Chapter Summaries

Su Jiu and Yun Huanling entered the Miasma Forest, where they rescued Li Meng after he was poisoned. Yun Huanling revealed that the Yun Household’s records linked the danger at Goddess Mountain to curses and misfortune, leaving Su Jiu wondering whether a curse threatened the entire mountain.

• Su Jiu questioned how Yun Huanling escaped the Yun Household, and he explained that he used a Substitute Puppet to take his place.
• Su Jiu and Yun Huanling found a burly man named Li Meng near death from miasma poisoning, and Su Jiu gave him a Detoxification Pill despite Yun Huanling’s warning.
• Li Meng recovered, thanked Su Jiu and Yun Huanling, and left; Su Jiu recognized that he was a Body Cultivator.
• Yun Huanling told Su Jiu he had been confined after sneaking into the Library Pavilion to investigate Goddess Mountain.
• Yun Huanling said the Yun Household’s ancestor records described curses and misfortune, and Su Jiu wondered whether a curse affected all of Goddess Mountain.

Su Jiu and Yun Huanling left the Miasma Forest and found Mo Qi recovering in a cave after surviving an ambush on Goddess Mountain. Mo Qi learned they would take her down the mountain after their task was finished, while Yun Huanling revealed that the Mo Household was searching for her.

• Yun Huanling told Su Jiu about the incidents on Goddess Mountain as they walked out of the Miasma Forest.
• Qiao Zirong cared for Mo Qi in a cave, brewed her herbal medicine, and helped her recover after rescuing her from the ambush.
• Mo Qi dreamed of accepting a challenge, being surrounded by Mo Household servants, and watching Qiao Zirong kill the man who had lured her into the trap.
• Su Jiu and Yun Huanling visited the recovering Mo Qi, and Su Jiu promised to take her down the mountain after they finished their task.
• Yun Huanling told Mo Qi that the Mo Household was searching for her and had offered a large reward, and Su Jiu struck him with her sword hilt for talking too much.

At Goddess Mountain, Su Jiu discovered that the Goddess statue was invading cultivators’ Sea of Consciousness and draining their fortune, so she warned the crowd and fought off two Demonic Cultivators. Just as she attacked the statue, a blood-soaked cultivator smashed into it, shattering it and absorbing the thing inside.

• Su Jiu left Mo Qi under a Defensive Formation while she, Yun Huanling, and Qiao Zirong went to the Goddess Temple.
• A red light caused many cultivators to kneel before the statue, and Su Jiu used the Sound-Mixing Bell to break their trance and sever their connections to it.
• Su Jiu saw that the statue was draining the cultivators’ fortune and realized the red light might be returning some of it.
• Su Jiu told the crowd that the Goddess’s supposed visits invaded their Sea of Consciousness, shifting their suspicion toward the statue.
• Two Demonic Cultivators attacked Su Jiu, and she swiftly defeated them with Ice Spikes.
• As Su Jiu sent Frostbound Purple Ultimate toward the statue, a blood-soaked male cultivator smashed into it and absorbed the entity inside.

Zheng Qilong recounted his transmigration, rise within the Misty Immortal Sect, and rivalry with Bai Ran before a clash on Goddess Mountain left him gravely injured and facing a demonic cultivator. As he feared for his life, something was forced into his dantian.

• Zheng Qilong transmigrated into the novel’s world, failed to enter the Jade Sword Sect and was later recruited into the Misty Immortal Sect by a man in black.
• Zheng Qilong cultivated to Foundation Establishment over ten years, gained a Mustard Seed Space, and became determined to surpass Su Jiu.
• True Lord Spirit Moon sent Zheng Qilong to Nameless Island, where he encountered Bai Ran speaking with a man in black on Goddess Mountain.
• Zheng Qilong accused Bai Ran of colluding with a demonic cultivator, and she ordered the man to kill the Spirit Moon Peak disciples.
• The demonic cultivator killed Bai Ran and fled as the Water Moon Peak and Spirit Moon Peak disciples fought, ignoring a red light descending from the sky.
• A Water Moon Peak cultivator struck Zheng Qilong, who crashed into something and had an object forced into his dantian before a demonic cultivator reached for him.

