Chapter Summaries

Su Jiu used the Spirit-Cleansing Technique to save Yin Yin and defeat the ghost cultivators’ Ghost Domain Formation. The leader failed to stop her and warned that she should not provoke him, leaving Su Jiu to wonder what standing he had.

• Su Jiu used the Spirit-Cleansing Technique to destroy the ghost fire attacking Yin Yin, prompting one ghost cultivator to flee.
• The leader ordered his followers to form a Ghost Domain Formation while Su Jiu finished protecting Yin Yin.
• Su Jiu gave Yin Yin a Soul Stabilization Pill, then broke the formation with a single slash of Frost-Cold Purple Ultimate.
• The ghost cultivators realized Su Jiu was formidable, and their leader asked her not to interfere in their grievances.
• Su Jiu challenged the leader, who warned her not to provoke him because she intended to survive in the Yin River Continent.

Su Jiu and Chu Luohen saved Yin Yin and A-Yu from Ghost Market cultivators, then learned the women suspected someone in their sect was targeting them for the Soul-Draining Jade. The group reached Huayin City, where Su Jiu observed a market shaped by the needs of ghost and demon cultivators.

• Su Jiu killed the Ghost Market cultivators with her golden vortex after their leader refused to identify their employer.
• Yin Yin and A-Yu thanked Su Jiu and Chu Luohen, and Su Jiu explained that a forbidden technique would have killed the attackers if they revealed their employer.
• Yin Yin told Su Jiu that she and A-Yu had been hunted despite keeping a low profile, and they suspected someone from their sect knew about the Soul-Draining Jade.
• Su Jiu and Chu Luohen chose not to interfere further in Yin Yin and A-Yu's troubles.
• Su Jiu walked through Huayin City and noticed its many ghost cultivators, scarce soul-strengthening pills, and abundant supplies for replenishing divine sense and yin qi.

Su Jiu learned that the Soulguiding Sect was involved in a failed mission and might be connected to a spirit-draining stone vein, then planned to travel to Netherworld Mountain. Chu Luohen urged her to contact him and her master first when trouble arose, leaving Su Jiu wondering whether he was angry.

• Yin Yin told Su Jiu that Huayin City's mute city lord forbade loud speech and used a poisoned spirit treasure to remove offenders' tongues permanently.
• Su Jiu recognized the black-clad newcomers as members of the Soulguiding Sect and overheard them discuss Xia Jue's failed mission and a dangerous mineral vein.
• Su Jiu bought four auction invitations to avoid meeting the Soulguiding Sect members, then learned from Yin Yin that the city's auctions were unpopular and usually offered nothing good.
• Su Jiu suspected the mineral vein was a source of spirit-draining stones and sent Xia Jue a Message Talisman with what she had overheard.
• Chu Luohen asked why Su Jiu had not sought help from him and Ice Veil Peak, then told her to contact him and her master first in the future.

Su Jiu realized the Soulguiding Sect might know her destination, while Xia Jue and Ning Fan responded to her report about its disciples and the spirit stone vein. Meanwhile, Yin Yin tried to uncover who wanted her dead, and the Ghost Market offered her masked would-be killer another chance to complete the assassination in exchange for delaying someone for seven days.

• Su Jiu suspected that someone had leaked her destination to the Soulguiding Sect, which might be targeting her because it could not reach her senior brother.
• Xia Jue told Ning Fan that Su Jiu had found Soulguiding Sect disciples on the Yin River Continent and estimated the spirit stone vein's location, and Ning Fan left to investigate.
• Yin Yin refused A-Yu's suggestion to tell the Sect Master about the assassination attempt, fearing he would suspect her senior brothers and sisters.
• A masked customer demanded her deposit back after the Ghost Market failed to kill Yin Yin and A-Yu, but the male ghost refused and threatened her.
• The masked customer agreed to consider the Ghost Market's offer to continue the mission without a deposit, after the male ghost asked her to delay someone for seven days and showed her a portrait.

Su Jiu and Chu Luohen found the Netherworld Flower listed at the auction and decided to stay in Huayin City, while Bai Su was captured by strangers who wanted her jade bracelet. The chapter left Bai Su facing pressure to surrender the bracelet.

• Su Jiu and Chu Luohen saw that invitation letters had become scarce and expensive, then went to inspect the auction list.
• Su Jiu spotted the Netherworld Flower on the list, and she and Chu Luohen considered the possibility that the auction was a trap but chose to pursue it.
• Su Jiu gave two invitation letters to Yin Yin and A-Yu so they could attend the auction together.
• Bai Su woke in a basement after being ambushed, and a fat man told her that his group had captured her for her jade bracelet.
• Bai Su said she could not remove the jade bracelet, and one of the captors accused her of lying.

