Chapter Summaries

The Black Dragon King revealed that he had lured Su Jiu and Jiao Yue together because their blood could awaken the Everlasting Flower and help him deceive the Heavenly Dao to escape Swallowing Heaven. After he attacked, Qiao Zirong fell unconscious, and Su Jiu faced the Black Dragon King with her sword.

• The Black Dragon King explained that his Tracking Curse had let him follow Ji Jue and that a prophet had foretold two special bloodlines would be needed to water the Everlasting Flower.
• The Black Dragon King showed Su Jiu the Black Stone reacting to her and revealed that Jiao Yue’s pure ancestral bloodline made her the second person he needed.
• The Black Dragon King disclosed that the Everlasting Flower could deceive the Heavenly Dao and denied that he had built the Teleportation Array to lure Jiao Yue.
• Su Jiu realized the Black Dragon King was using the Merfolk Queen’s ability to influence them, then Qiao Zirong shielded her from his attack with the Void Escape Technique.
• Qiao Zirong was knocked unconscious by the spiritual qi’s aftershock, and Su Jiu gave him a Great Restoration Pill before drawing Frost-Cold Purple Ultimate against the Black Dragon King.

The Black Dragon King captured Su Jiu and Jiao Yue to use their blood in a ritual involving the Everlasting Flower, while Jiao Chen failed to break through the Barrier separating him from his daughter. Mo Qi arrived and chose to search for Qiao Zirong, as Su Jiu began to regain awareness after hearing a familiar voice call to her.

• The Black Dragon King enveloped Su Jiu and Jiao Yue in black mist, rendering them unconscious.
• Jiao Chen warned Yun Huanling, Yun Chao, and Mo Qi not to step onto the Sacrificial Altar together, and Jiao Chen was transported to the seventh level.
• Jiao Chen found Jiao Yue and Su Jiu beside the Everlasting Flower, with Su Jiu's blood draining into the pool, but a pillar of light blocked him from reaching them.
• The Black Dragon King explained that a Merfolk ancestor's sacrifice had caused the tower to suppress merfolk, while Jiao Chen tried and failed to break the Barrier.
• Mo Qi arrived, saw Su Jiu trapped, and ran toward the Sixth Level to look for Qiao Zirong.
• Su Jiu heard a familiar voice calling her and gradually gathered her awareness in her sea of consciousness.

Su Jiu woke in the Black Dragon King's chamber and refused to abandon Jiao Chen and her companions, instead devising a way to regroup at the Sixth-Level Maze. After the Black Dragon King broke the barrier, she escaped with Yun Chao and sent Jiao Chen the signal to join them.

• Su Jiu woke, learned Flower Bud could not sense the Heavenly Dao in this realm, and gave Jiao Yue a pill.
• Jiao Chen confronted the Black Dragon King while Yun Huanling, Mo Qi, and the injured Qiao Zirong arrived; Su Jiu chose not to escape alone.
• Su Jiu arranged for her companions to meet at the Sixth-Level Maze exit and planned to use a Tracking Talisman to bring Jiao Chen there.
• When Yun Chao arrived and the Black Dragon King broke the barrier, Su Jiu grabbed Yun Chao and raced with him toward the Sixth-Level Maze exit.
• Su Jiu reached the exit and sent Jiao Chen the prepared voice transmission.

Su Jiu led the group through the Space Maze while the Black Dragon King broke free of her formation disk, then escaped with them to the fifth level. Jiao Chen freed his father, the former Merfolk King, who revealed how the Black Dragon King reached the prison’s upper levels.

• Su Jiu placed a time formation disk at the exit and guided everyone through the shifting maze, keeping them together as the Black Dragon King pursued them.
• Su Jiu discovered the formation disk had been destroyed but found the route to the entrance, then led the group out, sealed the door, and began inscribing another formation.
• Su Jiu sent Qiao Zirong and Jiao Chen to find the former Merfolk King, and Jiao Chen freed his father from his cage and chains.
• The former Merfolk King recognized Jiao Chen’s daughter and explained that the Black Dragon King reached the fifth level by brute-forcing its formation and the sixth by teleporting from the fourth level to the seventh.