Zheng Qilong survived the Demonic Cultivator’s attack when a mysterious bead protected him, but his collision with the Goddess statue caused the temple to collapse and sent everyone into a cavern. Trapped beneath a sealing formation, the cultivators turned their suspicions between Zheng Qilong and the two Demonic Cultivators while the Yun Household elders debated the changing Child of Destiny.

• A red barrier from the bead in Zheng Qilong’s body repelled the Demonic Cultivator’s attack and began repairing his meridians.
• Zheng Qilong stood amid the broken Goddess statue, and the temple collapsed, dropping Su Jiu, Yun Huanling, and the other cultivators into a cavern.
• At the Yun Household’s Star-Watching Platform, the elders divined that the Child of Destiny’s fate stars were changing and discussed the Heavenly Dao’s intentions.
• Su Jiu discovered that a blood-and-demonic-qi sealing formation blocked the cavern’s entrance when a cultivator tried to fly out.
• Zheng Qilong accused the two Demonic Cultivators of trapping them, but they blamed him for smashing the statue and triggering the collapse.

Su Jiu discovered hidden teleportation arrays and concealed doors in the cavern, then led the cultivators who accepted her terms to a cache of spirit stones. The group received their contractually guaranteed shares, while three cultivators who refused to sign followed them inside anyway.

• Su Jiu found a teleportation array that led into a rectangular cavern, where she spotted three concealed doors and two more arrays.
• Several cultivators discovered an array by watching others vanish, while Ji Kong, Li Meng, and a few others stayed with Su Jiu.
• Su Jiu demanded seventy percent of any treasures and produced Heavenly Dao-enforced contracts; Ji Kong, Li Meng, Qiao Zirong, and Yun Huanling signed, but three cultivators refused.
• Su Jiu opened a hidden door in the wall with ice spiritual qi and led the cultivators into a room containing ten chests of goods.
• Su Jiu claimed the chests, and the contract separated the cultivators' shares of spirit stones from hers.

Su Jiu led her group through a secret chamber filled with treasures and uncovered a ten-thousand-year-old demonic cultivator’s notes revealing that the chambers were traps. After Zheng Qilong’s group suffered in a beast-filled room, Su Jiu found another Teleportation Array and entered a new space, where Yun Huanling noticed signs that she might have awakened her Innate Arts.

• Zheng Qilong destroyed his contract with Su Jiu and led three others away from the spirit-stone chamber.
• Su Jiu warned her group that the next chamber held danger, then killed a weakened third-tier magic beast and collected the chamber’s treasures.
• Su Jiu found a demonic cultivator’s notebook explaining that the secret chambers were traps and learned it dated back ten thousand years.
• Zheng Qilong’s group emerged battered after fighting a roomful of magic beasts and found no treasures there.
• Su Jiu used a different Teleportation Array to reach another enclosed space, and Yun Huanling noticed signs that she might have awakened her Innate Arts.

Su Jiu guided the cultivators through the third sealed chamber, then prepared to enter a one-person, two-way teleportation array to investigate an isolated space. The others left while Qiao Zirong worried about the danger ahead, and Su Jiu remained determined to go alone.

• Su Jiu explained the three-ring array, dissolved her contract with the group, and showed them the way out.
• Zheng Qilong arrived with his battered companions and tried to stir them against Su Jiu, but most wanted only to leave safely.
• Su Jiu noticed a jade bracelet on Zheng Qilong's wrist that resembled Bai Su's and wondered whether the world had two Children of Destiny.
• Yun Huanling, Ji Kong, Li Meng, and the other cultivators left through the teleportation array, while two demonic cultivators hurried out after Su Jiu warned them with a look.
• Qiao Zirong offered to accompany Su Jiu, but she explained that the two-way array allowed only one person to travel and return, then chose to enter despite the danger.

