Chapter Summaries

Su Jiu and her companions struggled against the Catfish Worm until Xia Jue used the Azure Jade Flute to destroy it. Afterward, Su Jiu discovered the flute’s spirit and learned that it could see her.

• Su Jiu, Tong Qi, Lan Fang Ziyi, and Xia Jue fought the Catfish Worm as Shen Qingyue used Withered Wood Blooms Again to aid Xia Jue.
• Tong Qi reached his limit and withdrew to recover, while Su Jiu realized her spiritual qi was nearly exhausted.
• Xia Jue played the Azure Jade Flute, causing the Catfish Worm to convulse and explode, though the flute’s attack injured the nearby allies.
• Xia Jue checked Su Jiu’s pulse and let her examine the Azure Jade Flute after confirming she was all right.
• Su Jiu saw the flute’s artifact spirit, who told Xia Jue that only she would be allowed to touch it in the future.

After leaving the Wasteland, Su Jiu's group found the enormous White Pavilion and joined the cultivators gathered outside its sealed gate. Su Jiu began calculating how to break the formation while rogue cultivators Tan Song and Meng Xing assessed it with their team.

• Su Jiu returned Xia Jue's Azure Jade Flute, and Shen Qingyue resented that he had let Su Jiu examine it.
• After flying for more than half a month, the group left the Wasteland and Su Jiu spotted the White Pavilion's huge gate.
• The group learned that a composite formation prevented cultivators from entering the White Pavilion.
• Su Jiu circled the pavilion, examined the patterns on its walls, and began working out the formation on the ground.
• Lan Fang Ziyi learned that Su Jiu had never taken a Formation Arts Artist assessment, despite having broken a sixth-tier sealing formation.
• Tan Song and Meng Xing, rogue cultivators from the Rogue Cultivator Alliance who had passed the third-tier formation assessment, studied the gate with their reunited teammates.

Tan Song and Meng Xing struggled to unravel the intricate multilayered formation sealing the gate while their companions blamed them for the delay. Zhen Jing and Zhen Yue offered to cooperate, and Zhen Jing suggested the stone-wall pictures held a clue to breaking the formation.

• Tan Song and Meng Xing spent two days studying the gate’s formation but could not find a way to unravel it.
• Impatient rogue cultivators mocked the two Formation Arts Artists, and Meng Xing angrily confronted them.
• Tan Song proposed joining forces with other Formation Arts Artists to study separate sections of the formation.
• Zhen Jing and Zhen Yue approached Tan Song and Meng Xing, introduced themselves as Fourth Tier and Third Tier Formation Arts Artists, and offered cooperation.
• Zhen Jing claimed the formation was not difficult to break and asked whether they had examined the pictures on the other stone walls.

After the Zhen siblings refused their employers’ demand for a share of their gains, Tan Song and Meng Xing quit the mission and confronted the rogue cultivators. Meng Xing defeated the man who attacked him while Su Jiu remained absorbed in studying formation patterns.

• The Zhen siblings rejected the rogue cultivators’ demand for twenty percent of their resources and left to seek other formation arts artists.
• Tan Song quit the mission, and Meng Xing declared that they would pay the penalty rather than accept their employers’ treatment.
• A rogue cultivator attacked Meng Xing with a fireball, but several members of the group, including both nascent soul cultivators, withdrew from the conflict.
• Meng Xing charged the attacker and quickly pinned the mid golden core stage cultivator to the ground.
• Lan Fang Ziyi and Tong Qi commented on the fight as Xia Jue watched Su Jiu draw and calculate formation patterns.

Su Jiu finished calculating how to unravel the White Pavilion’s twelve-layer composite formation, while Zhen Jing led a group of formation artists into it before they had fully worked out its dangers. Rogue cultivators followed, and the chapter left their fate inside the formation unknown.

• After half a month of calculation, Su Jiu determined how to unravel the formation and meditated to recover her strength.
• Tan Song and Meng Xing gathered with Zhen Jing, Zhen Yue, and two other formation artists to study the twelve formations hidden in the White Pavilion’s murals.
• Zhen Jing activated the formation and entered first, while Zhen Yue warned the watching cultivators before joining her.
• After Meng Xing persuaded him, Tan Song entered the formation with him, despite doubting that Zhen Jing could handle its transformations.
• Suspecting the white vortex was the way into the pavilion, rogue cultivators followed the six formation artists inside.
• Hu Jing criticized the cultivators for following an apparent instigator, and Li Yiyi explained that he likely wanted others nearby to share the danger.

Su Jiu discovered that the formation guarding the ruins had thirteen layers, not twelve, and explained why she could not safely enter while others were inside. After she found a way to anticipate the formation’s next change, Zhen Jing and the others emerged from the white entrance.

