Chapter Summaries

Su Jiu dispersed the resentful qi from a flag before a tremor sent her group rushing toward Liu Household Village. Inside the village, Zhuang Nian and the trapped cultivators learned that its Barrier prevented anyone from leaving, while Hu Yucheng offered to show them a discovery he had made.

• Su Jiu used Thousand-Mile Ice Seal to freeze the flag and disperse its resentful qi, and Xia Jue sealed the flag.
• A tremendous tremor shook the villages, and Su Jiu’s group headed toward Liu Household Village.
• Zhuang Nian’s group entered Liu Household Village and reunited with the first Azure Tide Sect disciples, who told them they were trapped inside a Barrier.
• Zhuang Nian tried to retrace his route out but returned to the same spot, confirming that the Barrier prevented escape.
• Hu Yucheng introduced himself and said he had discovered something unusual in the village, offering to take everyone to see it.

Hu Yucheng confirmed that a vitality-bearing magic treasure lay buried beneath the empty ground, drawing rogue cultivators into a chaotic excavation. A Golden Core rogue cultivator led a group of Earth Escape Art users underground to investigate, while secretly planning to claim the treasure.

• Ning Shan and Zhuang Nian confirmed that a magic treasure with a force of vitality was buried deep beneath the empty patch.
• Hu Yucheng learned that the rogue cultivators had come because of a bulletin-board rumor, and Zhuang Nian explained that the Azure Tide Sect was investigating missing disciples.
• Hu Yucheng rebuked Lin Jiaojiao and defended Su Jiu, whose reputation unsettled the female cultivators around him.
• Rogue cultivators began digging and fighting, while Azure Tide Sect cultivators watched and Hu Yucheng was distracted by disputes among the women.
• A Golden Core rogue cultivator gathered Earth Escape Art users and persuaded the crowd to let them investigate underground, secretly intending to take the treasure for himself.

Zhuang Nian and the trapped cultivators discovered that the underground treasure was a Wood Source Demonic Pearl that devoured people, while the Azure Tide Sect protected the villagers and waited for the Barrier to collapse. Su Jiu arrived with reinforcements and sealed the pearl, but a rogue cultivator immediately accused the Azure Tide Sect of claiming the treasure unfairly.

• A greedy rogue cultivator was consumed by the buried pearl, and the survivors warned the others that it devoured people.
• A handsome Golden Core youth persuaded the crowd to prepare defenses and dig up the treasure, but the Barrier began to shake and flicker before they could act.
• The Wood Source Demonic Pearl burst through the earth and drained nearby villagers, while Zhuang Nian failed to seal it and Azure Tide Sect disciples used talismans to protect the mortals.
• The pearl targeted unprotected rogue cultivators, who resorted to their own life-saving treasures as the Barrier collapsed.
• Su Jiu arrived with Azure Tide Sect cultivators and sealed the pearl in a Formation Disk.
• A rogue cultivator accused the Azure Tide Sect of taking the treasure for themselves.

Su Jiu freed the trapped cultivators, claimed the Wood Source Demonic Pearl, and reunited with the Azure Tide Sect disciples. As the group prepared to return, Yi Feng’s unexpected appearance and his persistent attention left Zhuang Nian wondering how he had gone unnoticed inside the barrier.

• Su Jiu intimidated a troublemaker who demanded the Wood Source Demonic Pearl, then introduced herself to the Azure Tide Sect disciples while Xia Jue was away rescuing villagers.
• Yi Feng recognized Su Jiu, and Li Ru revealed that Su Jiu and her companions had killed the Nascent Soul heretical cultivator who created the barrier.
• The grateful rogue cultivators thanked the Azure Tide Sect, and Xia Jue returned and handled the crowd while Su Jiu stepped aside.
• Yi Feng kept talking to Su Jiu until Xia Jue stopped her from drawing her sword and led her away with the sect disciples.
• Su Jiu told Zhuang Nian that she had saved Yi Feng outside Wing City five years earlier, and Zhuang Nian wondered why he had never noticed Yi Feng in the barrier.

