Recaps

Su Jiu escaped the Seal Grounds, returned to the Azure Tide Sect, and entered the Far North Secret Realm with Xia Jue and Tong Qi. There, she protected Lin Jiaojiao from Zuo Kexin’s betrayal while Xia Jue’s search for a hidden sacred artifact drew a crowd of rogue cultivators.

• Xia Jue sent Nineteen to eliminate the Demonic Cultivators while Su Jiu discovered a glowing formation beneath the Zheng Household ruins and was swallowed by its white domain.
• Su Jiu awoke in the Seal Grounds, where Silver Snow revealed he was a Nine-Tailed Fox imprisoned in the Lifeless Ice Cavern and agreed to wait while she prepared a way out.
• Su Jiu mastered the Spirit-Cleansing Technique, found that the pool water could heal her, and used it to reveal a teleportation formation before returning to the outside world.
• Su Jiu returned to the Azure Tide Sect before Pei Zhen could replace her, then helped Xie Li and Xie Gu enter the sect and learned about the merfolk who had left Swallowing Heaven.
• Su Jiu cleared her name in the Gao Yang incident and entered the Far North Secret Realm with Xia Jue and Tong Qi, who were searching for a sacred artifact hidden by an Azure Tide Sect predecessor.
• Zuo Kexin immobilized Lin Jiaojiao and used Demon-Luring Powder to lure beasts toward her, but Su Jiu and Xia Jue fought off the Wind-Chanting Beasts and Tong Qi freed Lin Jiaojiao.
• Hu Yucheng revealed that Zuo Kexin had colluded with demonic cultivators, and Su Jiu deduced that she had used a hidden thread to guide Lin Jiaojiao’s group into danger.
• Xia Jue warned Su Jiu and Tong Qi that rogue cultivators were following them for the sacred artifact, then let the crowd enter the cave before asking why they had followed him.

Xia Jue led his companions to the Buddhist Prayer Beads, which chose Su Jiu, and the group then reached the White Pavilion’s deadly composite formation. Su Jiu entered alone to unravel it, where she exposed Qiao Zirong as the traitor Yi Feng Chen.

• Hu Jing and the other cultivators searched for the rumored sacred artifact while Xia Jue led his group away to gather herbs, then defeated rogue cultivators who confronted them.
• Su Jiu warned Xia Jue that an intruder would disrupt Ning Hai’s breakthrough, and Hu Jing’s companions found a cloth bundle sealed by a sixth-tier Spirit-Sealing Formation.
• Su Jiu unraveled the formation and claimed the Buddhist Prayer Beads, whose Artifact Spirit Little Pearl agreed to travel with her.
• Xia Jue’s group fought and defeated a Catfish Worm, and Su Jiu examined the Azure Jade Flute before the group reached the White Pavilion.
• Su Jiu spent half a month calculating how to unravel the Pavilion’s thirteen-layer formation while other cultivators entered and suffered decades of lost time in its time formations.
• Su Jiu entered the formation alone, broke its arrays, escaped illusions of Ice Veil Peak and herself, and found Qiao Zirong after he was accidentally trapped inside.
• Su Jiu accused Qiao Zirong of killing the real Qiao Zirong and Zhou Cheng, identified him as Yi Feng Chen of the Mystic Dharma Immortal Sect, and cited the Skyglaze Stone and Void Escape Technique.

Su Jiu exposed Yi Feng Chen’s betrayal, survived the White Pavilion’s dangers, and returned to the Azure Tide Sect as Xia Jue uncovered demonic plots and received an inheritance. After two years in seclusion, Su Jiu bonded with the Buddhist Prayer Beads and began breaking through, while memories of her past life revealed the cost of one of her choices.

• Yi Feng Chen revealed his allegiance to the Heavenly Devil Palace and fought Su Jiu, who defeated him and imprisoned him in the Heavenly Origin Lock.
• Su Jiu led the survivors through the White Pavilion, where they overcame the Red Spider Lily and discovered a star-map library containing an ancient inheritance.
• Su Jiu exposed Mao Da and Mao Er for hiding a scroll, while Shen Qingyue’s attempt to control Xia Jue with a gu failed and Xia Jue gained a sound-attack inheritance.
• Su Jiu returned to the Azure Tide Sect and entered seclusion, as the sect punished Shen Qingyue and Gao Yang and Xia Jue captured demonic infiltrators.
• Xia Jue exploited divisions among the prisoners, while Gong Hao learned Yi Feng Chen was missing and recalled his forces in preparation for retaliation.
• Two years later, Ning Hai advanced and settled on Cloudmist Peak, while Su Jiu woke and bonded with the Buddhist Prayer Beads.
• Su Jiu’s cultivation breakthrough began as golden motes transformed her Nine-Pattern Golden Core, and memories showed how her carelessness had caused Madam Liu’s death.

Su Jiu completed her Nascent Soul tribulation, joined the allied forces’ campaign against the Heavenly Demon Sect, and fought her way through spies and demonic cultivators. The arc ended with Gong Hao confronting her after revealing that he had sought her because of Bai Su’s request.

• Su Jiu survived her two-nine tribulation lightning and manifested a nine-petaled flower, while a jade-crowned man called her his granddisciple.
• Su Jiu learned of Qiu Yinong’s death and the Misty Immortal Sect’s division, then joined the Azure Tide Sect’s traveling group alongside Xia Jue, Feng Piaoxu, and Ning Fan.
• Xia Jue and Su Jiu uncovered a spy’s role in a formation ambush in Dusk Sky Forest, and the group defeated the Man-Eating Bees before traveling through the teleportation array.
• Su Jiu and the allied cultivators exposed Soulguiding Sect attackers in the Savage Wilderness Land, while Gu Ningyun and Ning Fan’s groups also uncovered and defeated spies.
• Gong Wusheng learned that Qiu Yinong had used the Heavenly Demon Integration Technique to return to the Nascent Soul Realm, while Gong Hao ordered his subordinates to capture Su Jiu.
• The allied forces reached the Heavenly Demon Sect’s main hall, where Su Jiu fought demonic cultivators and killed an early-stage elder before helping Gu Ningyun.
• Su Jiu killed a hidden elder with the Ice Silk Net, but a black beam destroyed his escaping nascent soul before Gong Hao descended and confronted her.
• Su Jiu named Bai Su and Yi Feng Chen when Gong Hao asked about his companion, then realized Gong Hao had advanced beyond the Nascent Soul Realm.