Bai Su negotiated with Shui Rao'er's disciples for Lifespan Pills while imprisoned, and Chen Yan secretly helped her escape. She used a Ten-Thousand-Mile Divine Movement Talisman to flee with him, but the journey left her badly injured as they reached safety.

• Bai Su refused to surrender the jade bracelet and demanded an oath before agreeing to provide Lifespan Pills for Shui Rao'er.
• Chen Yan secretly told Bai Su he had altered the contract and would help her escape, and she chose to trust him.
• After Shui Rao'er took a Lifespan Pill and entered seclusion, Chen Yan unlocked Bai Su's cell and removed her Spirit-Locking Chain.
• When footsteps approached, Bai Su activated a Ten-Thousand-Mile Divine Movement Talisman and teleported away with Chen Yan.
• The fat man found the dungeon empty and ordered his disciples to search the Yin River Continent for someone.
• Bai Su vomited blood after using the talisman and began recovering, while Chen Yan watched her with a complicated gaze.

After escaping to the Shangyin Continent, Bai Su traveled toward the Yin River Continent with Chen Yan, while Su Jiu and Chu Luohen investigated the crowded auction in Huayin City. Su Jiu recognized Bai Su but left without approaching her, and Bai Su decided to buy two auction invitations.

• Bai Su recovered enough to travel, and Chen Yan convinced her to head with him toward the Yin River Continent while they were both being hunted.
• As invitation prices soared in Huayin City, Yin Yin considered selling Su Jiu's letter until A-Yu reminded her it belonged to Su Jiu.
• Su Jiu and Chu Luohen discussed the auction's suspicious crowd and wondered who was behind the event.
• Su Jiu recognized Bai Su below the teahouse, but Chu Luohen barely remembered her and Su Jiu left without speaking to her.
• Bai Su asked an invitation vendor for two letters, alarming the young man beside her.

Su Jiu and Chu Luohen witnessed a seemingly frail little ghost defeat a tiger demon with ghost fire. Su Jiu recognized the Ghost Market mark on her arm and suspected she had hired the organization to carry out a secret mission.

• Su Jiu and Chu Luohen arrived near the West City Auction House and saw a tiger demon challenge a little ghost for staring at his tail.
• The tiger demon attacked with roars, but the little ghost turned intangible to evade them and proved she could change form instantly.
• The little ghost sent ghost fire into the tiger demon's mouth, burning him to ashes before the onlookers.
• Su Jiu recognized the Ghost Market mark on the little ghost's arm, and Chu Luohen warned her to keep her distance.
• Su Jiu suspected the little ghost had a mission-related transaction with the Ghost Market and wondered whom she intended to eliminate.

Su Jiu and Chu Luohen attended a crowded auction in Huayin City, where hidden factions and the scent of Silver Snow’s mark drew attention to her. As bidding for a Spirit Treasure grew fierce, a bidder from room three confronted the guest in room one.

• Little Ghost and another ghost discussed using the Ghost Market against Su Jiu and Chu Luohen, then hid their conversation when someone called out to them.
• At the auction, demon cultivator Yin Ze recognized a familiar scent on Su Jiu, and Chu Luohen noticed the Nine-Tailed Celestial Fox mark on her hand.
• Su Jiu and Chu Luohen suspected Yin Ze and the other fox demons were Silver Snow’s kin, then spotted Enforcement Hall members, Ghost Market cultivators, Dao cultivators, and more fox demons among the bidders.
• Bidding for a Sky-Covering Sun-Blocking Fan escalated until the guest in room one offered two hundred million spirit stones and the bidder in room three continued to three hundred million.
• The bidder in room three tried to speak with the guest in room one, was refused, and emerged to demand, “Do you know who I am?!”

At the Huayin City auction, Hong Zizhuo of Red Blossom Mountain revealed himself while several groups discussed plans to capture or kill someone. When the Netherworld Flower went up for auction, Su Jiu noticed something wrong and tried to leave with Chu Luohen, but the auction house sealed the exits and refused to let anyone go.

• Huang Kuo of Lion King Mountain challenged the bidder in private room number one, but Hong Zizhuo identified himself and made Huang retreat.
• Several groups with hidden plans debated whether Hong Zizhuo would interfere, while the Ghost Market team decided to proceed with its mission.
• The auctioneer presented the Netherworld Flower and explained its rarity and medicinal properties as bidding began.
• Su Jiu frowned at the flower and prepared to leave with Chu Luohen, then saw Hong Zizhuo exiting the auction house.
• A barrier blocked the doors, and the guards ordered Su Jiu to return to her seat while refusing to let other guests leave.
• Huang Kuo demanded to know who dared stop him from leaving.

At the Auction House, Sha Zilai and his followers spotted Su Jiu, whom he secretly planned to capture if she possessed ice skin and jade bones. As the guards sealed the crowded venue, Sha Zilai prepared to exploit his followers and conceal his own role.