On the return journey, Su Jiu studied Void Talisman Drawing and learned from Xia Jue that her eyes had changed after fusion, then received a Sound-Mixing Bell from him. Back at Ice Veil Peak, she found that her master had upgraded Purple Ultimate into a Supreme-Grade Spirit Treasure, and she began asking the sword to become her Life-Bound Treasure.

• Su Jiu studied the Void Talisman Drawing manual aboard the Flying Boat, and Flower Bud stirred but remained silent.
• Xia Jue asked Su Jiu about the silver light in her eyes, learned that she had undergone fusion, and warned her to keep it secret.
• Xia Jue gave Su Jiu a Sound-Mixing Bell, while Zhuang Nian watched and worried about Shen Qingyue's reaction.
• Su Jiu returned to an empty Ice Veil Peak and found Purple Ultimate upgraded into a Supreme-Grade Spirit Treasure that could grow with her.
• Su Jiu formed a golden formation and invited Purple Ultimate to become her Life-Bound Treasure, and the sword entered the formation amid blazing light.

Su Jiu upgraded Purple Ultimate with frostglow stone and visited the Heavenly Origin Hall, where the sect leaders discussed spreading attacks and Xia Jue’s plans to form a nascent soul. She left with the Skyfaring Shuttle after the elders questioned the bell at her waist, while their attention turned to Xia Jue and Shen Qingyue wondered why he had given Su Jiu the Sound-Mixing Bell.

• Su Jiu renamed Purple Ultimate the Frostbound Purple Ultimate Sword and watched it circle her nine-pattern golden core.
• Xia Jue reported on the Liu Household Village incident as the sect leaders discussed heretical cultivators and rising chaos across the Azure Realm.
• Shen Qingyue reported that the Heavenly Music Pavilion and Jade Sword Sect had accepted a proposal, while Zhong Wuyi described attacks in cities across several continents and mixed responses from nearby sects.
• Ning Hai told Xia Jue to prepare for seclusion and Nascent Soul Formation, prompting Su Jiu to reflect on how much the original story had changed.
• Su Jiu returned the Skyfaring Shuttle, but Ning Hai told her to keep it; when the elders asked about her waist bell, she said Xia Jue had given it to her for her Core Formation.
• Su Jiu left the hall as the elders turned their attention to Xia Jue, while Shen Qingyue wondered why he had given Su Jiu the Sound-Mixing Bell she had repeatedly requested.

After Su Jiu received Xia Jue’s Sound-Mixing Bell, the elders argued over an old wager, while Shen Qingyue confronted Xia Jue and learned he knew about her past actions. That night, Xia Jue told Ning Hai he had given Su Jiu the bell because it had brought trouble to female disciples, including a cultivator recently injured on a mission with Shen Qingyue.

• The Grand Elder and Third Elder argued over whether the Sound-Mixing Bell wager had been won after Su Jiu received the bell.
• Shen Qingyue confronted Xia Jue about choosing Su Jiu, and Xia Jue warned her not to harm another fellow disciple.
• Ning Hai secretly visited Xia Jue and asked whether he had feelings for anyone and why he gave Su Jiu the bell.
• Xia Jue denied having feelings for Su Jiu and explained that the bell had caused repeated trouble for female disciples.
• Xia Jue told Ning Hai that a female cultivator who had gone on a mission with Shen Qingyue had recently been severely injured.

Xia Jue showed Ning Hai evidence that Shen Qingyue had endangered another female cultivator and explained why he had given Su Jiu the Sound-Mixing Bell. Meanwhile, Su Jiu traveled toward Tomorrow City, where she heard rumors about her rise to core formation and learned of the dangers and seasonal appearance of Sacred Mountain Island.

