pushed the youngsters through nighttime cultivation while Guangji trained them by beating them during the day, and they sustained fewer injuries after ten days.
• Li Bai gave Lan Yue a pill and convinced her to join the others in watching the Golden Core disciples compete.
• Dazhuang repeatedly stole the Fifth Elder’s beard, leaving the elder to conceal his bare chin from the others.
• The elders praised Guangji’s training and decided to extend his methods to senior disciples and outer sect disciples across the Southern Spirit Sect.
• Lan Yue and her friends arrived at the Martial Arena to watch the competition.

Lan Yue’s battle commentary and the system’s viewing mode helped the Southern Spirit Sect disciples understand the arena fights. The elders then made her attend the matches for three days, leaving Lan Yue to suspect Li Bai had arranged it.

• Lan Yue narrated a fight between a white-robed fairy and a Spirit Beast Peak senior brother, while the arena crowd grew quiet to follow her commentary.
• Pu Yuande and Hua Gu began fighting, and Lan Yue activated the system’s battle viewing mode to slow their movements for analysis.
• Jiang Li, Xing Yue, Qing Zhu, and the elders realized Lan Yue’s commentary was helping disciples learn combat techniques.
• The elders dragged Lan Yue to the arena before her match and made her watch fights for three days.
• Lan Yue scrutinized Li Bai as if suspecting he had put the elders up to it.

After the competition, Lan Yue discovered that the little black snake seeking refuge was actually the powerful Teng Snake Demon Lord, and panicked when he followed her to Spirit Moon Peak. She told him she knew where his wife was and offered to take him there if he would return to the Eastern Region afterward.

• Li Bai ignored Lan Yue's pleading and kept working hard at cultivation after the group secured high rankings in the Northern and Southern Regions competition.
• Yun Xi explained that the little black snake, two other snakes, and a Spirit Mouse had come to seek refuge after Snake Seven's brother lost his home in a flood.
• Lan Yue considered adopting the animals, but the System warned her that the black snake was Teng Snake, the Demon Lord of the Eastern Region South Sea, and she could not afford to keep him.
• Lan Yue returned the snake and fled with Yun Xi, but found him coiled on Spirit Moon Peak beside Dazhuang the Nine-Spirit Cat.
• Lan Yue checked the System Map, saw that the Scarlet Moon Sect Master was nearby, and told Teng Snake she knew where his wife was if he would return to the Eastern Region afterward.

Lan Yue discovered that the Scarlet Moon Sect Master was avoiding Teng Snake, who resolved to wait beside her until he could see his wife. He bribed Lan Yue with spiritual materials and earned permission to stay, leaving Gu Zhuo furious that the little black snake had received a nest of his own.

• Lan Yue watched the Scarlet Moon Sect Master's marker retreat and told Teng Snake that she seemed to be avoiding him.
• Teng Snake was heartbroken but decided to wait with Lan Yue, hoping his wife would eventually appear.
• Teng Snake gave Lan Yue two sacks of spiritual materials so he could stay in the Southern Spirit Sect.
• Lan Yue accepted the materials and allowed Teng Snake to remain on the condition that he not cry and cause trouble.
• Gu Zhuo noticed Teng Snake sleeping in a nest beside his and resented that it was fancier than his own.

Lan Yue and her friends prepared for the joint tournament in the Northern Region while managing a feud between Little Red Furball and Teng Snake. The group set out by spirit boat, and Lan Yue promised Teng Snake he would see his wife, the Scarlet Moon Sect Master, at the tournament.

• Yun Xi discovered that Little Red Furball had hidden Teng Snake’s nest, made him return it, and warned him not to offend the peak’s major customer.
• Lan Yue and Yun Xi urged the group to cultivate and prepare life-saving pills and formation disks for the dangers ahead.
• After half a month of training, everyone except Li Bai advanced before the sect departed for the Northern Region tournament.
• Teng Snake worried that his wife, Red Moon, would not find him while they were away, but Lan Yue assured him the Scarlet Moon Sect would attend.
• Teng Snake eagerly boarded the spirit boat after Lan Yue promised to deliver him to the Scarlet Moon Sect Master, then asked Snake Seven who Elder Whitebrow was.

