Chapter Summaries

Su Jiu and Mo Qi bought tickets to Nameless Island, then Su Jiu’s warning helped Mo Qi foil a thief targeting her ticket and Storage Bag. On the final day of sales, scalpers drove up ticket prices, but as boarding approached, they had to sell their tickets below cost.

• Qiao Zirong bought tickets for a kneeling couple after Zhou Cheng resisted paying for them.
• Su Jiu examined her wooden ticket plaque and privately warned Mo Qi to guard hers against theft.
• Mo Qi prepared against knockout smoke and caught a thief trying to steal her Storage Bag, then turned him over to Tomorrow City's Enforcement Hall.
• Thieves stole tickets and Storage Bags from unprepared cultivators, prompting the Enforcement Hall to post warnings around the city.
• After the ticket booth sold out, scalpers offered tickets for thirty thousand spirit stones each, and Mo Qi asked Su Jiu about making money that way.
• Su Jiu later saw the scalpers selling their tickets below the original price as boarding day approached.

Su Jiu and Mo Qi boarded Ship Two after Su Jiu exposed a group of cultivators trying to use counterfeit tickets. In Tomorrow City’s reception hall, the city lord and two men from the Mo Household watched the boarding, and Mo Yan recognized Su Jiu as the person who had sold him a Spirit-Washing Pill.

• Su Jiu stopped Mo Qi from confronting a group of suspicious cultivators and predicted that they would not make it aboard Ship Two.
• The men were thrown off the gangplank by the ship’s barrier, and an Enforcement Hall officer exposed their wooden tokens as counterfeit and arrested them.
• Su Jiu explained to Mo Qi that she had inferred the tokens were fake from the men’s behavior and their fear of inspection.
• More people were rejected from the ships, and Tomorrow City’s City Lord and a man from the Mo Household watched the boarding scenes in a mirror.
• The man from the Mo Household recognized Su Jiu, and Mo Yan arrived and said he had bought his Spirit-Washing Pill from her.

Su Jiu and Mo Qi traveled by ship across the Sea of Ignorance toward Nameless Island as demon beasts attacked the vessel. After the ship’s defensive formation was badly weakened, they feared it might not survive the remaining journey.

• Su Jiu sensed a troubling fluctuation in spiritual qi as the ship began to sway, while passengers gathered on deck.
• An enforcement officer assured passengers the rocking was normal, but the ship lurched again and cultivators took to their flying swords.
• A Three-Finned Fish Demon leaped at the passengers, and the ship’s Golden Light shield repelled it before a school of fish demons attacked the vessel.
• The fish demons stopped attacking after an hour, but their assault had consumed more than half of the second-tier defensive formation.
• Mo Qi said she feared the ship would not last, and Su Jiu shared her concern.

Su Jiu and the ship’s passengers faced a violent storm, a gigantic unknown creature, and a Fourth-Tier Demon Beast Swarm. The damaged ship was surrounded by beasts as its Protective Formation ran nearly out of spiritual qi, leaving a battle unavoidable.

• Qiao Zirong spotted Su Jiu and argued with Zhou Cheng, who warned him that she was poisonous.
• After two quiet days at sea, the enforcement officers argued over changing course before a sinister wind and storm struck.
• The Monitoring Formation Disk shattered, and Su Jiu sensed a huge black creature inside a whirlpool.
• The creature leaped from the water, revealing its whale-like form, and the ship escaped the whirlpool with a damaged hull.
• A Fourth-Tier Demon Beast Swarm attacked as the ship’s Protective Formation weakened, and the passengers prepared to fight.

Su Jiu fought off the fish demons attacking the sinking ship, discovered their gills were a weakness, and helped the cultivators survive the assault. After Zhou Cheng was killed, she stopped Qiao Zirong from recklessly seeking revenge; the survivors escaped aboard a Flying Boat after two days of fighting.

• The ship’s Protective Formation shattered as Demon Beasts broke through the hull and attacked the cultivators.
• Su Jiu defended Mo Qi, killed several fish demons by targeting their gills, and revealed her powerful Purple Ultimate to the other cultivators.
• Su Jiu warned the late Golden Core Stage cultivators to attack the fish demons’ gills, making the battle easier for them.
• A fish demon killed Zhou Cheng, and Qiao Zirong charged at it before Su Jiu intervened and killed the beast.
• After two days, the fish demons stopped attacking, but the ship had sunk and all Qi Refining Period cultivators had died.
• A leading law enforcement officer rescued the remaining sword-riding cultivators in a Flying Boat, where they rested and tended their injuries.