• Xia Jue gave Ning Hai a Recording Stone showing Shen Qingyue standing by while a Demon Beast chased a female disciple, and Ning Hai questioned him about giving Su Jiu the Sound-Mixing Bell.
• Xia Jue said he hoped Su Jiu would join the Enforcement Hall, and Ning Hai told him she had left the sect after visiting the Heavenly Origin Hall.
• Su Jiu stopped at a tea stall in a northeastern town and heard a storyteller speculate that the vanished top-ranked foundation establishment cultivator had reached core formation at twenty-three.
• Su Jiu realized the storyteller’s story described her, then overheard locals discussing Sacred Mountain Island and its dangers.
• Su Jiu learned that Nameless Island appeared only from July to September and recalled that Yun Chao had taken her there in July in her previous life.

Su Jiu gathered news about the Sea of Ignorance and learned that a black stone there might be the Ice Soul Flower Bud needed. After Mo Yan prepared to return to his clan, Su Jiu entered Tomorrow City, where someone began secretly watching her.

• Su Jiu overheard two cultivators describe a black stone from the Sea of Ignorance and suspected it was the Ice Soul Flower Bud needed.
• Mo Yan told Shu Bai he planned to return home after thirty years away, and Shu Bai urged him to come back safely.
• Su Jiu arrived at Tomorrow City and watched its patrol squad seize a cultivator whose demonic qi had erupted during inspection.
• An inspector asked Su Jiu to remove her bamboo hat, and the inspection group fell silent when she briefly revealed her face.
• Su Jiu noticed someone following her with divine sense, then walked into a secluded alley as though by chance.

Su Jiu reunited with Mo Yan in Tomorrow City and learned that Ice Soul could be found in the Sea of Ignorance, though obtaining it would be difficult. While searching for an inn, she encountered Bai Ran and Lin Jiaojiao and began to suspect that something unusual was drawing sect disciples to Nameless Island this year.

• Mo Yan followed Su Jiu into an alley, and they recognized each other before talking at a teahouse.
• Su Jiu learned that Mo Yan belonged to the Mo Household and asked him about Ice Soul in the Sea of Ignorance.
• Mo Yan told Su Jiu that Ice Soul was plentiful but hard to obtain, and suggested she barter with Nameless City residents.
• Su Jiu encountered Bai Ran and Lin Jiaojiao arguing at an inn and noticed Bai Ran had Misty Immortal Sect followers with her.
• Su Jiu found a room at another inn and wondered why disciples from distant sects had come to Nameless Island this year.

Su Jiu explored Tomorrow City and its mission board, where she unexpectedly acquired a dangerous mission to hunt an early fourth-tier demon beast. She accepted it rather than let two rogue cultivators pay the steep penalty, then left the crowd behind.

• Su Jiu visited Tomorrow City's mission board and learned that failing a mission required paying compensation equal to half its reward.
• A bold early Golden Core woman accepted two demon-hunting missions and left for the city gate.
• Hu Yucheng and the Mystic Dharma Immortal Sect disciples arrived with more than a dozen Golden Core guards, and Hu Yucheng accepted a mission to hunt a Heavenly Wolf Demon Beast for training.
• A stumbling cultivator nearly knocked over the mission board, and Su Jiu's bamboo hat accidentally hooked a mission token off it.
• The registrar revealed that the token required hunting an early fourth-tier demon beast and that compensation would cost fifty thousand spirit stones.
• Su Jiu stopped the rogue cultivator from paying, accepted the mission with her divine sense imprint, and departed.

Su Jiu set out to hunt a Frostglaze Beast but intervened when she found a wounded woman in black fighting three cultivators over a Heavenly Wolf Demon Beast. After the woman killed Third Brother and collapsed, Su Jiu trapped the remaining men and left them bound for two hours while she treated the woman.

• Su Jiu accepted the Frostglaze Beast mission for its ice-element core and set off up Fisherman Mountain.
• Su Jiu found a wounded woman in black fighting three early Golden Core cultivators who were trying to take her Heavenly Wolf Demon Beast.
• The woman used her Concealment Art to kill Third Brother, but First Brother and Second Brother attacked her as she collapsed from exhaustion.
• Su Jiu blocked the two men with Ice Spikes, then trapped them in a formation when they attacked her.
• Su Jiu gave the unconscious woman a Minor Restoration Pill and left the two men trapped for two hours, telling them to try to escape the mountain afterward.