The Crimson Demon General's Manor's failed infiltrators faced the Deputy General's wrath as he blamed Lan Yue for their setbacks. The Deputy General vowed to lead a team to the Northern and Southern Regions Grand Tournament to capture Lan Yue, while Yun Li resolved to avoid another mission.

• The Deputy General rebuked the returning devils for failing to infiltrate the Southern Region, and a blood-red maw swallowed several of them outside the manor.
• The Deputy General questioned Yun Li and the other devils about their failures, while Liu blamed Lan Yue for exposing her sister Liu Lian'er's plans.
• Yun Li kept quiet about Lan Yue's ability to expose secrets, knowing a terrifying power prevented her from revealing it.
• The Deputy General announced that he would lead a team to the Northern and Southern Regions Grand Tournament to capture Lan Yue.
• Yuan Bao demanded Lan Yue and Yuan Shuo's deaths as the Deputy General rallied the devils to exploit the Eastern Demon Domain's recent failures.

Lan Yue and the Southern Spirit Sect arrived in the Northern Region for the regional competition, while Yun Chong anticipated exposing the local sects’ secrets. At the Holy City gates, Lan Yue’s group joined the queue and spotted a Phoenix-like bird that enraged Little Red Furball.

• Lan Yue, Yun Xi, and Wu Tianya watched shirtless men training as the Spirit Boat entered the Northern Region, and Yun Chong hurried the boat toward the North Ridge Sacred Ground.
• Lan Yue learned that her master had stayed at the sect, while Yun Chong privately resolved to unleash the Immortal Artifact’s secrets on the Northern Region’s sects.
• Lan Yue and her friends calmed Teng Snake after he learned about Elder Whitebrow and wanted to flood the Northern Region to find his daughter.
• Lan Yue’s group disembarked at the Holy City and joined the long queue of disciples heading to the competition at the North Ridge Sacred Ground.
• Yun Xi admired a Phoenix-like bird flying overhead, while Little Red Furball angrily cursed the disguised Illusion Spirit Bird and Lan Yue guessed what he was doing.

The Southern Spirit Sect arrived at the North Ridge Sacred Ground, where Lan Yue clashed with the Black Snake Sect after its members tried to force them out of line. Baili Xingzhou then came to escort Sect Master Yun and the group inside, revealing that the Holy Lord had been waiting for them.

• The Black Snake Sect's snake-shaped flying Spirit Artifact arrived, angering Teng Snake because it resembled him, while Lan Yue covered Little Black Snake to keep their identities hidden.
• Hei Ya demanded that Lan Yue's group give up their places in line, but Lan Yue distracted him with a remark about his green melon and warned him of a bloody calamity.
• Hei Ya secretly sent a venomous insect toward Lan Yue, but Wu Tianyu and his elder sister took control of it and sent it back before the inspection team arrived.
• Nearby cultivators warned Lan Yue that the Black Snake Sect would seek revenge, and she said her sect could defend itself.
• Baili Xingzhou apologized for the delay and invited Sect Master Yun and the Southern Spirit Sect inside because the Holy Lord had been waiting for them.

The Southern Spirit Sect's group toured North Ridge Sacred Ground's Holy City, where Lan Yue's thoughts revealed that she had mistaken the sacred mountain's Sacred Water for a hot spring. The chapter ended when she spotted a black gossip melon above the mountain and realized someone was already lying beneath the Sacred Water.

• The North Ridge Sacred Ground Holy Lord angrily learned that the Southern Spirit Sect had not been welcomed ahead of the other sects.
• Baili Xingzhou escorted the Southern Spirit Sect's group through the Holy City and showed them the sacred mountains.
• Baili Xingzhou explained that the central mountain held Sacred Water, and Lan Yue's inner voice revealed she had wanted to bathe in it.
• Yun Xi hurried to Lan Yue's side, but the North Ridge Sacred Ground disciples made no move against her.
• Lan Yue noticed a black gossip melon above the mountain and discovered someone was lying beneath the Sacred Water.