Su Jiu trapped the Black Dragon King in the Black Dragon Prison’s shifting spatial maze and helped free most of the prisoners. The group escaped the tower with the merfolk’s help, while the Black Dragon King remained lost inside.

• Su Jiu inscribed a Concealment Array after learning it by studying a formation on the fifth level, then used it to hide the sealed door to the Black Dragon King’s maze.
• The Former Merfolk King freed most of the prisoners, and Su Jiu explained that the Black Dragon King would struggle to escape once the maze shifted.
• Su Jiu and Yun Huanling worked together to unravel the fifth-level formations and reached the tower’s first level within half a day.
• Jiao Chen explained that merfolk could pass through the entrance Barrier and that the Everlasting Flower’s pool was a Teleportation Array the Black Dragon King had discovered.
• Su Jiu and the others held on to the merfolk’s robes and passed through the Barrier, leaving the Black Dragon King trapped in the maze.

The Azure Tide Sect and other major sects discussed the Heavenly Demon Sect’s occupation of cities across the Nine Provinces Continent and the growing disorder on the Spiritflight Continent. They also considered the Misty Immortal Sect’s move to the Azure Mist Continent, while Yun Huanling and Su Jiu remained missing and their Fate Stars stayed motionless.

• At the Heavenly Secret Sect, Hongguang asked an elder to calculate Yun Huanling’s location again after his Fate Star had remained still for a year.
• Ning Hai showed the Azure Tide Sect’s Elders and Peak Masters reports of demonic cultivators occupying cities, especially on the Spiritflight Continent.
• The Azure Tide Sect leaders questioned why the Spiritflight Continent’s sects were not responding, and discussed the Misty Immortal Sect’s apparent plan to relocate to the Azure Mist Continent.
• Luo Cang suggested that the Misty Immortal Sect might be interested in the Nightfall Cold Pool, and the Grand Elder wondered whether it was more than an ordinary Foundation Establishment Realm Secret Realm.
• The chapter described how only the Flowing Radiance Sword Sect and the Hundred Refinement Sect had relatively good relations among the Spiritflight Continent’s four major sects, leaving the Flowing Radiance Sword Sect to face widespread demonic activity largely alone.

Su Jiu faced the Black Dragon King after he escaped the Space Maze and came to seek revenge, using her speed and formations to survive until Jiao Shen joined the fight. She suspected the king had sacrificed a tier of cultivation to break free, while Jiao Chen arrived only after Jiao Shen and the king were already battling.

• Su Jiu learned that absorbing Flower Bud would let her comprehend spatial power, but she refused because doing so might collapse the space and harm its inhabitants.
• The Black Dragon King attacked Su Jiu, and she used Wind-Welcoming Snow-Returning and a Trapping Array to hold him back.
• Su Jiu fled to the Merfolk King's palace and called for Jiao Shen, who confronted the Black Dragon King.
• Su Jiu told Jiao Shen that the king seemed grievously wounded, and Jiao Shen discovered that his cultivation had fallen to the same realm as his own.
• Jiao Shen fought the Black Dragon King while Su Jiu suspected he had detonated a tier of cultivation to escape the Space Maze.
• Jiao Chen arrived after the battle had been underway for an incense stick's time and grew furious at Su Jiu.

Su Jiu comprehended spatial power from the Formation Disk and repaired the space formation, activating the Teleportation Array after ten years of effort. Her companions celebrated their chance to escape, while the mysterious name Zheng Qilong appeared in the ruined book in her sea of consciousness.

• Jiao Shen defeated the injured Black Dragon King, who knelt and begged for mercy, and Su Jiu left the father and son to decide his fate.
• Su Jiu entered the Black Dragon Prison and touched the cracked Formation Disk, absorbing spatial power as Flower Bud urged her to meditate and comprehend it.
• Su Jiu found the shattered, mostly blank book in her sea of consciousness, where the final page displayed the name Zheng Qilong in red light.
• After contemplating spatial power for two years, Su Jiu learned Basic Space Formation Arts and repaired the damaged space formation with Yun Huanling watching.
• Su Jiu activated the Teleportation Array, and Mo Qi embraced her as Yun Chao and the others celebrated their hope of escape.