• Bai Su and Chen Yan realized that Sha Zilai's group was watching Su Jiu rather than pursuing them.
• Chen Yan recognized Su Jiu from a portrait in Sha Zilai's study and suspected his senior brother had targeted her.
• Sha Zilai recalled learning from Gong Hao's former confidant that Su Jiu might possess ice skin and jade bones, and he kept the secret from Shui Rao'er.
• Sha Zilai persuaded his followers to rob Su Jiu, planning to kill them and abduct her if the secret proved true, or blame them if it did not.
• The Auction House guards sealed the entrance and ordered the crowd to return to their seats under the pressure of their divine sense.

Su Jiu and Chu Luohen fought off a group of Dao cultivators while Yin Yin and A-Yu were attacked by Ghost Market members. Yin Yin burned her soul to defeat her attackers, leaving A-Yu desperately trying to break through the barrier to reach her.

• Su Jiu and Chu Luohen killed or wounded most of the Dao cultivators surrounding them, while Sha Zilai abandoned his plan and retreated into the shadows.
• The Ghost Market leader revealed that Yin Yin and A-Yu were deliberate targets and attacked them while the others were occupied.
• Yin Yin fought off more than a dozen ghosts, but their Ghost Swarm Tactic rapidly depleted her yin qi.
• Yin Yin burned her soul, formed a whip from her yin qi, and killed the Ghost Market attackers, including their leader.
• A-Yu learned that Yin Yin's soul could shatter and scatter, then threw herself against the barrier in an attempt to reach her.

At the chaotic auction, Yin Ze and Su Jiu faced separate attacks as the Three-Tail Clan tried to kill Yin Ze, with Yue Ying choosing to defend him. Su Jiu realized the Ghost Market had helped orchestrate the ambush to trap multiple targets, including the nine-tailed fox.

• The Three-Tail Clan revealed itself and surrounded Yin Ze, hoping to eliminate the remaining Nine-Tailed Celestial Foxes after failing to assassinate Silver Snow.
• Yue Ying, a member of the Six-Tailed Tribe, rejected the Three-Tail leader's warning and stood between Yin Ze and his attackers.
• Yin Ze transformed into his nine-tailed true form and fought back, declaring that the Three-Tail Clan would face no mercy for trapping him.
• Yin Ze suspected the City Lord and Ghost Market had joined the Three-Tail Clan, while Su Jiu noticed the Ghost Market's totems on the auction guards.
• Su Jiu concluded that the Ghost Market had arranged the chaos to trap her and her Junior Granduncle as well as Yin Ze, letting it collect payment from multiple parties.

Yin Yin sacrificed herself to save A-Yu, and Su Jiu gathered her scattered soul in a Soul-Gathering Pearl. After Yin Ze declared war on the Ghost Market and the survivors left the auction house, Su Jiu released A-Yu from the formation.

• Yin Yin asked Su Jiu to protect A-Yu, then dissolved into motes of light that Su Jiu drew into a Soul-Gathering Pearl.
• A-Yu learned Yin Yin might take a thousand to ten thousand years to return, but accepted that the soul was still with her.
• Yin Ze defeated the gatekeepers, escaped with Yue Ying, and vowed to personally visit the Ghost Market in retaliation.
• The auction’s survivors realized the Ghost Market had been involved, and Huang Kuo and the other guests left in anger.
• Su Jiu unraveled Yin Yin’s formation and freed A-Yu.

After Yin Yin’s death, A-Yu rejected the peaceful life Yin Yin had intended for her and accepted an offer of help from a mysterious figure to seek revenge. Su Jiu struggled with grief and guilt until Chu Luohen confronted her, while trouble over Su Jiu’s visit to the Auction House reached the Ghost Market’s leadership.

• Su Jiu gave A-Yu Yin Yin’s formation, then left with Chu Luohen after telling A-Yu to take care of herself.
• A-Yu decided she wanted revenge for Yin Yin and nearly stabbed herself before a cloud of black smoke stopped her and offered to help.
• Chu Luohen rebuked Su Jiu for letting grief and guilt distract her, and Su Jiu admitted that she wished she were more heartless.
• Chu Luohen told Su Jiu to rest, while he later struggled with his feelings for his martial niece.
• In the Ghost Market, a powerful woman learned that Hei Zi had arranged the Netherworld Flower and lured Su Jiu to the Auction House, then demanded a full account of what happened.

After learning that Hei Zi had died, the Strong Woman realized the failed pursuit would bring the Young Master’s wrath. On the road to the Yin River Continent, Ning Fan captured Sha Zilai, a Water Moon School disciple suspected of plotting against Su Jiu and Chu Luohen, and prepared to take him to the Azure Tide Sect’s Enforcement Hall.

