Chapter Summaries

Su Jiu discovered that her unusually pure spiritual energy disrupted her talisman drawing, and an anonymous senior left her a booklet explaining how to overcome the problem. After reading it, she realized the advice was meant for cultivators with exceptional Spirit Root aptitude like hers.

• Mu Zihan suspected Su Jiu had a hidden Treasure Box because of her skill, though she mistook Su Jiu's poverty for an act.
• Chu Luohen determined that Su Jiu's pure spiritual energy overwhelmed low-tier talismans, while Chu Mojin speculated that she might become a natural master once her cultivation improved.
• Su Jiu found a blank-covered booklet about talisman stagnation points outside her door and suspected a senior was secretly watching her.
• Chu Mojin watched from the shadows as Su Jiu worried that the senior had recognized her Water-Wisdom Sword Art.
• After studying the booklet, Su Jiu learned that cultivators with Spirit Root aptitude above ninety percent had to dilute their spiritual energy to draw low-tier talismans.

Su Jiu studied talisman-making and mastered the Ice Spike Talisman, then arranged to sell her work through Xiang Li’s General Store. She planned to earn enough for a magical artifact before joining a mountain patrol, while Xiang Li’s reaction to demonic cultivators hinted at a painful past.

• Su Jiu learned that the Fourth Elder had recovered and left to wander, and received the treasure-grade tassel he had left for her.
• Su Jiu studied talisman-drawing methods at the Library Pavilion and, after half a month of practice, successfully made her first Ice Spike Talisman.
• Su Jiu brought Xiang Li more than thirty superior-grade Ice Spike Talismans, and he offered to sell them on consignment for a ten-percent commission.
• Su Jiu calculated that she could produce hundreds of talismans and decided to provide Xiang Li with a batch every half month.
• Su Jiu told Xiang Li that she would join a mountain patrol in five days to search for demonic cultivators, and noticed his grief and hatred at their mention.

Su Jiu strengthened her cultivation by drawing talismans, then spent most of her new wealth on a defensive artifact before joining Team seventy-four for a mountain patrol. At the Mission Office, Bai Su’s growing hostility made Su Jiu wary as her group prepared to patrol around Golden Guard Peak.

• Su Jiu drew talismans until her spiritual energy was exhausted, then found that meditation restored her energy faster and raised her cultivation.
• After five days, Su Jiu gave Xiang Li two hundred talismans, bought pills and a middle-grade defensive Handkerchief, and went to the Mission Office.
• At the Mission Office, Su Jiu learned that she had reached the sixth Qi Refining layer, while Bai Su quietly suppressed her agitation and Lu Tianqi dismissed Su Jiu’s strength.
• Zhou Xing pointed out that Bai Su had dug her fingers into her palm while watching Su Jiu, prompting Su Jiu to guard against her and worry that shattering the Jade Pendant had changed the plot.
• Shu Bai registered Team seventy-four for a patrol around Golden Guard Peak, and the mission boy instructed the five cultivators to launch Signal Flares and hide if they detected demonic qi.

Jin Chen’s master urged him to spar with Su Jiu, while Su Jiu and her companions discussed the upcoming Outer Gate Grand Competition and its Spirit-Washing Pill prize. Su Jiu resolved to keep Bai Su from winning the pill, and the group weighed whether they would risk taking one.

• Jin Chen’s master praised his training and suggested he spar with Su Jiu, while Jin Chen assumed her rapid progress came from pills.
• Su Jiu patrolled Golden Guard Peak with Zhou Xing, Lie Changfeng, Mo Yan, and Shu Bai, and they discussed the Outer Gate Grand Competition’s late Qi Refining requirement.
• Shu Bai explained that the competition’s first-place prize included Spirit-Washing Pills, which had helped Bai Su in the book.
• Su Jiu resolved not to let Bai Su obtain the Spirit-Washing Pills again and explained the risks of taking one.
• Zhou Xing and Lie Changfeng rejected the gamble, while Mo Yan and Shu Bai said they would take a Spirit-Washing Pill.