After the teleportation scattered the group, Su Jiu saved Yun Huanling from his lightning tribulation, which left his golden core with eight patterns. The others regrouped, but Mo Qi rejected Su Jiu’s attempt to treat her wound, leaving Qiao Zirong and Yun Chao puzzled by her behavior.

• Jiao Shen asked Jiao Chen whether they would see Su Jiu again, then said he wanted to leave the Black Dragon Prison and see the world.
• Yun Huanling emerged into a forest and endured seven bolts of heavenly lightning, which destroyed his defensive treasures and added a pattern to his golden core.
• Su Jiu shielded Yun Huanling from a powerful lightning strike with her umbrella, and the exhausted tribulation clouds dispersed.
• Su Jiu checked Yun Huanling, gave him a Minor Restoration Pill, and meditated while waiting for him to wake.
• Yun Chao, Qiao Zirong, and Mo Qi arrived; Mo Qi explained that a demon beast had wounded her and that Qiao Zirong had rescued her.
• Su Jiu offered to treat Mo Qi with Ice-Beauty Jade Dew, but Mo Qi pulled away and knocked the medicine bottle to the ground, confusing Qiao Zirong and angering Yun Chao.

Su Jiu learned that a heart demon seed planted by a Heavenly Demon Sect cultivator had stirred Mo Qi’s feelings, while Mo Qi and Qiao Zirong confronted their unspoken affections. The group headed toward a town, where cloaked enforcers stopped a mother and daughter from leaving just as Su Jiu and the others approached.

• Mo Qi told Su Jiu that a black-cloaked demonic cultivator bearing the Red Blood Moon emblem had planted a heart demon seed in her, and Su Jiu identified the culprit as someone from the Heavenly Demon Sect.
• Yun Huanling woke, and Su Jiu led the group toward a nearby town while avoiding further discussion of Mo Qi’s feelings.
• Qiao Zirong asked Mo Qi why she had treated Su Jiu that way, then apologized and made clear he saw Mo Qi only as a friend.
• Mo Qi told Qiao Zirong she knew he liked Su Jiu, and he blurted out a flustered denial aloud.
• Black-cloaked figures stopped a carriage carrying a mother and daughter, claiming the mayor had forbidden anyone from leaving town because a guest had lost something valuable.
• A young woman in blue and her companions approached the halted carriage.

Su Jiu and her companions rescued a mother and daughter in Twinleaf Town and learned that the Spiritflight Continent had fallen into crisis, with cities mysteriously wiped out and demonic cultivators spreading. The woman revealed that her husband belonged to the Cloud Mountain Sect, where demonic cultivators had also appeared.

• Su Jiu confronted the black-cloaked cultivators who were holding the mother and daughter, and Yun Huanling claimed the women as relatives to make them withdraw.
• The woman warned that the mayor had sealed Twinleaf Town and could prevent anyone from leaving.
• Yun Chao realized they were on the Spiritflight Continent and questioned the woman about the Flowing Radiance Sword Sect's troubles.
• The woman brought Su Jiu and the others to the Zhao Residence, where they found no servants because she and her daughter had planned to leave town.
• The woman described three cities where everyone had died mysteriously and said demonic cultivators were spreading across the continent.
• The woman said her husband belonged to the Cloud Mountain Sect, where demonic cultivators had begun appearing in the two cities under its jurisdiction.

Su Jiu and the others learned that demonic cultivators had been entering Twinleaf Town and that people were vanishing, while the mayor may have been cooperating with them. Mo Qi decided to leave for the Azure Mist Continent with the woman’s daughter, and she angrily rejected Su Jiu’s warning, ending their relationship on hostile terms.

• The woman told Su Jiu, Yun Chao, Yun Huanling, and Mo Qi that demonic cultivators had appeared in the region and that a Teleportation Array connected the Spiritflight Continent to the Azure Mist Continent.
• The woman’s daughter accused the mayor of colluding with demonic cultivators and said people vanished whenever the town was sealed; Su Jiu suspected that a Dao cultivator she had seen was an Azure Tide Sect disciple.
• The woman begged Su Jiu to take her daughter away, and Su Jiu promised to investigate the mayor’s residence that night.
• Mo Qi agreed to take the daughter to the Azure Mist Continent and insisted on leaving immediately.
• At the Zhao Household’s gate, Mo Qi accused Su Jiu of acting superior and giving orders, then refused to heed her warning about possible traps outside town.