After Zhou Cheng's death, Qiao Zirong revealed that he had gone to Nameless Island hoping to resurrect his younger sister and now wanted to bring Zhou Cheng back as well. Su Jiu grew suspicious of the Goddess Temple's wish-granting claims, and the stranded survivors were rescued by Ship Ten, which had also fought Demon Beasts.

• A rogue cultivator challenged the enforcement officers over the Flying Boat's losses, and they promised rescue from Nameless Island within two days.
• Qiao Zirong told Su Jiu and Mo Qi that he had come to Nameless Island to pray for a wish, and a couple explained that the Goddess Temple was said to grant wishes during the goddess's descent.
• The couple hoped the goddess would cure their gravely ill son, while Qiao Zirong hoped to revive his younger sister and Zhou Cheng.
• Su Jiu doubted the goddess could grant such wishes and decided she might investigate the Goddess Temple.
• After two days, Ship Ten arrived and took aboard the stranded survivors; its passengers had also fought Demon Beasts, prompting suspicions that the earlier ships had cleared the way.

Su Jiu confronted Chen Mo after he mocked the survivors from the Flying Boat, then exposed his attempt to have her expelled by using a Recording Stone. When Ship Ten’s enforcement officer abused his authority to punish her, she challenged him, and someone intervened just as he tried to seize her.

• Chen Mo mocked the Flying Boat survivors and attacked Mo Qi after Su Jiu challenged his claim to own Ship Ten.
• Su Jiu fought Chen Mo and defeated him, then waited as he returned with Ship Ten’s enforcement officer.
• The officer accused Su Jiu of causing trouble, but she played a Recording Stone showing Chen Mo had started the fight.
• Su Jiu insisted Chen Mo be punished, and the officer retaliated by ordering her expelled from the ship.
• Su Jiu cited the rule against enforcement officers abusing their positions, and an unseen passenger caught the officer’s wrist as he lunged at her.

Mo Zhu punished the enforcers who abused their authority aboard the ship, and Su Jiu and her companions reached Nameless Island. As they headed toward Nameless City, several groups revealed they had followed Su Jiu and asked to travel with her.

• Mo Zhu watched the Recording Stone expose the enforcer and his brother-in-law, then ordered both men thrown from the ship, where Demon Beasts eventually devoured them.
• Su Jiu learned that Mo Zhu was Mo Yan's uncle, though she could not recall why his parting gaze seemed familiar.
• Su Jiu, Mo Yan, and Mo Qi reached Nameless Island, where they had to cross a dangerous forest to reach Nameless City.
• Su Jiu noticed several people following her, including Qiao Zirong, and called them out of hiding.
• Cultivators who hoped for protection and others who coveted Su Jiu's Frost-Cold Purple Ultimate both asked to travel with her.

Su Jiu led a group of cultivators through Nameless Island, warning them against betrayal and refusing to wait for those who stopped to gather spirit plants. As night fell, the group encountered a pack of unusually powerful Heavenly Wolf Demon Beasts, and Su Jiu suspected the island’s dense spiritual qi had caused their mutation.

• Su Jiu agreed to let the Foundation Establishment couple follow her and warned the group that she would punish anyone who tried anything underhanded.
• Su Jiu advised Qiao Zirong not to risk his life for others again, and he promised he would protect himself.
• When several cultivators stopped to dig up spirit plants, Su Jiu continued onward; one man stayed behind and was caught alone in the forest as night approached.
• Su Jiu’s group made camp, while four cultivators chose to leave and press deeper into the forest.
• In the second half of the night, Su Jiu sensed a pack of mutated Heavenly Wolf Demon Beasts approaching and linked their strength to Nameless Island’s unusually dense spiritual qi.

Su Jiu fought the fourth-tier leader of a pack of Heavenly Wolf Demon Beasts while the others battled the surrounding wolves. When a greedy cultivator tried to steal the leader’s Demon Beast Core, she withdrew and let the beast kill him.

• Su Jiu sheltered the married couple in a defensive formation, assigned the others to fight the pack, and faced its leader alone.
• Su Jiu used Ice Spikes and Ice Walls to hold off the leader and protect the group, while Qiao Zirong was injured defending Mo Qi.
• Su Jiu wounded the leader without striking a vital point, and a short cultivator abandoned his teammate to attack it and claim its Core.
• Su Jiu dispelled the ice binding the leader and helped the short cultivator’s former teammate kill a third-tier wolf.
• The leader turned on the short cultivator, who failed to escape and was killed.

Su Jiu helped defeat a pack of Heavenly Wolf Demon Beasts, then killed four cultivators who tried to rob the exhausted survivors. As the group headed back the next morning, someone familiar watched them from behind a tree, leaving open who had lured the wolves.