• The Strong Woman learned that Hei Zi had died after a ghost cultivator destroyed her own divine soul to protect a mortal, and she decided to apologize to the Young Master.
• Ning Fan received reports that Su Jiu and Chu Luohen had survived an attack by Misty Immortal Sect cultivators, while a cunning fat man had escaped.
• Ning Fan spotted Sha Zilai near the Teleportation Array to the Shangyin Continent and struck him with a Throwing Dart.
• Ning Fan’s companion identified the group as the Azure Tide Sect’s Enforcement Hall Shadow Division, and Sha Zilai revealed that he was the Water Moon School Sect Leader’s third Personal Disciple.
• The Enforcement Hall decided to take Sha Zilai back to the sect, and he grew terrified as he recalled its reputation for knowing everything and showing no mercy.

Ning Fan killed Sha Zilai before he could reveal Su Jiu’s secret, while the Enforcement Hall traced the attack on her to a dead Ghost Market operative. Su Jiu met the Ghost Market’s representatives, who apologized and offered compensation, but the chapter left her response unresolved.

• Ning Fan killed Sha Zilai to keep him from revealing Su Jiu’s secret, and Feng Qi suspected he had done so to protect her.
• Su Jiu received messages from Senior Brother Ning and the Ghost Market, then delayed leaving after learning one came from the Ghost Market.
• The Enforcement Hall traced a lead about Su Jiu’s secret through Gong Hao’s dead confidant and learned that a plump Dao cultivator had once helped him, but their search had failed.
• Ning Fan and the Ghost Market’s representatives arrived at the inn, where a representative said Hei Zi had attacked Su Jiu over a personal grudge and had already died.
• The Ghost Market offered Su Jiu an apology and a gift from its Young Market Master, inviting her to name further conditions.

Su Jiu accepted medicinal herbs from the Ghost Market as compensation, though she remained troubled by Yin Yin’s death and suspected wider schemes involving the spirit-draining stone mineral vein. Ning Fan arranged to accompany Su Jiu and Chu Luohen to the Netherworld Ravine, while Su Jiu resolved to grow stronger and Chu Luohen sensed her determination return.

• A Ghost Market Apologizer presented a gift, and a man with Ning Fan accepted it as compensation for Su Jiu.
• Su Jiu said she did not want the matter to end, but Ning Fan explained that the Enforcement Hall could not act against the Ghost Market; Chu Luohen urged her to keep the herbs for Su Mianmian’s recovery.
• Ning Fan revealed that a Water Moon School member had bribed Hei Zi and warned Su Jiu to keep her secrets covered.
• Ning Fan announced that he would accompany Su Jiu and Chu Luohen to the Netherworld Ravine, while Feng Qi learned he would coordinate a covert handover of the spirit-draining stone mineral vein.
• Ning Fan reasoned that the Ghost Market might abandon the Soulguiding Sect if the vein threatened its own interests, leading Su Jiu to suspect the two groups were working together.
• Su Jiu clenched her fist and resolved to become stronger, and Chu Luohen recognized that her fighting spirit had returned.

Su Jiu, Chu Luohen, and Ning Fan traveled toward Netherworld Mountain and discovered that Su Jiu’s hand mark came from the Nine-Tailed Celestial Fox. When Gao Yang called for help, Su Jiu refused to save him, leaving him trapped with a demon.

• Su Jiu noticed her hand mark glowing, and Ning Fan identified it as the sign of a Nine-Tailed Celestial Fox.
• Su Jiu told Chu Luohen about her experience in the Seal Grounds and the fox who had marked her.
• The group heard someone calling for help, but Su Jiu recognized Gao Yang and explained that she could understand his past actions but would not forgive him.
• Chu Luohen and Ning Fan walked on with Su Jiu, leaving Gao Yang behind because he had betrayed the Enforcement Hall and harmed Su Jiu.
• A demon holding Gao Yang captive mocked him for driving away his fellow disciples while Zuo Kexin lay unconscious nearby.

Gao Yang recalled how he became Dao companions with Zuo Kexin and followed her on a dangerous journey to Netherworld Mountain. After a fox demon captured him and left Zuo Kexin behind, she awoke with pitch-black, empty eyes.

• After losing his Enforcement Hall status, Gao Yang left the sect and hunted demon beasts for spirit stones.
• Gao Yang rescued Zuo Kexin, grew close to her, and became her Dao companion.
• Zuo Kexin insisted on exploring Zen Sound Temple’s secret realm, where the pair were separated and Gao Yang later found her in the yin extremity.
• Zuo Kexin urged Gao Yang to travel with her to Netherworld Mountain, and they crossed Thousand Fox Mountain on the way.
• A fox demon’s charm caused Zuo Kexin to faint, and the demon immobilized Gao Yang and carried him to her lair.
• After the fox demon left, Zuo Kexin awoke with pitch-black pupils and a hollow, lifeless gaze.