Mo Qi accused Su Jiu of standing between her and Qiao Zirong, then challenged her to fight. Su Jiu chose to confront Mo Qi’s accusations, while Yun Huanling defended her and told Qiao Zirong to stay away from her.

• Yun Huanling condemned Mo Qi for repaying Su Jiu’s kindness with ingratitude, and Mo Qi argued that Su Jiu’s debt to her was none of his business.
• Mo Qi pointed her short blade at Su Jiu and challenged her to fight.
• Su Jiu said she had treated Mo Qi well, and Mo Qi revealed that she resented Su Jiu because she loved Qiao Zirong.
• Mo Qi asked why Qiao Zirong always looked at Su Jiu, while Qiao Zirong silently struggled with his feelings and a secret.
• Yun Huanling stepped in front of Su Jiu, told Mo Qi to pursue Qiao Zirong herself, and ordered Qiao Zirong to stay away from Su Jiu.

Su Jiu defeated Mo Qi and ended their friendship, while Mo Qi was caught by a formation as she tried to leave town. The town chief ordered Zhao mother and daughter prevented from leaving and confirmed that the town had been sealed.

• Su Jiu fought Mo Qi, defeated her, and told her they should never meet again.
• Qiao Zirong sided with Su Jiu and stopped Mo Qi from continuing the fight, leaving Mo Qi devastated.
• Su Jiu left with the others while the young girl waited for Mo Qi, who later headed toward the Teleportation Array and was knocked unconscious by a formation.
• The town chief learned that Zhao mother and daughter planned to leave and ordered his subordinate to keep them in town as hostages.
• The town chief confirmed that the town had been sealed to support his demonic cultivation.

Su Jiu and her companions uncovered the Town Chief’s concealed demonic cultivation and found evidence that he had been eating people. They confronted him in his basement, where he revealed that a missing companion was imprisoned, but her fate remained unresolved.

• The Town Chief learned that Golden Core cultivators had arrived and hurried to his basement after sending a plea for help to the demonic cultivators who had empowered him.
• Su Jiu and her companions found the Town Chief’s residence, and Su Jiu broke its Concealment Array, exposing a trace of demonic qi.
• Su Jiu questioned a Foundation Establishment Dao cultivator and learned that the Town Chief’s servants were bound by restrictions and feared a Magic Treasure that let him detect their approach.
• Su Jiu and her companions entered the basement and found the Town Chief eating flesh; he threatened them with a scrap of their companion’s clothing and said she was locked up inside.
• Su Jiu questioned the Town Chief about the demonic cultivators who had empowered him and whether he controlled the Foundation Establishment cultivators outside.

Su Jiu killed the demonic cultivator, freed the captives, and escaped Twinleaf Town just before a Blood-Congealing Formation drained the life from those still inside. After discovering that the demonic cultivators had used the mayor as bait and destroyed their altar, she asked Yun Huanling to locate the little girl's father.

• The mayor revealed that a Heavenly Demon Sect cultivator had taken away a captive in water-cloud satin, and Su Jiu killed the demonic cultivator and destroyed his Soul-Sealing Keys.
• Su Jiu and Yun Huanling found the unconscious Mo Qi and a little girl in the basement, along with a teleportation array linked to the town's disappearances.
• Su Jiu warned Twinleaf Town's residents to flee after seeing red light cover the sky, then identified the deadly formation as a Blood-Congealing Formation.
• Su Jiu and the escaping cultivators reached the town's boundary, where she confirmed the formation had drained the life from those who failed to escape.
• Two demonic cultivators revealed that the mayor had been bait and that they had sought a Blood-Congealing Bead, then destroyed their altar before Su Jiu's group could catch them.
• Su Jiu asked Yun Huanling to divine the little girl's father's location, and his Compass pointed in one direction.