The Deputy Demon General and Northern Demon Domain spies infiltrated the North Ridge Sacred Ground to free the Ten-Thousand-Year Vengeful Spirit and use the resulting chaos to attack the gathered geniuses. Lan Yue’s thoughts revealed the spirit’s presence in the Sacred Water, leaving the Holy Lord and the people around her stunned.

• The Deputy Demon General rebuked his devils and argued with the White-Robed Steward as they approached the Sacred Water.
• The Deputy Demon General explained that his plan was to use the Netherworld Axe to free the Ten-Thousand-Year Vengeful Spirit and kill the sects’ geniuses.
• The Holy Lord wondered whether the vengeful spirit was imprisoned in the Sacred Water, then feared it might be a physical person.
• Lan Yue realized that the black melon she had seen belonged to a Ten-Thousand-Year Vengeful Spirit pinned beneath the Sacred Water.
• Lan Yue speculated that the spirit’s injustice might have caused the North Ridge Sacred Ground’s endless snow, and the Holy Lord and others were shocked by her thought.

Lan Yue’s inner voice revealed that Yu Xiu had created the Sacred Water to fight the Devil Race and that the North Ridge Sacred Mountain would collapse in the future. Baili Xingzhou warned the Holy Lord not to confront her and urged him to listen and prepare, leaving him anxiously waiting to learn what would happen to the mountain.

• The Holy Lord suspected the youthful voice belonged to the Holy Son’s daughter and decided to investigate cautiously.
• At the Sacred Mountain, the Devil Race members heard Lan Yue’s voice reveal that a Ten-Thousand-Year Vengeful Spirit was sealed beneath the Sacred Water, and the Deputy Demon General argued with the white-robed steward over whether their secrets had been leaked.
• Lan Yue identified the vengeful spirit as Yu Xiu, who had created the Sacred Water to fight the Devil Race, and recalled that the Sacred Mountain would collapse during the Devil Race’s invasion.
• The North Ridge Sacred Ground members realized their Sacred Mountain might be destroyed, while Baili Xingzhou warned the Holy Lord that Lan Yue’s revelations were reliable and that provoking her could anger an Immortal Artifact.
• The Holy Lord held back from acting against Lan Yue and listened for more information about the Sacred Mountain’s fate.

Images revealed how Yu Xiu created Sacred Water to fight the Devil Race, only for it to transform people into demonic beasts and bring ruin to the Central Sacred Land. The Holy Lord questioned whether Yu Xiu had conspired with the devils or whether the buried Holy Son had become a vengeful spirit.

• The Deputy Demon General realized someone knew the secret plan to destroy the Sacred Mountain and ordered his devils to retreat, but the White-Robed Steward insisted they stay.
• Images showed Yu Xiu receiving praise and becoming Holy Son after creating Sacred Water that helped the sacred land defeat the devils.
• The Sacred Water corrupted those who drank it, turning them into demonic beasts and allowing the Devil Race to overrun the Central Sacred Land.
• The Demon King thanked Yu Xiu for helping create Sacred Water from demon seeds, while the sacred land's people blamed Yu Xiu, bound him, and nailed him to the Sacred Mountain.
• The Holy Lord wondered whether Yu Xiu had truly conspired with the Devil Race and recalled the voice calling the one beneath the mountain a Ten-Thousand-Year Vengeful Spirit.

Nangong Ye learned that Steward Lin had gone to Sacred Mountain and hurried after him, while the Devil Race debated how to respond to Lan Yue’s revelations. Lan Yue’s vision showed Yu Xiu’s death and the Central Sacred Land’s destruction, leaving those who witnessed it stunned.

• Nangong Ye questioned an armored man about Steward Lin’s departure to Sacred Mountain, then vanished to investigate.
• The Deputy Demon General ordered the Devil Race members to learn how widely Lan Yue’s inner voice and visions had spread.
• The Deputy Demon General warned the White-Robed Steward not to act rashly, but the Steward moved to awaken the Ten-Thousand-Year Vengeful Spirit.
• Lan Yue’s vision revealed that Yu Xiu was tortured and killed, then became a vengeful spirit suppressed within Sacred Mountain.
• The vision showed the Devil Lord attacking the Central Sacred Land, which fell in a single night, and the witnesses remained shaken.