• Su Jiu finished off her wolf and meditated while the others completed the battle and divided the spoils.
• A wounded cultivator gave Su Jiu the Heavenly Wolf Demon Beast’s Core and thanked her for saving his life.
• The four cultivators who had left earlier returned and demanded the survivors’ Storage Bags, then targeted Su Jiu and her Spirit Treasure.
• Su Jiu froze the four men with Thousand-Mile Ice Seal and killed them with Frost-Cold Purple Ultimate.
• The survivors wondered whether the four men had lured the wolves, but Su Jiu doubted it, and a familiar figure watched as the group set out the next morning.

Su Jiu and her companions reached Nameless City, where she discovered that a powerful formation monitored the city and killed anyone who attacked first. The group witnessed the formation execute a demonic cultivator, revealing the deadly rule that governed the city.

• A companion with blackened eyes collapsed and died after dropping a spirit plant beloved by Heavenly Wolf Demon Beasts.
• Qiao Zirong told Su Jiu and Mo Qi that he had come to Nameless Island with Zhou Cheng to seek a wish after Qiao Linlin was killed.
• After three days of travel, the group reached Tomorrow City and gradually parted ways until Su Jiu, Mo Qi, Qiao Zirong, and a rescued cultivator remained.
• The rescued cultivator introduced himself to Su Jiu as Ji Kong, the former Young City Lord of Wing City, then left after offering her a way to contact him.
• Su Jiu entered Nameless City and sensed a formation that monitored its inhabitants and punished attackers.
• A golden ring of light dissolved a demonic cultivator who was preparing to attack a Dao cultivator, shocking Qiao Zirong.

Su Jiu arrived on Nameless Island while Yun Huanling remained confined at the Yun Household, where his family worried over his altered Fate Star and an approaching Demon Star. Yun Huanling hoped to reunite with Su Jiu, whom he valued as a true friend.

• After entering the city, Su Jiu parted ways with Mo Qi, while Qiao Zirong followed her and stayed at the same inn.
• The next day, Qiao Zirong found Su Jiu's room empty when he went to ask her to explore the streets.
• Yun Huanling tried to escape the Yun Household, but his uncle Yun Jing stopped him and reminded him he had to reach Golden Core before leaving.
• Yun Jing and the elders discussed Yun Huanling's deviated Fate Star, and a divination revealed that the Demon Star was heading toward Nameless Island.
• Two days earlier, Yun Huanling learned Su Jiu had arrived on Nameless Island and waited for her, thinking of how she had become his first genuine friend.

Mo Qi reached the Mo Household seeking her father, Mo Tianyu, and learned that he was supposedly dead before agreeing to stay and hear about him. In the city, Su Jiu reunited with Yun Huanling, who was astonished by her appearance and questioned why she had once made herself look ugly.

• Mo Qi went to the Mo Household and demanded to see Mo Tianyu, but a gatekeeper denied that he existed and shut the gate.
• An elder told Mo Qi that Mo Tianyu was dead, and the young man accompanying him invited her to stay and learn about her father.
• Mo Qi accepted the young man's invitation, while he privately welcomed the prospect of having his eldest brother's daughter in the residence.
• Su Jiu learned that the Goddess of Goddess Mountain was expected to descend in about a month and considered seeking out Yun Chao.
• Yun Huanling mistook Su Jiu for someone else, then recognized her voice and was stunned by her appearance.
• Yun Huanling asked Su Jiu about her beauty-enhancing pills and whether she had changed her appearance to scare him, prompting her anger.

Su Jiu silenced Yun Huanling after he teased her, then returned to the inn with him and reunited with Qiao Zirong. Meanwhile, Yi Feng Chen confronted the Group Two leader about the Heavenly Demon Sect’s failed assignments, leaving the leader suspicious that Yi Feng Chen knew about the wolf demons on Nameless Island.

• Su Jiu placed a Silencing Talisman on Yun Huanling and warned him not to question her appearance again.
• The Group Two leader ordered his remaining followers to continue their plan, but Yi Feng Chen accused him of failing an assignment in Wing City and hinted that he knew more about the leader’s affairs.
• The Group Two leader left Nameless City’s gathering without attacking Yi Feng Chen, then wondered whether Yi Feng Chen knew about the wolf demons on Nameless Island.
• Su Jiu returned to the inn with Yun Huanling and introduced him to Qiao Zirong, whose smiles and Yun Huanling’s remarks revealed their mutual dislike.
• Su Jiu summoned Qiao Zirong to her room to share information, and he and Yun Huanling faced each other with forced smiles while Su Jiu wondered whether they had met before.