Su Jiu rescued Mo Qi and struck a deal to travel with her and hunt the Frostglaze Beast. Meanwhile, Lin Jiaojiao's group encountered a pack of Heavenly Wolf Demon Beasts, and Hu Yucheng joined the battle after sheltering his junior sisters.

• The two men realized Su Jiu was likely the Azure Tide Sect prodigy and feared they would never get revenge on her.
• Su Jiu carried the injured Mo Qi to a cave, where Mo Qi woke and thanked her for the rescue.
• Mo Qi introduced herself and agreed to help Su Jiu kill the Frostglaze Beast in exchange for Blood-Coagulating Pills.
• Lin Jiaojiao's group found a pack of Heavenly Wolf Demon Beasts led by one nearing the fourth tier.
• Hu Yucheng protected Lin Jiaojiao and Zuo Kexin with a Formation Disk, then pushed Lin Jiaojiao aside and fought a demon beast.

Hu Yucheng failed to defeat the Third Tier Demon Beast, and Lin Jiaojiao was gravely wounded saving him. After Su Jiu and Mo Qi helped, Hu Yucheng rejected Zuo Kexin and chose to stay by Lin Jiaojiao, while Su Jiu left with a promise of future help from the Azure Tide Sect.

• Hu Yucheng exhausted his spiritual qi burning the Demon Beast, which then lunged at him and fatally wounded Lin Jiaojiao before an unknown sword struck it.
• Su Jiu and Mo Qi arrived, and Su Jiu told Hu Yucheng to give Lin Jiaojiao a Soul-Restoring Pill and a Great Restoration Pill.
• Zuo Kexin objected to using their only Great Restoration Pill, but Hu Yucheng gave the pills to Lin Jiaojiao and condemned Zuo Kexin for disregarding a fellow disciple's life.
• Hu Yucheng admitted he had used Lin Jiaojiao and ended things with Zuo Kexin, who left in anger and threatened that he would pay.
• Su Jiu collected the beasts' spoils and departed after Hu Yucheng promised the Azure Tide Sect his future assistance; Zuo Kexin stumbled alone through the forest.

Su Jiu approached the Frostglaze Beast’s cave with Mo Qi, where Qiao Zirong and Zhou Cheng joined her despite the danger. As the group prepared to enter, Su Jiu questioned why Qiao Zirong was willing to risk his life to help her.

• A cloaked man asked Zuo Kexin whether she was willing to hand the person she loved over to someone else.
• Su Jiu met Qiao Zirong and Zhou Cheng on Fisherman Mountain, where Qiao Zirong apologized for the noticeboard incident and offered help.
• Su Jiu accepted Qiao Zirong’s help on the condition that the men follow her orders, while Zhou Cheng objected in a voice transmission.
• The group reached the cave where the Frostglaze Beast was believed to live, and Su Jiu told Zhou Cheng to stay at the entrance.
• Qiao Zirong insisted on entering despite Su Jiu warning him of the danger, and she asked why he was willing to take such a risk.

Su Jiu and her companions entered the ice cave, where she realized the circumstances surrounding their arrival might have been deliberately arranged. She faced the Frostglaze Beast alone while Mo Qi and Qiao Zirong watched from behind her Defensive Formation.

• Zhou Cheng mocked Qiao Zirong, then let slip that saving someone would make no difference because she was not the person he remembered.
• Su Jiu revealed her ice spiritual root by summoning an Ice Spike, and Qiao Zirong understood why she wanted the Frostglaze Beast's inner core.
• As the cold weakened Mo Qi and Qiao Zirong, Su Jiu urged them to leave, then placed them inside a Defensive Formation when they refused.
• The Frostglaze Beast appeared, and Su Jiu took a Detoxification Pill before drawing Frost-Cold Purple Ultimate to fight it.
• Su Jiu wounded the Frostglaze Beast and summoned dozens of Ice Spikes to strike its back, astonishing Qiao Zirong and Mo Qi.