Su Jiu discovered an Ice-Origin Spirit Pearl in a hidden chamber and fought a powerful Fourth-Tier Magic Beast guarding it. Badly wounded and nearly out of spiritual qi, she spotted the pearl just as the beast prepared its final attack.

• Su Jiu let the other cultivators open a secret chamber while she teleported alone to another, and Zheng Qilong failed to follow her through the array.
• Su Jiu found a sleeping Nascent Soul Realm magic beast among the treasures, collected two chests of Ice Soul, and triggered a door to a second chamber.
• Su Jiu discovered an Ice-Origin Spirit Pearl, but the magic beast awakened and attacked her.
• Su Jiu wounded the beast with the Frost-Cold Purple Ultimate and ice element arts, while suffering severe injuries herself.
• As the exhausted Su Jiu faced the beast's final counterattack, she noticed the Ice-Origin Spirit Pearl hovering above the jade pedestal.

Su Jiu swallowed the Ice-Origin Spirit Pearl, used its power to destroy a magic beast, and broke through her cultivation while recovering from her injuries. Outside the secret chamber, rival groups clashed over treasure as the chamber shook, then agreed to share the earlier spoils and leave the chamber’s contents untouched.

• Su Jiu swallowed the Ice-Origin Spirit Pearl, endured its surging spiritual qi, and coated Frost-Cold Purple Ultimate with her blood before killing the magic beast.
• Su Jiu sat in meditation with Jade Moisture, Ice Clarity, healed her meridians, and broke through her cultivation.
• Qiao Zirong guarded the place where Su Jiu had vanished while the group she left behind faced a band of rogue cultivators.
• The rogue cultivators tried to rob the group, and its leader offered to share their earlier gains in exchange for keeping the secret chamber’s treasures untouched.
• The secret chamber shook as the rogue cultivator accepted the offer.

After spending two years mastering the Ice-Origin Spirit Pearl, Su Jiu awoke and learned that Qiao Zirong had been trapped with her. She discovered the secret chamber’s teleportation array had become one-way and searched for a hidden exit, but found no answer yet.

• Su Jiu completed her control over the Ice-Origin Spirit Pearl, and Flower Bud woke with nine icy-silver petals and admitted it could not resist tribulation lightning.
• Flower Bud told Su Jiu that Qiao Zirong was waiting nearby, and Qiao Zirong explained how he had been transported into the chamber after fighting the survivors.
• Su Jiu learned that only half the cultivators had returned from the secret chamber and suspected they had turned on one another.
• Su Jiu found that the teleportation array had changed from two-way to one-way, leaving them unable to escape through it.
• Su Jiu and Qiao Zirong searched the chamber for a mechanism, but found no other space or exit.

Su Jiu discovered a hidden chamber beneath the White Jade Platform and uncovered clues linking the Fortune-Transferring Pearl to a curse that consumed people’s fortune and lives. After honoring the ice cultivator whose skeleton lay there, she unknowingly received white lights from his bones into her sea of consciousness.

• Su Jiu used her ice spiritual qi and special vision to find the mechanism beneath the White Jade Platform, then opened a stairway underground.
• Su Jiu and Qiao Zirong descended into an icy chamber containing a skeleton, frozen blood, and a jade slip.
• Su Jiu’s divine sense triggered the jade slip’s killing intent, but she retained two warnings about gaining and losing everything.
• Su Jiu connected the warnings, the Yun Household’s ancestors, and the Fortune-Transferring Pearl, concluding that a curse used the pearl to drain people’s fortune and ultimately their lives.
• Su Jiu paid respects to the unknown cultivator’s skeleton, and white lights seeped from the bones into her sea of consciousness after she turned away.