Lan Yue warned the North Ridge Sacred Ground about danger at the Sacred Mountain, allowing its forces to catch the Devil Race’s spies and subdue the devils with help from the Ten-Thousand-Year Vengeful Spirit. After clearing the Holy Son’s name, the vengeful spirit faded away, leaving only a bead in the Sacred Water Pool.

• The Deputy Demon General learned that the warning voice could be heard across nearby peaks and canceled the devils’ mission, but he took Nangong Ye prisoner after Nangong Ye accused Steward Lin of being a Devil Race spy.
• Lan Yue realized her visions had revealed the Devil Race’s plot against the Holy Son and warned the Holy Lord that the Sacred Mountain might collapse, then fell asleep from mental exhaustion.
• The Holy Lord ordered an investigation and surrounded the Sacred Mountain, where the Deputy Demon General opened a Demon Abyss Rift and threw Nangong Ye inside as he prepared to escape.
• The Ten-Thousand-Year Vengeful Spirit emerged from the Sacred Water, restrained the devils, and helped the Holy Lord and white-robed figures capture them.
• The vengeful spirit said he had acted because Lan Yue had cleared his name, then dispersed into a transparent bead that drifted into the Sacred Water Pool.

Lan Yue earned 6,000 points for clearing a ten-thousand-year-old vengeful spirit’s name, then discovered that Nangong Ye had vanished amid a lockdown at the North Ridge Sacred Ground. She used the System Map to locate him, drawing the attention of the North Ridge Holy Lord and Yun Chong.

• Lan Yue received 6,000 points for clearing the vengeful spirit’s name and realized she had paid off her debt to the system.
• Lan Yue and her companions found the North Ridge Sacred Ground under lockdown, and Baili Xingzhou told them Nangong Ye had disappeared on the Sacred Mountain.
• Lan Yue checked the System Map and saw devils clustered inside the Holy City Palace, but none elsewhere.
• The North Ridge Holy Lord asked Yun Chong whether Lan Yue could locate people and offered the Nangong Family’s thanks if she found Nangong Ye.
• Lan Yue entered Nangong Ye’s name into the System Map and found his location.

Lan Yue unlocked the Demon Realm map after the system tempted her with the promise of gathering gossip from distant realms. The Southern Spirit Sect and Nangong Lineage worried about her safety and hoped the map might help locate the missing Nangong Ye, while Lan Yue ended the chapter in debt again.

• Lan Yue discovered that the system had unlocked the Demon Realm map and protested against spending her hard-earned points.
• The Nangong Lineage head asked the North Ridge Holy Lord about the map, hoping it could help find Nangong Ye, who had disappeared from the Sacred Mountain.
• The Holy Lord and Southern Spirit Sect elders discussed the system’s power and worried that the Devil Race could hear Lan Yue’s gossip and target her.
• The Fifth Elder warned that unlocking the map would consume points Lan Yue needed for her protection.
• The system persuaded Lan Yue to unlock the Demon Realm map, leaving her with no points and another two thousand points of debt.

Lan Yue unlocked a Demon Realm map and location tracking, then helped the North Ridge Sacred Ground locate and rescue Nangong Ye from Creek Valley. With the Sacred Mountain crisis settled and the regional competition approaching, Lan Yue encountered the hostile Black Snake Sect, including Hei Ya, whose swollen red face revealed the effects of the poisonous insects sent back to him.

• Lan Yue spent her remaining points unlocking the Demon Realm map, location tracking, and categorized gossip, then learned that Nangong Ye had been thrown into the Demon Realm while the other devils failed to escape.
• Lan Yue found Nangong Ye's location in Creek Valley and passed the information to the North Ridge Sacred Ground, which called upon the Nangong Family's ancestor to rescue him.
• Three days later, Lan Yue heard that Nangong Ye had been brought back, though the ancestor had lost an arm, and peace returned to the North Ridge Sacred Ground.
• As the Northern and Southern Regions' competition approached, Lan Yue searched for gossip and overheard the Black Snake Sect discussing the prizes and the Central Sacred Land's inheritance.
• Hei Ya glared at Lan Yue, and Wu Tianyu and Wu Tianya recognized his red, swollen face as the result of the poisonous insects they had sent back to him.