Su Jiu learned that a Spirit-Washing Pill could sell for around two hundred thousand spirit stones and considered claiming one by winning the competition. Two days later, she encountered Jin Chen on Golden Guard Peak, where he challenged her to a swordsmanship-only fight, watched by two unnoticed observers.

• Zhou Xing explained that a Spirit-Washing Pill was a rare Tier Five Pill worth roughly two hundred thousand spirit stones, and Su Jiu asked who could afford to buy one.
• Mo Yan offered to buy Su Jiu's pill if she took first place, surprising Shu Bai, Zhou Xing, and Lie Changfeng with his apparent wealth.
• Two days later, Shu Bai explained how to distinguish male and female bamboo while the group patrolled Golden Guard Peak.
• Jin Chen recognized Su Jiu, challenged her, and attacked; Su Jiu blocked his heavy sword with her Flying Sword.
• Jin Chen restricted their spar to swordsmanship, and Su Jiu told her companions to move back as two unnoticed figures watched nearby.

Su Jiu defeated Jin Chen in a swordsmanship match and continued her patrol with her companions. At Stone Forest Peak, Bai Su vanished into a mysterious black hole and returned unharmed, leaving Su Jiu convinced that Bai Su had gained another fortuitous opportunity.

• Su Jiu fought Jin Chen using swordsmanship alone and defeated him, while Long Aotian and Chu Mojin watched from nearby.
• Jin Chen accepted Su Jiu as a worthy opponent, and Shu Bai and the others warned her about the risks of offending personal disciples.
• After seven days, Su Jiu's group saw a signal flare near Stone Forest Peak and hurried to investigate a black hole where Bai Su had disappeared.
• Bai Su returned as the black hole shrank and vanished, and Su Jiu suspected the opening had granted Bai Su a new opportunity.
• The Enforcement Hall questioned Bai Su and her companions, then left after Bai Su claimed she had woken beside a nearby tree.

The Sect Leader, Xia Jue, and Hong Ling investigated the mysterious cavern and suspected Bai Su had gained a hidden inheritance. After Bai Su returned to her room, she argued with the black stone containing a powerful woman who demanded that she honor their bargain.

• Yi Zheng's report led the Sect Leader and Xia Jue to conclude that the cavern probably had not been created by a demonic cultivator.
• Hong Ling told the Sect Leader and Xia Jue that Bai Su spent lavishly, had abundant spirit herbs, and lacked the skills to explain her wealth, suggesting she had obtained a special inheritance.
• The Sect Leader and Xia Jue suspected Bai Su had found an opportunity before joining the sect, but they could not determine what had caused the cavern to appear and vanish.
• Ning Hai stopped Hong Ling from questioning Bai Su and arranged for someone to watch her in case she endangered fellow disciples.
• Bai Su hid in her room and spoke with the woman inside a black stone, who insisted Bai Su keep their bargain and promised not to harm Azure Tide Sect disciples.
• Bai Su asked the woman not to speak unexpectedly in her sea of consciousness while she cultivated, and the woman agreed to wait several years.

After six months of cultivating and drawing talismans, Su Jiu tried using graded supplies and unexpectedly drew an ice-element supreme-grade talisman on her first attempt. Xiang Li bought it and discussed future sales with her, while Su Jiu left to find better supplies.

• Su Jiu sold her talismans through Xiang Li and learned that supreme-grade talismans existed and could sell for five times the price of other talismans of the same tier.
• At Xiang Li's urging, Su Jiu used a first-tier brush and demon beast blood to draw a talisman, which emerged as an ice-element supreme-grade talisman.
• Qin Ming and Liu Zhiyan entered the shop and saw Su Jiu's talisman; Qin Ming delivered thirty Thunderbolt Talismans to Xiang Li.
• Xiang Li paid Su Jiu two hundred spirit stones for her supreme-grade talisman and offered to sell any she supplied in the future.
• Su Jiu agreed to provide more supreme-grade talismans and left to find suitable demon beast blood and a talisman brush.

Su Jiu learned that True Person Yi Xiu would choose ten Outer Gate disciples to inherit her superior-grade Five Elements Cultivation Method, then quickly escaped the trial’s formation. Yi Xiu rejected her for breaking the formation and sent her flying, leaving Su Jiu injured.