Su Jiu, Qiao Zirong, and Yun Huanling discussed warnings about Goddess Mountain and the costs of wishes granted at the Goddess Temple. Yun Huanling revealed that those who made wishes a thousand years ago eventually died, then invited Su Jiu to investigate the Yun Household's Library Pavilion.

• Qiao Zirong showed Su Jiu and Yun Huanling a recording of local stallholders discussing the influx of outsiders and warnings against visiting Goddess Mountain.
• Yun Huanling said his elders had also forbidden him from going to the mountain and described the Miasma Forest surrounding it.
• Qiao Zirong left after Yun Huanling urged him not to go, and Su Jiu explained that Qiao wanted to wish for his dead friend and younger sister to be brought back to life.
• Yun Huanling told Su Jiu that the goddess granted wishes by taking something from the wisher, and that past visitors' good fortune had preceded their deaths.
• Yun Huanling recalled his grandfather's account of the visitors from a thousand years earlier and suggested that Su Jiu join him on a nighttime trip to the Yun Household's Library Pavilion.

Yun Huanling secretly entered the Yun Household's Library Pavilion to investigate the Goddess Descent and the deaths of ancestors who visited Goddess Mountain. He was caught by his grandfather, who demanded to know whether he planned to go there, and Yun Huanling insisted he would not.

• Su Jiu refused to help Yun Huanling sneak into the Library Pavilion, but Yun Huanling used the Invisibility Technique to enter alone.
• Elder Yun Jin and the other Elders watched Yun Huanling's movements and discovered he was heading for the Library Pavilion.
• Yun Huanling searched the genealogy and old records, finding that Yun Household members who visited Goddess Mountain had not died natural deaths.
• Yun Huanling found old notes describing people who saw the Goddess's statue and thought of their deepest desires.
• The household head and Elders confronted Yun Huanling, and his grandfather seized his ear and accused him of researching Goddess Mountain.
• Yun Huanling's grandfather asked whether he planned to visit Goddess Mountain when it stirred in two days, and Yun Huanling said he would not go.

Su Jiu acquired Ice Soul and learned that Mo Qi had gone missing inside Goddess Mountain. She went to the Mo Household to see Mo Yan, identifying herself to the guards at the gate.

• Qiao Zirong apologized to Su Jiu and left alone to try to meet the Goddess.
• Su Jiu traded two pills for the stallholder’s Ice Soul after he lowered his request to an All-Healing Pill.
• Su Jiu saw the Enforcement Hall post a notice saying Mo Qi had entered Goddess Mountain and had not returned.
• Su Jiu burned Yun Huanling’s plea for help without answering it.
• Su Jiu used Traceless Step to reach the Mo Household and told the guards she was Su Jiu of Ice Veil Peak, Azure Tide Sect.

Su Jiu learned that three Mo Household families had goaded Mo Qi into entering cursed Goddess Mountain, and she set out to find her. Mo Yan tried to follow but Mo Zhu restrained him, while a demonic group also left Nameless City to interfere with Yi Feng Chen’s mission.

• Mo Yan told Su Jiu that the Mo Household had imprisoned three families connected to the plan to harm Mo Qi, and that a collateral-branch candidate might have entered Goddess Mountain.
• Su Jiu learned that the families had goaded Mo Qi into going to the mountain, then left the Mo Residence to look for her.
• Mo Zhu blocked Mo Yan from following Su Jiu, arguing that Mo Qi was family and Su Jiu was an outsider, then immobilized him with a talisman when he tried to leave.
• Yun Huanling read a hidden book and discovered that the supposed Goddess Descent was the Life-for-Fortune Curse.
• A group of demonic cultivators departed Nameless City, and their Second Group Leader vowed to interfere with Yi Feng Chen’s mission and said Gong Hao would eventually kill Su Jiu.

Su Jiu learned the Sound-Mixing Bell’s functions from Xia Jue and reached the Miasma Forest, where she traded Detoxification Pills with three cultivators. As she was about to enter the forest, Yun Huanling called out to her from behind.

• Xia Jue contacted Su Jiu through their paired Sound-Mixing Bells and explained how the bells could clear the mind or confuse sounds.
• Su Jiu reached the Miasma Forest and saw cultivators bargaining, buying pills, and robbing one another at its entrance.
• Su Jiu swallowed a Detoxification Pill and sold her remaining pills to three late golden core cultivators who offered twice the price.
• Yun Huanling called for Su Jiu just as she was about to enter the Miasma Forest.