Mo Qi thanked Su Jiu for saving her and left, accepting that she could no longer stand beside her. Su Jiu and her companions reached the Cloud Mountain Sect, where Zhao Zicheng reunited with his daughter and learned that his wife had died, then continued toward the Flowing Radiance Sword Sect.

• Mo Qi woke with an injured arm, thanked Su Jiu for saving her, and admitted to herself that she still liked Qiao Zirong but would no longer cling to him.
• Mo Qi said goodbye to Su Jiu and left, reflecting on her jealousy, affection for Su Jiu, and dislike of herself.
• Zhao Zicheng overheard disciples say that Twinleaf Town had been massacred, and his Message Talisman to his wife failed to reach her.
• Zhao Zicheng reunited with his daughter Xin'er, who told him that her mother was dead.
• Su Jiu introduced herself to the Cloud Mountain Sect disciples and departed with Yun Huanling, Yun Chao, and Qiao Zirong.
• After flying for over a month, Su Jiu and her companions reached the Flowing Radiance Sword Sect.

Yun Huanling and Su Jiu returned from the unknown Secret Realm, prompting the Heavenly Secret Sect to study troubling changes in the Fate Stars and warn them about the dangerous Spiritflight Continent. Su Jiu told Xia Jue how she escaped Swallowing Heaven and asked about missing disciples, learning that three Soul Lamps were flickering.

• The Fifth Elder confirmed that Yun Huanling and Su Jiu had returned, and Hongguang noticed a Child of Destiny's Fate Star absorbing destiny from other stars.
• Hongguang divined that Yun Huanling was on the Spiritflight Continent and ordered the sect to summon him back because the continent was dangerous.
• Su Jiu contacted Xia Jue, who reminded her about a Secret Realm expected to open in Azure Mist's far north in two years.
• Su Jiu told Xia Jue that Swallowing Heaven contained a world without Heavenly Dao laws, where time passed nearly ten times faster, and that she escaped after studying spatial teleportation formations for ten years.
• Su Jiu described the strange creatures, weak cultivation, lost resources, and the Black Dragon King's plans inside Swallowing Heaven, while Xia Jue admitted he did not know about the Everlasting Flower or special bloodline.
• Su Jiu asked whether disciples sent to the Spiritflight Continent had died, and Xia Jue said none of their Soul Lamps had gone out, though three were flickering.

Su Jiu and her companions reached the Flowing Radiance Sword Sect, where Yun Chao reunited with his master and introduced them. The Sect Leader recognized Su Jiu’s Life-Bound Treasure and proposed a spar, while the companions discovered that only one year had passed in their bone ages despite experiencing ten years.

• Yun Huanling refused to return to his sect, while Yun Chao and Su Jiu discussed the dangers in Spiritflight Continent.
• Yun Chao led Su Jiu, Yun Huanling, and Qiao Zirong into the Flowing Radiance Sword Sect using his status as a Personal Disciple.
• Yun Chao met his master, the Flowing Radiance Sword Sect’s Sect Leader, who questioned why he had returned.
• The Sect Leader recognized Su Jiu as the cultivator whose Life-Bound Treasure Lian Chuan had forged and praised her cultivation and bone age.
• Su Jiu and the others checked their bone ages and found they had aged only one year despite experiencing ten years.
• The Sect Leader asked Su Jiu to spar with Yun Chao, hoping to see her Life-Bound Treasure.

Su Jiu sparred with Yun Chao at the Flowing Radiance Sword Sect and proved herself his equal in swordsmanship. She ended the match in a draw to spare his dignity, while the sect leader admired her sword and skill.

• Yun Chao’s master challenged Su Jiu to a spar, and she summoned Frost-Cold Purple Ultimate before they moved to an arena.
• Su Jiu and Yun Chao exchanged sword strikes as disciples gathered to watch, and the sect leader focused on her spirit treasure and skill.
• Su Jiu fought with Ice Soul Swordsmanship against Yun Chao’s Flowing Radiance Swordsmanship and gradually gained the upper hand.
• Su Jiu sent both swords flying and ended the match in a draw, preserving Yun Chao’s dignity as his spiritual qi waned.
• Yun Chao told his fellow disciples that Su Jiu was a good friend and primarily cultivated Dao arts, not swordsmanship.