• Su Jiu overheard Azure Tide Sect disciples say True Person Yi Xiu had suffered severe injuries and had only twenty years of lifespan left.
• Xia Meng told Su Jiu that Yi Xiu would teach her cultivation method to ten Outer Gate disciples, and Su Jiu followed her to the trial.
• Yi Xiu announced that the first ten disciples to leave the Rocky Wasteland would inherit her Five Elements Cultivation Method.
• Su Jiu used her knowledge of formations to leave the third-tier Rocky Wasteland Formation first, astonishing the elders watching through the Heaven-and-Earth Mirror.
• Yi Xiu accused Su Jiu of taking a clever shortcut, refused to teach her, and struck her out of the hall, making her cough up blood.

After Yi Xiu injured Su Jiu and rejected her as a disciple, Xia Jue brought her healing pills, and Su Jiu began considering how to adapt a different cultivation method. Meanwhile, Xia Jue warned Chu Luohen that Su Jiu seemed troubled, leaving Chu Luohen increasingly concerned as Chu Mojin remained away.

• Su Jiu left the hall after Yi Xiu injured her, while the elders watched and Long Aotian criticized Yi Xiu for attacking a junior.
• Ning Hai asked Xia Jue to deliver Blood-Coagulating Pills to Su Jiu, and the cultivators raced through the Rocky Wasteland during Yi Xiu's inheritance trial.
• Su Jiu struggled to focus on cultivation and talisman drawing until Xia Jue brought her pills and cautioned her against acting rashly.
• After taking a pill, Su Jiu heard others praise Mu Zihan and began considering whether she could modify the Supreme Goodness Is Like Water Cultivation Method.
• Xia Jue told Chu Luohen that Su Jiu seemed anxious and that he had noticed a trace of viciousness in her eyes, but Chu Luohen said they should wait for Chu Mojin to return.

Chu Luohen saved Su Jiu after she was gravely injured, discovering her unusual ice constitution as he treated her. While Su Jiu explored a strange void in her unconscious state, Bai Su stirred resentment among Outer Gate disciples outside Ice Veil Peak, setting the stage for the Outer Gate’s first riot.

• Chu Luohen took the unconscious Su Jiu to Ice Veil Peak, sealed the peak, and placed her on the Millennium Ice Bed.
• Chu Luohen spent two days expelling water spiritual energy from Su Jiu’s meridians and discovered her silvery, resilient meridians and ice skin and jade bones.
• Su Jiu explored the void, found cracks in the familiar book, and touched a blue-green flower bud whose emotions she could sense.
• Chu Mojin arrived at Ice Veil Peak and sent away the crowd gathered outside, including Bai Su, who had brought medicine.
• Bai Su encouraged Outer Gate disciples to complain about Personal Disciples and their resources, helping ignite the events leading toward the Outer Gate’s first riot.

Chu Mojin examined Su Jiu after she remained unconscious for over seven days, and he and Chu Luohen discovered that she had an innate ice-skin jade-bone physique. Chu Luohen gave Su Jiu the Hidden Qilin to conceal her secret, while the two men remained unaware that she had begun to stir.

• Chu Mojin returned to Ice Veil Hall and found Su Jiu unconscious while Chu Luohen used ice spiritual energy to regulate her meridians.
• Chu Mojin examined Su Jiu and confirmed that her restored meridians appeared normal, so he suggested checking her sea of consciousness.
• Chu Luohen revealed that Su Jiu had an innate ice-skin jade-bone physique, a rare constitution that could make her a target if others learned of it.
• Chu Luohen gave Su Jiu the Hidden Qilin, a Chu Family heirloom that concealed his immaculate glazed body, despite Chu Mojin's objections.
• Su Jiu's fingers moved slightly, but Chu Luohen and Chu Mojin did not notice.

After recovering from a dangerous attempt to alter her cultivation method, Su Jiu learned that she had advanced to the eighth Qi Refining layer and possessed the special physique of ice skin and jade bones. She left Ice Veil Peak with renewed gratitude toward Chu Mojin and Chu Luohen, while Chu Mojin considered taking her as his disciple.