• Su Jiu told Lan Fang Ziyi that the composite formation had thirteen layers, despite the twelve hidden formations in the mural.
• Su Jiu said she had to wait for everyone inside to come out before she could enter and unravel the formation safely.
• Lan Fang Ziyi examined Su Jiu’s formation diagrams and learned that she had omitted most of the steps from her rough draft.
• Su Jiu explained that the formation had no killing arrays but included two fast-flowing time formations that could drain life force.
• When Shen Qingyue questioned the delay, Su Jiu drew on the ground and said the others should emerge soon.
• Zhen Jing and the others came out through the white ring and found the waiting cultivators outside.

Su Jiu learned that the overlapping time formations had cost cultivators fifty years of life in only five hours, then entered the compound grand array to find its hidden formation. She discovered that the array contained an exceptionally ingenious space formation, while Xia Jue and the others waited outside.

• Su Jiu learned from Zhen Jing that her group had spent fifty years in the time formation, though only five hours had passed outside.
• Zhen Jing warned Su Jiu to turn back and confirmed that everyone who could escape had already gotten out, but Su Jiu refused to give up.
• The rogue cultivators blamed Zhen Jing and the other Formation Arts Artists for their lost lifespans, and the two sides began fighting.
• Su Jiu entered the ring of light alone while Xia Jue, Tong Qi, and the others remained outside.
• Inside the mist, Su Jiu used the Spirit-Cleansing Technique and proceeded toward the hidden space formation she had deduced.

Su Jiu entered the sixth-tier composite formation and broke several of its smaller formations. After an unknown person entered and shifted the formations, she found herself facing a powerful illusion of herself, and suspected the intruder knew her.

• Su Jiu used her otherworldly eyes to find and destroy the first formation eye, causing the ring of light outside to grow fainter.
• Zhen Jing and the others realized someone had entered the formation, and Zhen Yue identified the newcomer as a young girl in Azure Tide Sect robes.
• Su Jiu broke six formations and escaped an illusion of Ice Veil Peak and Chu Luohen.
• Su Jiu encountered an illusion of herself that matched her abilities, techniques, and possessions, and recognized it as a sixth-tier illusion array.
• Su Jiu suspected an intruder had changed the formation and used her divine sense to check that the time formation had not overlapped with the illusion array.

Su Jiu fought and defeated a copy of herself in the Composite Grand Array, while Qiao Zirong accidentally entered the array and reset it. After recovering, Su Jiu realized she had moved into a Confounding Trapping Array and set out to find the intruder before continuing.

• Qiao Zirong asked Zhen Yue about the array and learned that a Formation Arts Artist was breaking it from within.
• Two people fought near the ring of light, and their careless movements sent Qiao Zirong into the array, resetting the formations Su Jiu had already broken.
• Su Jiu discovered that her copied opponent could not match her sword Dao, so she drew blood across Frost-Cold Purple Ultimate and defeated the copy with her altered Ice Soul Swordsmanship.
• Qiao Zirong found himself lost in a featureless white space and realized he could not find his way back.
• Su Jiu recovered her spiritual qi, recognized the Pine Forest as a Confounding Trapping Array, and decided to search for the person who had entered.

Su Jiu confronted Qiao Zirong in the Pine Grove Trapping Array and exposed him as Yi Feng Chen, the Mystic Dharma Immortal Sect traitor who had impersonated Qiao Zirong. Yi Feng Chen admitted she had uncovered his identity and asked how she recognized him, leaving his motives for targeting her unresolved.

• Su Jiu found Qiao Zirong inside the formation, and they proceeded through the arrays together as she questioned why he had entered.
• Su Jiu accused Qiao Zirong of arranging their past encounters, creating the Ice Cavern, and manipulating events around Zhou Cheng.
• Su Jiu said the Skyglaze Stone and Qiao Zirong's actions proved he had killed the real Qiao Zirong and Zhou Cheng.
• Su Jiu identified Qiao Zirong as Yi Feng Chen, a traitor of the Mystic Dharma Immortal Sect.
• Yi Feng Chen dropped his act and asked how Su Jiu had figured out his identity, and she cited the Skyglaze Stone and his use of the Void Escape Technique.

Su Jiu confronted Qiao Zirong, who revealed that he was the demonic cultivator Yi Feng Chen and had approached her as part of Gong Hao's plan to capture her. As Yi Feng Chen activated the Heavenly Origin Lock and the Skyglaze Stone raised his cultivation, Su Jiu and her former companion prepared to fight as enemies.