Su Jiu linked three formations in the ice chamber and opened a Teleportation Array for herself and Qiao Zirong. Two years later, Yun Huanling challenged his grandfather’s efforts to keep him away from Su Jiu, leaving the old man uncertain whether his fears were justified.

• Qiao Zirong found three exposed formations, and Su Jiu used a Formation Disk to link them and reveal a Teleportation Array.
• Su Jiu and Qiao Zirong entered the array, while Yun Huanling waited two days at the restored Goddess Temple before his family arrived and took him home.
• Yun Huanling’s grandfather forbade him from approaching Su Jiu, then brought him to the Yun Household’s Star-Watching Platform.
• Yun Huanling questioned whether Fate Stars revealed the truth and challenged his grandfather’s fears about Su Jiu and the world’s Heavenly Dao.
• Yun Huanling defended his trust in Su Jiu and cited Chu Mojin, while his grandfather saw that Yun Huanling’s Fate Star was brightening and reconsidered his judgment.

An injured demonic cultivator found Mo Qi alone and used a lie and demonic qi to stir doubts about Su Jiu and Qiao Zirong. Two years later, Su Jiu and Qiao Zirong returned to find Mo Qi gone, then Su Jiu met Hu Yucheng’s group and visited the Yun Household, where she encountered Yun Jing and Yun Chao.

• The injured Second Group Leader came upon Mo Qi at the cave and asked where her companions were.
• The Second Group Leader falsely told Mo Qi that Su Jiu and Qiao Zirong had left the mountain, then slipped demonic qi between her brows while she was distracted.
• Two years later, Su Jiu and Qiao Zirong found the cave empty and returned to Nameless City.
• Su Jiu encountered Hu Yucheng, Zuo Kexin, and Lin Jiaojiao, and learned that Hu Yucheng had heard about Goddess Mountain from the Mo Household.
• Su Jiu visited the Yun Household, where its elders reconsidered their assumptions about her and she encountered Yun Jing and Yun Chao.

Su Jiu visited the Yun Household, where the elders warned her that her fate star had strayed from its original course and that the futures of those around her were changing. They could no longer foresee her path, and she left the elders’ judgment behind as Yun Huanling arrived to greet her.

• Su Jiu paid her respects to the Yun Household elders, who questioned her and eyed her warily.
• Su Jiu asked whether the elders had noticed something unusual about her fate star, and the Fifth Elder told her it had begun straying from its original course.
• The elders explained that Su Jiu’s actions were changing the fates around her, potentially bringing her karmic consequences, and that her future could no longer be divined.
• An elder described past disasters caused by fate stars straying from their courses, explaining why the Yun Household feared what Su Jiu might do.
• Yun Huanling rushed into the reception hall and tried to hug Su Jiu, but she held him back with the Purple Ultimate Sword Scabbard.
• Yun Huanling’s behavior disrupted the solemn gathering, and Yun Jing noticed how close he and Su Jiu seemed.

Su Jiu said goodbye to Yun Huanling, who decided to return to the Heavenly Secret Sect and accepted Yun Jing’s challenge to enter the Golden Core Stage trial grounds. Su Jiu, Yun Huanling, and Yun Chao entered the Yun Household’s Trial Grounds together, where Yun Chao realized Su Jiu seemed to know him.

• Su Jiu told Yun Huanling she had spent two years healing after killing a Nascent Soul Realm Guardian Magic Beast in a secret chamber.
• Su Jiu said she was leaving, and Yun Huanling decided to return to the Heavenly Secret Sect as well.
• Yun Jing offered to let Yun Huanling return if he attempted the Golden Core Stage trial grounds with help from others.
• Yun Huanling recruited Yun Chao and Su Jiu, and the three entered the Trial Grounds together.
• Su Jiu assigned Yun Huanling to handle divination and Yun Chao to protect them, prompting Yun Chao to ask how she knew his name.