• Su Jiu advanced to the seventh and then eighth Qi Refining layer while unconscious on the ice bed.
• Chu Mojin and Chu Luohen questioned Su Jiu about her attempt to cultivate water spiritual energy, and Chu Mojin warned her that the reckless effort could have ruined her foundation.
• Su Jiu explained that she wanted to grow stronger because she feared she would not be able to protect the people she cared about.
• Chu Mojin revealed that Su Jiu possessed ice skin and jade bones, and said Chu Luohen had concealed the physique from anyone below the Spirit Severing stage.
• Su Jiu left Ice Veil Peak, and Chu Luohen told Chu Mojin to take her as a disciple if he wanted to.

Bai Su’s companions mocked Su Jiu for failing True Person Yi Xiu’s trial, but Su Jiu’s rapid cultivation progress unsettled one of Bai Su’s followers. The chapter left Ren Ping reconsidering her alliance with Bai Su and deciding that provoking Su Jiu was too risky.

• Lu Tianqi and the others discussed the Five Elements Cultivation Method and mocked Mo Yan and Su Jiu, while Inner Gate Disciples ridiculed Bai Su’s group for claiming not to care about Ice Veil Peak.
• Bai Su offered pills to her companions and praised Su Jiu’s failure to obtain the cultivation method, then stopped Su Jiu as she passed by.
• Bai Su claimed she would have shared the method with Su Jiu, and Su Jiu realized that Bai Su and the others had accepted dangerous restrictions in their seas of consciousness.
• Ren Ping noticed that Su Jiu had reached the eighth Qi Refining layer and reconsidered provoking her or remaining Bai Su’s follower.

Su Jiu returned to her dormitory, answered messages from worried friends, and spent a month making high-grade talismans before learning more about Xiang Li’s painful past. Chu Mojin then asked her to move to Ice Veil Peak and become his disciple, leaving Su Jiu to ask about the old man who once guarded the Library Pavilion.

• Su Jiu found messages from friends and household disciples, replied to them, and wondered who had spread the rumor that her injury came from anger over the Five Elements Cultivation Method.
• Su Jiu spent a month drawing superior-grade and supreme-grade talismans, then visited the General Store to sell them.
• Xiang Li told Su Jiu that he had lost his master's grandson to bad people and was too ashamed to return home, then disappeared from the shop.
• Su Jiu bought Demon Beast blood and a graded Talisman Brush at the Market, unaware that a black figure followed her afterward.
• Chu Mojin told Su Jiu to pack her things and become his disciple at Ice Veil Peak, explaining that the peak required her to reach Foundation Establishment first to temper her character.
• Su Jiu asked Chu Mojin whether he remembered the old man who had once guarded the Library Pavilion.

Chu Mojin told Su Jiu how Sun Dongdong turned from a gifted Azure Tide Sect disciple into a Demonic Cultivator after escaping Purgatory Cliff with help from a spirit trapped in a black Ring. The Fourth Elder lost his chance to advance while pursuing Sun Dongdong, and the sect imposed new rules on exceptionally talented disciples.

• Sun Dongdong secretly kept a Heretical Cultivator’s Storage Bag and used its manuals to prey on female cultivators, until the Fourth Elder and his eldest disciple discovered him.
• The Azure Tide Sect confined Sun Dongdong at Purgatory Cliff for ten years, but a Demonic Cultivator trapped in a black Ring offered to help him escape in exchange for a body.
• Sun Dongdong escaped with the Demonic Cultivator and later fought the Fourth Elder, whose restraint allowed the Demonic Cultivator to nearly kill him.
• The Sect Leader issued a Wanted Notice for Sun Dongdong and the Demonic Cultivator, while the Fourth Elder’s injuries ended his hopes of advancing and his eldest disciple left the sect.
• The Azure Tide Sect barred exceptionally talented disciples from seeking masters before Foundation Establishment, and Chu Mojin finished recounting the story to Su Jiu.