• Qiao Zirong admitted that he had spared Mo Qi after realizing her death would arouse Su Jiu's suspicions, and explained that Zhou Cheng and Mo Qi had obstructed his mission.
• Qiao Zirong revealed that he served the Heavenly Devil Palace, had acted as Yi Feng Chen, and had tried to win Su Jiu's affection under Gong Hao's orders.
• Qiao Zirong told Su Jiu that Gong Hao suspected she had ice skin and jade bones and wanted to make her master and martial uncle suffer by having her fall for a demonic cultivator.
• Su Jiu drew Frost-Cold Purple Ultimate and accused Qiao Zirong of arranging the formation to capture her, prompting him to reveal the Heavenly Origin Lock.
• Yi Feng Chen dropped his false appearance, and Su Jiu and he acknowledged that their opposing allegiances made them enemies despite their eighteen years together.
• Yi Feng Chen used the Skyglaze Stone to raise his cultivation to Golden Core Great Perfection as Su Jiu prepared for battle.

Su Jiu fought Yi Feng Chen after discovering he had come to capture her for the Heavenly Demon Sect, refusing to trust his promise to spare her. Their battle left her shocked when Yi Feng Chen revealed he had concealed his true cultivation and reached nascent soul middle stage.

• Su Jiu abandoned her hope of sparing Yi Feng Chen and attacked him ruthlessly to protect the Azure Tide Sect.
• Yi Feng Chen urged Su Jiu to come with him, but she rejected his offer and continued attacking.
• Su Jiu realized Yi Feng Chen's vines matched the power of her attacks, while he kept the battle on his terms with seeds and talismans.
• Su Jiu and Yi Feng Chen exchanged powerful talismans until Yi Feng Chen's cultivation rose to nascent soul middle stage.
• Yi Feng Chen reminded Su Jiu that he had once been a genius in talisman dao at the Mystic Dharma Immortal Sect.

Su Jiu defeated Yi Feng Chen after revealing that her blood empowered her talismans and naturally suppressed demons. She took his Storage Bag and Heavenly Origin Lock, then imprisoned him inside the artifact while considering how to draw Gong Hao out.

• Su Jiu and Yi Feng Chen fought with talismans for two days, until she used her blood to strengthen the Frost-Cold Purple Ultimate and form ice spikes that pierced his talismans.
• Yi Feng Chen put away the Heavenly Origin Lock and used his Five-Colored Flower, but Su Jiu remained unharmed and pierced his defenses with her blood-stained weapon.
• Su Jiu immobilized Yi Feng Chen, fed him a pill, took his Storage Bag, and asked whether she could use him to arrange a meeting with Gong Hao.
• Su Jiu told Yi Feng Chen that her blood had helped her kill a Phantom Blood Demon and could suppress Gong Hao's demonic cultivation.
• Yi Feng Chen warned Su Jiu not to confront Gong Hao, but she broke the seal on his Storage Bag and then threw him into the Heavenly Origin Lock.

Chu Luohen struggled to recover from a demon fox’s severe injury while Chu Mojin urged him to accept Su Jiu’s help. The chapter ended with Chu Luohen rejecting romantic matchmaking and Chu Mojin wondering what kind of woman his cousin could like.

• Chu Luohen coughed blood while meditating, and Chu Mojin urged him to ask Su Jiu for help recovering.
• Chu Luohen refused, and Chu Mojin explained that a Seventh-Tier Demon King’s palm strike had damaged his heart and lungs, leaving him to recover for five years.
• Chu Mojin recalled how a person from Cloudmist Peak had saved the brothers from the Three-Tail Clan chief on Thousand Fox Mountain.
• Chu Mojin activated a message talisman from the Merfolk Princess, but Chu Luohen destroyed it and dismissed her affection.
• Chu Luohen told Chu Mojin not to push people he liked onto him, and Chu Mojin left wondering what sort of woman his cousin might like.

Ning Fan returned to the Azure Tide Sect with a Thousand-Spirit Blood Condensation Bead and reported his successful mission against Char. After meeting his new junior disciples, he learned of an exceptionally talented junior sister at Golden Core great perfection and left curious about her at Ice Veil Peak.

• Ning Fan gave Ning Hai a Thousand-Spirit Blood Condensation Bead he had obtained after killing two demonic cultivators on Spiritflight Continent.
• Ning Fan reported that he had killed Char while the Wuyi Tribe was distracted pursuing a thief who had taken something important from its stronghold.
• Su Mianmian and Jin Chen came to bid farewell, and Ning Hai introduced them to Ning Fan as his junior disciples.
• Ning Fan gave Su Mianmian and Jin Chen magic treasures, then learned that his absent junior sister had exceptional aptitude and shared his Golden Core great-perfection cultivation.
• Ning Fan gave Ning Hai two powerful ice-attribute spirit artifacts for the junior sister, and after leaving the hall, looked toward Ice Veil Peak, guessing she belonged to it.