Su Jiu fought and killed a Frostglaze Beast in the Ice Cavern, but the beast’s last attack left Qiao Zirong gravely injured. After they returned to the inn, a disturbance broke out at Tomorrow City’s gate during the night, which Su Jiu did not notice.

• Su Jiu endured the Frostglaze Beast’s tracking ice spines and tail attacks, then fused silver light into Frostbound Purple Ultimate and cut off its tail, defeating it.
• The seemingly dead Frostglaze Beast struck Qiao Zirong and left him unconscious, so Su Jiu gave him a Great Restoration Pill and carried him out with Mo Qi.
• Zhou Cheng quietly took Qiao Zirong from the group when they emerged from the Ice Cavern.
• Su Jiu changed clothes at the inn and focused on treating her injuries, while a brief commotion broke out at Tomorrow City’s gate around midnight.

Su Jiu learned that Tomorrow City’s guards had been killed and teamed up with Mo Qi after collecting their mission rewards. Meanwhile, black-cloaked intruders disguised themselves as cultivators and escaped the enforcement squads.

• Tomorrow City’s enforcement disciples inspected Su Jiu’s room after several gate guards were killed, and Mo Qi explained that the city suspected demonic cultivators.
• Su Jiu spoke with Qiao Zirong and Zhou Cheng at a teahouse, where Mo Qi rebuked Zhou Cheng over his role in the Frostglaze Beast incident and Qiao Zirong left.
• Su Jiu and Mo Qi turned in their missions, earning one hundred thousand and forty thousand Lower-Grade Spirit Stones, respectively.
• Mo Qi accepted Su Jiu’s offer of five bottles of Blood-Coagulating Pills to partner with her on Nameless Island.
• Black-cloaked figures disguised themselves as ordinary cultivators, destroyed the bodies they had impersonated, and evaded Tomorrow City’s enforcement squads.

Su Jiu and Mo Qi watched Bai Ran clash with Zheng Qilong, whose arrival exposed the bitter rivalry between the Misty Immortal Sect’s Water Moon Peak and Spirit Moon Peak. Zheng Qilong left after humiliating Bai Ran, while Su Jiu reflected on how the sect’s leader had allowed its infighting to grow so severe.

• Mo Qi dragged Su Jiu to watch the commotion as Zheng Qilong arrived with Misty Immortal Sect disciples and went to Bai Ran’s residence.
• Zheng Qilong mocked Bai Ran’s cultivation and Water Moon Peak, prompting Bai Ran to accuse him of bullying her over their peaks’ resource rivalry.
• Bai Ran’s appeal won sympathy from nearby spectators, and Zheng Qilong angered them by calling them ignorant rogue cultivators.
• Zheng Qilong criticized Bai Ran’s lack of cultivation progress and left, while Bai Ran remained resentful.
• Mo Qi and Su Jiu discussed the Misty Immortal Sect’s open infighting, and Su Jiu wondered why its leader tolerated it.

As Nameless Island’s opening approached, Mo Qi told Su Jiu how her aunt had murdered her mother and stolen her throne, and why she planned to seek revenge. When ticket sales began, a couple unable to afford passage pleaded for help from the ailing Qiao Zirong.

• Mo Qi told Su Jiu that her aunt had helped murder her mother, driven her from the palace, and forced her to flee; she planned to confront her absent father and return for revenge after cultivating to nascent soul.
• Five days before Nameless Island opened, ten ships arrived in Tomorrow City, and the first ship’s tickets quickly sold out, prompting Mo Qi to join the line with Su Jiu.
• A foundation establishment couple discovered that tickets cost ten thousand spirit stones each and could not afford passage to seek help for their gravely ill son.
• Qiao Zirong offered to pay for the couple’s tickets despite his companion warning that they had few spirit stones left, and the couple knelt to beg him for help.