Su Jiu learned that Chu Mojin had quietly helped her and that Chu Luohen had agreed to take her as a disciple of Ice Veil Peak. After Su Jiu left One-One-Seven Courtyard, new cultivators bullied its remaining residents, and Bai Su intervened, leaving Mu Zihan uneasy about the newcomers’ threat.

• Chu Mojin told Su Jiu that she had been destined for Ice Veil Peak and explained that Chu Luohen had finally agreed to accept her; Su Jiu realized Chu Mojin had left the annotated book outside her room and thanked him.
• Mu Zihan, Xia Meng, Han Jia, and Sun Wei discovered that Su Jiu had left and that four newcomers had moved into One-One-Seven Courtyard.
• The newcomers demanded Mu Zihan and Xia Meng’s room and forced the courtyard residents to do their tasks, while Xia Meng invoked Su Jiu’s name in protest.
• Xia Meng and Mu Zihan appealed to Bai Su, who brought more than a dozen disciples to confront the four newcomers.
• The scar-faced newcomer threatened Mu Zihan and Xia Meng after they refused to keep doing the work, and Mu Zihan remained uneasy when Bai Su left.

Chu Mojin and Chu Luohen argued over whether Su Jiu should practice Jade Moisture, Clear Ice, and Chu Luohen eventually let Chu Mojin decide. The next morning, Chu Mojin gave Su Jiu her cultivation method, techniques, sect robes, and a large store of resources, while hinting that Ice Veil Peak earned its generous allocation for reasons she could not yet explain.

• Chu Mojin urged Chu Luohen to let Su Jiu practice Jade Moisture, Clear Ice, arguing that she could master it independently and that it suited her ice spiritual root.
• Chu Luohen resisted because the method could create a need for Su Jiu, but eventually told Chu Mojin to do as he pleased.
• Chu Mojin visited Su Jiu at dawn and gave her a Storage Ring containing sect robes, Jade Moisture, Clear Ice, spells, sword techniques, and other resources.
• Su Jiu asked why the ring held so many resources, and Chu Mojin explained that Ice Veil Peak received the same allocation as each of the other Five Peaks.
• Chu Mojin told Su Jiu that Ice Veil Peak had earned its resources, but said he could not yet explain how.

Su Jiu sorted through the gifts Chu Mojin had left and discovered an array of rare pills, cultivation aids, defensive treasures, and techniques suited to her. After failing to find the promised cultivation method among the jade slips, she noticed the rounded ice stone.

• Su Jiu changed into her new Sect Robes, replaced her wooden Waist Token with a jade one, and noticed that her beauty mark had changed into a silver petal.
• Su Jiu examined Chu Mojin's pills, including rare Soul-Restoring Pills, Great Restoration Pills, and Ice Resonance Pills.
• Su Jiu found supportive Formation Disks that could help her cultivate by gathering the surrounding spiritual energy.
• Su Jiu read the jade slips and found the Glazed Moon Sword Formula and the Ice Arrow spell, but not the cultivation method Chu Mojin had mentioned.
• Su Jiu's gaze settled on the rounded ice stone.

Su Jiu learned the first stage of the Jade Moisture, Ice Clarity method and spent months improving her ice-based swordsmanship. When Su Mianmian and Jin Chen found her, Jin Chen challenged her to a duel and was swiftly disarmed.

• Su Jiu discovered that the ice jade contained the Jade Moisture, Ice Clarity method, memorized its first stage, and began cultivating it.
• Su Jiu practiced the Supreme Goodness Is Like Water Sword Formula and the Glazed Moon Sword Art for several months, sharpening her techniques.
• Chu Mojin found Su Jiu and told her that Su Mianmian and Jin Chen were waiting at Ice Veil Peak’s entrance.
• Su Mianmian scolded Su Jiu for disappearing, then bragged about reaching the fifth Qi Refining layer.
• Jin Chen challenged Su Jiu, but she disarmed him with one strike and told him his unsettled state of mind made sparring pointless.
• Jin Chen retrieved his sword and ran off after Su Mianmian’s clumsy attempt to comfort him.