Ning Fan secretly sought information on Su Jiu while the others gathered at the White Pavilion entrance, where Xia Jue exposed and killed two rogue cultivators who proved to be demonic cultivators. As Su Jiu recovered, the crowd suspected that the Rogue Cultivator Alliance had been infiltrated, and Xia Jue kept the ruined Formation Disk for later use.

• Ning Fan returned to his room, requested information about Su Jiu, and asked whether the Wuyi Tribe should be wiped out.
• Su Jiu emerged from the White Pavilion injured, and Xia Jue checked her pulse before guarding her while she recovered.
• Tong Qi and Xia Jue noticed that only Su Jiu had emerged and wondered where the people who died inside the formation had gone; Xia Jue kept the ruined Formation Disk.
• Xia Jue killed two suspicious rogue cultivators who had been watching Su Jiu, then exposed iron plates bearing the Heavenly Demon Sect's demonic markings beneath their robes.
• Tong Qi searched the men's Storage Bags and found demonic treasures, Heavenly Demon Sect robes, and Concealment Pills, leading the crowd to suspect that demonic cultivators had infiltrated the Rogue Cultivator Alliance.

After recovering from her injuries, Su Jiu led the cultivators into the White Pavilion, where Red Spider Lilies bewitched people and drove them to attack one another. She continued along the stone path with Xia Jue and Tong Qi while the others remained in danger.

• Su Jiu woke after seven days of recovery, then led Xia Jue, Tong Qi, and the waiting cultivators through the White Pavilion's open doors.
• Su Jiu entered a dark passage and warned everyone to stay close as flower beds of Red Spider Lilies appeared beside the path.
• Tong Qi was drawn toward the flowers, but Su Jiu pulled him back and used her Sound-Mixing Bell to restore his senses.
• Several rogue cultivators fell under the flowers' influence and attacked each other, while Su Jiu explained that the Sound-Mixing Bell could not reach them.
• Shen Qingyue asked whether anyone could save the frenzied cultivators, but Su Jiu and the others continued along the safe path.

Su Jiu and the others struggled against the red spider lilies’ mind-affecting fragrance as they crossed the stone path, while Xia Jue helped protect the group with a second Sound-Mixing Bell. At the path’s end, a red spider lily killed a cultivator who tried to escape, and Xia Jue warned that the flower was nearing transformation into a spirit.

• As the red spider lilies’ fragrance overwhelmed some cultivators, Xia Jue used his Sound-Mixing Bell to reinforce Su Jiu’s protection of the group.
• Shen Qingyue endured a nervous rogue cultivator’s relentless chatter while the group continued along the stone path.
• The cultivators reached the path’s end and found more red spider lilies instead of stairs to the second floor.
• A cultivator rushed toward the apparent exit and turned into blood mist, which drifted into the largest red spider lily.
• Xia Jue identified the flower as a demon plant nearing transformation, and the rogue cultivators readied their Life-Bound Treasures to fight it.

Su Jiu, Xia Jue, and the other cultivators fought the Red Spider Lily as its poisonous mist drove people mad and its hidden petals attacked from beneath the soil. They discovered that the flower could heal by draining victims, leaving the group to face its two deadly abilities.

• The Red Spider Lily filled the area with red mist, and Su Jiu gave Tong Qi a Heaven-Clearing Pill while she and Xia Jue prepared to attack the flower.
• Xia Jue warned Su Jiu to stay airborne, and a deranged cultivator who stepped onto the soil was drained into a dried corpse by a petal that shot from underground.
• Su Jiu and Xia Jue attacked the flower with their swords, while Qin Ming, Ye Chen, Liu Zhiyan, and several Fire Arts cultivators joined the fight.
• Tan Song's Heavenly Flame damaged the flower's roots, but the Red Spider Lily retaliated with dozens of petals that drained two Rogue Cultivators and healed its wounds.
• Su Jiu and Xia Jue recognized that the Red Spider Lily could induce hallucinations with its mist and attack with duplicate petals from underground.

Su Jiu and the others destroyed the Red Spider Lily, revealing the illusion around them and a staircase to the second floor. Most of the group left the building, while the remaining cultivators followed Su Jiu upstairs.

• Qin Ming, Su Jiu, Xia Jue, and Tan Song combined their attacks to destroy the Red Spider Lily.
• The flower’s death revealed the ghostly landscape, the nearby exit, and a staircase leading upward.
• Shen Qingyue told the remaining cultivators they could leave, and more than half of them departed.
• Tan Song chose to continue, and Meng Xing reluctantly stayed with him; Hu Jing’s junior disciple left alone.
• Qin Ming invited Ye Chen and Liu Zhiyan to wait outside, but neither accepted.
• Su Jiu and the others climbed the creaking staircase toward the second floor, followed by Lan Fang Ziyi and the Heavenly Secret Sect disciples.