Su Jiu, Yun Huanling, and Yun Chao entered a difficult trial formation, where Su Jiu and Yun Chao fought off fake Demon Beasts while Yun Huanling worked out how to break the Rippling Wave Formation. The elders watched from outside, and the group headed northwest toward the formation eye.

• Yun Jing warned Yun Huanling, Su Jiu, and Yun Chao that more people made the formation harder, while the Yun Household elders debated whether the trial was too dangerous for them.
• Su Jiu killed a fake Demon Beast with a twig, then summoned Frost-Cold Purple Ultimate as more beasts closed in.
• Su Jiu and Yun Chao fought together against the Demon Beasts, and Yun Chao questioned whether she had visited the Flowing Radiance Sword Sect.
• Yun Huanling located the Gate of Life and told Su Jiu it was northwest; Su Jiu immediately identified where the formation eye should be, and Yun Huanling followed her lead.

Su Jiu, Yun Chao, and Yun Huanling entered the Mist Blade Formation and became separated in its blinding fog. Su Jiu faced the strongest barrage and discovered a way to break the mist blades with ice, while Yun Chao and Yun Huanling struggled to endure their easier trial.

• The elders recognized Su Jiu's formation skills and discussed raising the trial's difficulty as she led Yun Chao and Yun Huanling into the second formation.
• Fog separated Su Jiu from her companions, and she relied on her hearing and Wind-Welcoming Snow-Returning to evade increasingly frequent hidden attacks.
• Yun Chao and Yun Huanling were attacked by mist blades; Yun Huanling identified the formation and learned that their trial had been reduced to mid golden core stage difficulty.
• Yun Chao fought the mist blades with his sword but began to suffer cuts as their numbers increased.
• Su Jiu realized the attackers were formed from fog, replaced her sword with ice blades, and shattered the mist blades with a coordinated volley.

Su Jiu and Yun Huanling broke the twin formation and regrouped with an exhausted Yun Chao, then used the time remaining to plan for the Trial Grounds’ final two formations. The Yun Household elders admired Su Jiu’s independent formation skills, while the Third and Fourth Elders bickered over who would have made the better mentor.

• Su Jiu and Yun Huanling simultaneously destroyed their formation eyes, then reunited with Yun Chao, who sat down to recover his spiritual qi.
• Su Jiu learned the Trial Grounds had a ten-hour limit and told Yun Huanling they could rest for two hours because breaking the twin formation counted as clearing two formations.
• Su Jiu explained that she had already calculated there were two formations left, leaving enough time to complete the trial.
• The Grand Elder lamented that the Yun Household had lost its ancestors’ advanced methods of calculating linked formations, and the elders praised Su Jiu for following her own path in formation arts.
• The Fourth Elder said he would have taught Su Jiu if she belonged to the Yun Household, and the Third Elder mocked him before the two elders began arguing.

Su Jiu, Yun Huanling, and Yun Chao analyzed the Lotus Nine-Seed Formation and prepared to cross its dangerous, moving lotuses. Yun Chao agreed to lead the crossing with Su Jiu’s talismans, while Yun Huanling and Su Jiu took charge of finding the safe steps and extinguishing the lotuses’ red light.

• Su Jiu reassured Yun Chao that the Twin Formation had placed him at a disadvantage, and Yun Huanling complained that she never comforted him.
• Su Jiu and Yun Huanling recognized that the next challenge combined a Lotus Formation with a Nine-Seed Formation, making the path to the golden lotus perilous.
• Su Jiu and Yun Huanling determined that a wrong step could severely injure the cultivator crossing, and that all the red lights in each ring had to be extinguished for the protective golden light to disappear.
• Yun Chao volunteered to cross the lotuses, and Su Jiu gave him defense talismans to use before each step.
• Su Jiu assigned Yun Huanling to calculate the route and took responsibility for eliminating the red light; Yun Huanling warned her not to overexert herself, but she declared that they would succeed.